Among the few public universities bracketed with America’s top-ranked Ivy league higher education institutions, University of California, Los Angeles has also acquired an awesome reputation for sports education Founded in 1919, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is among the few public universities bracketed with America’s top-ranked Ivy League higher education institutions with transnational reputations for teaching and research. In its World University Rankings 2012, Times Higher Education ranked UCLA #13 worldwide while the US News & World Report league table of America’s Best Colleges 2013 ranks it among the top 25 in the US. The second oldest of the ten campuses of the University of California’s public education system, UCLA’s five undergraduate, seven professional (graduate) and four professional health science schools offer over 337 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programmes to 35,000 students. Moreover University of California, Los Angeles is the most applied-to university in the US. In the autumn of 2012, 72,000 school-leavers applied for its freshman programmes, of whom 16,049 were admitted. Sited on a sprawling 419-acre campus in Westwood bordering the iconic neighbourhoods of Beverly Hills and Bel Air in Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles boasts a stellar 4,000-strong faculty which includes 12 Nobel laureates, 12 Rhodes scholars, 12 MacArthur fellows, 10 National Science Medal and three Pulitzer Prize winners. “No matter what your background or income, UCLA welcomes all who make the grade. The students we want are the ones who are not afraid to work hard and dream big,” says Mark G. Yudof, president of the varsity. The 93-year-old university is also widely renowned for its student athletics programmes which have enabled its student athletes (‘Bruins’) to not only win 125 national championships, but a record number of Olympic medals. Since 1920, University of California, Los Angeles student-athletes have won a spectacular 250 Olympic medals: 125 gold, 65 silver and 60 bronze and have brought home a gold in every Olympic Games in which the US has participated since 1932. Los Angeles. Globally famous for its Hollywood studios and motion picture corporations, Los Angeles (pop. 4 million) is one of the world’s largest urban sprawl metros offering an extraordinary range of cultural and entertainment options. Internship opportunities abound in the entertainment industry and with major corporations such as Boeing, Skechers, Nestle and Dole. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Music Center, Chinatown, Olvera Street, Little Tokyo and the Downtown business district are a few miles east of the UCLA campus. Other attractions include the Natural History Museum, the California Science Center, the California African American Museum of History and Culture, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the Getty Center and Villa. The city also offers an array of night clubs, theatres, and multi-cuisine restaurants. Mountains, deserts and beaches are all within an hour’s drive of the UCLA campus. LA enjoys balmy weather year-round with average temperatures ranging from 14º C in winter to 24º C in summer. Campus facilities. The meticulously landscaped 419-acre campus at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains, five miles inland from…
