@pl82524 . . . per your like message on the main College Confidential Board…
One the differences between the two universities is that UCLA is now in the process of becoming better funded with differentials in teaching and services showing a more discernible difference because it typically receives greater donations between the two per academic year.
UCLA now pays its professors more with it being the top-ranked public university in 2018. Here’s a link:
https://data.chronicle.com/category/sector/1/faculty-salaries/
And it would place 9th among combined public and private universities, among some of the elites. One telling point, e.g., is how well UCLA pays its instructors who are mainly teachers and not researchers. Therefore it may or may not show up in the placement of departments, because rankings are more of a function of research. It’s evident though that UCLA’s trying to pull up its teaching.