University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, California, and is the second-oldest campus of the University of California system.加州大学洛杉矶分校（简称 UCLA）是位于加利福尼亚州洛杉矶市韦斯特伍德区的公立赠地研究型大学，也是加州大学系统中第二古老的校区。

Founded in 1919 as the Southern Branch of the University of California, it moved to its present Westwood campus in 1929 and adopted its current name in 1958, and it now comprises thirteen colleges and professional schools.该校于 1919 年作为加州大学南部分校成立，1929 年迁入现址韦斯特伍德校区，1958 年启用现名，现由十三个学院与专业学院组成。

In the QS World University Rankings 2027 UCLA is placed 49th in the world, and as of 2024 it enrolled about 33,040 undergraduates with 5,464 faculty members and a research budget exceeding one billion US dollars a year.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，加州大学洛杉矶分校位列世界第 49 位；截至 2024 年，该校本科在校生约 33040 人，教职人员 5464 人，年度科研经费逾十亿美元。

History

• UCLA's predecessor was the Los Angeles State Normal School, established by an act of the California State Legislature in March 1881 and initially housed on the site of the present Los Angeles Central Library before moving to North Vermont Avenue in 1914.该校的前身是 1881 年 3 月依据加州州议会法案成立的洛杉矶州立师范学校，最初设于今洛杉矶中央图书馆所在地，1914 年迁至北佛蒙特大道。
• By legislative action signed by the Governor on 23 May 1919, the property and records of the Normal School were transferred to the Regents of the University of California, and the new institution opened in September 1919 as the Southern Branch of the University of California.经州长于 1919 年 5 月 23 日签署的法案，师范学校的资产与档案移交加州大学董事会；新机构于 1919 年 9 月开学，称为加州大学南部分校。
• In 1922 the teacher-training courses were reorganised as a Teachers College, and in 1923 and 1924 the third and fourth years of Letters and Science were added, beginning the institution's transition from a normal school to a full university.1922 年，师资培训课程改组为师范学院；1923 与 1924 年又相继增设文理学科的三、四年级课程，学校由此从师范院校向完整大学转型。
• In 1923 the Southern Branch awarded its first degrees, conferring the bachelor of education on twenty-eight students, its earliest graduating class.1923 年，南部分校首次授予学位，向 28 名学生颁发教育学士学位，这是该校最早的一届毕业生。
• On 1 February 1927 the institution was officially designated the University of California at Los Angeles, a name that signalled its ambition to become a full campus rather than a branch.1927 年 2 月 1 日，该校被正式定名为加州大学洛杉矶分校（University of California at Los Angeles），这一名称表明其立志成为完整校区而不仅是分支机构。
• In the summer of 1929 the university occupied its new Westwood campus of three hundred and eighty-three acres in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains, marked by the Romanesque buildings Royce Hall and Powell Library.1929 年夏，该校迁入位于圣莫尼卡山麓、占地 383 英亩的韦斯特伍德新校区，其标志是罗曼式建筑的罗伊斯大厅与鲍威尔图书馆。
• Within a decade the campus added a College of Agriculture, a College of Business Administration, a College of Applied Arts and a School of Education, followed by schools of engineering, dentistry, law, medicine, nursing and public health.此后十年间，校区先后增设农学院、工商管理学院、应用艺术学院与教育学院，随后又设立工程、牙医、法律、医学、护理与公共卫生等学院。
• In 1934 the university established its Graduate Division and founded its alumni association, and in 1936 four departments were authorised to award doctoral degrees, formally completing UCLA's research mission.1934 年，该校设立研究生院并成立校友会；1936 年有四个系获准授予博士学位，正式确立了加州大学洛杉矶分校的研究使命。
• In 1958 the Regents changed the official name to the University of California, Los Angeles, retaining the familiar initials UCLA but regularising the title used on degrees and official documents.1958 年，加州大学董事会将官方名称正式定为加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校，保留人们熟悉的缩写 UCLA，同时规范了学位证书与官方文件所使用的校名。
• Between 1964 and 1997 the campus established the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning and the School of Public Policy and Social Research, expanding its professional and applied programmes.1964 至 1997 年间，校区先后成立建筑与城市规划研究生院以及公共政策与社会研究学院，拓展了其专业与应用型学科。
• Between 2000 and 2009 the university created the California NanoSystems Institute and departments including Chicano and Chicana Studies, deepening its work in nanoscience and in the study of diverse communities.2000 至 2009 年间，该校创建了加州纳米系统研究所，并设立奇卡诺研究等系所，深化了在纳米科学与多元社群研究方面的努力。
• The 1969 opening of the Center for African American Studies, the American Indian Studies Center, the Asian American Studies Center and the Chicano Studies Research Center in a single year reflected the campus's response to social change.1969 年，非裔美国人研究中心、美洲原住民研究中心、亚裔美国人研究中心与奇卡诺研究中心在同一年开设，反映了校区对社会变革的回应。
• In 1984 the campus served as the Olympic Village for the Los Angeles Summer Olympics, housing athletes and providing competition venues, an experience the university will repeat when it again hosts the Olympic Village in 2028.1984 年，该校作为洛杉矶夏季奥运会的奥运村，为运动员提供住宿与比赛场地；2028 年该校将再次承办奥运村，重温这一角色。
• By the 2010s UCLA had become one of the largest research universities in the United States, and in 2017 it was chosen as the site of the Olympic Village for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.至 2010 年代，加州大学洛杉矶分校已成为美国规模最大的研究型大学之一；2017 年，它被选定为 2028 年洛杉矶夏季奥运会奥运村的所在地。
• In 2025 Julio Frenk, a former health minister of Mexico and dean of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, became UCLA's seventh chancellor, succeeding Gene Block, who had led the campus since 2007.2025 年，曾任墨西哥卫生部长与哈佛大学陈曾熙公共卫生学院院长的胡里奥·弗伦克出任该校第七任校长，接替自 2007 年起领导校区的吉恩·布洛克。
• Throughout its history UCLA has grown from a normal school of a few hundred students into a comprehensive university whose medical centre, research institutes and professional schools serve the wider Los Angeles region.纵观其历史，加州大学洛杉矶分校从一所仅有数百名学生的师范学校发展为综合性大学，其医疗中心、研究所与专业学院服务于整个洛杉矶地区。
• In 1923 the university's department structure was still that of a small college, and the steady addition of faculties and research units over the following century produced the modern campus of thirteen schools and colleges.1923 年时，该校的院系结构仍属小型学院的规模；此后一个世纪里学院与研究机构不断增加，最终形成今日由十三个学院与专业学院组成的现代校区。
• The university's growth was accelerated by its position within the University of California system and by state funding for public higher education, which allowed it to build large faculties and research facilities.该校的发展得益于其在加州大学系统中的位置以及加州对公立高等教育的拨款，使其得以建立庞大的师资队伍与研究设施。

Academics

• UCLA is organised into thirteen colleges and professional schools, including the College of Letters and Science, the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and the David Geffen School of Medicine.加州大学洛杉矶分校由十三个学院与专业学院组成，包括文理学院、亨利·萨缪理工程与应用科学学院以及大卫·格芬医学院。
• It offers 135 undergraduate majors and 101 minors in addition to more than 130 graduate and professional degree programmes across a wide range of academic and professional fields.该校提供 135 个本科专业与 101 个辅修专业，并在广泛的学术与专业领域开设 130 多个研究生与专业学位项目。
• As of 2024 the university enrolled about 33,040 undergraduates among a total student body of roughly 46,000, including 5,247 international students, and employed 5,464 faculty members.截至 2024 年，该校本科在校生约 33040 人，全校学生约 46000 人，其中留学生 5247 人，教职人员 5464 人。
• The David Geffen School of Medicine and the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center form one of the largest academic medical centres in the western United States, linked to the campus's health sciences programmes.大卫·格芬医学院与罗纳德·里根加州大学洛杉矶分校医疗中心构成美国西部最大的学术医疗中心之一，与校区的健康科学学科紧密相连。
• The UCLA Anderson School of Management, the UCLA School of Law and the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television are among the university's best-known professional schools.加州大学洛杉矶分校安德森管理学院、法学院以及戏剧、电影与电视学院是该校最负盛名的专业学院。
• The university library system holds more than twelve million volumes across more than twenty libraries, making it one of the largest academic library systems in the United States.该校图书馆系统藏书逾 1200 万册、分藏于二十多座图书馆，是美国规模最大的学术图书馆系统之一。
• UCLA's research expenditure exceeds one billion US dollars a year and its investigators produce more than ten thousand scholarly publications annually, with strong patent activity among American universities.加州大学洛杉矶分校年度科研支出逾十亿美元，其研究人员每年产出学术论文一万余篇，在美国高校中专利活动活跃。
• The university's strengths span medicine and the life sciences, engineering and computer science, the physical sciences, the social sciences, the arts and the humanities, and the performing arts.该校的优势领域涵盖医学与生命科学、工程与计算机科学、物理科学、社会科学、艺术与人文学科以及表演艺术。
• UCLA operates the California NanoSystems Institute and numerous organised research units, providing large-scale facilities for nanoscience, medicine and the physical sciences.该校运营加州纳米系统研究所及众多有组织的研究机构，为纳米科学、医学与物理科学提供大型设施。
• International students make up a significant share of the student body, and the campus hosts one of the largest populations of Chinese and Asian international students in the United States.国际学生在该校学生中占有相当比例，其校园也是美国中国及亚洲国际学生规模最大的校园之一。
• The university's Anderson School runs MBA and executive programmes, while the School of Theater, Film and Television has trained many working directors, screenwriters and producers in the film industry.该校安德森管理学院开设 MBA 与高管项目；戏剧、电影与电视学院则培养了大量活跃于电影业的导演、编剧与制片人。
• UCLA's teaching hospital and health system operate across multiple sites in Los Angeles, and the university's medical and nursing schools are central to clinical training and biomedical research.该校的教学医院与医疗系统在洛杉矶多处运行，医学院与护理学院在临床训练与生物医学研究中居于核心地位。
• The university is a major recipient of federal research funding and participates in national research networks in the physical and biomedical sciences, including projects tied to national laboratories and institutes.该校是联邦科研经费的重要接受方，并参与物理与生物医学领域的全国性研究网络，包括与国家实验室和研究所相关的项目。
• As of 2025 UCLA counted more than sixty members of the National Academy of Sciences among its faculty, together with members of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine.截至 2025 年，该校教员中有 60 余位美国国家科学院院士，此外还有美国国家工程院与美国国家医学院的院士。
• The university's undergraduate programmes in biology, psychology, economics, political science and engineering are among the most heavily subscribed, reflecting its broad public mission.该校的生物学、心理学、经济学、政治学与工程学等本科专业报名最为踊跃，体现其广泛的公立办学使命。
• UCLA's research and teaching are supported by a large endowment and by the University of California system, and its academic medical centre provides both patient care and clinical education.该校的研究与教学得到庞大捐赠基金及加州大学系统的支持，其学术医疗中心同时提供患者诊疗与临床教学。

Campus

• The main campus occupies about 419 acres, or roughly 1.7 square kilometres, in the Westwood neighbourhood of western Los Angeles, between Sunset Boulevard and the Santa Monica Mountains.主校区位于洛杉矶西部韦斯特伍德社区、日落大道与圣莫尼卡山之间，占地约 419 英亩，即约 1.7 平方公里。
• Royce Hall, completed in 1929 in a Romanesque Revival style combining Italian and Byzantine elements, is the university's architectural symbol and houses a major concert and lecture hall.罗伊斯大厅建于 1929 年，融合意大利与拜占庭元素的罗曼式复兴风格，是该校的建筑象征，内设重要的音乐厅与报告厅。
• Powell Library, also completed in 1929 and designed in the same Romanesque Revival manner as Royce Hall, serves as an undergraduate library and reading room at the heart of the campus.鲍威尔图书馆同样建成于 1929 年，与罗伊斯大厅采用相同的罗曼式复兴风格，现为校园中心的本科生图书馆与阅览室。
• Pauley Pavilion, opened in 1965 and renovated in 2012, is the university's main indoor arena and has hosted numerous national championships and gymnastics events.保利体育馆于 1965 年启用、2012 年翻新，是该校主要的室内场馆，举办过众多全国性锦标赛与体操赛事。
• The Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden, established in 1967, displays more than seventy modern sculptures across five acres and is one of the most important outdoor sculpture collections on a US campus.富兰克林·墨菲雕塑园建于 1967 年，在五英亩草坪上陈列七十余件现代雕塑，是美国校园中最重要的露天雕塑收藏之一。
• Janss Steps, a broad staircase leading up from Westwood Village to the campus, has long been a gathering point and a symbol of the university's connection to its surrounding community.扬斯阶梯是一条从韦斯特伍德村通往校园的宽阔台阶，长期以来是学生聚会的场所，也是学校与周边社区联系的象征。
• The campus contains more than 170 buildings and is organised around a central quadrangle, with the medical centre and health sciences complex on its southern side near the Santa Monica Medical Center.校区拥有 170 余座建筑，围绕中央方庭布局，其南侧靠近圣莫尼卡医疗中心，设有医疗中心与健康科学建筑群。
• UCLA sits within easy reach of Beverly Hills, the beaches of Santa Monica and the cultural life of Los Angeles, and its campus will serve as the Olympic Village for the 2028 Summer Olympics.加州大学洛杉矶分校紧邻比弗利山庄、圣莫尼卡海滩与洛杉矶的文化生活，其校园还将作为 2028 年夏季奥运会的奥运村。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 UCLA is ranked 49th in the world, and in the QS World University Rankings 2026 it stood at 45th.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，加州大学洛杉矶分校位列世界第 49 位；在 2026 年 QS 排名中则位列第 45 位。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places UCLA 20th in the world, reflecting its strength in research quality and its international reputation.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将加州大学洛杉矶分校列为世界第 20 位，体现其研究质量与国际声誉。
• In the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 the university is ranked 14th in the world, one of the highest positions held by a public university.在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中，该校位列世界第 14 位，是公立大学中所获最高名次之一。
• The U.S. News Best Global Universities edition of 2026 to 2027 ranks UCLA 11th in the world and ties it for first place among public universities in the United States.2026 至 2027 年版美国新闻与世界报道最佳全球大学排名将加州大学洛杉矶分校列为世界第 11 位，并与另一所学校并列全美公立大学第一。
• The OpenAlex database attributes 531,743 works to UCLA with 69,495,897 citations, among the largest research outputs of any university worldwide.OpenAlex 数据库为加州大学洛杉矶分校收录 531,743 篇成果、被引用 69,495,897 次，是全世界科研产出规模最大的大学之一。
