42 Facts About UCLA

UCLA offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines, enrolling about 31, 600 undergraduate and 14, 300 graduate and professional students.

UCLA had 168, 000 undergraduate applicants for Fall 2021, including transfers, making the school the most applied-to university in the United States.

UCLA is considered one of the country's Public Ivies, and is frequently ranked among the best universities in the world by major college and university rankings.

UCLA student-athletes compete as the Bruins in the Pac-12 Conference.

UCLA has been represented in every Olympics since the university's founding with one exception and has had a gold medalist in every Olympics the U S participated in since 1932.

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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 state audit found that UCLA did not follow university policy or Title IX requirements.

UCLA was one of several universities named in the largest college admissions scandal ever prosecuted by the United States Department of Justice.

UCLA was the first individual of non-European background and the first UCLA alumnus to be honored with the Prize.

UCLA has attracted filmmakers for decades with its proximity to Hollywood.

UCLA is often cast as Stanford in television shows such as The Mindy Project and Chuck.

Additionally, UCLA has a grocery shuttle that transports students between the dorms and Westwood, on weekends in order to facilitate students' shopping needs.

UCLA is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and had $1.

UCLA was ranked 33rd in the QS World University Rankings in 2017 and 12th in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) in 2017.

UCLA's oversaw the first coordinations between other UC schools, and formed a new administrative network that is still in use today.

In 2015, UCLA supplied 961 medical school applicants, followed by UC Berkeley with 819 and the University of Florida with 802.

UCLA responded by shifting to a holistic admissions process starting Fall 2007.

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.

UCLA makes $400, 000 in royalties every year through its international licensing program.

UCLA has various store locations around campus, with the main store in Ackerman Union.

For certain products 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.

UCLA dubbed the uniform "Powder Keg Blue", a powder blue with an explosive kick.

UCLA competes in all major Division I sports and has won 128 national championships, including 119 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.

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UCLA has shown dominance in men's volleyball, with 19 national championships.

UCLA is one of only six universities to have won national championships in all three major men's sports (baseball, basketball, and football).

UCLA teams have won the second-most NCAA Division I-sanctioned team championships, while USC has the third-most.

In football, UCLA has one national champion team and 16 conference titles, compared to USC's 11 national championships and 37 conference championships.

UCLA has won 19 NCAA Championships in men's volleyball, 11 in men's basketball, 12 in Softball, and 7 in women's water polo, the most of any school in those sports.

UCLA is home to a slew of performing arts groups, including an improv comedy team called Rapid Fire.

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 "services and enterprises" portion of ASUCLA is run by a professional executive director who oversees some 300 staff and 2, 000 student employees.

Two to three thousand UCLA undergraduates participate annually in the more than twenty voluntary outreach programs run by the Community Service Commission.

UCLA provides housing to over 10, 000 undergraduate and 2, 900 graduate students.

UCLA currently offers three years guaranteed housing to its incoming freshmen, and one year to incoming transfer students.

Hospitality operates UCLA Catering, a vending operation, and a summer conference center located on the Westwood campus.

UCLA Chabad House is a community center for Jewish students operated by the Orthodox Jewish Chabad movement.

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.

Fifty-two UCLA professors have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships, and eleven are MacArthur Foundation Fellows.

UCLA alumni have achieved prominence in the arts and entertainment.

UCLA lost an alumnus in early 2007 when Second Lieutenant Mark Daily was killed in Mosul, Iraq after his HMMWV was hit by an IED.