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Hi, and welcome to UCLA! Our campus is located here in Westwood, where we are minutes from the Pacific Ocean and the beach cities of Santa Monica and Venice. Founded in 1919, UCLA was developed as part of the University of California system. Just over 100 years later, we are one of the top public research universities in the world, as well as the most applied-to school in the nation. As a land-grant institution, UCLA Undergraduate Admission acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles Basin, So. Channel Islands). Follow me as we explore and learn more about UCLA. Before we explore our beautiful campus, let me explain all the ways you can use this tour: – You can click on the front-facing arrow to start Walking around our campus. – You can jump to the next stop by clicking on the Next Stop button. – If you already know where you want to go, you can select any location by using the Drop-Down list OR by clicking directly on the map. – And, remember, you can explore any location in more detail by clicking on the 360, Photos or Video icons. If you're actually here on campus, you can use our open Wi-Fi network, UCLA_WEB, where available, to stream the tour to your mobile device.
Royce Hall
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With its impressive towers and soaring arches, Royce Hall is UCLA's most iconic building. Every year, thousands of visitors come here to enjoy concerts, dance and theater. The magnificent concert hall has hosted both classical and contemporary artists — the New York Philharmonic, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Coldplay, just to name a few. World-famous speakers have also taken the stage, from Albert Einstein to President Bill Clinton. UCLA students get discounts on most tickets — some events are actually free. Royce Hall is also home to many language and literature departments, so you might take classes here, too.
Powell Library
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Powell Library is one of the original campus buildings, and it has been restored to its 1929 glory. The main reading room, with its tall windows and ornamented central dome, is like a movie set designed to capture the quintessential college study atmosphere — except that it's perfectly real. It's a great place to work on a research paper or prepare for a test because the reading room is quiet and resources are at hand. Events like the Edible Book Festival and salsa dancing in the rotunda bring this library to life!
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Powell Library is one of the original campus buildings, and it has been restored to its 1929 glory. The main reading room, with its tall windows and ornamented central dome, is like a movie set designed to capture the quintessential college study atmosphere — except that it's perfectly real. It's a great place to work on a research paper or prepare for a test because the reading room is quiet and resources are at hand. Events like the Edible Book Festival and salsa dancing in the rotunda bring this library to life!
Ostin Music Center
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The Ostin Music Center offers cutting-edge recording studios and digital music tools, including an Internet-based music production center. It's part of a music complex that includes performance spaces, rehearsal rooms and a music library. UCLA is a pioneer in ethnomusicology — sometimes called world music. Our Bruin Marching Band has a storied history that includes concerts, albums and TV appearances. Just south of the music complex is the unusual Inverted Fountain — appropriately, a fountain you can hear before you see it.
Dickson Court
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This tree-shaded square is Dickson Court. On three sides it's bordered by academic buildings, including Kaplan Hall — home of the English major as well as Arabic and Russian. On the fourth side of Dickson Court is Murphy Hall, the main administration building. Inside Murphy Hall you'll find information and resources at Undergraduate Admission and Financial Aid and Scholarships. Other student support services in Murphy Hall include College Academic Counseling and the Center for Accessible Education. Not far from Dickson Court is the School of Law. Undergraduates interested in law can volunteer to play the role of witness in courtroom simulations.
Bunche Hall
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Bunche Hall is home to many of the social sciences: economics, geography, history and political science. One of our geography professors is Jared Diamond, author of the Pulitzer Prize winner Guns, Germs and Steel. His book combines insights from social sciences, botany, zoology and microbiology. That kind of interdisciplinary approach is characteristic of a UCLA education. So is diversity. Our Academic Advancement Program, headquartered in neighboring Campbell Hall, is the nation's largest university-based student diversity program. Many of the gifted and talented students in this program are the first in their families to go to college or come from populations that have been historically underrepresented in higher education.
