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Planning a Campus Tour at UCLA

Thank you for your interest in visiting UCLA! We are excited to welcome you and your guests to campus to learn more about the Bruin experience first hand. If you would like to visit , be sure to reserve your spot on a campus tour! We encourage you to plan your visit early since our tours quickly fill up with visitors from across California, the United States, and the world. The tours reservation system will open dates four months in advance. 

Please ensure you are arriving at the tour date and time for which you have reserved. Note: We will not be able to accommodate groups who arrive for a different date and/or time than the one specified in their reservation. We do not offer a waitlist for campus tours nor will we be able to accommodate guests without a reservation. Guests without a reservation may still receive the UCLA self-guided tour map and other suggestions for learning more about our campus from a staff member at check-in and speak with them regarding any questions about the campus as well.

What kind of tour do I sign up for?

There are a few different options to choose from as you explore our Campus Tours website: 

• “Individual Tours” for parties  of 1-6 people which must be reserved online through our website. We encourage you to visit if you are a prospective freshman (from high school) or transfer (from another college/university) applicant. If you would like to make a reservation for 7 or more guests in your party, please contact our Tour Coordinators at (310) 825-8764 Tours are generally offered on all weekdays and Saturdays. Special accommodations (American Sign Language interpreter, wheelchair, no steps tour route) can be provided and you can request these with your reservation. These requests need to be made 2 weeks in advance. 
• “Group Tours” for high schools, community colleges, and community based groups where we can accommodate groups of 10-100 .
•   “Cub Tours” for groups of students in Kindergarten through 8th grade. 

What do I do if the tours are full?

We cannot accommodate guests who do not have a reservation. If a tour is full, we encourage you to continue to check the reservation site as registered guests may cancel and this will open up spots allowing you to make a reservation. If the tour is full and you would still like to visit campus, there is a self-guided tour map available.  This will allow you to go at your own pace, to explore parts of campus you’re most interested in, and to visit the Hill, our residential community, which is not included on the official tour. We also encourage you to visit Undergraduate Admission located at 1147 Murphy Hall where you can speak with an admission advisor and pick up copies of all of our publications. Undergraduate Admission is open Monday through Friday from 8am to 5pm. 

I can’t travel to Los Angeles. How do I still explore UCLA?

If you are unable to visit us in person, we encourage you to explore our virtual tour . We will also frequently utilize our social media accounts to provide information on our campus and the application process throughout the year! Be sure to sign up for Get Connected , so you can be aware of any Facebook live events, webinars, or any additional events near where you may live! Please note, that demonstrated interest is not a factor within our review process. This means that if you are able to visit and meet with us or not, your application will not be impacted in any way. We encourage you to utilize our publication library and the resources linked above to best suit your schedule, interests, and questions! 

What else can I explore on campus?

There are many additional ways to explore our campus community! To see our residential communities, sign up for the on-campus housing tour . For students interested in one of our specialty schools (Arts and Architecture, Music, Theater, Film and Television, Nursing, or Engineering), book one of our specialty school tours and information sessions .   During the academic year, you can also experience our academic community first-hand  by sitting in on a class from the approved list of courses for our lecture series .

I’m registered for a tour: what do I do the day of my reservation?

Upon arriving to campus, please proceed to the parking kiosk located at Westwood Plaza and Strathmore Place. A parking attendant will direct you to the nearest available parking structure. Please note, parking for the day is $13. 

For registered guests, you will begin your tour in the Bruin Viewpoint Lounge in Ackerman Student Union . This building is located in Bruin Plaza with some close landmarks including the Luskin Conference Center and the Bruin Bear (great for photos if you arrive early!). You will go to the A Level of Ackerman (above the UCLA Store) and a sign will direct you to where you may check-in. We are located across from the Bruin Pharmacy and next to the Photo Center.

