The Los Angeles Unified School District, second largest in the United States behind New York City, enrolled 633,000 students in the mid-1990s. The student body is diverse, with students attending from almost all the major countries in the world. The school district is run by a seven-member school board.
An impressive number of institutions of higher education are found in and around Los Angeles. Most prominent is the Los Angeles campus of the University of California (UCLA), founded in 1919. Other state-supported schools include the California State University System with campuses at Los Angeles (1947), Northridge (1958), Long Beach (1949), and Fullerton (1957). The many privately supported institutions in the area include the University of Southern California at Los Angeles (1879); California Institute of Technology (1891), in Pasadena; Loyola Marymount University (1914), in Westchester; Pepperdine University (1937), in Malibu; Whittier College (1887), in Whittier; Occidental College (1887); and the several colleges constituting the Claremont Colleges at Claremont, the first of which was founded in 1887. There are numerous other colleges, universities, professional schools, and junior colleges.
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