Young Research Library
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This is the Charles E. Young Research Library. If you major in social sciences or humanities, you'll use the new Research Commons here, with its functional group study pods, smart boards and audio-visual capture devices. One of our professors led a project to map Berlin from the 13th century to the present. And a team of digital humanities students created a map of an ancient Egyptian cemetery as a research project. That's just one example of our innovative academic programs. The UCLA Library system has 10 locations with more than 11 million print and electronic volumes. That's one reason it's ranked in the top 10 nationally.
Broad Art Center
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If you are an art or design major, you'll spend a lot of time here in Broad Art Center. There are studios for ceramics, painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and "new genres" — all the art that doesn't fit in the traditional categories. Broad Art Center has sophisticated video and computer labs for digital design, including a game lab. And, yes, the Game Lab is open to students from other areas like creative writing, philosophy, psychology and computer science. The Game Lab holds workshops, exhibitions, a visiting artist program and an annual public festival at the Hammer Museum. Game on!
Theater, Film and Television/Sculpture Garden
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Our Sculpture Garden is a campus favorite. Imagine yourself relaxing and studying in an outdoor museum, with more than 70 statues by major artists like Alexander Calder and Henri Matisse. It's also a great place to sit on the grass, enjoy the jacarandas and coral trees, and look at the sky. Sometimes rehearsals spill out of the nearby sound stages and studios of the School of Theater, Film and Television — TFT, for short. Our Film & Television Archive is one of the largest moving-image collections in the U.S., second in size only to the Library of Congress.
South Campus trail
Janss Steps
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The Janss Steps are another campus icon. From the top, you see a picturesque view of our campus, looking across the athletic fields to the undergraduate residential halls and the neighboring communities of Bel-Air and Beverly Hills. Only a 10-minute walk from the residence halls, Janss Steps are part of campus history: they've appeared in films and hosted graduation ceremonies and victory celebrations. The base of Janss Steps was once a popular spot for public speeches. The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to an audience of 4,500 students, faculty and staff here in 1965 and stated that "If democracy is to live, segregation must die."
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This is Wilson Plaza, one of the many open spaces that make our campus so inviting. About a third of the compact UCLA campus is green space. Courtyards, plazas, gardens and recreation areas let students enjoy the outdoors. Often, Wilson Plaza is full of activity: a resource fair, a dance troupe rehearsal or an ROTC drill. The Beat 'SC Rally, one of the largest outdoor gatherings on campus, embodies the tremendous spirit and loyalty of UCLA students, fans and alumni. The Bruin community comes together to cheer on the bruins to victory against the Trojans.On the hillside just above the plaza, students come to sit and relax on the grass or study between classes. Just off Wilson Plaza is the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where business economics majors take classes from leading management professors.
Wilson Plaza
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This is Wilson Plaza, one of the many open spaces that make our campus so inviting. About a third of the compact UCLA campus is green space. Courtyards, plazas, gardens and recreation areas let students enjoy the outdoors. Often, Wilson Plaza is full of activity: a resource fair, a dance troupe rehearsal or an ROTC drill. The Beat 'SC Rally, one of the largest outdoor gatherings on campus, embodies the tremendous spirit and loyalty of UCLA students, fans and alumni. The Bruin community comes together to cheer on the bruins to victory against the Trojans.On the hillside just above the plaza, students come to sit and relax on the grass or study between classes. Just off Wilson Plaza is the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where business economics majors take classes from leading management professors.
Fowler Museum
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The Fowler is a museum of cultural history, one of the top five university museums in the U.S. Here, you can explore global arts and cultures, past and present. Ceramics from ancient Mexico, textiles from Peru and Japan, masks from Nigeria, photos from South Africa — those are just some of the exhibitions the Fowler has hosted. New shows open throughout the year, and pieces from the permanent collection are always on display. Admission is free. UCLA's other museum, the Hammer, is in Westwood. Its focus is emerging artists. The Hammer is part of a thriving L.A. art scene that includes the hilltop Getty Museum in neighboring Brentwood.
