What major is UCLA strongest in?

DunninLA
Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:55:45 +0000

It is #2 or #3 in the country in Linguistics.

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)

http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html

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

UCLA is TOP 10 in these:

Sciences/Engineering


Aerospace Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Chemistry
Geosciences
Stat/BioStat
Physiology


Social Sciences & Humanities


Psychology
Sociology
Classlics
Philosophy
Anthropology
Geography
History
Political Science


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.