University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles

Former names	Southern Branch of the University of California (1919–1927) University of California at Los Angeles (1927–1953)
Motto	Fiat lux (Latin)
Motto in English	Let there be light
Type	Public Research Land grant
Established	1919
Academic affiliation	University of California AAU APLU Pacific Rim URA WASC
Endowment	$3.49 billion (2015)[1]
Budget	$6.7 billion (2016)[2]
Chancellor	Gene D. Block[3]
Provost	Scott L. Waugh[4]
Academic staff	4,016[5]
Administrative staff	26,139
Students	43,301 (2015)[6]
Undergraduates	29,585 (2015)[6]
Postgraduates	12,323 (2015)[6]
Location	Westwood, Los Angeles, California, United States 34°04′20.00″N 118°26′38.75″W / 34.0722222°N 118.4440972°WCoordinates: 34°04′20.00″N 118°26′38.75″W / 34.0722222°N 118.4440972°W
Campus	Urban 419 acres (1.7 km²)[7]
Colors	UCLA Blue, UCLA Gold[8]
Athletics	NCAA Division I – Pac-12
Nickname	Bruins
Mascot	Joe Bruin Josephine Bruin[9]
Website	ucla.edu

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, California, United States. It became the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1919, making it the second-oldest undergraduate campus of the ten-campus system after the original University of California campus in Berkeley (1873).^[10] It offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines.^[11] UCLA enrolls about 30,000 undergraduate and 12,000 graduate students, and had 119,000 applicants for Fall 2016, including transfer applicants, the most applicants for any American university.^[12]

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2015–2016 ranked UCLA 16th in the world for academics and 13th in the world for reputation.^[13][14] In 2015-2016, UCLA ranked 12th in the world (10th in North America) by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)^[15] and 31st in the 2016/17 QS World University Rankings.^[16] In 2015, the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) ranked the university 15th in the world based on quality of education, alumni employment, quality of faculty, publications, influence, citations, broad impact, and patents.^[17]

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 (HSSEAS); School of the Arts and Architecture; School of Theater, Film and Television; and School of Nursing. Fourteen^[18][19] Nobel laureates, three Fields Medalists,^[20] two Chief Scientists of the U.S. Air Force and three Turing Award winners^[21] have been faculty, researchers, or alumni. Among the current faculty members, 55 have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 28 to the National Academy of Engineering, 39 to the Institute of Medicine, and 124 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[22] The university was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1974.^[23]

UCLA student-athletes compete as the Bruins in the Pac-12 Conference. The Bruins have won 126 national championships, including 113 NCAA team championships, more than any other university.^[24][25][26] UCLA student-athletes, coaches and staff have won 251 Olympic medals: 126 gold, 65 silver and 60 bronze.^[27] UCLA student-athletes have competed 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.^[28]

History

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 facility included an elementary school where teachers-in-training could practice their technique with children. That elementary school is related to the present day version, UCLA Lab School. In 1887, the school became known as the Los Angeles State Normal School.^[29]

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 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 transformed the Los Angeles Normal School into the Southern Branch of the University of California. The same legislation added its general undergraduate program, the College of Letters and Science.^[30] 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.^[31]

Southern Branch of the University of California'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 searched 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.^[32] 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.^[29]

The original four buildings were the College Library (now Powell Library), Royce Hall, the Physics-Biology Building (now the Humanities Building), and the Chemistry Building (now Haines Hall), 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. After lobbying by alumni, faculty, administration and community leaders, UCLA was permitted to award the master's degree in 1933, and the doctorate in 1936, against continued resistance from UC Berkeley.^[33]

A timeline of the history can be found on its website,^[34] as well as a published book.^[35]

Maturity as a university

During its first 32 years, UCLA was treated as an off-site department of UC. As such, its presiding officer was called a "provost," and reported to the main campus in Berkeley. In 1951, UCLA was formally elevated to co-equal status with UC Berkeley, and its presiding officer Raymond B. Allen was the first chief executive to be granted the title of chancellor. The appointment of Franklin David Murphy to the position of Chancellor in 1960 helped 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 and not simply a branch of the UC system. This change is exemplified by an incident involving Chancellor Murphy, which was described by him:

I picked up the telephone and called in from somewhere, and the phone operator said, "University of California." And I said, "Is this Berkeley?" She said, "No." I said, "Well, who have I gotten to?" "UCLA." I said, "Why didn't you say UCLA?" "Oh," she said, "we're instructed to say University of California." So the next morning I went to the office and wrote a memo; I said, "Will you please instruct the operators, as of noon today, when they answer the phone to say, 'UCLA.'" And they said, "You know they won't like it at Berkeley." And I said, "Well, let's just see. There are a few things maybe we can do around here without getting their permission."^[36]

The Bruin statue, designed by Billy Fitzgerald, in Bruin Plaza.^[37]

2016 shooting

On June 1, 2016, two men were killed in a murder-suicide at an engineering building in the university. School officials put the campus on lockdown as Los Angeles Police Department officers, including SWAT, cleared the campus.^[38][39]

Campus

The new UCLA campus in 1929 had four buildings: Royce Hall and Haines Hall on the north, and Powell Library and Kinsey Hall (now the Humanities Building) on the south. The Janss Steps were the original 87-step entrance to the university that lead to the quad of these four buildings. Today, the campus includes 163 buildings across 419 acres (1.7 km²) in the western part of Los Angeles, north of the Westwood shopping district and just south of Sunset Boulevard. In terms of acreage, it is the second smallest of the ten UC campuses.^[7] The campus is close but not adjacent to the 405 San Diego Freeway.^[40]

The campus is in the residential area of Westwood and bordered by Bel-Air to the north, Beverly Hills to the east, and Brentwood to the west. The campus is informally divided into North Campus and South Campus, which are both on the eastern half of the university's land. North Campus is the original campus core; its buildings are more traditional in appearance and clad in imported Italian brick. North Campus is home to the arts, humanities, social sciences, law, and business programs and is centered around ficus and sycamore-lined Dickson Court, also known as the "Sunken Garden". South Campus is home to the physical sciences, life sciences, engineering, mathematical sciences, health-related fields, and the UCLA Medical Center. The campus includes sculpture gardens, fountains, museums, and a mix of architectural styles.

Janss Steps, in front of Royce Hall

Ackerman Union, the John Wooden Center, the Arthur Ashe Health and Wellness Center, the Student Activities Center, Kerckhoff Hall, the J.D. Morgan Center, the James West Alumni Center, and Pauley Pavilion stand at the center of the campus, bordering Wilson Plaza. The campus is bisected by Bruin Walk, a heavily traveled pathway from the residential hill to the main campus. At the intersection of Bruin Walk and Westwood Plaza is Bruin Plaza, featuring an outdoor performing arts stage and a bronze statue of the Bruin bear.