Student Activities Center
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This is the Student Activities Center, with an array of support services for Bruins. The Community Programs Office is home to the nation's first student-initiated outreach and retention centers. UCLA wants all of our outstanding students, regardless of background, to feel welcome and find academic success here. Those goals are shared by the Bruin Resource Center, which supports former foster youth, formerly incarcerated and/or system impacted students and students who are parents. You'll also find the LGBT Resource Center here, where lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students find services and resources. UCLA is committed to diversity, with programs and services that actively promote an environment where all Bruins feel included and respected.
Kerckhoff Patio
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Kerckhoff Hall is where you'll find student government student organizations and student support offices. It's alive with activity: Cultural Affairs planning concerts, Campus Events running film programs, Transfer Student Center, Veteran Resource Center, and Black Bruin Resource Center. Student publications are in Kerckhoff, too — including the prize-winning Daily Bruin. But Kerckhoff isn't just about getting involved. There are quiet lounges to study and a coffee house where you can get together with friends. The Kerckhoff Patio is a favorite place for students to hang out between classes. The patio space is shared by the School of Education and Information Studies, home of the Education and Social Transformation major and the education minor.
Engineering V trail
Engineering V
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The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science — UCLA Engineering, for short — is where the Internet was born back in 1969. Engineering V, along with recently constructed Engineering VI, demonstrate UCLA's commitment to new discoveries and cutting-edge research in green energy and sustainability. Our engineering faculty are a part of the Grand Challenges team, working to make Los Angeles self-sufficient in terms of water and energy. Projects include nanoparticle filters to clean water and boost water re-use and an ultrathin, see-through solar film that clings to windows and harvests energy. Areas of study in Engineering include everything from aerospace to bioengineering to materials science.
Court of Sciences
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The Court of Sciences is designed for collaboration: clustered around the edges are the homes of physical sciences and mathematics, life sciences and psychology, engineering and health sciences. In the center is the Court of Sciences Student Center. You can find meals and snacks here, but it's more than a place to eat. It's a place to spend time with other students, studying and working together. Megan McArthur, one of eight UCLA astronauts to venture into space, still talks about how much she learned as part of a student team competing in the Human Powered Submarine Races. At a research university, learning happens everywhere — both inside and outside the classroom.
La Kretz Hall trail
La Kretz Hall
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If you're interested in the environment and sustainability, you have two reasons to like La Kretz Hall. First, it's the home of the Environmental Science major and minors. Second, it's a "green" building, made of recycled materials and designed to save energy. La Kretz was the first UCLA building to get LEED certification. Another emerging field at UCLA is evolutionary medicine, combining biology, anthropology, psychology and zoology with medicine to create new frameworks for investigating and understanding disease. There's a new minor in evolutionary medicine that's especially appealing to students interested in pre-med.
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center trail
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
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Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is one of the leading hospitals in the U.S. It's where students in our School of Nursing get their practical experience, called "clinical immersion." Because our hospital and health sciences are right on campus, our medical school faculty is involved with undergraduates: teaching neuroscience courses, for example, or having students work in their labs for the biomedical research minor. There are hospital volunteer opportunities, too, like the student stroke team. Other students interested in medicine work in the community, with groups like Mobile Clinic, the Black Hypertension Project and the Chicanos/Latinos for Community Medicine.
Westwood Village trail
Westwood Village
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Westwood Village, located just on the south side of campus, is UCLA's college town, where you'll find many restaurants and shops. If you need to stock up on necessities, there's a City Target. Grocery stores range from a full-service Ralphs to specialty stores like Whole Foods Market and Trader Joe's. There's even a farmer's market every Thursday. Westwood also includes some classic movie theaters where you may catch a glimpse of your favorite movie star on the red carpet at a premiere. A delicious Bruin tradition is Diddy Riese Cookies and Ice Cream. Since 1983, UCLA students have headed to this Westwood shop for ice cream sandwiched between fresh-baked cookies.
