9 Reasons Why You Should Attend UCLA

For nearly 100 years, UCLA has been a pioneer, persevering through impossibility, turning the futile into the attainable.

1. Award Winning Faculty

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Faculty are Nobel Prize winners, Fields Medal recipients and MacArthur Fellows like Andrea Ghez, who is a leading mind in understanding the mechanics of the universe.

2. World-Class Research

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Consistently ranks among the top-five public universities and colleges nationwide. As a freshman, you’ll have every opportunity to work on real, publishable research that has a profound effect on the world.

3. Curriculum

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UCLA's curriculum features more than 3,800 courses and 125 majors.

4. Amazing Location

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The campus is located in the heart of Westwood, one of the most iconic and safest areas in one of the most vibrant, diverse cities in the world.

5. Athletics

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A history of rewriting it with more NCAA titles than any other university producing 250 Olympic medalists.

6. Student Organizations

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With over 1,000 clubs and student organizations, UCLA’s campus is an epicenter of culture, progress and activism.

7. Volunteering and Community Service

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UCLA attracts doers. It's ranked as one of the top universities for public service in the nation, offering students a breadth of volunteer opportunities.

8. 329 Days Of Sunshine A Year

The weather is amazing.

9. This Is Where The Internet Was Born

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The world's first message was sent over the network by a team led by UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock