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UCLA
UCLA has grown from a small teacher's college founded in 1919 into one of the largest and most selective research universities in the country, now receiving well over 100,000 undergraduate applications a year, among the highest application volumes of any university in the United States. The school's athletic program has won more NCAA championships than nearly any other university, and its men's basketball program's run under coach John Wooden in the 1960s and '70s — 10 NCAA titles in 12 years, including a stretch of seven straight — remains one of the most dominant runs by any team in any American college sport. UCLA's film school and its location in Los Angeles have made it one of the primary academic pipelines into the entertainment industry, producing a long list of prominent directors, screenwriters, and studio executives, giving the university a direct institutional connection to Hollywood that few other schools can claim. As part of the University of California system, UCLA combines a large, comprehensive research university's breadth — strong programs across medicine, engineering, business, and the arts — with in-state tuition well below comparable private universities, a combination that's made it one of the most heavily applied-to schools in the country.
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UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley, founded in 1868, is the flagship and oldest campus of the University of California system, and its public-university research output — measured by faculty Nobel Prizes, National Academy memberships, and federal research funding — consistently rivals that of far more expensive private institutions, at a fraction of the tuition cost for California residents. The campus was the epicenter of the Free Speech Movement in 1964, when student protests over political activity restrictions on campus helped launch a wave of student activism that spread to universities across the country, cementing Berkeley's reputation as one of the most politically engaged campuses in the nation. Berkeley's engineering and computer science programs have produced a disproportionate share of Silicon Valley's founders and early employees, and the campus's role in developing early internet infrastructure and open-source software — including the Berkeley Software Distribution version of Unix — gave it outsized influence on the technology industry's technical foundations. As a public university serving a large, socioeconomically diverse student body far larger than most elite private schools, Berkeley's combination of research-university firepower and broad public accessibility is central to why it's consistently ranked as the top public university in the country.
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