Architecture

The first buildings were designed by the local firm Allison & Allison. The Romanesque Revival style of these first four structures remained the predominant building style until the 1950s, when architect Welton Becket was hired to supervise the expansion of the campus over the next two decades. Becket greatly streamlined its general appearance, adding several rows of minimalist, slab–shaped brick buildings to the southern half, the largest of these being the UCLA Medical Center.^[41] Architects such as A. Quincy Jones, William Pereira and Paul Williams designed many subsequent structures on the campus during the mid-20th century. More recent additions include buildings designed by architects I.M. Pei, Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Richard Meier, Cesar Pelli, and Rafael Vinoly. To accommodate UCLA's rapidly growing student population, multiple construction and renovation projects are in progress, including expansions of the life sciences and engineering research complexes. This continuous construction gives UCLA the nickname "Under Construction Like Always".^[42]

Royce Hall, one of the original four buildings, inspired by Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio

One notable building on campus is named after African-American alumnus Ralph Bunche, who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating an armistice agreement between the Jews and Arabs in Israel. The entrance of Bunche Hall features a bust of him overlooking the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden. He was the first individual of non-European background and the first UCLA alumnus to be honored with the Prize.

The Hannah Carter Japanese Garden is located a mile north of campus, in the community of Bel Air. The garden was designed by landscape architect Nagao Sakurai of Tokyo and garden designer Kazuo Nakamura of Kyoto in 1959. After the garden was damaged by heavy rains in 1969, UCLA Professor of Art and Campus Architect Koichi Kawana took on the task of its reconstruction.

Filming

UCLA has attracted filming for decades with its proximity to Hollywood. Much of the film Gotcha! (1985) was shot at UCLA, as well as John Singleton's Higher Learning (1995). Legally Blonde (2001), Old School (2003), The Nutty Professor (1995), Erin Brockovich (2000), How High (2001), National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002), American Pie 2 (2001), and Bring It On Again (2004) were all mainly shot around campus. In January 2009, the Bollywood movie My Name is Khan (2010) was shot at UCLA. UCLA is also often cast as Stanford in television shows such as The Mindy Project and Chuck. Some of the exterior shots of the fictional UC Sunnydale in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and ABC Family original series Greek were also filmed at UCLA. In response to the major demand for filming, UCLA has instated a policy to regulate filming and professional photography at the campus.^[43] "UCLA is located in Los Angeles, the same place as the American motion picture industry", said UCLA visiting professor of film and television Jonathan Kuntz.^[44] "So we're convenient for (almost) all of the movie companies, TV production companies, commercial companies and so on. We're right where the action is."

California NanoSystems Institute interior walkways above a parking structure.

Transportation and parking

The campus maintains 24,000 parking spaces and operates an award-winning sustainable transportation program.^[45][46][47] Elements of the sustainable transportation program include vanpools, a campus shuttle system called BruinBus, discounted carpool permits, and subsidized transit passes. One of the pass programs includes BruinGo!,^[48] which allows students and staff members to purchase discounted one-way or quarterly passes to ride Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus and the Culver CityBus.^[49] This pass program allows any current student to ride the Big Blue Bus for 50 cents (each way). Additionally, UCLA has a grocery shuttle that transports students between the dorms and Westwood, on weekends in order to facilitate students' shopping needs.

Academics

Divisions

Undergraduate College of Letters and Science Social Sciences Division Humanities Division Physical Sciences Division Life Sciences Division School of the Arts and Architecture Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS) Herb Alpert School of Music School of Theater, Film and Television School of Nursing

Graduate Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSEIS) School of Law Anderson School of Management Luskin School of Public Affairs David Geffen School of Medicine School of Dentistry Fielding School of Public Health Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior School of Nursing

Healthcare

UCLA Medical Plaza, near the main entrance to the campus

The David Geffen School of Medicine, School of Nursing, School of Dentistry and Fielding School of Public Health constitute the professional schools of health science.

The UCLA Health System operates the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, a hospital in Santa Monica and twelve primary care clinics throughout Los Angeles County. In addition, the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine uses two Los Angeles County public hospitals as teaching hospitals—Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Olive View-UCLA Medical Center—as well as the largest private nonprofit hospital on the west coast, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The Greater Los Angeles VA Medical Center is also a major teaching and training site for the university. The UCLA Medical Center made history in 1981 when Assistant Professor Michael Gottlieb first diagnosed AIDS. UCLA medical researchers also pioneered the use of positron emission tomography (PET) scanning to study brain function. Professor of Pharmacology Louis Ignarro was one of the recipients of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the signaling cascade of nitric oxide, one of the most important molecules in cardiopulmonary physiology.

The U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals ranking for 2015-2016 ranks UCLA Medical Center 3rd in the United States and "Best in the West". UCLA Medical Center was ranked within the top 20 in the United States for 15 out of 16 medical specialty areas examined.^[50]

Rankings

University rankings
National
ARWU[51]	10
Forbes[52]	46
U.S. News & World Report[53]	24
Washington Monthly[54]	8
Global
ARWU[55]	12
QS[56]	31
Times[57]	14
U.S. News & World Report[58]	10

2016 USNWR graduate school rankings[59]
Business	15
Education	11
Engineering	14
Engineering (Online)	1
Law	17
Medicine (Primary Care)	6
Medicine (Research)	14
Nursing	12
Public Affairs	19

2016 USNWR departmental rankings[59]
Biological Sciences	19
Chemistry	15
Clinical Psychology	1
Computer Science	13
Earth Sciences	13
Economics	15
English	10
Fine Arts	2
Health Care Management	14
History	9
Library and Information Studies	14
Mathematics	7
Physics	18
Political Science	10
Psychology	2
Public Affairs	19
Public Health	10
Social Work	12
Sociology	9
Statistics	30

Global

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2016–2017 ranks UCLA 14th in the world for academics and 13th in the world for reputation.^[14] UCLA was ranked 31st in the QS World University Rankings in 2016/17, 12th in the world (10th in North America) by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) in 2015, and 26th in the world in Financial Times' Global MBA Rankings in 2014.^[60] In 2015, the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) ranked the university 15th in the world based on quality of education, alumni employment, quality of faculty, publications, influence, citations, broad impact, and patents.^[17] The 2017 U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Rankings report ranked UCLA 10th in the world.^[59] The CWTS Leiden ranking of universities based on scientific impact for 2015 ranks UCLA 20th in the world in a size-independent ranking and 7th in the world in a size-dependent ranking.^[61] The University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) conducted by Middle East Technical University for 2014-2015 ranked UCLA 12th in the world based on the quantity, quality and impact of research articles and citations.^[62] The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities for 2015 ranked UCLA 9th in the world based on the presence, impact, openness and excellence of its research publications.^[63]

