Study at the University of California Los Angeles

The University of California Los Angeles is one of the top universities in the world, currently ranked 4th by the High Impact Universities rankings, 11th by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and 13th by the Academic Ranking of World Universities. It is a public research university, founded in 1919, as the second oldest of the ten campuses affiliated with the University of California system.

The institution particularly prides itself with strengths in liberal arts and sciences, together with research, as a result of which it has earned a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and a membership in the Association of American Universities. Furthermore, UCLA has a very strong Olympic Games tradition – such that few institutions can beat. A UCLA student has won a medal in every Olympics since 1932 (except 1980, when they were boycotting), while the total number of Olympic medals won is 214.

The university can offer over 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide array of subject areas, enrolling about 26,000 undergraduate and about 11,000 graduate students from both the United States and around the world. There are fourteen Nobel Prize laureates who are associated with the university as either researchers, faculty, or alumni. At the same time, 40 of the current faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 21 to the National Academy of Engineering, 34 to the Institute of Medicine, and 105 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

To end with, the university has proved to have a major influence on the Los Angeles economy. It has been estimated that UCLA is the fourth largest employer in the county, and the seventh largest in the region.