UCLA

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)[1] is a public research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States, and is one of the top comprehensive universities in the U.S. UCLA is the cradle of expertise in business and finance, high-tech industries, and the cinematic arts and offers degrees in 337 different disciplines, making it the nation's broadest university for training cutting-edge talent. UCLA has a campus area of 419 acres (about 1.7 square kilometers), in which there are a total of 163 buildings, enrolled in a total of about 29,000 undergraduate students and 13,000 graduate students. As the most widely attended university in the United States, it is one of the most coveted schools for high school students in the country. Founded in 1919, UCLA is the third oldest campus in the University of California system, along with the University of California, Berkeley, and the second-highest ranked public university in the U.S. UCLA is consistently ranked in the top 15 of the Times Global University Rankings, and is ranked No. 1 in the 2024 USNews Global University Rankings. UCLA is consistently ranked in the top 15 of the Times Global University Rankings and is ranked 8th in the 2024 USNews Global University Rankings.