The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California.
UCLA performs well in all of the national and international rankings of public and private universities, including the most widely known list published by U.S. News & World Report. UCLA is the No. 1 public university, and is ranked 20th among all national universities in the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings. The U.S. News & World Report rankings, despite their popularity, tell only part of the story. They place more emphasis on factors that tend to favor private universitiesUCLA ranked 9th out of 100 universities in the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings.