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<\/p>\nWestwood, CA…Police confirm there was an apparent murder-suicide in Engineering IV and that the situation is now contained. The campus has reopened and the lockdown is lifted. Classes are cancelled for the day and are expected to resume tomorrow. Two adult males are confirmed dead, according to a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman.<\/p>\n
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Overview<\/p>\n
UCLA campus: 419 acres located in Westwood, a community of Los Angeles. Directions | Photos<\/p>\n
University of California, Los Angeles
\nLos Angeles, CA 90095
\n310-825-4321<\/p>\n
Chancellor: Gene D. Block became chancellor on Aug. 1, 2007. Website<\/p>\n
History: Founded in 1919 as the Southern Branch of the University of California. UCLA history<\/p>\n
Rankings: The most prominent rankings organizations consistently place UCLA among the top universities in the world for academics, research and community impact. UCLA in the rankings<\/p>\n
Budget: UCLA\u2019s budget is approximately $6.7 billion. State funding accounts for only six percent of total revenues.<\/p>\n
Enrollment: 43,301, including 29,585 undergraduates, 12,323 graduate students, and 1,393 medical and dentistry interns and residents. Enrollment<\/p>\n
Health Care: UCLA Health includes Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, a neuropsychiatric hospital and a children\u2019s hospital on the Westwood campus; a medical center in Santa Monica; and 150 primary care and specialty care offices across the region that, in total, receive nearly 2 million patient visits a year.<\/p>\n
Arts and Culture: UCLA is the leading arts and cultural center in the western United States, hosting more than 1,000 visual and performing arts events each year and attracting more than 500,000 patrons. UCLA Arts<\/p>\n
Continuing Education: UCLA Extension, a pioneer in distance learning, offers a vast array of courses, programs and conferences to professionals and others around the world.<\/p>\n
Athletics: UCLA has won 113 NCAA team championships, more than any other NCAA Division I university. UCLA Sports<\/p>\n
Other official facts, figures and statistics: Office of Analysis and Information Management<\/p>\n
Students\/Academics<\/p>\n
Fields of Study: The UCLA College and 12 professional schools offer more than 5,000 courses in 124 undergraduate majors, 98 master\u2019s programs, 109 doctoral and professional programs, and 91 minors. Course catalog<\/p>\n
Admissions: With more than 100,000 undergraduate applicants seeking admission for fall 2015 (first-year and transfer students), UCLA is the most applied-to university in the U.S. Admission overview<\/p>\n
Demographics: UCLA takes pride in the extraordinary diversity of our students and in providing opportunity for students, regardless of socioeconomic background. Undergraduate profile<\/p>\n
Socioeconomic Diversity: Nearly a third of undergraduates earning a degree are the first generation in their families to graduate from a four-year college or university.<\/p>\n
Tuition: $13,029 in tuition and student services fees for California-resident undergraduates, $35,907 for out-of-state undergraduates. Cost estimates<\/p>\n
Financial Support: Ample financial aid means most families pay less than full price. In fact, more than 40 percent of undergraduates pay no tuition at all. About 36 percent of undergraduates receive Pell Grants, federal aid for students from low-income families. Affordability<\/p>\n
Graduation Rate: Almost 70 percent of students entering as freshman graduate within four years, more than 90 percent within six years. Graduation and Progress<\/p>\n
Faculty\/Research<\/p>\n
Faculty: UCLA\u2019s faculty of approximately 4,300 includes numerous recipients of the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, National Medal of Science, and Guggenheim, MacArthur and other prestigious fellowships, grants and awards. Faculty honors<\/p>\n
Research: About $1 billion received each year in competitively awarded grants and contracts, and approximately 6,000 funded research projects underway at any given time. Research data<\/p>\n
Impact: Real-world advances in knowledge that enhance quality of life around the globe. Impact and accomplishments | Impact video<\/p>\n
Intellectual Property: UCLA manages more than 2,960 active inventions, including approximately 1,000 U.S. patents. Office of Intellectual Property<\/p>\n
Making a Difference<\/p>\n
Economic Impact: UCLA is responsible for more than $12.7 billion in economic impact annually, and generates $34 for every dollar invested by California taxpayers. Economic impact<\/p>\n
Community Involvement: Through academic and service programs, UCLA faculty, students and staff deeply involved in improving lives throughout Los Angeles neighborhoods. Partners and programs<\/p>\n
Volunteering: More than half of UCLA\u2019s undergraduates participate in some form of community service. UCLA Volunteer Center<\/p>\n
Alumni: UCLA graduates have been pioneers in almost every field imaginable. Iconic and influential alumni | UCLA Optimists<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Westwood, CA…Police confirm there was an apparent murder-suicide in Engineering IV and that the situation is now contained. The campus has reopened and the lockdown is lifted. Classes are cancelled for the day and are expected to resume tomorrow. Two adult males are confirmed dead, according to a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman. Overview UCLA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ucla-logo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}