National

The 2017 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges report ranked UCLA second among public universities.^[64] The Washington Monthly ranked UCLA 8th among national universities in 2016, with criteria based on research, community service, and social mobility. The Money Magazine Best Colleges ranking for 2015 ranked UCLA 26th in the United States based on educational quality, affordability and alumni earnings.^[65] In 2014, The Daily Beast's Best Colleges report ranked UCLA 10th in the country.^[66] The Kiplinger Best College Values report for 2015 ranked UCLA 6th for value among American public universities.^[67] The 2013 Top American Research Universities report by the Center for Measuring University Performance ranks UCLA 11th in power, 12th in resources, faculty, and education, 14th in resources and education and 9th in education.^[68] The 2015 Princeton Review College Hopes & Worries Survey ranked UCLA as the No. 5 "Dream College" among students and the No. 10 "Dream College" among parents.^[69] The National Science Foundation ranked UCLA 10th among American universities for research and development expenditures in 2014 with $948 million.^[70] The university is one of the Public Ivies—a public university considered to provide an Ivy League education.

The 2016 Forbes America's Top Colleges report ranks UCLA 46th among all universities and liberal arts colleges in the United States. The 2016 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges report ranked UCLA 8th among national universities for campus ethnic diversity,^[71] 1st among national universities for economic diversity among the top 25 ranked schools,^[72] 27th among national universities for high school counselor rankings,^[73] and tied for 3rd among national universities for freshman retention rate.^[74] In 2015, Business Insider ranked UCLA 5th among American colleges with the best food, and one of the top 15 American colleges with the best dining halls.^[75][76] UCLA was ranked 78th in the United States by Payscale and CollegeNet's Social Mobility Index college rankings.^[77] Education website Niche ranks UCLA 26th among all American universities and liberal arts colleges in 2016 based on academics and quality of student life.^[78]

Graduate school

As of August 2016, the U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools report ranked the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSEIS) 11th, the Anderson School of Management 15th, the David Geffen School of Medicine tied for 6th for Primary Care and 14th for Research, the School of Law 17th, the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS) tied for 14th, the Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health 19th, and the School of Nursing 12th.^[59] The QS Global 200 MBA Rankings report for 2015 ranks the Anderson School of Management 9th among North American business schools.^[79] The 2014 Economist ranking of Full-time MBA programs ranks the Anderson School of Management 13th in the world.^[80] The 2014 Financial Times ranking of MBA programs ranks the Anderson School 26th in the world.^[60] The 2014 Bloomberg Businessweek ranking of Full-time MBA programs ranks the Anderson School of Management 11th in the United States.^[81] The 2014 Business Insider ranking of the world's best business schools ranks the Anderson School of Management 20th in the world.^[82] The 2014 Eduniversal Business Schools Ranking ranks the Anderson School of Management 15th in the United States.^[83] In 2015, career website Vault ranked the Anderson School of Management 16th among American business schools,^[84] and the School of Law 16th among American law schools.^[85] In 2015, financial community website QuantNet ranked the Anderson School of Management's Master of Financial Engineering program 12th among North American financial engineering programs.^[86]

The U.S. News & World Report Best Online Programs report for 2016 ranked the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS) 1st among online graduate engineering programs.^[87]

Departmental

Departments ranked in the national top ten by the 2016 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools report are Clinical Psychology (1st), Fine Arts (2nd), Psychology (2nd), Medical School: Primary Care (6th), Math (7th), History (9th), Sociology (9th), English (10th), Political Science (10th), and Public Health (10th).^[59]

Departments ranked in the global top ten by the 2016 U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities report are Arts and Humanities (7th), Biology and Biochemistry (10th), Chemistry (6th), Clinical Medicine (10th), Materials Science (10th), Mathematics (7th), Neuroscience and Behavior (7th), Psychiatry/Psychology (3rd) and Social Sciences and Public Health (8th).^[88]

Departments ranked in the global top ten by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) for 2015 are Mathematics (8th)^[89] and Computer Science (9th).^[90]

Departments ranked in the global top ten by the QS World University Rankings for 2015 are English Language & Literature (9th),^[91] Linguistics (2nd),^[92] Modern Languages (10th),^[93] Medicine (7th),^[94] Psychology (5th),^[95] Mathematics (8th),^[96] Geography & Area Studies (7th),^[97] Communication & Media Studies (10th),^[98] Education (8th)^[99] and Sociology (6th).^[100]

Academic field

Academic field rankings in the global top ten according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) for 2015 are Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy (10th).^[101]

Academic field rankings in the global top ten according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2014-2015 include Arts & Humanities (10th),^[102] Clinical, Pre-clinical and Health (9th),^[103] Engineering and Technology (9th),^[104] Physical Sciences (9th),^[105] and Social Sciences (9th).^[106]

Academic field rankings in the global top ten according to the QS World University Rankings for 2015 are Arts & Humanities (10th)^[107] and Life Sciences and Medicine (10th).^[108]

Student body

In 2015, the Institute of International Education ranked UCLA 8th among American universities with the most international students (behind NYU, USC, Columbia, Arizona State, Illinois, Northeastern and Purdue).^[109] In 2014, Business Insider ranked UCLA 5th in the world for the number of alumni working at Google (behind Stanford, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon and MIT).^[110] In 2015, Business Insider ranked UCLA 10th among American universities with the most students hired by Silicon Valley companies.^[111] In 2015, research firm PitchBook ranked UCLA 15th in the world for producing the most undergraduate alumni who are entrepreneurs backed by venture capital and 11th in the world for producing the most MBA graduate alumni who are entrepreneurs backed by venture capital.^[112]

Library system

Powell Library, across the quad from Royce Hall

UCLA's library system has over nine million books and 70,000 serials spread over twelve libraries and eleven other archives, reading rooms, and research centers. It is the United States' 12th largest library in number of volumes.^[113]

The first library, University Library (presently Powell Library), was founded in 1884. In 1910, Elizabeth Fargo became the university's first librarian. Lawrence Powell became librarian in 1944, and began a series of system overhauls and modifications, and in 1959, he was named Dean of the School of Library Service.^[114] More libraries were added as previous ones filled. Page Ackerman became University Librarian in 1973, and was the nation's first female librarian of a system as large and complex as UCLA's. She oversaw the first coordinations between other UC schools, and formed a new administrative network that is still in use today.^[115] Since her retirement, the system has seen steady growth and improvement under various Librarians. The present University Librarian is Virginia Steel, who took office on July 15, 2013.^[116]

Medical school admissions

According to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), UCLA supplies the most undergraduate applicants to U.S. medical schools among all American universities. In 2015, UCLA supplied 961 medical school applicants, followed by UC Berkeley with 819 and the University of Florida with 802.^[117]

Among first-time medical school applicants who received their bachelor's degree from UCLA in 2013, 53% were admitted to at least one U.S. medical school.^[118]

Admissions

Undergraduate

Fall Admission Statistics

Excluding deferred applications or other unique situations.

