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The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) traces back to the 19th century when the institution operated as a teachers' college. It grew in size and scope for nearly four decades on two Los Angeles campuses before California governor William D. Stephens signed a bill into law in 1919 to establish the Southern Branch of the University of ...
The Southern Branch campus opened on September 15 of that year, offering two-year undergraduate programs to 250 Junior College students and 1,250 students in the Teachers College.
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In 1929, 10 years after the Southern Branch of the University of California at Los Angeles opened its gates, 5,000 students started classes at the Westwood campus. As Moore had predicted in the 1919 yearbook, the school’s development had exceeded imagination.
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In 1880—with just 11,000 inhabitants—the pueblo of Los Angeles convinced the state government to establish a normal school (teachers college) in Southern California.
The following is an abbreviated timeline of UCLA history and does not include, for example, the series of events that led to the campus' founding in 1919, or myriad developments that helped shape UCLA's course over the years.
May 21, 2019 · Ernest Carroll Moore was the president of the Los Angeles State Normal School, the state’s largest training school for teachers. Dickson had been a student of Moore’s years earlier at Berkeley. Their dreams for the future aligned: growing Southern California needed a state university.
The UCLA School of Law opened in 1949 in former military barracks behind Royce Hall, becoming the first public law school in Southern California. UCLA Law soon became the youngest top-ranked law school in the United States.
