just west of Beverly Hills—on March 21, 1925 edging out the panoramic hills of the still-empty Palos Verdes Peninsula. After the athletic teams entered the Pacific Coast conference in 1926, the Southern Branch student council adopted the nickname "Bruins," a name offered by the student cou

chool. In 1887, the school became known as the Los Angeles State Normal School.[27]


The Los Angeles branch of California State Normal School, 1881.
In 1914, the school moved to a new campus on Vermont Avenue (now the site of Los Angeles City College) in East Hollywood. In 1917, UC Regent Edward Augustus Dickson, the only regent representing the Southland at the time, and Ernest Carroll Moore, Director of the Normal School, began working together to lobby the State Legislature to enable the school to become the second University of California campus, after UC Berkeley. They met resistance from UC Berkeley alumni, Northern California members of the state legislature, and Benjamin Ide Wheeler, President of the University of California from 1899 to 1919, who were all vigorously opposed to the idea of a southern campus. However, David Prescott Barrows, the new President of the University of California, did not share Wheeler's objections. On May 23, 1919, the Southern Californians' efforts were rewarded when Governor William D. Stephens signed Assembly Bill 626 into law, which merged the Los Angeles Normal School with the University of California as the Southern Branch of the University of California. The same legislation added its general undergraduate program, the College of Letters and Science.[28] The Southern Branch campus opened on September 15 of that year, offering two-year undergraduate programs to 250 Letters and Science students and 1,250 students in the Teachers College, under Moore's continued direction.


University of California, Southern Branch's Vermont Campus, 1922.
Under University of California President William Wallace Campbell, enrollment at the Southern Branch expanded so rapidly that by the mid-1920s the institution was outgrowing the 25 acre Vermont Avenue location. The Regents conducted a search for a new location and announced their selection of the so-called "Beverly Site"—just west of Beverly Hills—on March 21, 1925 edging out the panoramic hills of the still-empty Palos Verdes Peninsula. After the athletic teams entered the Pacific Coast conference in 1926, the Southern Branch student council adopted the nickname "Bruins," a name offered by the student council at UC Berkeley.[29] In 1927, the Regents renamed the Southern Branch the "University of California at Los Angeles" (the word "at" was officially replaced by a comma in 1958, in line with other UC campuses). In the same year, the state broke ground in Westwood on land sold for $1 million, less than one-third its value, by real estate developers Edwin and Harold Janss, for whom the Janss Steps are named.[27]
The original four buildings were the College Library, Royce Hall, the Physics-Biology Building, and the Chemistry Building (now Powell Library, Royce Hall, the Humanities Building, and Haines Hall, respectively), arrayed around a quadrangular courtyard on the 400 acre (1.6 km²) campus. The first undergraduate classes on the new campus were held in 1929 with 5,500 students. In 1933, after further lobbying by alumni, faculty, administration and community leaders, UCLA was permitted to award the master's degree, and in 1936, the doctorate, against continued resistance from UC Berkeley.[30]
A timeline of the history can be found on its website,[31] as well as a published book.[32]
Maturity as a university[edit]
UCLA was formally elevated to co-equal status with UC Berkeley in 1951, when Raymond B. Allen was named as its first chancellor. Previously, the school's chief executive had been the provost. The appointment of Franklin David Murphy to the position of Chancellor in 1960 helped to spark an era of tremendous growth of facilities and faculty honors. By the end of the decade, UCLA had achieved distinction in a wide range of subjects. This era also secured UCLA's position as a proper university in its own right and not simply a branch of the UC system. This change is ex

eted in every Olympics since 1920 with one exception (1924), and have won a gold medal in every Olympics that the United States has participated in since 1932.[26] Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 Maturity as a university 2 Campus 2.1 Architecture 2.2 Filming 2.3 Transportation and parking 3 Academics 3.1 Healthcare 3.2 Rankings 3.2.1 Global rankings 3.2.2 National rankings 3.2.3 Graduate and professional schools 3.3 Library system 4 Admissions 4.1 Undergraduate 4.2 Graduate 5 Crime 6 Economic impact 6.1 Trademarks and licensing 7 Athletics 7.1 USC rivalry 8 Student life 8.1 Traditions 8.2 Student government 8.3 Media publications 8.4 Housing 8.5 Hospitality 8.6 Chabad House 9 Faculty and alumni 10 References 11 External links History[edit] Main article: History of the University of California, Los Angeles In March 1881, after heavy lobbying by Los Angeles residents, the California State Legislature authorized the creation of a southern branch of the California State Normal School (which later became San Jose State University) in downtown Los Angeles to train teachers for the growing population of Southern California. The State Normal School at Los Angeles opened on August 29, 1882, on what is now the site of the Central Library of the Los Angeles Public Library system. The new facility included an elementary school where teachers-in-training could practice their teaching technique on children. That elementary school is related to the present day version, UCLA Lab S

