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unitid 110662 · Los Angeles, CA · public 4-year · city (large)

University of California-Los Angeles

American public research university

founded
1919
enrollment 2023
49,010
predominant degree
Bachelor's
website
ucla.edu
motto
“Let there be light”
Campus of University of California-Los Angeles

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The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school, then known as the southern branch of the California State Normal School, which later evolved into San José State University. The branch was transferred to the University of California to become the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1919, making it the second-oldest of the 10-campus University of California system after the University of California, Berkeley. wikipedia rev 1363613244 ↗

scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years

The record

admission rate

9%

0th pctl among public 4-years

undergraduates

33,475

96th pctl among public 4-years

Pell share

28%

undergrads on Pell grants

38th pctl among public 4-years

completion

93%

finish within 150% time

99th pctl among public 4-years

sticker cost / yr

$38,614

98th pctl among public 4-years

avg net price / yr

$12,548

after aid, aided students

48th pctl among public 4-years

median earnings, 10 yr

$82,511

after entry, Title IV students

97th pctl among public 4-years

median grad debt

$14,000

26th pctl among public 4-years

what families actually pay

Cost

Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.

Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort

Families earning under $30k paid $5,579 per year after aid.

Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).

Who enrolls, by family income

  • 0-30k
    38%
  • 30-48k
    18%
  • 48-75k
    16%
  • 75-110k
    not reported
  • 110k+
    not reported
Median family income
$32,614
First-generation students
38%
In-state tuition & fees
$15,203

earnings · debt · programs

Outcomes

Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid

Ten years out, the median graduate earns 5.9× the median graduate debt.

Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.

What programs pay — top fields of study

programgradsearn 5 yrdebt
Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.1,054——
Economics.830$100,784$15,000
Psychology, General.685$65,954$14,500
Sociology.669$64,677$14,500
Political Science and Government.653$75,578$15,000
Research and Experimental Psychology.412$78,384$16,737
Applied Mathematics.369$95,647$14,400
Biology, General.359$75,609$16,028
Computer Science.340——
Law.320$172,729—
Cell/Cellular Biology and Anatomical Sciences.264$64,799$15,848
History.240$65,039$14,277

— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.

annual scorecard files, 1996–2026

Trajectory

Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.

Admission rate

Price per year

  • sticker
  • net

Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry

Undergraduates

wikidata · 10,689 people recorded

Memory

Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.

Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field

Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade

People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.

Wikipedia attention

monthly article views since 2015

most recorded occupationsresearcher (2,272) · university teacher (1,118) · actor (507) · basketball player (503) · writer (447) · screenwriter (341) · film director (332) · television actor (323)

Nobel laureates who studied here

  • Ralph Bunche Peace 1950
  • Glenn Theodore Seaborg Chemistry 1951
  • Robert Bruce Merrifield Chemistry 1984
  • William F. Sharpe Economics 1990
  • Elinor Ostrom Economics 2009
  • Richard F. Heck Chemistry 2010
  • Randy Schekman Medicine 2013
  • Ardem Patapoutian Medicine 2021
  • Fred Ramsdell Medicine 2025

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Provenance

  • U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
  • Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
  • Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
  • Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
  • Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
  • Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1363613244), CC BY-SA 4.0.