UCLA

Bruins' California campus

UCLA is the University of California, Los Angeles—a major public research university and one of the most selective in the United States.

It appears frequently in discussions of college athletics, particularly basketball: UCLA has won more NCAA basketball championships than any other school.

The abbreviation is pronounced as four letters, not as a word.

academics

undergraduate

Degree-seeking college student

lectures · seminars · humanities · sciences · engineering · mathematics · economics · psychology · sociology · philosophy

Bruins

athletics

Competitive physical activities

championships · gymnastics · soccer · volleyball · softball · tennis · swimming · diving · baseball · crosscountry

research

laboratory

Facility for scientific investigation

oncology · clinical · innovation · discovery · publications · grants · funding · AIDS · genomics · breakthroughs

Westwood

Wilshire

L.A. boulevard name

neighborhood

campus

botanical

Related to plants

healthcare

transplant

Move tissue between bodies

surgery · physicians · nurses · patients · teaching · hospital

Categories
Opposites
crosstown rivalry

UCLAUSC

Los Angeles private university

Stanford · Harvard · Yale · Princeton

UC system rivalry

UCLAUC Berkeley

Public university in Berkeley

Berkeley · Stanford

Phrases
Family

California

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G