Your campus visit will last approximately two hours, including a 30-minute admission presentation and 90-minute walking tour, guided by a current undergraduate student. The tour includes hills and stairs so comfortable shoes are highly encouraged. Please allow ample time for Los Angeles traffic and parking to arrive at the time specified with your tour confirmation. For more assistance, including visuals on where to park and check-in for your tour, view our Campus Tour highlight on our Instagram !

We hope you are excited to visit our campus! We look forward to welcoming you to campus and answering your questions regarding academic programs, resources, student life, and admissions!

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Campus Tours & Visits

The historic and architecturally-significant campus buildings are an attraction all their own. Every year, the university hosts campus tours for new and prospective students and families. Guests can set their own pace with self-guided tours of the beautifully landscaped grounds, including the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden and Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden.

Campus Tours

The university is pleased to offer individual tours for prospective students and parents as well as group tours for high school and community college students and community organizations.

Strolling the grounds and visiting campus landmarks is the ideal way to immerse oneself in UCLA’s tradition of academic excellence and see our vibrant community. We invite you to stay with us at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center when visiting for a campus tour.

Gardens of UCLA

The tranquil seven-acre Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden is located on the southeast corner of campus. The “living museum” is home to more than 5,000 species of tropical and subtropical plants from around the world. The garden features collections of Malaysian rhododendrons, the lily alliance, bromeliads, cycads, ferns and native Hawaiian plants. You may take a docent guided tour or enjoy the environs on your own.

UCLA is also the site of one of the most lauded outdoor sculpture collections in the country, the tranquil Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden . Featuring 70 sculptures and spanning more than five acres on the northeast corner of campus. The collection highlights the role of the arts at UCLA.

Visit the Front Desk at the Luskin Conference Center for a garden tours brochure.

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Visiting the UCLA campus will indeed be an exciting and informative experience for you! The first step in planning your campus visit is to go to UCLA's official website. From there, you can navigate to the section for "Campus Tours." They usually offer both virtual and in-person visits, but be sure to check their updated COVID-19 policies to see the status of in-person tours.

In-person tours can give a comprehensive view of the campus and its facilities, from academic buildings to student housing. You can also have a chance to interact with current students or representatives who can share firsthand experiences about the school.

Virtual tours are also valuable, especially if you can't visit the UCLA campus in person due to geographical or time constraints. They typically provide an interactive online exploration of the campus with images or videos.

In terms of the visit itself, some people recommend attending during the week when classes are in session. This way, you get to see the campus in full swing. You can also sit in a class if it's allowed which could give you a real feel of the academic environment.

Lastly, make sure to allot time to explore the larger Los Angeles area. UCLA's location offers a variety of opportunities and activities to engage in. This can help you see if the surrounding community is a right fit for you too.

Remember to write down any questions you may have prior to the visit. From academics to student culture, don't hesitate to seek answers to any of your queries.

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Visit Campus

We are pleased to offer law school tours and class visits for interested prospective students to learn more about UCLA Law. Law school tours are offered year-round and class visits are offered each fall and spring semester, excluding holidays or campus breaks. Both tours and class visits can be experienced either in person or virtually. Please see below for more information. Our office is available via email ( [email protected] ) or by phone (310-825-2080) should you have any questions or need any assistance.

Please note, in-person opportunities will be available to prospective students subject to COVID-19 related requirements stated at the bottom of this page.

Law School Tours

Whether you attend in person or virtually, tours allow you to see the full range of what we offer and give you an opportunity to ask questions about the school from current students and/or admissions counselors. Tours generally run from approximately 45 minutes to one hour.

Fall 2024 Schedule (beginning September)

In Person Mondays and Fridays at 12:15 pm Pacific Time

Virtual Wednesdays at 12:00 pm Pacific Time

To sign up for a tour, please click here . Please contact [email protected] if you would like to sign up for a tour during the week of August 26 - August 30. Please also note September 4 and September 6 tours will start at 10:30 am Pacific Time.   

