History
For nearly 100 years, UCLA has been a pioneer, persevering through impossibility, turning the futile into the attainable. In 1927, The Regents of the University of California adopt the name "University of California at Los Angeles" in place of "Southern Branch."
Education
With more than 3,900 courses in 109 academic departments, UCLA offers 125+ majors to help you define your academic path. And 70 percent of our undergraduate classes have 30 or fewer students, maximizing your personal engagement with our internationally renowned faculty.
Our faculty includes Nobel Prize winners, Fulbright Scholars and a Fields Medal recipient. Classes are stimulating. Coursework is challenging.
Research
As one of the world’s top research universities, UCLA has the intellectual capital and extensive research facilities necessary to tackle society’s most challenging issues. And as a public research university, we take seriously our mission to develop solutions that improve the quality of life in our community, our country and around the world. Included among our faculty, alumni and researchers are 14 Nobel Prize winners, 13 faculty MacArthur Fellows, a Fields medalist, two Turing Award winners, and three Pulitzer Prize winners. Explore our site to learn more about us, research highlights, resources for researchers, how to engage with UCLA research and our initiatives.
Career
No matter where you are in your journey, the Career Center has the tools and resources to help! From career exploration to skill development, our dedicated staff works with you to help you discover your professional strengths as you prepare for graduate school or full-time employment.
Short Courses
- Certificate Accounting
- Certificate Accounting Fundamentals
- Certificate Advanced Design Communication Arts
- Certificate Advanced Leadership
- Certificate Blockchain Technology Management
- Certificate Business Analysis
- Certificate Business Communications
- Certificate Business Fundamentals
- Certificate Business Fundamentals
- Certificate Business and Management of Entertainment
- Certificate Commercial Real Estate
- Certificate Communications Systems
- Certificate Construction Management
- Certificate Contract Management
- Certificate Corporate Finance and Financial Strategies
- Certificate Credit Analysis and Management
- Certificate Digital Marketing
- Certificate Digital Transformation
- Certificate Emergency Management and Homeland Security
- Certificate Enterprise Risk Management
- Certificate Finance
- Certificate General Business Studies
- Certificate Government Cost Estimating and Pricing
- Certificate Human Resources Management
- Certificate Independent Music Production
- Certificate Internal Audit
- Certificate International Trade and Commerce
- Certificate Investment Management and Analysis
- Certificate Marketing
- Certificate Music Business
- Certificate Personal Financial Planning
- Certificate Personal Financial Planning - Accelerated Online
- Certificate Professional Selling and Sales Management
- Certificate Project Management
- Certificate Quantitative Financial Analytics
- Certificate Real Estate Investment and Finance
- Certificate Small Business Management and Technology
- Certificate Strategic Branding and Public Relations
- Certificate Supply Chain Management
- Certificate Taxation
- Certificate Wine Education and Management
- Certificate Accounting Fundamentals
- Certificate Advanced Leadership
- Certificate Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling
- Certificate Business Analysis
- Certificate Business Communications
- Certificate Business Fundamentals
- Certificate Business Fundamentals
- Certificate College Counseling
- Certificate Commercial Real Estate
- Certificate Contract Management
- Certificate Credit Analysis and Management
- Certificate Design Communication Arts
- Certificate Digital Transformation
- Certificate Emergency Management and Homeland Security
- Certificate GIS and Geospatial Technology
- Certificate General Business Studies
- Certificate Government Cost Estimating and Pricing
- Certificate International Trade and Commerce
- Certificate Professional Selling and Sales Management
- Certificate Quantitative Financial Analytics
- Certificate Supply Chain Management
- Certificate Sustainability
- Certificate Wine Education and Management
- Certificate Acting
- Certificate Advanced Design Communication Arts
- Certificate Business and Management of Entertainment
- Certificate Cinematography
- Certificate Design Communication Arts
- Certificate Directing
- Certificate Feature Film Writing
- Certificate Film Scoring
- Certificate Film and TV Development
- Certificate Independent Music Production
- Certificate Interior Design - Foundation Level
- Certificate Landscape Architecture
- Certificate Music Business
- Certificate Photography
- Certificate Post-Production
- Certificate Screenwriting - Film and TV Comprehensive
- Certificate Television Writing
- Certificate User Experience
- Certificate Advanced Design Communication Arts
- Certificate Creative Writing
- Certificate Feature Film Writing
- Certificate General Business Studies
- Short Course Literary Representation
- Certificate Post-Baccalaureate Program in Classics
- Certificate Post-Production
- Certificate Pre-Medical and General Science Studies
