University of California, Los Angeles

The University of American state, l.  a.   (UCLA) could be a public analysis university set within the Westwood district of l.  a.  , California, us. It became the Southern Branch of the University of American state in 1919, creating it the second-oldest collegian field of the ten-campus system when the first University of American state field in Berkeley (1873). It offers 337 collegian and graduate degree programs in an exceedingly wide selection of disciplines. UCLA has associate degree approximate enrollment of thirty,000 collegian and twelve,000 graduate students, and has 119,000 candidates for Fall 2016, as well as transfer candidates, the foremost candidates for any yankee university.
The Times education World University Rankings for 2015–2016 ranks UCLA sixteenth within the world for teachers and thirteenth within the world for name. In 2015/16, UCLA is hierarchal twelfth within the world (10th in North America) by the tutorial Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) and twenty seventh within the 2015/16 QS World University Rankings. In 2015, the middle for World University Rankings (CWUR) hierarchal the university fifteenth within the world supported quality of education, alumni employment, quality of school, publications, influence, citations, broad impact, and patents.

The university is organized into 5 collegian schools, seven skilled faculties, and 4 skilled health science faculties. The collegian schools ar the school of Letters and Science; Henry Samueli faculty of Engineering and subject area (HSSEAS); faculty of the humanities and Architecture; faculty of Theater, Film and Television; and college of Nursing. Thirteen altruist laureates, 3 Fields Medalists, and 3 Alan Mathison Turing Award winners are college, researchers, or alumni. Among this college members, fifty five are electoral to the National Academy of Sciences, twenty eight to the National Academy of Engineering, thirty-nine to the Institute of drugs, and 124 to the yankee Academy of Arts and Sciences. The university was electoral to the Association of yankee Universities in 1974.
UCLA student-athletes vie because the Bruins within the Pac-12 Conference. The Bruins have won 126 national championships, as well as 113 NCAA team championships, quite the other university. UCLA student-athletes, coaches and employees have won 251 Olympic medals: 126 gold, sixty five silver and sixty bronze. The Bruins have competed in each athletics since 1920 with one exception (1924), and have won a medal in each athletics that the us has participated in since 1932.