University of California - Los Angeles Rankings by Salary Score

Terrible experience for my first graduate program in this country. I am an international student and this school left me with bad taste. I was looked down upon by both students and program staff for my language fluency and my job. Professors are overrated. Every professor has their own personal agenda and is there to look for their own career. Some professors are flirty. Beautiful people get an easy pass and more marketing and personal branding opportunities. The staff lack ethics and integrity. Shameful for... Read More a public school! They teach topics that are of no use to the real tech. world. We are students trying to make a break into our careers and the MBA program does not give us the necessary tools for us to go into the world with confidence. There is no career help or guidance too. Once we graduate, professors and alum staff drop us like hot potatoes, which says a lot about the culture. If a student speaks up, they get targeted and the door is shut on their faces - meaning, they will not get any more help, guidance from the over-rated professors, who think they are Gods. Please ask the alums. Go to a private university like USC. You will be treated better.

My experience at UCLA was nothing but positive. I loved everything about it: the culture, the location in the center of Los Angeles, the beauty of the campus, the people, and the high quality education. I majored in mechanical engineering. I was tough! This is not a school or a program for those looking to cruise through school. You need to work hard your entire time you are there. UCLA was on the quarter system. The great part of this system is the variety of classes you took. Every year, you had three sets... Read More of classes not just two as with a traditional semester system. The downside of this system was that you constantly felt like you were studying for a test. With each quarter only 10 weeks long, your first midterms could be as early as three weeks after classes started. UCLA is a very large school. My number one piece of advice is to make it small. Join a club, go to sporting events, generally just find people you enjoy being around. For me, my outlet was a student engineering project organization. This program became a second educator for me. Supplementing my intense theoretical studies in engineering school, was the Society of Automotive Engineering and their Mini-Baja project. I learned real world applications for all the theory I was learning in class. I learned how to machine, how to weld, practical applications of stress analysis and most importantly how to work in an engineering team, a skill critical to success in a professional environment. Leadership and teamwork is critical to success outside of a school environment and the combination of in-class theory and practical training through engineering projects has helped me to become the successful professional I am today.