- Certificate Screenwriting - Film and TV Comprehensive
- Certificate Television Writing
- Certificate Applications Programming
- Certificate Applications Programming
- Certificate Behavioral Health Support Specialist Program
- Certificate Communications Systems
- Certificate Cybersecurity
- Certificate Data Science
- Certificate Database Management
- Certificate GIS and Geospatial Technology
- Certificate Infection Prevention and Control
- Certificate Patient Advocacy
- Certificate Systems Analysis
- Certificate UCLA Health Medical Assistant Program
- Certificate User Experience
- Certificate College Counseling
- Certificate Early Childhood Education - Associate Teacher
- Certificate Early Childhood Education Administration
- Certificate Fitness Instruction
- Short Course Literary Representation
- Certificate Wine Education and Management
- Certificate Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling
- Certificate Behavioral Health Support Specialist Program
- Certificate Food Studies
- Certificate Infection Prevention and Control
- Certificate Medical Device Engineering
- Certificate Patient Advocacy
- Certificate Pre-Medical and General Science Studies
- Certificate UCLA Health Medical Assistant Program
- Certificate Biotechnology Engineering
- Certificate Environmental Studies
- Certificate Medical Device Engineering
- Certificate Plumbing Systems Design
- Certificate Post-Production
- Certificate Small Business Management and Technology
- Certificate Sustainability
- Certificate Business and Management of Entertainment
- Certificate Editing and Publishing
- Certificate Film and TV Development
- Certificate Journalism
- Certificate Strategic Branding and Public Relations
- Certificate Commercial Real Estate
- Certificate Emergency Management and Homeland Security
- Certificate Food Studies
- Certificate Real Estate
- Certificate Real Estate Investment and Finance
- Certificate Paralegal Studies
- Certificate Paralegal Studies (Undergraduate)
- Certificate Environmental Studies
- Certificate GIS and Geospatial Technology
- Certificate Sustainability
- Certificate Biotechnology Engineering
- Certificate Environmental Studies
- Certificate Horticulture
- Certificate Fitness Instruction
University Ranking
Housing services
To experience university life fully, nothing equals living on campus where students can enjoy convenience and a sense of community. UCLA’s on-campus housing is situated at the heart of university life and is just a short walk away from classrooms, laboratories, libraries, and sports facilities. With housing and dining needs met, students are free to concentrate on being a full-time student.
Library services
The UCLA Library creates a vibrant nexus of ideas, collections, expertise, and spaces in which users illuminate solutions for local and global challenges. We constantly evolve to advance UCLA’s research, education, and public service mission by empowering and inspiring communities of scholars and learners to discover, access, create, share, and preserve knowledge.
ICT services
Access to the wireless network is available to the UCLA community and guests while on campus and it supports most mobile devices such as laptops, tablets, and smart phones.
Coverage will improve as the campus wireless continues to grow to accommodate the entire campus.
Medical services
Our Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is recognized as the best in Los Angeles and one of the top ten hospitals in the country — and it's right on our campus. The Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center offers urgent care, immunizations and specialty clinics.
Campus life
Bordered by iconic neighborhoods — Bel Air, Brentwood, Beverly Hills — UCLA is a crossroads of ideas, cultures and limitless experiences and opportunities.
Whether it's getting an acting gig as an extra in Hollywood or catching the last set at the Coachella music festival, strolling down the Sunset Strip or taking your first ride up Pacific Coast Highway — at UCLA, the journey is the destination.
Sports facilities
At the UCLA Steve Tisch BrainSPORT Program, our goal is to establish the world’s most advanced diagnostic and treatment program for athletes who have suffered concussions as well as non-sports related head injuries.We are the leaders in concussion care and education, that’s why we have created the nation’s first Pediatric Sports Neurology Fellowship Program that will train the world’s best physicians to treat sport concussions in young athletes
Student clubs
With more than 1,000 clubs and student organizations, UCLA is a mosaic of culture and activity. And the majority of our students fill their schedules to capacity. They are influential figures at the Volunteer Center and leaders at the Center for Community Learning and Community Programs Office. They are intramural basketball players and sailors. They're active in fraternity and sorority life and coordinators on the Campus Events Commission. They're writers for the Daily Bruin and deejays at UCLA Radio. And when they're not engaging in extracurricular activities, there's an array of campus stores and restaurants for shopping and dining. Whatever you're into, chances are, someone here is too.
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).