About UCLA: Fast facts
Campus overview
UCLA campus
UCLA’s main campus is located on 419 acres in the Westwood community of Los Angeles. UCLA is one of 10 campuses of the University of California system.
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University of California, Los Angeles
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095
310-825-4321
Chancellor
Darnell Hunt became interim chancellor on Aug. 1, 2024. Julio Frenk will become UCLA’s chancellor on Jan. 1, 2025.
Chancellor’s website | Past chancellors
History
UCLA was founded in 1919 as the Southern Branch of the University of California. The Westwood campus officially opened in 1929.
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Rankings
The most prominent rankings organizations consistently place UCLA among the top universities in the world for academics, research and community impact. UCLA has been ranked the nation’s No. 1 public university for eight years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.
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Budget
UCLA’s annual budget is approximately $11 billion.
Annual financial report
Enrollment
UCLA has the largest enrollment among the University of Californa’s 10 campuses. In 2023–04, UCLA had 48,048 students, including 33,040 undergraduates, 13,636 graduate students and 1,372 interns and residents in medicine and dentistry.
Enrollment data
Degrees
UCLA conferred 15,675 degrees during the 2023–24 academic year.
Degree data
Health care
UCLA Health operates five hospitals in Los Angeles:
- Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (Westwood)
- UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital (Westwood)
- UCLA Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital (Westwood)
- UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center (Santa Monica)
- UCLA West Valley Medical Center (West Hills)
UCLA Health hospitals have been ranked No. 1 in Los Angeles and California in the 2024–25 “Best Hospitals” assessment by U.S. News & World Report. UCLA Health also operates more than 280 clinics throughout the southern part of California and includes the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
UCLA Health
Arts and culture
UCLA is the leading arts and cultural center in the western United States, hosting more than 1,000 visual and performing arts events each year and attracting more than 500,000 patrons.
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Continuing education
UCLA Extension, a pioneer in distance learning, offers a vast array of courses, programs and conferences to professionals and others around the world.
UCLA Extension
Athletics
UCLA has won 124 NCAA team championships. Formerly a member of the Pac-12 Conference, UCLA joined the Big Ten Conference in August 2024.
UCLA Athletics
Students and academics
Fields of study
The UCLA College and 12 professional schools offer more than 5,000 courses in a wide range of undergraduate majors, master’s programs, doctoral and professional programs, and minors.
General Catalog
Admissions
UCLA is the most applied-to university in the country. For fall 2024, UCLA received 173,400 applications for undergraduate admission — 146,250 from prospective freshmen and 27,150 students hoping to transfer in for their junior year.
Admissions data
Demographics and Diversity
UCLA takes pride in the extraordinary diversity of its student body and in providing the opportunity all students — regardless of their race, gender or socioeconomic background or status — to succeed. Nearly a third of undergraduates earning a degree are the first in their families to graduate from a four-year college or university.
Read more | Undergraduate profile (PDF)
Tuition
Tuition and student services fees for the 2024–25 academic year are $15,150 for California-resident undergraduates and $49,350 for out-of-state undergraduates.
Tuition and fees
Financial support
Ample financial aid means most families pay less than full price. In fact, nearly half of undergraduates pay no tuition at all. Close to a third of undergraduates receive Pell Grants, federal aid for students from low-income families.
Financial aid and scholarships
Graduation rate
Nearly 85% of students entering as freshmen graduate within four years, more approximately 93% within six years.
Graduation data
Faculty and research
Faculty
UCLA has approximately 5,400 faculty members, including recipients of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Science, and Guggenheim, MacArthur and other prestigious fellowships, grants and awards.
Faculty awards and honors
Research
With more than $1.6 billion received each year in competitively awarded grants and contracts and over 6,000 funded research projects underway at any given time, UCLA creates real-world advances that enhance quality of life around the globe.
Research funding data
Intellectual property
UCLA holds more than 1,200 active U.S. patents and over 1,800 foreign patents in its portfolio based on discoveries by UCLA researchers.
Read more (PDF) | UCLA Technology Development Group
Making a difference
Community engagement
Through academic, service and other programs, UCLA faculty, students and staff are deeply involved in improving lives throughout Los Angeles neighborhoods.
UCLA Center for Community Engagement
Volunteering
More than half of UCLA’s undergraduates participate in some form of community service.
UCLA Volunteer Center
Alumni
UCLA has more than 660,000 living alumni, and its graduates have been pioneers in almost every field imaginable.
UCLA Alumni Association