Northwest Campus trail
Bruin Plaza
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If someone says to you, "Meet me at The Bruin," they're talking about this bronze statue of UCLA's mascot. For any UCLA student, the sight of The Bruin is a reminder that we are lifelong True Bruins, with boundless UCLA spirit, pride and optimism. Bruin Plaza is right in the center of student life. On any given day, student groups hold events, rallies and fundraisers here. So, at lunchtime, there's a lot to choose from. You can listen to a concert, learn about sustainability or buy homemade Navajo fry bread and other goodies. All for a good cause, of course!
Ackerman Union
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When you have a little time between classes, head to Ackerman Union. At the UCLA Store, you can pick up books, school supplies or the clothing and gear we affectionately call Bearwear. Or stop in one of our food courts and get a snack at Rubio's, Panda Express or Veggie Grill. There are also $2 movies in Ackerman Grand Ballroom nearly every Friday night. With more than 1,000 student clubs and organizations at UCLA, Ackerman meeting rooms are almost always busy. It's easy to find other students who share your interests, from film and science fiction to pre-professional and cultural groups. Opportunities to get involved at UCLA are endless.
Wooden Center/Wellness Centers
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This building complex is all about fitness and health. The Wooden Center is home to UCLA Recreation; it has a rock wall, gymnasiums and every kind of fitness equipment. You can even get your bike repaired or sign up for a wilderness hike through our Outdoor Adventures program. The Ashe Center is the home of Student Health and Wellness, focused on taking care of students. Counseling & Psychological Services offers workshops on biofeedback training or overcoming procrastination. UCLA's Healthy Campus Initiative is committed to making UCLA the healthiest campus in the nation … and we think we are well on our way.
Pauley Pavilion
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This is the statue of UCLA's legendary basketball coach, John Wooden. His philosophy is an important part of UCLA life. Coach Wooden's definition of success is doing your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. Coach stands outside Pauley Pavilion, home of UCLA basketball, volleyball and gymnastics. Here, students and alumni come together to cheer for UCLA teams. The official student section is The Den, where excited, energetic and devoted fans keep the Bruin spirit alive. But Pauley Pavilion isn't just for sports. It's also home to our back to school concert, the annual Spring Sing talent competition, Dance Marathon to benefit pediatric AIDS and commencement.
Drake Stadium trail
Drake Stadium
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For UCLA track, Drake Stadium is a place of history. Jackie Joyner Kersee — the Olympian who competed and medaled in four different Olympic games — trained here, and so did dozens of other Olympians. But you don't have to be a student athlete to run the Drake Stadium track: it's open to all Bruins. Men's and women's soccer matches happen here as well. By the way, if you're wondering where UCLA's football stadium is — you'll find it in Pasadena. The legendary Rose Bowl, host to one of the greatest college bowl games, is where UCLA plays our home games. Shuttles are arranged to take students to the Rose Bowl.
Sproul Landing trail
Sproul Landing
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Just off Bruin Walk, Sproul Landing is at the entrance of the area we call The Hill, our vibrant living-learning community for undergraduates. In the evening, you'll see students sitting outdoors, talking, studying and enjoying our award-winning food. Nearly 100 percent of new freshmen choose to live on campus — along with many returning students. UCLA guarantees up to four years of housing in university owned residences for incoming freshmen and two years for transfer students. Our Faculty in Residence program means faculty members and their families live on The Hill, too. Living on campus puts you close to classrooms, labs, libraries and other resources to help you make the most of UCLA.
Sunset Canyon Rec Center trail
Sunset Canyon Recreation Center
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When the weather is nice — which is almost every day, in sunny Southern California — it's great to take a break from your assigned readings and research papers and go to the Sunset Canyon Recreation Center, a virtual oasis for students. There's an Olympic-sized swimming pool, picnic areas, a sand volleyball court, tennis courts and a challenge course. On weekends, you'll find students at the Rec Center enjoying time with their friends — or making new ones.
