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University of California, Los Angeles

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University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles (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. UCLA is one of the two flagship universities in the UC system (alongside the oldest UC campus at Berkeley).[12][13][14][15] 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.[16] With an approximate enrollment of 29,000 undergraduate and 13,000 graduate students, UCLA is the university with the largest enrollment in the state of California[17] and the most applied to university in the world with over 100,000 applications for fall 2013.[18] 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. Business Insider ranked the school 1st in having the most driven students to succeed out of any institute of higher learning in the world.[19]

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