Class Visits

Experience UCLA Law from the perspective of a current student, whether you visit a class in person or observe virtually via livestream. Prospective students may attend up to one session of each course option.

In Person Mondays: Civil Procedure from 10:45 am -12:00 pm Pacific Time

Fridays: Contracts from 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm Pacific Time

If you try to sign up for a class but find that it is full, please contact us at [email protected] .

Virtual Wednesdays: Wills and Trusts from 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm Pacific Time

To sign up for a class visit, please click here .

COVID-19 REQUIREMENTS FOR IN-PERSON VISITORS TO THE LAW SCHOOL

Attendees must comply with all UCLA COVID-19 safety protocols. Please see below for the most recent requirements.  

COVID-19 Symptom Self-Screening Individuals are asked to self-screen for COVID-19 symptoms and not come to campus if symptoms are present.

Face Coverings/Masks Universal indoor masking is strongly encouraged but not required. Outdoor masking is also optional.

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Things You Need to Know Before a UCLA Campus Tour

For those who want to experience Bruin first-hand, the UCLA Undergraduate Admissions office suggests making your reservations as early as you can. These tours fill up quickly with visitors from all over California, US, and the rest of the world.

The UCLA campus tour reservation system has open tour dates for four months in advance.

What campus tour should you sign up for?

There are three kinds of campus tours offered by UCLA, and they are the following:

• Individual Campus Tour: This is ideal for 1-2 persons or a group of 3 to 6 people. To sign up for this tour, you must reserve your spot online through the UCLA website. This is best for incoming first-year students or transfer applicants. To make a reservation for a group of 7 or more people, you can coordinate with the Tour Coordinators. You can reach them at (310) 825-8764. UCLA campus tour is offered from Mondays to Saturdays. If you want to request a no-step tour route, a wheelchair, or sign language interpreter, you can make a written request two weeks before your scheduled tour.
• Group Campus Tours: This is for community-based organizations, community colleges, and high schools, and can accommodate 10 to 100 people per group.
• Cub Campus Tours: This tour is for kindergarten through 8th-grade students.

How long will the tour take and what areas will be visited?

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• North, South, and Central Major Campus Points

This self-guided tour map will give you a better idea of the places and campus points that you will visit during the tour.

Aside from the campus tour, how else can you explore the UCLA community?

There are other ways to explore and get to know the UCLA community. If you want to visit the residential districts, you can sign up for an on-campus house tour. If you’re interested in specialty schools like Engineering, Nursing, Film and TV, Theater, Music, Architecture, and the Arts, you can also sign up for UCLA’s Specialty School information sessions and tours.

If you can’t sign up for these tours, you can still experience the UCLA community by sitting in a class of UCLA’s approved lecture series. Of course, this can only be done during the academic year where regular classes are held.

What should you do on the day of the tour?

The moment you arrive on campus, directly proceed to Strathmore Place and Westwood Plaza parking kiosk. The parking attendant will assist you in finding the nearest open parking space. The parking fee for the entire day is $13.

Your tour will commence at the Ackerman Student Union’s Bruin Viewpoint Lounge. This is located in the Bruin Plaza, with the Bruin Bear and Luskin Conference Hall as the close landmarks.

Proceed to Level A in Ackerman, and you’ll see a sign directing you to where you can check-in. Note that Level A is directly above the UCLA store. UCLA Undergraduate Admissions is located next to the UCLA Photo Center, across the Bruin Pharmacy.

To give you a better idea of what to expect during a UCLA campus tour, check out videos posted by students and campus visitors at Campus Reel.

Please share your best tips for an UCLA Campus Tour in the comments below, on Twitter ,  Facebook   or  Instagram .

