University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles, usually called UCLA, is a public land-grant research university in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots go back to 1881 and the southern branch of the California State Normal School, which is now San Jose State University. The campus was transferred to the University of California in 1919 to become its southern branch, the second-oldest campus of the ten-campus University of California system after Berkeley, and it became independent of Berkeley on June 14, 1951. UCLA offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs through the College of Letters and Science and twelve professional schools, among them Engineering and Applied Science, Medicine, Management and Law. Its student-athletes compete as the Bruins. In this atlas it matters as an affiliation of computing pioneers, such as the mathematician Theodore Motzkin, who taught there from 1950 until his retirement.