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UCLA

BASIC INFORMATION:

BRIEF HISTORY:

  • Located in Los Angeles, California

  • UCLA’s motto is Fiat Lux, meaning "Let there be light"

  • The amount of students is approximately 45,000

  • The student-faculty ratio is 19:1

  • UCLA was officially founded in 1919,  as the Southern Branch of the University of California and offered two years of instruction in letters and science

  • The UCLA master’s degree was established in 1933 and the doctorate in 1936

  • The rest of the 20th century, through the opening of the 21st, was filled with notable UCLA events: Nobel prizes awarded to multiple faculty; breakthroughs in treatments for cancer, brain aneurysms...

UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS AND MINORS:

  • 141 Majors, such as  Marine Biology, Computational and Systems Biology, Data Theory, Mathematics and Economics, Microbiology...

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  • More than 90 Minors (which you can pair with majors!) such as Bioinformatics, Brain and Behavioural Health, Evolutionary medicine...

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ALUMNI:

SOME FAMOUS ALUMNI:

  • 15 Nobel Prize laureates

  • 3 Turing Awards 

  • 50 Grammy Awards

  • 105 Academy Awards

  • 3 Pulitzer Prizes

  • Marilyn Monroe

  • Taylor Wang (First Chinese American astronaut )

  • Ralph Bunche (American political scientist)

  • James Franco (Academy Award nominated actor)

CAMPUS INFO:

  • Designed as a “college in a garden,” the 419-acre Westwood campus sprawls across the Santa Monica Mountain foothills and south into the Los Angeles basin. 

  • More than 1000 clubs and organisations 

  • Student Health and Wellness Center

  • 163 Buildings

REQUIREMENTS:

UCLA requirements
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