• Eight UCLA alumni have won the Nobel Prize, among them Ralph Bunche, Glenn Seaborg and Elinor Ostrom, and eight further laureates have served on the faculty, giving the university a total of sixteen Nobel affiliations.加州大学洛杉矶分校有八位校友获得诺贝尔奖，包括拉尔夫·邦奇、格伦·西博格与埃莉诺·奥斯特罗姆；另有八位诺奖得主任教于该校，使该校与诺贝尔奖的关联共计十六项。
• The university's faculty have included the mathematician Terence Tao, awarded the Fields Medal in 2006, reflecting its strength in the mathematical sciences.该校教员中包括于 2006 年获得菲尔兹奖的数学家陶哲轩，体现其在数学科学方面的实力。
• In subject rankings UCLA performs strongly in medicine, psychology, mathematics, the arts and humanities and the social sciences, and its Anderson School and film school are repeatedly ranked among the best in the United States.在学科排名中，该校在医学、心理学、数学、艺术与人文以及社会科学方面表现强劲，其安德森管理学院与电影学院屡次跻身全美最佳之列。
• UCLA is a member of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities and the Association of American Universities, and it is often described as a Public Ivy for the quality of its undergraduate education.该校是环太平洋大学联盟与美国大学协会的成员，并因其本科教育质量而被誉为「公立常春藤」之一。

Student life

• UCLA shares the University of California motto, Fiat Lux, meaning let there be light, which appears on the university seal and reflects the system's commitment to knowledge.该校与加州大学系统共享校训「Fiat Lux」，意为「要有光」，这一格言出现在校徽上，体现该系统对知识的追求。
• The university's mascot is Joe Bruin and its athletic teams, the Bruins, wear the university colours of blue and gold, competing in the Pac-12 and later the Big Ten conference.该校的吉祥物是 Joe Bruin，其运动队「棕熊队」（Bruins）身穿蓝金校色队服，曾参加太平洋十二校联盟、后加入十大联盟。
• UCLA has won more NCAA team championships than almost any other university, a record built largely on its basketball, volleyball, softball and gymnastics programmes.加州大学洛杉矶分校获得的 NCAA 团体冠军数量几乎是全美各校中最多的，这一纪录主要建立在其篮球、排球、垒球与体操项目之上。
• The basketball teams coached by John Wooden won ten national championships between 1964 and 1975, one of the most celebrated runs in American collegiate sport.由约翰·伍登执教的篮球队于 1964 至 1975 年间十次夺得全国冠军，是美国大学体育中最负盛名的连胜纪录之一。
• Students participate in hundreds of clubs and organisations, including cultural associations, performing arts groups, academic societies and a large Greek life community with dozens of fraternities and sororities.学生参与了数以百计的社团与组织，包括文化协会、表演艺术团体、学术社团，以及拥有数十个兄弟会与姐妹会的大型希腊式社团体系。
• The annual UCLA Volunteer Day, begun in 2009, sends thousands of new students into Los Angeles neighbourhoods for a day of community service, and is described as one of the largest such events in the country.始于 2009 年的「加州大学洛杉矶分校志愿服务日」每年派出数千名新生走进洛杉矶各社区开展一天公益服务，被称为全美规模最大的此类活动之一。
• The university's student media include the Daily Bruin newspaper, founded in 1919, and the campus radio station, and the annual Spring Sing concert showcases student performance groups.该校的学生媒体包括创办于 1919 年的《每日棕熊报》与校园广播电台；一年一度的「春之声」音乐会则展示各学生表演团体。
• UCLA's location in Westwood places students close to the entertainment industry, the beaches and the cultural institutions of Los Angeles, shaping a student life closely tied to the city.位于韦斯特伍德的校园使学生临近娱乐产业、海滩与洛杉矶的文化机构，塑造了与城市紧密相连的学生生活。