	2016 Preliminary[119]	2015[120]	2014[121]	2013[122]	2012[123]
Applicants	97,115	92,728	86,548	80,522	72,697
Admits	17,522	16,016	16,059	16,448	15,982
Admit rate	18.0%	17.3%	18.6%	20.4%	22.0%
Enrolled	N/A	5,679	5,764	5,697	5,621
Average GPA	N/A	4.33	4.31	4.29	4.21
SAT Range	N/A	1750-2170	1760-2190	1750-2150	1750-2150
ACT Range	N/A	25-33	25-32	25-32	24-31

UCLA is rated "Most Selective" by U.S. News & World Report^[124] and has an admissions selectivity rating of 98 out of 99 from the Princeton Review.^[125] For Fall 2016, it received 97,115 freshman applications, the highest number of any four-year university in the United States,^[119] and reached its record-low admission rate of 17.3% for Fall 2015.^[126][127]

Admission rates vary according to the residency of applicants. For Fall 2015, the admission rate for California residents was 16%, while the admission rate for out-of-state U.S. residents was 23% and the admission rate for internationals was 14%.^[128]

Admitted freshman applicants for Fall 2015 had an average weighted GPA of 4.33, an SAT interquartile range of 1760 - 2170, and an ACT interquartile range of 25 - 33.^[128]

The undergraduate admission rates for UCLA are drastically different for each college. For Fall 2015, the College of Letters and Science had an admission rate of 19.7%, the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS) had an admission rate of 13.4%, the School of the Arts and Architecture had an admission rate of 13.6%, the School of Nursing had an admission rate of 2.3%, and the School of Theater, Film and Television had an admission rate of 5.0%.^[129] Transfer students experience a much higher admission rate of 27.4%.^[130] The average transfer student that enrolls at UCLA maintained a 3.66 GPA at their previous institution.^[130]

About 3,200 transfer students entered UCLA in Fall 2014, of which 92.3% came from the California Community Colleges System.^[131] Over the past 15 years, more than 45,000 students have transferred to UCLA. Between one-half to one-third of baccalaureate degrees are awarded to students who transferred to UCLA. One of the major issues is the decreased admission of African-Americans since the passage of Proposition 209 in 1996, prohibiting racial or sexual discrimination at public institutions.^[132] UCLA responded by shifting to a holistic admissions process starting Fall 2007.^[133] The holistic admissions process evaluates applicants based on their opportunities in high school, their personal hardships and unusual circumstances at home.

For Fall 2015, 35% of admitted freshman applicants chose to enroll at UCLA.^[134]

Graduate

Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library, UCLA School of Law

For Fall 2014, the David Geffen School of Medicine admitted 3.2% of its applicants, making it the 9th most selective U.S. medical school.^[135] The School of Law had a median undergraduate GPA of 3.74 and median Law School Admission Test (LSAT) score of 166 for the enrolled class of 2018.^[136] The Anderson School of Management had a middle-80% GPA range of 3.2 - 3.8 and an average Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) score of 714 for the enrolled MBA class of 2017.^[137]

The School of Dentistry had an average overall GPA of 3.75, an average science GPA of 3.71 and an average Dental Admissions Test (DAT) score of 22 for the enrolled class of 2018.^[138] The Graduate School of Nursing currently has an acceptance rate of 3.9%. For Fall 2015, the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS) had a graduate acceptance rate of 27.6%.^[139]

Economic impact

A hoodie from the UCLA Store

The university has a significant impact in the Los Angeles economy. It is the fifth largest employer in the county (after Los Angeles County, the Los Angeles Unified School District, the federal government and the City of Los Angeles) and the seventh largest in the region.^[140][141]

Trademarks and licensing

The UCLA trademark "is the exclusive property of the Regents of the University of California",^[142] but it is managed, protected, and licensed through UCLA Trademarks and Licensing, a division of the Associated Students UCLA, the largest student employer on campus.^[143][144] As such, the ASUCLA also has a share in the profits.

Due to UCLA's academic and athletic prestige, as well as the name being associated with popular images of Southern California lifestyle, apparel with UCLA logos and insignia sells not just in the United States, but as an overseas clothing and accessories brand. High demand for UCLA apparel has inspired the licensing of its trademark to UCLA brand stores throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Since 1980, 15 UCLA stores have opened in South Korea, and 49 are currently open in China. The newest store was opened in Kuwait.^[145] There are also stores in Mexico, Singapore, India and Europe.^[146] UCLA makes $400,000 in royalties every year through its international licensing program.^[146]

Commerce on campus

UCLA has various store locations, with the main store in Ackerman Union and smaller stores around campus. In addition, UCLA-themed products are sold at the gift shop of Fowler Museum on campus.

Due to licensing and trademarks, products with UCLA logos and insignia are usually higher priced than their unlicensed counterparts. These products have popularity among visitors, who buy them as gifts and souvenirs. For certain products (such as notebooks and folders) the UCLA Store offers both licensed (logo) and unlicensed (without logo, thus cheaper) options, but for many other products the latter option is often unavailable.

Students who are part-time employed by ASUCLA at a UCLA Store or a UCLA Restaurant are offered certain discounts when they are shopping at UCLA Stores, in addition to their salary.

Athletics

Basketball at Pauley Pavilion

Football at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena

Track and field at Drake Stadium

The school's sports teams are called the Bruins, with colors True Blue and gold. The Bruins participate in NCAA Division I as part of the Pac-12 Conference. Two notable sports facilities serve as home venues for UCLA sports. The Bruin men's football team plays home games at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena; the team won a national title in 1954. The basketball and volleyball teams, and the women's gymnastics team compete at Pauley Pavilion on campus. The school also sponsors cross country, soccer, women's rowing, golf, tennis, water polo, track and field, and women's softball.

The mascots are Joe and Josephine Bruin, and the fight songs are Sons of Westwood and Mighty Bruins. The alma mater is Hail to the Hills of Westwood.

