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Eighty-four percent of the students in the program are women.

This includes students pursuing their bachelor’s degree, two types of master’s degrees and two different doctorates. UCLA’s nursing school had 604 total students at the start of the 2019-2020 school year. Most nursing programs across the country have small cohorts – usually around 22 to 60 students per program – and low acceptance rates, Espinosa said. In 2017-2018, 95% of UCLA nursing students passed the NCLEX. “So you want to make sure that you’re not going to accidentally kill anyone.” “They obviously want to put their time into making sure that you learn everything properly, because obviously, you’re going into a field where you’re going to be treating human beings,” Espinosa said. Nursing is probably more rigorous because at the end of the program, nursing students will take the National Council Licensure Examination and become registered to work as nurses immediately, said Valerie Espinosa, a third-year nursing student and president of the Nursing Students at UCLA.

Although around 3,000 people applied for a spot this year, the university only admitted 51 freshmen and 11 transfers. The nursing program has an acceptance rate of 2% for incoming freshmen. Here’s a look at three of UCLA’s most selective schools: the School of Nursing, Samueli School of Engineering and the School of Theater, Film and Television. UCLA is already a competitive university, with a first-year acceptance rate of 14% in 2018 – the same as Cornell’s that year.įor students applying to programs outside the College of Letters and Science, however, the bar can be even higher.