University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles, or UCLA, is a university in Los Angeles, California. It was started in 1919. It is often listed among America's best universities. thumb|Janss Steps, UCLA, Los Angeles.

The school was originally a college for teachers, but became a university in 1919, and has been called UCLA since 1927. It was originally in Hollywood, but is now in Westwood.  In 1950, it gained independence from the University of California, Berkeley. During the 1960s and 1970s, there were many student protests.

The school has buildings designed by several famous architects, numerous gardens, fountains, and museums. It has academic programs in many fields, including a very famous Film School and medical programs in association with several hospitals. The university is organized into twelve professional schools offering undergraduate and graduate degrees: Letters of Arts and Science, Arts and Architecture, Engineering, Music, Nursing, Public Affairs, Theater, Film and Television, Medicine, Dentistry, Public Health, Education & Information Studies, Management and Law.

UCLA has many good sports teams on the Division I level. Their teams, which play in the Big Ten Conference and Pacific-12 Conference, are called the Bruins, or small bears. These teams have won 103 championships. The basketball team plays in Pauley Pavilion and has won 11 championships with players such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Walton, and Gail Goodrich. Present-day NBA players like Kevin Love, Russell Westbrook, and Lonzo Ball were also once on the UCLA men's basketball team. The football team plays in the Rose Bowl stadium, site of the bowl game of the same name. UCLA also has good volleyball and water polo teams, and has sent hundreds of athletes to the Olympic Games. UCLA has a strong rivalry with USC, the other university in Los Angeles, in all sports. There are lesser rivalries with Stanford, Cal and Notre Dame.

Notable alumni
 Jackie Robinson (1941), a former baseball player
 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1969), a former NBA basketball player
 Nicolas Sadirac (1986), the founder and current head of the École pour l'informatique et les nouvelles technologiesNicolas Sadirac (Epitech) : «Un diplôme d’informatique chinois aura une très grande valeur» 
 Jack Black (1989), an actor, comedian, and musician
 Randall Park (1997), an actor, screenwriter, and producer
 Ben Shapiro (2004), a lawyer, columnist, and conservative political commentator
 Mayim Bialik (2007), an actress, neuroscientist, author and former game show host
 Fidji Simo (2008), deputy CEO of OpenAI

 References 

Other websites

UCLA official website


Category:Association of American Universities
Category:Pac-12 Conference
Category:1919 establishments in California