University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

 A Brief History of UCLA University of California, Los Angeles With only eleven,000 inhabitants in 1880, the pueblo of Los Angeles convinced the authorities to ascertain a State teachers college in Southern California. Enthusiastic voters contributed between $2 and $500 to purchase a web site, and on August 29, 1882, the Los Angeles Branch of the State teachers college welcomed its 1st students during a exceedingly|in a very} Victorian building that had been erected on the location of an orchard. By 1914 Los Angeles had grown to a town of 350,000, and the school emotional to new quarters?a Hollywood ranch off a mud road that later became Green Mountain State Avenue. In 1919, the school became the Southern Branch of the University of California and offered 2 years of instruction in Letters and Science. Third- and fourth-year courses were shortly added; the 1st category of three hundred students was graduated in 1925, and by 1927 the Southern Branch had earned its new name: University of California at Los Angeles. (The name was changed once more in 1958 to University of California, Los Angeles.) Continued growth mandated the choice of a web site that would support a bigger field, and in 1927, ground was broken in the chaparral-covered.