UCLA

About UCLA

The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1919 as the Southern Branch of the University of California, UCLA has grown into one of the most respected public universities in the United States, consistently ranked among the top public institutions in the world.

UCLA enrolls more than 46,000 students across 13 academic divisions, including the College of Letters and Science, the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the School of Theater, Film and Television. The university operates more than 300 research centers and institutes and receives over $1 billion in research funding annually.

Journalism, Communications & Political Science

UCLA’s Department of Communication and its Political Science program are among the most rigorous in the UC system. Political Science graduates have gone on to careers in federal policy, investigative reporting, and public affairs, drawing on a curriculum that emphasizes legal reasoning, government structure, and empirical research methods.

The department’s focus on document-based research and primary source analysis directly informs the kind of policy journalism practiced at publications like ObjectWire, where reporters use court filings, agency records, and congressional documents as the foundation of every story.

ObjectWire Alumni

Tina Boyle, ObjectWire’s Investigations Reporter, graduated from UCLA with a degree in Political Science. Boyle covers federal environmental law, national security policy, and the Trump administration from Washington, D.C. Her document-first reporting style reflects the analytical framework developed in UCLA’s Political Science program.