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What UCLA grads actually do

Based on 488 notable UCLA alumni with Wikipedia pages. Data: Wikidata (CC0).

actor
104
television actor
92
film actor
90
film director
61
screenwriter
54
university teacher
54
film producer
52
writer
49
politician
36
voice actor
28
athletics competitor
20
singer
20

Notable UCLA alumni

Nancy Cartwright
Nancy Cartwright
voice actor · actor
Darren Star
Darren Star
film producer · showrunner
Quinn Cummings
Quinn Cummings
film actor · actor
Robert Bruce Merrifield
Robert Bruce Merrifield
chemist · biochemist
Anne Ramsay
Anne Ramsay
film actor · actor
Dax Shepard
Dax Shepard
film actor · actor
Barbara Hammer
Barbara Hammer
film editor · video artist
Elaine Youngs
Elaine Youngs
volleyball player · beach volleyball player

Salary outlook for top UCLA career paths

National median annual wage (BLS Occupational Employment Statistics).

film director
10th–90th percentile: $42,040$174,540
$82,510
median / yr
writer
10th–90th percentile: $40,900$148,240
$73,690
median / yr
politician
10th–90th percentile: $21,010$129,510
$47,290
median / yr

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About UCLA

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 10-campus University of California system after the University of California, Berkeley. UCLA offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a range of disciplines, enrolling about 31,600 undergraduate and 14,300 graduate and professional students annually. It received 174,914 undergraduate applications for Fall 2022, including transfers, the most of any university in the United States. The university is organized into the College of Letters and Science and twelve professional schools. Six of the schools offer undergraduate degree programs: Arts and Architecture, Engineering and Applied Science, Music, Nursing, Public Affairs, and Theater, Film and Television. Three others are graduate-level professional health science schools: Medicine, Dentistry, and Public Health. Its three remaining schools are Education & Information Studies, Management and Law. UCLA student-athletes compete as the Bruins in the Big Ten Conference. They won 126 NCAA team championships while in the Big Ten and the Pac-12 Conference, second only to Stanford University's 128 team titles. 436 Bruins have made Olympic teams, winning 284 Olympic medals: 141 gold, 74 silver and 69 bronze. UCLA has been represented in every Olympics since the university's founding (except in 1924) and has had a gold medalist in every Olympics in which the U.S. has participated since 1932. As of October 2025, 19 Nobel laureates, 11 Rhodes scholars, 10 astronauts, 3 Turing Award winners, 2 Chief Scientists of the U.S. Air Force, 1 Pritzker Prize winner, 7 Pulitzer Prize winners, 2 U.S. Poet laureates, 1 Gauss prize winner, and 1 Fields Medalist have been affiliated with it as faculty, researchers and alumni. As of April 2025, 61 associated faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 17 to the American Philosophical Society, 34 to the National Academy of Engineering, 49 to the National Academy of Medicine, 29 to the National Academy of Inventors, and 71 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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