When Henry "Red" Sanders came to UCLA to coach football in 1949, the uniforms were redesigned. Sanders added a gold loop on the shoulders—the UCLA Stripe. The navy blue was changed to a lighter shade of blue. Sanders figured that the baby blue would look better on the field and in film. He dubbed the uniform "Powder Keg Blue", a powder blue with an explosive kick. This would also differentiate UCLA from all other UC teams, whose official colors are blue and gold. UCLA competes in all major Division I sports and has won 125 national championships, including 113 NCAA championships, more than any other university. Most recently, UCLA's women's soccer team defeated Florida State to win its first NCAA National Championship along with women's tennis who defeated North Carolina to win its second NCAA National title ever.^[147] UCLA's softball program is also outstanding.^[148] Women's softball won their NCAA-leading 11th National Championship, on June 8, 2010. The women's water polo team is also dominant, with a record 7 NCAA championships. Notably, the team helped UCLA become the first school to win 100 NCAA championships overall when they won their fifth on May 13, 2007. The men's water polo team won UCLA's 112th national championship after defeating USC on December 7, 2014 and then secured the 113th national championship a year later when they defeated the Trojans on December 6, 2015, marking their second consecutive national championship. On October 9, 2016, the top-ranked men's water polo team broke the NCAA record for consecutive wins when they defeated UC Davis for their 52nd straight win. This toppled Stanford's previous record of 51 consecutive wins set in 1985-87. The men's water polo team has become a dominant sport on campus with a total of 10 national championships, including the school's most recent. Among UCLA's 113 championship titles, some of the more notable victories are in men's basketball. Under legendary coach John Wooden, UCLA men's basketball teams won 10 NCAA championships, including a record seven consecutive, in 1964, 1965, 1967-1973, and 1975, and an 11th was added under then-coach Jim Harrick in 1995 (through 2008, the most consecutive by any other team is two).^[148] From 1971 to 1974, UCLA men's basketball won an unprecedented 88 consecutive games. UCLA has also shown dominance in men's volleyball, with 19 national championships. All 19 teams were led by former^[149] coach Al Scates, which ties him with John McDonnell of the University of Arkansas as NCAA leader for national championships in a single sport.^[148]

Former UCLA basketball player and former NBA player Earl Watson commented, "Eleven national championships, the best coach (Wooden) to coach the game says a lot. I take offense to those who act like UCLA is just another school compared with Duke. Duke is a great school in the east, but UCLA is worldwide."

UCLA has the most NCAA team championships with 113, followed by Stanford University with 109,^[150] then USC with 100.^[25] UCLA is one of only five universities (Michigan, Stanford, Ohio State, and UC Berkeley being the others) to have won national championships in all three major men's sports (baseball, basketball, and football).^[151]

USC rivalry

UCLA shares a traditional sports rivalry with the nearby University of Southern California, especially for football. Under famous coach John Wooden, UCLA became a dominating power in men's basketball, and has won 11 NCAA championships, against USC's zero.^[152] In football, UCLA has one national champion team and 16 conference titles, compared to USC's 11 national championships and 37 conference championships. The two football teams compete for annual possession of the Victory Bell, the trophy of the rivalry football game. In 2015, UCLA's football team was beaten by USC in a 21-40 defeat at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, ending its three-game winning streak.^[153]

The schools share a rivalry in many other sports. In men's volleyball, UCLA won 19 NCAA Men's Volleyball Championships against USC's four.^[148] UCLA also dominates the all-time series vs. USC in men's volleyball (86–34).^[154] In women's volleyball UCLA leads the all-time series against USC as well and has won eight national champions to USC's six.^[155] In soccer, UCLA leads USC in the all-time series 13–3–0, yet USC no longer competes in men's NCAA Division I soccer.^[156] The annual SoCal BMW Crosstown Cup compares the two schools based on their performance in 19 varsity sports; UCLA has won five times and USC has won nine times. This rivalry extends to the Olympic Games, where UCLA athletes have won 250 medals over a span of 50 years while USC athletes have won 287 over 100 years.^{[157][158][159]}

UCLA and USC also compete in the We Run The City 5K, an annual charity race to raise donations for Special Olympics Southern California. The race is located on the campus of one of the schools and switches to the other campus each year. UCLA won the race in 2012 and 2014, while USC won the race in 2013 and 2015.^[160]

The origin is unclear, but the rivalry most likely started when football Hall of Fame coach Red Sanders led UCLA to dominance in the 1950s. USC, having won four national championships prior to UCLA's first and only title in 1954 diverted some attention from then-rival University of Notre Dame, and the new cross-town rivalry began.^[161]

Student life

Ethnicity, 2015^[6]

	Undergrad	Graduate	Percentage
Black Non-Hispanic	1,282	600	4.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander	9,700	2,585	29.7%
Hispanic (of any race)	5,918	1,146	16.6%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	158	69	0.5%
White Non-Hispanic	7,804	4,444	29.7%
Unstated, Unknown, Other	975	605	3.7%
Foreign	3,748	2,874	15.3%

The campus is located near prominent entertainment venues such as the Getty Center, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and Walt Disney Concert Hall. UCLA offers classical orchestras, intramural sports, and over 800 student organizations. UCLA is also home to more than 70 fraternities and sororities, which represent 13% of the undergraduate population.^[162] Phrateres, a non-exclusive social-service club for women was founded here in 1924 by the Dean of Women, Helen Matthewson Laughlin. Students and staff participate in dinghy sailing, surfing, windsurfing, rowing, and kayaking at the UCLA Marina Aquatic Center in Marina del Rey.

UCLA's first contemporary a cappella group, Awaken A Cappella, was founded in 1992. The all-male group, Bruin Harmony, has enjoyed a successful career since its inception in 2006, portraying a collegiate a cappella group in The Social Network (2010), while the ScatterTones finished in second-place in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella in 2011–2013. Other a cappella groups include Signature, Random Voices, Medleys, YOUTHphonics, Resonance, Deviant Voices, Awechords and Cadenza. YOUTHphonics and Medleys are UCLA's only nonprofit service-oriented a cappella groups.^[163]

There are also a variety of cultural organizations on campus, such as Nikkei Student Union (NSU), Japanese Student Association (JSA),^[164] Association of Chinese Americans (ACA), Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA), Chinese Music Ensemble (CME), Chinese Cultural Dance Club (CCDC), Taiwanese American Union (TAU), Taiwanese Student Association (TSA), Hong Kong Student Society (HKSS), Hanoolim Korean Cultural Awareness Group, Samahang Pilipino, Vietnamese Student Union (VSU), and Thai Smakom. Many of these organizations have an annual "culture night" consisting of drama and dance which raises awareness of culture and history to the campus and community.

UCLA operates on a quarter calendar with the exception of the UCLA School of Law and the UCLA School of Medicine, which operate on a semester calendar.

Greek life

Fraternities and sororities have been an integral part of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus since 1923. Today UCLA is home to more than 60 national and local Greek-letter organizations, six governing councils with approximately 4,000 students which represents 13% of the undergraduate student population.

The Interfraternity Council (IFC) comprises 22 fraternities. The Panhellenic Association is made up of 17 sororities and over 4,000 women.