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Zev: Legendary L.A. Politico Retires From UCLA Luskin Faculty

Zev: Legendary L.A. Politico Retires From UCLA Luskin Faculty Yaroslavsky used his real-world experience grappling with the region's knottiest problems to teach and mentor UCLA Luskin students

By Jean Merl

On the eve of a Jewish holiday last fall, Zev Yaroslavsky was standing in the front yard of his Los Angeles home when a neighbor he hadn’t seen for a while walked by on his way to the synagogue. The man stopped to greet Yaroslavsky and posed a question that gladdened the former longtime elected official.

“‘Is it my imagination, or has the homeless situation gotten better around here?’” Yaroslavsky recalled the man asking.

“It’s not your imagination,” Yaroslavsky responded, adding details about at least two area homeless encampments that were cleared when their inhabitants had been housed and offered services under Mayor Karen Bass’ Inside Safe program.

“It took time, but they housed them,” Yaroslavsky, 75, said in a far-ranging interview as he prepared to retire this spring from his second career, teaching at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs. “They didn’t just sweep them to another street. They housed them. It’s not easy, but you can do it.”

Yaroslavsky knows his subject. He served nearly four decades as an elected official: on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 to 1994, when he was elected to the county Board of Supervisors. Term limits required him to retire from that post in 2014. Until then, he had wrestled with — and helped shape responses to — nearly every major issue in the region: health care, land development, open space preservation, police reform, public transportation, cultural development. And homelessness.

Soon after leaving the Board of Supervisors, Yaroslavsky was invited to return to UCLA, where he had earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees before leaving a doctoral program to pursue a calling to social activism and politics. He eschewed a common path for retiring politicians — a corporate position or a lobbying or consulting gig — in favor of joining his alma mater, a public university where he could continue his life of service.

“I wanted to bring a real-world perspective to students,” he said. “And I wanted to learn from them.”

From elected office to academia

Yaroslavsky’s decade at the Luskin School has placed him squarely at the intersection of public policy and academia. He has taught classes on public policy and directed the Los Angeles Initiative, which conducts the Quality of Life Index, an annual survey of county residents’ satisfaction levels in several categories, including housing costs and homelessness.

He has helped steer bright young students into careers in public service, including Assemblyman Isaac Bryan (D-Los Angeles). In the spring of 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 lockdowns, he turned his class into a crash course in crisis management by inviting various public officials to talk — via Zoom — about how they were responding to the pandemic.

Although academics and politicians often don’t speak the same language, Yaroslavsky said it is important that they listen to and learn from one another.

“I do think there is a functional role between academia and government,” he said, noting that think tanks and researchers provide data and reports for policymakers to use in their attempts to find solutions to pressing problems. “It’s important,” he adds, “for academics to understand the pressure politicians are under from constituents and for politicians to know what the facts are.”

Paying attention to the research helps policymakers find solutions and avoid mistakes. “We can’t live without it,” he said.

A history of homelessness

In his role as an academic, Yaroslavsky was one of the authors of a comprehensive study of homelessness in the region, published in 2021 by the Luskin Center for History and Policy. “The Making of a Crisis: A History of Homelessness in Los Angeles” detailed some 120 years of ebbs and flows in the problem, including causes and recommendations.

Earlier, during his time as a county supervisor, Yaroslavsky led an effort to take a comprehensive approach to homelessness, a problem he compares to a Rubik’s Cube — a complicated puzzle that can’t be solved quickly or easily.

In 2007, he spearheaded Project 50, a two-year county pilot project that focused on Skid Row people who were deemed the most vulnerable. The project got them into housing and offered them services to help with the issues that had caused them to be homeless, including addiction and mental health problems. It was based on a successful program in New York City, and it pioneered what is now the standard thinking about ways to combat homelessness — first, provide a home, then address underlying problems to keep people from falling back into life on the streets. The process can be costly and time-consuming, and its success depends in part on removing such stumbling blocks as housing costs, racial discrimination and poor education. But advocates of this approach say the social and financial costs of not solving what has become a crisis are much higher.