eted in every Olympics since 1920 with one exception (1924), and have won a gold medal in every Olympics that the United States has participated in since 1932.[26]
Contents  [hide]
1 History
1.1 Maturity as a university
2 Campus
2.1 Architecture
2.2 Filming
2.3 Transportation and parking
3 Academics
3.1 Healthcare
3.2 Rankings
3.2.1 Global rankings
3.2.2 National rankings
3.2.3 Graduate and professional schools
3.3 Library system
4 Admissions
4.1 Undergraduate
4.2 Graduate
5 Crime
6 Economic impact
6.1 Trademarks and licensing
7 Athletics
7.1 USC rivalry
8 Student life
8.1 Traditions
8.2 Student government
8.3 Media publications
8.4 Housing
8.5 Hospitality
8.6 Chabad House
9 Faculty and alumni
10 References
11 External links
History[edit]

Main article: History of the University of California, Los Angeles
In March 1881, after heavy lobbying by Los Angeles residents, the California State Legislature authorized the creation of a southern branch of the California State Normal School (which later became San Jose State University) in downtown Los Angeles to train teachers for the growing population of Southern California. The State Normal School at Los Angeles opened on August 29, 1882, on what is now the site of the Central Library of the Los Angeles Public Library system. The new facility included an elementary school where teachers-in-training could practice their teaching technique on children. That elementary school is related to the present day version, UCLA Lab S

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Students    41,812 (2013)[5]
Undergraduates    28,674 (2013)[5]
Postgraduates    13,138 (2013)[5]
Location    Los Angeles, California, United States
34°04′20.00″N 118°26′38.75″WCoordinates: 34°04′20.00″N 118°26′38.75″W
Campus    Urban
419 acres (1.7 km²)[6]
Former names    University of California Southern Branch (1919–1927)
University of California at Los Angeles (1927–1958)
Newspaper    Daily Bruin
Colors         UCLA Blue[7]
     UCLA Gold[7]
Athletics    22 Varsity Teams
NCAA Division I
Nickname    UCLA Bruins
Mascot    Joe & Josephine Bruin [8]
Affiliations    AAU
Pacific Rim
Pacific-12
University of California
Website    ucla.edu
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The University of California, Los Angeles (UC Los Angeles or UCLA) is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. It is the second-oldest of the general-education campuses of the University of California system.[9] UCLA is one of the two flagship universities in the UC system (alongside the original University of California campus).[10][11][12][13] The university was founded in 1919 as the second campus of the University of California system. It offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines.[14] With an approximate enrollment of 28,000 undergraduate and 12,000 graduate students, UCLA is the university with the largest enrollment in the state of California[15] and the most applied to university in the World with over 100,000 applications for fall 2013.[16] The university has been labeled one of the Public Ivies, a publicly funded university considered as providing a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League.
The university is organized into five undergraduate colleges, seven professional schools, and four professional health science schools. The undergraduate colleges are the College of Letters and Science; Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science; School of the Arts and Architecture; School of Theater, Film, and Television; and School of Nursing. Fifteen[17][18] Nobel laureates, one Fields Medalist,[19] and two Turing Award winners[20] have been affiliated with the university as faculty, researchers, or alumni. Among the current faculty members, 51 have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 22 to the National Academy of Engineering, 37 to the Institute of Medicine, and 120 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[21] The university was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1974.[22]
UCLA student-athletes compete intercollegiately as the Bruins in the Pacific-12 Conference. The Bruins have won 125 national championships, including 109 NCAA team championships, leading the nation as the most successful athletic program.[23][24] UCLA student-athletes have won 250 Olympic medals: 125 gold, 65 silver and 60 bronze.[25] The Bruins have comp