uin 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

"UCLA", "Ucla", and "U.C.L.A." redirect here. For other uses, see UCLA (disambiguation).
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California UCLA.svg
Motto    Fiat lux (Latin)
Motto in English    Let there be light
Established    1882/1919 (became the second UC campus)
Type    Public
Endowment    US $2.59 billion [1]
Chancellor    Gene D. Block[2]
Provost    Scott L. Waugh[3]
Academic staff    4,016[4]
Admin. staff    26,139
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
UCLA Logo.svg
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 an