The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school, then known as the southern branch of the California State Normal School, which later evolved into San José State University. The branch was transferred to the University of California to become the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1919, making it the second-oldest of the ten-campus University of California system after the University of California, Berkeley.
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Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1405
34.071780, -118.442179
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Western Association of Schools and Colleges Senior Colleges and University Commission
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