For years, Yaroslavsky said, he had behaved like most other politicians. Stay away from homelessness, was the standard political advice, because it’s intractable and costly and you will be branded a failure if your efforts fall short. And it was easier back then to ignore homelessness because it was largely confined to Skid Row and not the crisis that has spread throughout many communities and spilled into pricy, middle-class neighborhoods today.

He said this began to change in 2002, when his daughter, then in graduate school and living in the Bay Area, urged him to pay attention to the issue. He hired a deputy to work on homelessness in 2005. She told him about a pioneering “housing first” program in New York City. On a visit there to attend his son’s law school graduation in 2007, Yaroslavsky toured the program, Common Ground, based in the converted Times Square Hotel, and met with its founder. He pushed for something similar in Los Angeles.

Project 50 worked well for a time. Clients stayed housed and accepted support services, and budget officials found the costs were more than made up by the savings in emergency room visits, arrests and other consequences of life on the streets. A county analysis showed the program cost $2.2 million but saved $2.4 million. As the pilot program was nearing its end in 2009, Yaroslavsky proposed extending and expanding it to 500, then to 5,000, taking it countywide. But he couldn’t get a second from any of the other four supervisors. Yaroslavsky put smaller projects based on the Project 50 model into his own district, but the countywide version died.

Since then, homelessness has exploded into a region-wide crisis that no longer can be ignored, Yaroslavsky said, lamenting that the failure to expand Project 50 in 2009 “basically cost us almost a decade” in solving the problem.

In 2016, voters in the city of Los Angeles approved Proposition HHH, a $1.2 billion bond measure for permanent supportive housing, and the following year, county voters approved Measure H, which enacted a 1⁄4-cent increase on the sales tax for 10 years to alleviate homelessness. Bass won the mayor’s office in November 2022 after a campaign that centered around combating homelessness. Her first official act was to declare a state of emergency because of homelessness. County supervisors followed suit a month later.

Reflections on service and politics

Yaroslavsky, in his 2023 memoir, “Zev’s Los Angeles: From Boyle Heights to the Halls of Power,” called homelessness “the moral challenge of our time” and outlined ways to meet it. His experiences naturally have informed his views on Bass’ attempts. He gives her high marks while acknowledging there is still a long way to go. Other circumstances, ranging from income disparity to the lack of an elected executive in the power-diffused county, also pose considerable obstacles, he added.

A Los Angeles Times analysis of Bass’ program late last year found significant progress in her goal to find shelter for those living on the streets and clear the encampments that had sprung up along public rights of way. But the campaign to find or build permanent affordable housing remained a tough challenge. Bass called improving the system of support services, including substance addiction treatment, a “top, top issue” as the program headed into its second year.

Yaroslavsky praised Bass for her comprehensive approach and willingness to put herself in charge of the program and accept responsibility for it.

“I’m a cheerleader for her,” Yaroslavsky said. “I think she’s doing the right thing.”

But he’s realistic, too. “I’ve said from the start that [homelessness] was not created overnight and it’s not going to be solved overnight. But she’s making progress, and she has created a sense of possibility and is publicly committed to solving the problem.”

Bass also is well suited to the task because of her collaborative manner and her background as a physician’s assistant and community activist before being elected to the state Assembly and then Congress, Yaroslavsky said. He also touted her commitment to Los Angeles.

“She has made it clear she is not interested” in running for another office and probably has eight years to work on the issue, said Yaroslavsky, who expects Bass will serve a second term.

But one of the toughest obstacles to overcoming the problem is an acute shortage of affordable housing.

Increasingly, people are at risk of falling into homelessness, not because they are drug or alcohol abusers or mentally ill, but because they can no longer afford their rent on the wages they earn, Yaroslavsky said. Remedying that will take government intervention, including but not limited to housing subsidies, so that “the people who provide the backbone of the labor market here can afford to live here and not be forced out onto the street” where they eventually develop other problems.

“There’s a structural inequity in our housing economy that creates this homelessness problem,” Yaroslavsky said, “and we’ve got to deal with it.”

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