Fraternities (IFC)[165]			Sororities (PNC)[166]
Alpha Epsilon Pi Alpha Gamma Omega Alpha Tau Omega Beta Theta Pi Delta Sigma Phi Delta Tau Delta Kappa Sigma	Lambda Chi Alpha Phi Delta Theta Phi Kappa Sigma Phi Kappa Psi Pi Kappa Alpha Pi Kappa Phi	Sigma Alpha Epsilon Sigma Chi Sigma Nu Sigma Pi Sigma Phi Epsilon Theta Chi Theta Delta Chi Theta Xi Triangle Zeta Beta Tau	Alpha Chi Omega Alpha Delta Chi Alpha Delta Pi Alpha Gamma Delta Alpha Phi Chi Omega Delta Delta Delta Delta Gamma Gamma Phi Beta	Kappa Alpha Theta Kappa Delta Kappa Kappa Gamma Pi Beta Phi

In addition, UCLA includes some of the multi-cultural Greek organizations. Asian Greek Council (AGC): Governing body of the 4 historically Asian-founded fraternities and sororities. Latino Greek Council (LGC): Governing body of the 8 Latino/a founded Greek-letter organizations. Multi-Interest Greek Council (MIGC): Governing body of the 15 cultural-based/special-interest fraternity and sorority organizations. National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC): Governing body of the 7 historically African American Greek-letter organizations at UCLA.

Traditions

Spring Sing 2009

UCLA's official charity is UniCamp, founded in 1934. It is a week-long summer camp for under-served children from the greater Los Angeles area, with UCLA volunteer counselors. UniCamp runs for seven weeks throughout the summer at Camp River Glen in the San Bernardino National Forest. Because UniCamp is a non-profit organization, student volunteers from UCLA also fundraise money throughout the year to allow these children to attend summer camp.^[167]

True Bruin Welcome begins the fall quarter to introduce new students to clubs and activities. The week includes the Day of Service for all freshmen, the Enormous Activities Fair, and the Sports Fair. At the end of move-in and the beginning of True Bruin Welcome, UCLA holds Bruin Bash, which includes a concert, dance and movie pre-release. Bruin Bash was created as a replacement for Black Sunday, a large-scale day of partying including all fraternities in North Westwood Village.

The Pediatric AIDS Coalition organizes the annual Dance Marathon in Pauley Pavilion, where thousands of students raise a minimum of $250 and dance for 26 hours to support the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Project Kindle, and the UCLA AIDS Institute. Dancers are not allowed to sit (except to use the restroom) during the marathon, literally taking a stand against pediatric AIDS, and symbolizing the suffering of affected children around the world. In 2015, Dance Marathon at UCLA raised $446,157.^[168]

During Finals Week, UCLA students participate in "Midnight Yell", where they yell as loudly as possible for a few minutes at midnight to release some stress from studying. The quarterly Undie Run takes place during the Wednesday evening of Finals Week, when students run through the campus in their underwear or in skimpy costumes. The run began in Fall of 2001 when a student, Eric Whitehead, wearing what he described as "really short shorts" walked around singing and playing a guitar to protest the police restrictions on the Midnight Yell.^[169] With the increasing safety hazards and Police and Administration involvement, a student committee changed the route to a run through campus to Shapiro Fountain, which now culminates with students dancing in the fountain.^[170] In 2007, the route was changed again to begin at Strathmore Avenue instead of Landfair Avenue. The Undie Run has spread to other American universities, including the University of Texas at Austin, Arizona State University, and Syracuse University.

The Alumni Association sponsors several events, usually large extravaganzas involving huge amounts of coordination, such as the 70-year-old Spring Sing, organized by the Student Alumni Association (SAA). UCLA's oldest tradition, Spring Sing is an annual gala of student talent, which is held at either Pauley Pavilion or the outdoor Los Angeles Tennis Center. The committee bestows the George and Ira Gershwin Lifetime Achievement Award each year to a major contributor to the music industry. Past recipients have included Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, James Taylor, Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, Quincy Jones,^[171] Lionel Richie, and in 2009, Julie Andrews.^[172] The Dinner for 12 Strangers is a gathering of students, alumni, administration and faculty to network around different interests.^[173] The "Beat 'SC Bonfire and Rally" occurs the week before the USC rivalry football game.

JazzReggae Festival 2010

The USAC Cultural Affairs Commission hosts the JazzReggae Festival, a two-day concert on Memorial Day weekend that attracts more than 20,000 attendees. The JazzReggae Festival is the largest, entirely student produced and run event of its kind on the West Coast.^[174]

Sigma Eta Pi and Bruin Entrepreneurs organize LA Hacks, an annual hackathon where students from around the United States come to build technology products. LA Hacks established itself as the largest hackathon in the United States when over 1500 students participated in April 11–13, 2014.^[175] LA Hacks also holds the record for the most funds raised via corporate sponsorships with $250,000 raised. Some of the tech world's most prominent people have given talks and judged projects at LA Hacks, including Evan Spiegel (Founder and CEO of Snapchat), Alexis Ohanian (Co-Founder of Reddit), Sam Altman (President of Y Combinator) and Chris De Wolfe (Founder of Myspace).

Student government

Kerckhoff Hall houses the student government and the Daily Bruin.

The Associated Students UCLA (ASUCLA) encompasses the student government and student-led enterprises at UCLA. ASUCLA has four major components: the Undergraduate Students Association, the Graduate Students Association, Student Media, and services & enterprises. However, in common practice, the term ASUCLA refers to the services and enterprises component. This includes the Student Store, Bookstore, Food Services, Student Union, etc. These commercial enterprises generate approximately $40 million in annual revenues.^[176] As a nonprofit corporation, the financial goal of ASUCLA is to provide quality services and programs for students. ASUCLA is governed by a student-majority Board of Directors. The Undergraduate Students Association and Graduate Students Association each appoint three members plus one alternate. In addition to the student members, there are representatives appointed by the administration, the academic senate, and the alumni association. The "services and enterprises" portion of ASUCLA is run by a professional executive director who oversees some 300 staff and 2,000 student employees.

The Graduate Students Association is the governing body for approximately 13,000 graduate and professional students at UCLA.^[177]

The Undergraduate Students Association Council (USAC) is the governing body of the Undergraduate Students Association (USA) whose membership comprises every UCLA undergraduate student.^[178] As of 2015, the student body had two major political slates: Bruins United and Let's Act. In the Spring 2016 election, the two competing parties were Bruins United and Waves of Change -- a smaller faction that broke off of Lets Act.

USAC's fourteen student officers and commissioners are elected by members of the Undergraduate Students Association at an annual election held during Spring Quarter. In addition to its fourteen elected members, USAC includes appointed representatives of the Administration, the Alumni, and the Faculty, as well as two ex-officio members, the ASUCLA Executive Director and a student Finance Committee Chairperson who is appointed by the USA President and approved by USAC. All members of USAC may participate fully in Council deliberations, but only the elected officers, minus the USAC President may vote.

