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Academic Life
UCLA’s graduate curriculum is broad and its research is deep. The National Research Council ranks UCLA among the nation’s top research universities, with 31 Ph.D. programs among the top 20 in their fields.
Did you know?
- Physicist Margaret Kivelson helped put the Galileo spacecraft within a whisper of Jupiter.
- Management Professor William Ouchi redefined U.S.-Japan business relations in his book Theory Z.
- Paleobiologist J. William Schopf identified life forms that existed on Earth more than 3 billion years before the dinosaurs.
- Linguists Patricia Keating and Peter Ladefoged compiled a sound dictionary detailing the world’s languages.
- UCLA’s nine faculty and alumni Nobel laureates include Ralph Bunche (Peace Prize, 1950), former undersecretary general of the United Nations; and Paul Boyer (Chemistry, 1997), who discovered the underlying mechanism for the synthesis of ATP and is the founding director of the Molecular Biology Institute.
- More than 5,000 research projects are being conducted on the UCLA campus at any given time.
- During the 2004-2005 academic year, UCLA awarded 622 Ph.D. degrees, 27 professional doctorates, 1,028 M.A./M.S. degrees, 1,517 professional Master’s degrees, 87 D.D.S. degrees, 306 J.D. degrees, and 175
M.D. degrees.
- The UCLA Film and Television Archive, the largest university-based archive in the world, has more than 220,000 movies and TV programs; only the Library of Congress has more.
- The UCLA-Anderson Business Forecasting Project is one of the most accurate economic forecasts for California and the nation.
- Researchers from the School of Public Health were the first to quantify the large segment of the population in California not covered by health insurance.
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Enrollment Profile (Fall '05)
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Undergrad |
Graduate |
Total |
| African American |
799 |
418 |
1,217 |
| American Indian |
112 |
54 |
166 |
| Asian/Pacific Islander |
9,448 |
2,166 |
11,614 |
| Caucasian |
8,330 |
4,445 |
12,775 |
| Chicano/Latino |
3,788 |
937 |
4,725 |
| Other |
1,441 |
1,242 |
2,683 |
| International |
893 |
1,552 |
2,445 |
| TOTAL |
24,811 |
10,814 |
35,625 |
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The campus is a village of 60,000 people, in a region of 8 million. Students can dine, bank, shop, work out, enjoy a show or simply take a stroll in a park without ever leaving UCLA’s wooded, 419-acre campus. Much of what is not located on campus can be found at the plentiful shops, restaurants and theaters of nearby Westwood Village. The beauty and recreational opportunities of the Pacific Ocean and Santa Monica Mountains are just minutes away. The vast resources of Los Angeles, the nation’s second-largest city, make UCLA the leading arts and cultural center of the West.
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