University of California-Los Angeles

Overview

Rankings

• #10 Best Biology Colleges in California
• #11 Best Bachelor's Programs in California
• #11 Best Master's Programs in California
• #15 Best HSI Bachelor's Programs
• #15 Best HSI Master's Programs
• #18 Most Affordable Colleges for Mathematics
• #19 Best Engineering Colleges in California
• #21 Best Large Universities

Academics & Admissions

Is It Hard to Get Into University of California-Los Angeles? Acceptance Rate & Requirements

As a public institution in Los Angeles, California, University of California-Los Angeles turns away the vast majority of its applicants. The acceptance rate is 9%. The graduation rate is roughly 93%.

Acceptance Rate

9%

Retention Rate

97%

Full-Time Faculty

75%

Faculty Salary (mo)

$22,848

Student–Faculty Ratio

18:1

Diversity Index

0.78

First-Gen Students

38%

Applicants

149,801

Admitted

12,845

Inside the Admissions Office

School-reported Common Data Set · unknown

The acceptance rate tells you how hard University of California-Los Angeles is to get into. Its Common Data Set tells you what happens once you are admitted: how many students say yes, how many arrived without test scores, and whether applying early tilts the odds. 48% of admitted students go on to enroll here, making it a school more than half of admitted students choose.

Yield Rate

48%

of admits enroll

Cost & Financial Aid

How Much Does It Cost to Attend University of California-Los Angeles? Tuition, Net Price & Aid

Published tuition at University of California-Los Angeles is $49,403, but few families pay that. The number to watch is net price, what students actually pay each year after federal grants and institutional scholarships. Here it averages about $12,548. Students from families earning under $30,000 typically pay closer to $5,579 after need-based grants. The median graduate leaves with about $14,000 in federal student loans.

In-State Tuition

$15,203

Out-of-State

$49,403

Avg Net Price

$12,548

Median Debt

$14,000

Pell Grant Rate

28%

Federal Loan Rate

19%

Students Like You

Tell us a little about yourself to see what students like you have typically experienced at University of California-Los Angeles — the net price for your income, your admission odds, and the outcomes that follow. These are patterns from federal data, not predictions.

Graduate Outcomes

Is University of California-Los Angeles Worth It? Graduate Earnings & ROI

Ten years out, alumni of University of California-Los Angeles earn a median of $82,511, well above the national average for bachelor's degree holders.

6 Years After Entry

$59,063

8 Years

$72,864

10 Years

$82,511

Debt-to-Earnings

0.17x

Earning > $25K

73%

Social Capital

Data: Opportunity Insights Social Capital Atlas

How Connected Is University of California-Los Angeles? Social Capital & Cross-Class Networks

Social capital, the web of cross-class friendships that researchers link to long-run upward mobility, runs high at University of California-Los Angeles. Its economic connectedness score is 1.74, where about 1.0 is the national norm. Its friending bias is low (0.02), a sign that students from different economic backgrounds actually mix rather than self-segregate. Around 10% of students take part in civic and volunteering activity.

Economic Connectedness

1.74

Cross-class friendships

Friending Bias

0.02

Lower = more inclusive

Volunteering Rate

9.8%

Support Ratio

0.99

Community support

Institutional Finances

Data: NCES IPEDS

Top Programs

The fields University of California-Los Angeles awards the most degrees in, by share of completions. Where federal field-of-study data exists, we show what graduates in that major earned early in their careers. Each links to its degree guide — or see what someone with your income, scores, and major would pay and earn here in the Students Like You simulator.

• Social Sciences 25% $61,666 early-career
• Biology & Biomedical 17% $39,756 early-career
• Psychology 11% $37,503 early-career
• Engineering 7% $115,339 early-career
• Mathematics & Statistics 7% $63,895 early-career
• Visual & Performing Arts 4% $47,548 early-career
• Computer Science & IT 4% $131,744 early-career
• English & Literature 3% $35,055 early-career

Early-career median earnings by major (typically 1–2 years after completion, bachelor's level where available), in today's dollars (CPI-adjusted). Source: U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard field of study. Distinct from the school-wide 10-year median; suppressed for small programs.