The University of California, Los Angeles, known as UCLA, is a public land-grant research university in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Its academic roots go back to 1881, when it began as the southern branch of the California State Normal School. The campus passed to the University of California as its southern branch in 1919, which made it the second-oldest campus of the ten-campus system after Berkeley, and it officially became independent of Berkeley administratively on 14 June 1951. It offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs.
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The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.
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The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.
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is a public land-grant research university
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Its academic roots were established in 1881 as the southern branch of the California State Normal School, which is now San José State University.
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He is Professor of History and Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
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Michael Mann FBA (born 1942) is a British-American emeritus professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and past honorary professor at the University of Cambridge.
Min Zhou (sociologist) (Wikipedia)
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then moved to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1994
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