page_title: Los Angeles
section_title: Colleges and universities
hierarchical_section_title: Los Angeles / Education / Colleges and universities
caption_attribution_description: English: CSULA Student Union
context_page_description: Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L.A., is the largest city in California. With an estimated population of nearly four million people, it is the second-most populous city in the United States and the third-most populous city in North America. Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, Hollywood entertainment industry, and its sprawling metropolis.
  Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California, adjacent to the Pacific Ocean, with mountains as high as 10,000 feet, and deserts. The city, which covers about 469 square miles, is the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populous county in the United States. The Los Angeles metropolitan area is home to 13.1 million people, making it the second-largest metropolitan area in the nation after New York. Greater Los Angeles includes metro Los Angeles as well as the Inland Empire and Ventura County. It is the second-most populous U.S. combined statistical area, also after New York, with a 2015 estimate of 18.7 million people.
  Home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542.
context_section_description: There are three public universities within the city limits: California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA), California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
  Private colleges in the city include:
  American Film Institute Conservatory
  Alliant International University
  American Academy of Dramatic Arts (Los Angeles Campus)
  American Jewish University
  Abraham Lincoln University
  The American Musical and Dramatic Academy – Los Angeles campus
  Antioch University's Los Angeles campus
  Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
  Columbia College Hollywood
  Emerson College (Los Angeles Campus)
  Emperor's College
  Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising's Los Angeles campus (FIDM)
  Los Angeles Film School
  Loyola Marymount University (LMU is also the parent university of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles)
  Marymount College
  Mount St. Mary's College
  National University of California
  Occidental College ("Oxy")
  Otis College of Art and Design (Otis)
  Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)
  Southwestern Law School
  University of Southern California (USC)
  Woodbury University
  The community college system consists of nine campuses governed by the trustees of the Los Angeles Community College District:
  East Los Angeles College (ELAC)
  Los Angeles City College (LACC)
  Los Angeles Harbor College
  Los Angeles Mission College
  Los Angeles Pierce College
  Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC)
  Los Angeles Southwest College,
  Los Angeles Trade-Technical College
  West Los Angeles College
  
  There are numerous additional colleges and universities outside the city limits in the Greater Los Angeles area, including the Claremont Colleges consortium, which includes the most selective liberal arts colleges in the U.S., and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), one of the top STEM-focused research institutions in the world.
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