The University of California, Los Angeles ( University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) was founded in 1919 and is the second university in the University of California system. It is located in Westwood, Los Angeles, and is a comprehensive public university. UCLA offers a wide range of majors, with degrees in over 330 different disciplines. It is ranked 23rd in the 2014 USNEWS rankings of comprehensive universities in the United States, alongside, and.