About UCLA: Fast facts

Overview

UCLA campus
419 acres located in Westwood, a community of Los Angeles. Directions

University of California, Los Angeles
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095
310-825-4321

Chancellor 
Gene D. Block became chancellor on Aug. 1, 2007.

History
Founded in 1919 as the Southern Branch of the University of California. 

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 seven years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

Budget
UCLA’s annual budget is approximately $11 billion. 

Enrollment
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.

Degrees 
UCLA conferred 15,186 degrees during the 2022–23 academic year.

Health care 
UCLA Health comprises five hospitals:

• Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (Westwood campus) 
• UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital (Westwood campus)
• UCLA Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital (Westwood campus) 
• UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center (Santa Monica)
• UCLA West Valley Medical Center (San Fernando Valley)

UCLA Health hospitals have been ranked No. 1 in Los Angeles and No. 1 in California in the 2023–24 “Best Hospitals” assessment by U.S. News & World Report. UCLA Health also operates more than 260 clinics throughout the southern part of California and includes the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. 

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. 

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.

Athletics
UCLA has won 123 NCAA team championships. 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. 

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. 

Demographics
UCLA takes pride in the extraordinary diversity of our students and in providing opportunity for students, regardless of socioeconomic background. 

Socioeconomic diversity
Nearly a third of undergraduates earning a degree are the first in their families to graduate from a four-year college or university.

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.

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. 

Graduation rate
Nearly 85% of students entering as freshmen graduate within four years, more approximately 93% within six years. 

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

Volunteering
More than half of UCLA’s undergraduates participate in some form of community service.

Alumni
UCLA has more than 660,000 living alumni, and its graduates have been pioneers in almost every field imaginable.