Along with the council, the student government also includes a seven-member Judicial Board, which similar to the Supreme Court, serves as the judicial branch of government and reviews actions of the council. These seven students are appointed by the student body president and confirmed by the council.

USAC's programs offers additional services to the campus and surrounding communities. For example, each year approximately 40,000 students, faculty and staff attend programs of the Campus Events Commission, including a low-cost film program, a speakers program which presents leading figures from a wide range of disciplines, and performances by dozens of entertainers. Two to three thousand UCLA undergraduates participate annually in the more than twenty voluntary outreach programs run by the Community Service Commission. A large corps of undergraduate volunteers also participate in programs run by the Student Welfare Commission, such as AIDS Awareness, Substance Abuse Awareness, Blood Drives and CPR/First Aid Training.

Media publications

UCLA Student Media is the home of UCLA's newspaper, magazines, and radio station.^[179] Most student media publications are governed by the ASUCLA Communications Board.

The Daily Bruin is UCLA's most prominent student publication. Founded in 1919 under the name Cub Californian, it has since then developed into Los Angeles' third-most circulated newspaper. It has won dozens of national awards, and is regularly commended for layout and content. In 2016, the paper won two National Pacemaker Awards – one for the best college newspaper in the country, and another for the best college media website in the country.^[180] The newspaper has not been without scrutiny and controversy, and in 1954, the administration attempted to intervene with the previous policy of electing editors by a student council.

UCLA Student Media also publishes seven special-interest news magazines: Al-Talib, Fem, Ha'Am, La Gente, Nommo, Pacific Ties, and OutWrite, a school yearbook, BruinLife, and the student-run radio station, UCLA Radio.

Student groups such as The Forum for Energy Economics and Development also publish yearly journals focused on energy technologies and industries. There are also numerous graduate student-run journals at UCLA, such as Carte Italiane, Issues in Applied Linguistics, and Mediascape.^[181] Many of these publications are available through open access. The School of Law publishes the UCLA Law Review which is currently ranked seventh among American law schools.^[182]

Housing

Rieber Terrace housing

UCLA provides housing to over 10,000 undergraduate and 2,900 graduate students.^[183]

Most undergraduate students are housed in 14 complexes on the western side of campus, referred to by students as "The Hill". Students can live in halls, plazas, suites, or university apartments, which vary in pricing and privacy. Housing plans also offer students access to dining facilities, which have been ranked by the Princeton Review as some of the best in the United States.^[184] Dining halls are located in De Neve, Rieber, Covel, and Hedrick Halls. In winter 2012, a dining hall called The Feast at Rieber opened to students. The newest dining hall (as of Winter Quarter 2014) is Bruin Plate, located in the Carnesale Commons (commonly referred to as Sproul Plaza). Residential cafes include Bruin Cafe, Rendezvous, and Cafe 1919 which formerly housed a cafe known as Puzzles.^[185] UCLA currently offers three years guaranteed housing to its incoming freshmen, and one year to incoming transfer students. There are four type of housing available for students: residential halls, deluxe residential halls, residential plazas, and residential suites. Available on the hill are study rooms, basketball courts, tennis courts, and Sunset Recreational Center which includes three swimming pools.

Graduate students are housed in one of five apartment complexes. Weyburn Terrace is located just southwest of the campus in Westwood Village. The other four are roughly five miles south of UCLA in Palms and Mar Vista. They too vary in pricing and privacy.^[186] Approximately 400 students live at the University Cooperative Housing Association, located two blocks off campus.^[187]

Students who are involved in Greek life have the option to also live in Greek housing while at UCLA. Sorority houses are located east of campus on Hilgard Avenue, and fraternity houses are located west of campus throughout Westwood Village. A student usually lives with 50+ students in Greek housing.

Hospitality

Hospitality constituents of the university include departments not directly related to student life or administration. The Hospitality department manages the UCLA Guest House, a full-service, on-campus hotel. The 61-room Guest House services those visiting the university for campus-related activities.^[188] The department also manages the UCLA Conference Center, a 40 acre (0.2 km²) conference center in the San Bernardino Mountains near Lake Arrowhead.^[189] Hospitality also operates UCLA Catering^[190] a vending operation, and summer conference center located on the Westwood campus.^[191]

Chabad House

The UCLA Chabad House is a community center for Jewish students operated by the Orthodox Jewish Chabad movement. Established in 1969, it was the first Chabad House at a university.^[192][193] In 1980, three students died in a fire in the original building of the UCLA Chabad House. The present building was erected in their memory. The building, completed in 1984, was the first of many Chabad houses worldwide designed as architectural reproductions of the residence of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, New York.^[192] The Chabad House hosts the UCLA chapter of The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute's Sinai Scholars Society.^[194][195]

Healthy Campus Initiative

In January 2012, Chancellor Gene Block launched the UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative (HCI), envisioned and supported by Jane and Terry Semel.^[196] The Semel HCI prioritizes the health and wellness of UCLA students, staff, and faculty by “making the healthy choice the easy choice.”^[197] The goal of the initiative is to make UCLA the healthiest campus in the country, and to share best practices and research with other communities, locally and beyond. ^[198]

The initiative is a campuswide, multi-year effort that champions programs such as the tobacco-free policy,^[199] expansion of campus gardens,^[200] stairwell makeovers,^[201] bicycle infrastructure improvements,^[202] healthy and sustainable dining options,^[203] and peer counseling,^[204] among others.

The UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative is credited with providing inspiration for national initiatives including the Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) Healthier Campus Initiative and the University of California Office of the President (UCOP) Global Food Initiative (GFI).^[205][206] In November 2014, UCLA was one of the 20 inaugural colleges and universities to pledge to adopt PHA’s guidelines for food and nutrition, physical activity and programming over three years.^[207] The Semel HCI is a member of both the Menus of Change Research Collaborative^[208] and the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative,^[209] and a contributor to The Huffington Post.^[210]

In 2015, UCLA was included on Greatist’s list of “The 25 Healthiest Colleges in the U.S.”^[211] In 2016, UCLA was ranked best college food in America by Town & Country.^[212]

Faculty and alumni

Fourteen Nobel laureates are associated with UCLA: seven professors^[18] and seven alumni.^[19]

Faculty Nobel Prizes
James Fraser Stoddart[213]	Chemistry	2016
Lloyd Shapley[214]	Economic Sciences	2012
Louis Ignarro[215]	Physiology or Medicine	1998
Paul Boyer[216]	Chemistry	1997
Donald Cram[217]	Chemistry	1987
Julian S. Schwinger[218]	Physics	1965
Willard Libby[219]	Chemistry	1960

Two other faculty members winning the Nobel Prize were Bertrand Russell and Al Gore,^[220] who each had a short stay at UCLA.

