UCLA School of Nursing

UCLA School of Nursing
MottoNursing Reimagined. Nursing Redefined.
TypePublic
Established1949[1]
Parent institution
University of California, Los Angeles
DeanLin Zhan, PhD, RN, FAAN
Location
Los Angeles
,
California
,
United States
Websitewww.nursing.ucla.edu

The UCLA School of Nursing is a nursing school affiliated with UCLA, and is located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The school is housed in the Doris and Louis Factor Health Sciences Building, known as the Factor Building, on the south end of UCLA's 400-plus-acre campus, adjacent to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

The school is consistently named to U.S. News & World Report's Top Nursing Schools list, ranking the master's program 16th[2] and the baccalaureate program among the top 10 in 2021-22. It is also one of the country's highest research-funded schools, ranking in the top 20 among nursing schools in grant funding from the National Institute of Health.[3]

The UCLA School Nursing is located in the Factor Building at 700 Tiverton Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90005, on campus near the hospital and school of medicine. The building opened April 9, 1981. (photo: R.Kanoff)
  1. ^ "History of the School".
  2. ^ "U.S. News Best Grad School Rankings: Best Nursing Schools: Masters, ranked in 2022".
  3. ^ "Ranking Tables of National Institutes of Health (NIH) Award Data 2017". www.brimr.org.