University of California, Los Angeles

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The University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA) was founded in 1919 and is the third-oldest campus of the University of California. UCLA is one of the most prestigious universities in the world and is located in the district of Westwood in Los Angeles. In particular, the Business School, the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management, achieved annual top rankings. In the current U.S. News Ranking 2009, all U.S. business schools it peaked at number 7, before the Harvard Business School or Berkeley's Haas Business School. The University is located since 1927 in Westwood Village, Bel Air and Holmby Hills between, before, she was at the Vermont Avenue in Hollywood. The university is a member of the Association of American Universities, an existing association of leading research-intensive since 1900, North American universities. She took part in the 1969 Arpanet, the forerunner of today's Internet. This makes it one along with three other research institutions to the first four participants who were connected with Internet technology. There currently teach five Nobel Prize winners at UCLA. 2014, more than 105,800 people have applied, which is a new record. She was elected by the Academic Ranking of World Universities for the 12 best university in the world.

  • 4.2.1 Nobel Laureate
  • 4.2.2 art, film and literature
  • 4.2.3 policy
  • 4.2.4 Law and Economics
  • 4.2.5 Sport
  • 4.2.6 Science and Technology
  • 4.2.7 Other

Courses of Study

  • UCLA College of Letters and Science humanities
  • Life Sciences
  • Physical Sciences
  • Social sciences
  • Undergraduate Education
  • International Institute
  • Medicine ( David Geffen School of Medicine )
  • Neuropsychiatric Institute
  • Public Health
  • Care
  • Dentistry
  • Engineering and Applied Sciences (Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science)
  • Art and Architecture
  • Public Affairs
  • Education and Information Sciences
  • Law
  • Theater, Film and Television
  • Economics ( Anderson School of Management )

Rankings

UCLA is one of the most prestigious universities in the world.

  • UCLA is in the Times Higher Education Ranking 2010, the 200 best universities in the world to 11th place before the Columbia University in New York or the Ivy League universities University of Pennsylvania ( Upenn ) and Cornell University.
  • UCLA was ranked 12 of the annual Newsweek rankings of the top 100 universities worldwide.
  • Both 2007 and 2008 UCLA reached the 13th place in the world famous Top 500 World Universities ranking of Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
  • She was ranked as the third- best public university in the United States by U.S. News and World Report 2008.
  • In the Newsweek issue on 21 - 28th August 2006, UCLA was listed as one of the " New Ivies ".
  • The Washington Monthly placed UCLA at # 2 in the U.S. based on criteria such as research, community service, and social mobility.
  • The SCImago Institutions Ranking ( SIR) placed UCLA at No. 9 of the world's top 100 research institutions ( both academic and non-academic nature). In the academic field UCLA only from Harvard, Tokyo University and the University of Toronto is exceeded.

UCLA School of Law is one of the most prestigious law schools in the United States. In the current U.S. News rankings it is ranked No. 15, The Anderson School of Management - one of the most famous business schools in the U.S. - is also part of UCLA. It is among the top 20 rankings (as of 2005).

Students

Of the total of 37 221 students enrolled in 2005, 20,041 ( 53.8 %) were women. Work more than 22,000 employees at the twelve faculties. 2011, only 25.5 % of applicants were admitted.

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Famous people

Professors

Nobel Laureate

  • Paul Delos Boyer - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1997
  • Donald J. Cram - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1987
  • Louis J. Ignarro - Nobel Prize in Medicine / Physiology in 1998
  • Willard Frank Libby - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960
  • Elinor Ostrom - Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009
  • Bertrand Russell - Nobel Prize in Literature 1950
  • Julian Seymour Schwinger - Nobel Prize in Physics 1965
  • Lloyd S. Shapley - Nobel Prize in Economics in 2012

Policy

  • Warren Christopher - former justice minister under President Lyndon B. Johnson, Deputy Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter and Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton.
  • Michael Dukakis - Democratic presidential candidate, former Massachusetts governor
  • Al Gore - Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President of the United States

Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts

Sports

Science and Technology

  • George Ogden Abell - Astronomer
  • Alonzo Church - computer
  • Christian Fronsdal (* 1931) - theoretical physicist
  • Alan Kay - computer
  • Judea Pearl - Computer
  • Fraser Stoddart - Chemist
  • Terence Tao - Mathematician

Graduates

Nobel Laureate

  • Ralph Bunche - Nobel Peace Prize 1950
  • Robert Bruce Merrifield - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1984
  • Elinor Ostrom - Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009
  • Glenn T. Seaborg - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951
  • William F. Sharpe - Nobel Prize in Economics in 1990

Art, film and literature

Policy

  • John Ehrlichman - advisor to U.S. President Richard Nixon
  • Harry Robbins Haldeman - Chief of Staff of U.S. President Richard Nixon
  • Roberto Madrazo - Presidential Candidate
  • Dennis Ross - U.S. Diplomat
  • Ted Stevens - Alaska senator
  • Antonio Villaraigosa - Mayor of Los Angeles

Law and Economics

Sports

Science and Technology

  • Molefi Kete Asante - founder of Afrozentrismustheorie
  • Paul Baran - computer (Internet)
  • Carlos Castaneda - Anthropologist
  • Vinton G. Cerf - computer (Internet)
  • Walter Cunningham - Astronaut
  • Robert of Dassanowsky - historians, film producer
  • Birutė Galdikas - primatologist
  • Geoffrey Marcy - Astronomer
  • Story Musgrave - Astronaut
  • Robert Phelps - Mathematician
  • John Lynch Phillips - Astronaut
  • Jonathan Postel - computer (Internet)
  • Hilary Putnam - Philosopher
  • Elliot Lake - Astronaut
  • Fred Whipple - Astronomer

Other

  • Rafe Esquith - Teacher
  • Chris "Jesus" Ferguson - Poker Player
  • Kelly Perdew - winner of the TV show The Apprentice
  • Ubol Ratana - Princess of Thailand

Sports

The sports teams call the UCLA Bruins. The University is a member of the Pacific -12 Conference. Mascot is the " Bruin Bear". Between the USC Trojans and the UCLA Bruins prevails traditionally a strong rivalry.

Attractions on Campus

Landmarks on campus is primarily the Royce Hall and the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden. For the UCLA Hammer Museum in Westwood (mainly Impressionism and Others by Monet ) and the Fowler Museum is on campus ( art history from around the world ).

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