Notable people

• Ernest Carroll Moore, a philosopher and educator, served as the first director of the Southern Branch in 1919 and later as UCLA's first provost, guiding the institution in its earliest years.哲学家兼教育家欧内斯特·卡罗尔·摩尔于 1919 年出任南部分校首任校长（director），后担任该校首任教务长，在创校初期引导学校发展。
• Ralph Bunche, who graduated in 1927, became the first African American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize when he was awarded the 1950 prize for mediating the Arab-Israeli armistice.1927 年毕业的拉尔夫·邦奇因调停阿以停战而获得 1950 年诺贝尔和平奖，成为首位获诺贝尔和平奖的非裔美国人。
• Glenn T. Seaborg, a 1934 graduate, won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the transuranium elements, including plutonium.1934 年毕业的格伦·西博格因发现包括钚在内的超铀元素而获得 1951 年诺贝尔化学奖。
• Elinor Ostrom, who earned her doctorate at UCLA in 1965, won the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons.1965 年在加州大学洛杉矶分校取得博士学位的埃莉诺·奥斯特罗姆因对经济治理、尤其是公共资源的研究而获得 2009 年诺贝尔经济学奖。
• Richard F. Heck, who took his doctorate at UCLA in 1954, shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the palladium-catalysed cross-coupling reaction that bears his name.1954 年在加州大学洛杉矶分校获得博士学位的理查德·赫克因以其名字命名的钯催化交叉偶联反应而共同获得 2010 年诺贝尔化学奖。
• Randy Schekman, a 1971 graduate, shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on how cells organise their transport of proteins, and Ardem Patapoutian, who graduated in 1990, shared the 2021 prize in the same category.1971 年毕业的兰迪·谢克曼因发现细胞组织蛋白质运输的机制而共同获得 2013 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖；1990 年毕业的阿登·帕塔普蒂安则共同获得 2021 年同一奖项。
• Terence Tao, a professor of mathematics at UCLA, was awarded the Fields Medal in 2006 and is regarded as one of the world's leading mathematicians in harmonic analysis and number theory.加州大学洛杉矶分校数学教授陶哲轩于 2006 年获得菲尔兹奖，被视为调和分析与数论领域世界领先的数学家之一。
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who graduated in history in 1969, is one of the greatest basketball players of all time and the NBA's former record holder for career scoring.1969 年毕业于历史专业的卡里姆·阿卜杜尔-贾巴尔是史上最伟大的篮球运动员之一，并曾保持 NBA 生涯得分纪录。
• Arthur Ashe, who earned a degree in business administration in 1966, became a grand-slam tennis champion and a leading campaigner against apartheid, and a UCLA scholarship and legacy programme is named after him.1966 年取得工商管理学位的阿瑟·阿什既是网球大满贯冠军，也是反对种族隔离的重要活动家，该校设有以其命名的奖学金与遗产项目。
• Francis Ford Coppola, the Academy Award-winning director of The Godfather, studied at UCLA, and the campus's film school has produced numerous award-winning directors and writers.获奥斯卡奖的《教父》导演弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉曾就读于加州大学洛杉矶分校；该校电影学院培养了许多获奖导演与编剧。
• Judy Chu, who graduated in 1974, became the first Chinese American woman elected to the United States Congress in 2009 and has represented a California district in the House of Representatives.1974 年毕业的赵美心于 2009 年成为首位当选美国国会议员的美籍华人女性，在众议院代表加州一个选区。
• Michael Morhaime, who graduated in 1990, co-founded Blizzard Entertainment, the studio behind the Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo game franchises, while Tom Bradley, a former UCLA student, served as the first African American mayor of Los Angeles.1990 年毕业的迈克尔·莫汉参与创办暴雪娱乐，其作品包括《魔兽争霸》《星际争霸》与《暗黑破坏神》系列；曾在加州大学洛杉矶分校就读的汤姆·布拉德利则成为洛杉矶首位非裔市长。