Living

The move to a new city, especially one as large and diverse as Los Angeles, can be daunting. Below are resources to prepare you for that undertaking.

Finding Housing in LA

Below are the names of the most common neighborhoods where graduate students live:

• Westwood

• Culver City

• West LA (Palms, Mar Vista, Rancho Park, Westchester, etc.)

• Mid-City

• Santa Monica

• Venice

• Silverlake

• Koreatown

• Downtown LA

UCLA's Community Housing Office (CHO) provides non-university owned rental listings and rental resources to the entire UCLA community. The office maintains a database of rental listings which includes shared and vacant apartments, rooms in private homes, studio apartments, guest houses and short-term sublets. Full-time UCLA students may search listings for free. For more information about their services, please see CHO's website.

UCLA Housing

UCLA Housing is on a first come, first serve basis. More information about housing is available on the UCLA Housing website.

Getting to UCLA

While driving is always an option, Campus Shuttles are available, and three major bus lines have stops at UCLA. More information for:

• Driving/Parking

  • Student permit rates

• Campus Shuttles

  • Some off-campus UCLA apartments are serviced

• Public Transit: UCLA Transportation's Public Transit page

  • Metro lines 2, 302, and 761 serve campus, or transfer from other Metro bus lines. Metro buses are orange, and rapid lines are red.

  • Santa Monica Big Blue Bus lines 1, 2, 3, 8 and 12 bring you to campus, or transfer from other lines, Santa Monica buses are blue.

  • Culver City Bus line 6 brings you directly to campus, or transfer from Lines 1-5. Culver City Buses are green.

  • Bicycling to UCLA

  • Walking

  • Vanpool Program

Exploring around UCLA

UCLA is nestled in Westwood Village and is Los Angeles' premiere village centre - centrally located in the heart of Los Angeles, serving the neighborhoods of Bel Air, Holmby Hills, Wilshire Corridor, Brentwood, Pacific Palisades, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood and Santa Monica.

Experience Los Angeles

For non-LA natives, this guide provides information on what Los Angeles has to offer. Discover hot destinations and attend great events around the city.

Arts, Culture, & Attractions

Some of the world’s best-known museums, landmarks and attractions call Los Angeles home. In fact our city has more museums and theatres than any other city in the U.S. (105 museums and 225 theaters) including The Getty, LACMA and MOCA. As far as attractions and landmarks go, we proudly boast of the Hollywood sign, Griffith Observatory, Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Space Shuttle Endeavour at the California Science Center, Air Force One at the Ronald Reagan Library and Universal Studios – just to name a few.