What major is UCLA strongest in?

Colleges & Universities University of California - Los Angeles
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<p>UCLA is a world renown school but what is it renown for?</p>

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<p>It’s known (and thus very competitive) in pre-med programs.</p>

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<p>the tour guide also mentioned psychology.</p>

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<p>It’s very well rounded</p>

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<p>neuroscience, but im biased…</p>

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<p>History too, right? Don’t we have a really awesome History program?</p>

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<p>It’s a research university. It’ll prepare you well for graduate school and the professors here are top notch and produce many a research paper each year in their fields. It breeds leaders (take a look at CEOs of Fortune 500 companies), and has a great sports program (if you like cheering for that).</p>

<p>It’s also renown for being in LA, where the sun shines bright, the campus gorgeous, the women beautiful, there plenty of people to connect, lots of diverse food and ethniciities and all else that is associated with SoCal.</p>

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<p>Renowned. Renown is a noun, and renowned is the adjectival form of the noun.</p>

<p>That said, UCLA is a well-rounded university that is top 10 or 15 in nearly everything it has a department in.</p>

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<p>It’s second best in applied mathematics.</p>

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<p>It is #2 or #3 in the country in Linguistics.</p>

<p>Here is a better way to get a handle on the faculty research quality in lots of specific areas (at the Ph.D. level, but that’s really definitive of quality faculty)</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html[/url]”>http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>From this, you’ll find that UCLA is Top 20 in the U.S. in about 30 of the 41 areas of concentration.</p>

<p>UCLA is TOP 10 in these:</p>

<p>Sciences/Engineering</p>

<ul>
<li>Aerospace Engineering</li>
<li>Electrical Engineering</li>
<li>Chemistry</li>
<li>Geosciences</li>
<li>Stat/BioStat</li>
<li>Physiology</li>
</ul>

<p>Social Sciences & Humanities</p>

<ul>
<li>Psychology</li>
<li>Sociology</li>
<li>Classlics</li>
<li>Philosophy</li>
<li>Anthropology</li>
<li>Geography</li>
<li>History</li>
<li>Political Science</li>
</ul>

<p>You will see this TOP 10 list is slightly weighted toward North Campus, where Berkeley/UCLA alone vie for the best faculty/funding. For South Campus, Berkeley, UCLA and UCSD compete three ways for the best faculty/funding.</p>

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<p>Our electrical engineering department is top 10?</p>

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<p>MadeinChina – exactly #10 per the NRC rankings. … note that does not include computer science… That is not undergrad, but Ph.D. for undergrad, I would imagine around #15… undergrad pulls in a lot of schools that don’t have strong Ph.D. programs like liberal arts colleges.</p>

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<p>DunninLA,</p>

<p>I dunno about that, anymore. IMO, UCSD’s poli sci is hotter right now than either campus, and their econ department is top notch (particularly for quants.)</p>

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<p>No its not - there is no “pre-med program” at UCLA. UCLA is recognized as the school that sends out the single largest number of med school applications on any given year. That does not, however, translate into competitiveness or any leg up for these applicants, and UCLA does not have any significantly greater admit rate than the national average.</p>

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<p>The very prestigious #1 ranked Theater Department in the world-famous School of Theater, Film & Television!</p>

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<p>^ yeah fillyflurel is right. The film, theatre, televiison department is what’s probably most renowned for.</p>

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<p>How strange that Art History & Music are two of the Ph.D. areas included in the 41 NRC areas, but Theater/Film/TV is not. If it were included, UCLA would be top 3 for sure.</p>

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<p>econ is number 11 or something</p>

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<p>Linguistics is definitely one of the tops. The professors are all prominent in the field.</p>

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<p>^^ im taking ling 20, and though i dont go to class, i can tell that professor is hella smart.</p>