University of California Los Angeles, established in 1919, is the most applied to university in the U.S. From its celebrated faculty to its super high-achieving students, from its distinguished alumni to its myriad contributions to the community, UCLA has attained a stature in its short 92 years to which most institutions of higher education can only aspire.
Fun Facts!
- Alumni include: Francis Ford Coppola, Kareem Abdul- Jabbar and Tom Anderson, creator of MySpace, just to name a few.
- There are 5 Nobel Prize winners on the faculty and 5 more Laureates among UCLA alumni.
- UCLA's Office of Intellectual Property has a total invention portfolio of 1,560.
