World Report,[citation needed] and the School of Architecture placed second in the country according to The Key Centre for Architectural Sociology.[citation needed]

ol" selected by both students and parents in 2010. It was also the only public university in the ranking.[69] UCLA took the 8th spot among all universities for research spending in the sciences and engineering during the fiscal year 2011, according to a 2012 report by the National Science Foundation—UCLA spent $982 million.[70]
Graduate and professional schools[edit]
UCLA's oldest operating unit, the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSEIS), was ranked 6th among American graduate schools of education in the 2013 edition of U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Graduate Schools".[71] Other 2013 U.S. News & World Report school rankings include the Anderson School of Management at #15, the David Geffen School of Medicine at #10 for Primary Care and #13 for Research, the School of Law at #15, and the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at #16; departmental rankings included Clinical Psychology #1, Psychology #3, Fine Arts #4, Geography #4,[72] Mathematics #8, History #9, Sociology #9, English #10, and Public Health #10.[71] In 2011 U.S. News & World Report ranked the School of Nursing #21.[73] In 2009, the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television was ranked third nationally by U.S. News & World Report,[citation needed] and the School of Architecture placed second in the country according to The Key Centre for Architectural Sociology.[citation needed]
Library system[edit]
Main article: University of California, Los Angeles Library


Powell Library, across the quad from Royce Hall
UCLA's library system has over eight million books and 70,000 serials spread over twelve libraries and eleven other archives, reading rooms, and research centers. It is the nation's 14th largest library in number of volumes.[74]
The first library, University Library (presently Powell Library), was founded in 1884. In 1910, Elizabeth Fargo became the university's first librarian. Lawrence Powell became librarian in 1944, and began a series of system overhauls and modifications, and in 1959, he was named Dean of the School of Library Service.[75] More libraries were added as previous ones filled. Page Ackerman became University Librarian in 1973, and was the nation's first female librarian of a system as large as UCLA's. She oversaw the first coordinations between other UC schools, and formed a new administrative network that is still in use today.[76] Since her retirement, the system has seen steady growth and improvement under various Librarians. The present University Librarian is Virginia Steel, who took office on July 15, 2013.[77]
Admissions[edit]

Undergraduate[edit]
Freshman statistics[14][78][79][80][81][82][83]
     2013
(preliminary)    2012    2011    2010    2009
Applicants    80,494    72,697    61,566    57,678    55,708

University rankings National ARWU[52] 10 Forbes[53] 34

hroughout Los Angeles County. In addition, the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine uses two Los Angeles County public hospitals as teaching hospitals—Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Olive View-UCLA Medical Center—as well as the largest private nonprofit hospital on the west coast, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. In 1981, the UCLA Medical Center made history when an assistant professor named Michael Gottlieb first diagnosed an unknown affliction later to be called AIDS. UCLA medical researchers also pioneered the use of PET scanning to study brain function. The signaling cascade of nitric oxide, one of the most important molecules in cardiopulmonary physiology was discovered in part by the medical school's Professor of Pharmacology Louis J. Ignarro. For this, he was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with two other researchers – Robert F. Furchgott of the SUNY Health Science Center and Ferid Murad of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston.
In the 2012 edition of U.S. News and World Report, UCLA Medical Center was ranked "Best in the West", as well as one of the top five hospitals in the United States. In 14 of the 16 medical specialty areas examined, UCLA Medical Center ranked in the top 20.[51]
Rankings[edit]
University rankings
National
ARWU[52]    10
Forbes[53]    34
U.S. News & World Report[54]    23
Washington Monthly[55]    6
Global
ARWU[56]    12
QS[57]    40
Times[58]    12
Global rankings[edit]
In 2013–2014, UCLA ranked 12th in academics and 8th for reputation in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.[59][60] In 2013, UCLA was ranked 40th in the QS World University Rankings,[61] 12th in the world (10th in North America) by the Academic Ranking of World Universities[62] and 23rd in the world (13th in North America) in Financial Times' Global MBA Rankings.[63] Human Resources & Labor Review, a national human competitiveness index & analysis, ranked the university 14th in the world in 2012.[64]
National rankings[edit]
The 2014 annual ranking by U.S. News & World Report ranked UCLA second among public universities (tied with UVA) and 23rd among national universities.[65] The Washington Monthly ranked UCLA 6th nationally among national universities in 2012, with criteria based on research, community service, and social mobility.[66] In 2013 Kiplinger ranked UCLA 6th out of the top 100 best-value public colleges and universities in the nation, and 1st in California.[67] UCLA was ranked third among national research universities by the Center for Measuring University Performance in 2011.[68] The Princeton Review listed UCLA as a "Dream Scho

photography at the campus.[43] "UCLA is located in Los Angeles, the same place as the American motion picture industry," said UCLA visiting professor of film and television Jonathan Kuntz.[44] "So we're convenient for (almost) all of the movie companies, TV production companies, commercial companies and so on. We're right where the action is."

ile from campus, in the community of Bel Air. The garden was designed by landscape architect Nagao Sakurai of Tokyo and garden designer Kazuo Nakamura of Kyoto in 1959. After the garden was damaged by heavy rains in 1969, UCLA Professor of Art and Campus Architect Koichi Kawana took on the task of its reconstruction.
Filming[edit]
With a location near Hollywood and a world-famous film and television school, the UCLA campus has attracted filming for decades. Much of the 1985 film Gotcha! was shot at UCLA, as well as John Singleton's Higher Learning (1995). Legally Blonde (2001), Old School (2003), The Nutty Professor (1995), Erin Brockovich (2000), How High (2001), National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002), American Pie 2 (2001), and Bring It On Again (2004) were all mainly shot at the university campus or locale. In January 2009, the Bollywood movie My Name is Khan was shot at UCLA. Some of the exterior shots of the fictional UC Sunnydale in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and ABC Family original series Greek were also filmed at UCLA. In response to the major demand for filming, UCLA instated a policy on filming and professional photography at the campus.[43] "UCLA is located in Los Angeles, the same place as the American motion picture industry," said UCLA visiting professor of film and television Jonathan Kuntz.[44] "So we're convenient for (almost) all of the movie companies, TV production companies, commercial companies and so on. We're right where the action is."


California NanoSystems Institute interior walkways built over a parking structure.
Transportation and parking[edit]
The campus maintains 24,000 parking spaces and operates an award-winning sustainable transportation program.[45][46][47] Elements of the sustainable transportation program include vanpools, a campus shuttle system called BruinBus, discounted carpool permits, and subsidized transit passes. One of the pass programs includes BruinGo!,[48] which allows students and staff members to purchase discounted one-way or quarterly passes to ride Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus and Culver City's Culver CityBus.[49]
Academics[edit]

Healthcare[edit]


UCLA Medical Plaza, near the main entrance to the campus
The David Geffen School of Medicine, along with the School of Nursing, School of Dentistry, and Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, constitute the professional schools of health science. The California NanoSystems Institute is another project that was created out of a partnership with UCSB to pioneer innovations in the field of nanotechnology.[42][50]
The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is a part of a larger healthcare system, UCLA Health System, which also operates a hospital in Santa Monica and twelve primary care clinics t