The alumni Nobel laureates include Richard Heck (Chemistry, 2010);^[221] Elinor Ostrom (Economic Sciences, 2009);^[222] and Randy Schekman (Physiology or Medicine, 2013).^[223] Fifty-two UCLA professors have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships, and eleven are MacArthur Foundation Fellows. Mathematics professor Terence Tao was awarded the 2006 Fields Medal.^[224]

Faculty membership
American Academy of Arts and Sciences	124
American Association for the Advancement of Science	117
American Philosophical Society	18
Institute of Medicine	39
National Academy of Engineering	28
National Academy of Sciences	52
National Academy of Education	7

Geography professor Jared Diamond won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for his book Guns, Germs, and Steel.^[225] Two UCLA history professors have each won 2008 Pulitzer Prizes for general nonfiction and history. Saul Friedländer, noted scholar of the Nazi Holocaust, won the prize for general nonfiction for his 2006 book, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945, and Daniel Walker Howe won for his 2007 book, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848.

A number of UCLA alumni are notable politicians. In the U.S. House of Representatives, Henry Waxman ('61, '64) represented California's 30th congressional district and was Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.^[226] U.S. Representative Judy Chu ('74) represents California's 32nd congressional district and became the first Chinese American woman elected to the U.S. Congress in 2009.^[227] Kirsten Gillibrand ('91) is U.S. Senator from the State of New York and former U.S. Representative for New York's 20th congressional district.^[228] UCLA boasts two Mayors of Los Angeles: Tom Bradley (1937-1940), the city's only African-American mayor, and Antonio Villaraigosa ('77), who served as mayor from 2005 to 2013. Nao Takasugi was the mayor of Oxnard, California and the first Asian-American California assemblyman.

Ben Shapiro (BA '04) is an American conservative political commentator, nationally syndicated columnist, author, radio talk show host, and attorney. He is the editor-in-chief at The Daily Wire.^[229]

Laurence Fink (BA '74, MBA '76) is chairman and CEO of the world's largest money-management firm BlackRock.

Oliver Benjamin (BA '90) author, founder of the religion Dudeism.

Bill Gross (MBA '71) co-founded Pacific Investment Management (PIMCO).

Michael Morhaime (BA '90), Allen Adham (BA '90) and Frank Pearce (BA '90) are the founders of Blizzard Entertainment, developer of the award-winning Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo computer game franchises. Tom Anderson is a co-founder of the social networking website Myspace. Ben Horowitz (MS '90) is a co-founder of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Computer scientist Vint Cerf ('70, '72) is Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google and the person most widely considered the "father of the Internet."^[230] Henry Samueli ('75) is co-founder of Broadcom Corporation and owner of the Anaheim Ducks. Susan Wojcicki (MBA '98) is the CEO of YouTube. Travis Kalanick is one of the founders of Uber. Guy Kawasaki (MBA '79) is one of the earliest employees at Apple. Nathan Myhrvold is the founder of Microsoft Research.

Venture capitalist, author and futurist Donald Prell (BA '48) founder of Datamation magazine.

UCLA alumni have also achieved prominence in the arts and entertainment. John Williams is laureate conductor at the Boston Pops Orchestra and Academy Award-winning composer of the Star Wars film score. Martin Sherwin ('71) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Actors Ben Stiller, Tim Robbins, James Franco, George Takei, Mayim Bialik, Sean Astin, Holland Roden and Milo Ventimiglia are also UCLA alumni. Popular music artists Sara Bareilles, The Doors, Linkin Park, and Maroon 5 all attended UCLA. Ryan Dusick of Maroon 5 majored in English. Giada De Laurentiis is a program host at Food Network and former chef at Spago. Greg Graffin, lead singer of punk rock band Bad Religion, earned a master's degree in Geology at UCLA, and used to teach a course on evolution there.^[231] Carol Burnett was the winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2013 (also winner of Emmys, a Peabody and a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005).^[232] Francis Ford Coppola ('67) was the director of the gangster film trilogy The Godfather and the Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now.

Meb Keflezighi ('98) is the winner of the 2014 Boston Marathon.

UCLA also boasts an excellent military background, with hundreds of alumni serving their nation. Carlton Skinner was a U.S. Navy Commander who racially integrated the service at the end of World War II on the USS Sea Cloud. He was also the first civilian governor of Guam. Francis B. Wai is, to date, the only Chinese-American and the first Asian-American to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions in World War II. UCLA also lost an alumnus in early 2007 when Second Lieutenant Mark Daily was killed in Mosul, Iraq after his HMMWV was hit by an IED. Lieutenant Daily's service is marked by a plaque located on the northern face of the Student Activities Center (SAC), where the ROTC halls are currently located.

H.R. Haldeman ('48) and John Ehrlichman ('48) are among the most infamous alumni because of their activities during the 1972 Watergate Scandal.

UCLA's faculty and alumni have won a number of awards including:^[233]

• 105 Academy Awards
• 278 Emmy Awards
• 1 Fields Medal
• 3 Turing Awards
• 11 Fulbright Scholars (since 2000)
• 78 Guggenheim Fellows^[234]
• 3 Grammy Awards
• 12 MacArthur Fellows
• 1 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
• 10 National Medals of Science
• 13 Nobel Laureates
• 3 Presidential Medals of Freedom
• 1 Pritzker Prize in Architecture
• 3 Pulitzer Prizes
• 1 Rome Prize in Design
• 12 Rhodes Scholars
• 1 Medal of Honor

As of August 1, 2016, the top three places where UCLA alumni work are Kaiser Permanente with 1,459+ alumni, UCLA Health with 1,127+ alumni, and Google with 1,058+ alumni.^[235]

UCLA Medal

The highest honor given by UCLA to individuals for "extraordinary accomplishment" is the UCLA Medal, which was established in 1979. More than 140 have received the award, including:^[236]

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Madeleine Albright Kofi Annan Tom Bradley Dr. Larry Brilliant Carol Burnett Jimmy Carter Warren Minor Christopher Hillary Clinton William Jefferson Clinton Donald Cram Kirk Douglas Ella Fitzgerald Anthony Hopkins James Earl Jones Quincy Jones Jerry Lewis

Henry Mancini Toshiro Mifune Norman Y. Mineta George J. Mitchell Laurence Olivier Elinor Ostrom I.M. Pei Shimon Peres Rob Reiner Rachel A. Robinson Carl E. Sagan Henry Samueli Robert E. Wise Antonio Villaraigosa Lew Wasserman John R. Wooden Charles E. Young James Easton[237]

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