About Bruin Clubs
Every student group at UCLA you can join, in one searchable place, with notes on how each one takes new members.
Who runs it
Bruin Clubs is built and run by Daniel Bae, a computer science student at UCLA, as an independent project. It is not run, endorsed or checked by UCLA, and it does not speak for any club. Corrections and questions go through the contact page, or to danielbae@ucla.edu.
What's in here
- Registered organizations
- 1,614: every entry in UCLA SOLE's Registered Campus Organization directory. Two UCLA test records are left out.
- School clubs
- 143 clubs that professional schools and departments list on their own sites but that aren't in the central registry: Anderson, Dentistry, Medicine, Luskin, Education & Information Studies, Nursing, Engineering, Public Health, Arts and more.
- Club sports
- 60 teams from UCLA Recreation.
- Campus ensembles
- 35: the Bruin Marching Band and School of Music ensembles open to students outside the major.
- Government & media
- 11: USAC, the Judicial Board, housing councils, Daily Bruin, BruinLife, Nommo and the Spirit Squad.
Where the information comes from
- Names and contacts
- UCLA's registry of student organizations, checked September 23, 2026, plus school club pages and UCLA Recreation.
- Descriptions
- For most clubs with join notes, a profile we wrote in October 2026 from the club's own website, Linktree, Instagram, national organization or press coverage. Otherwise a summary of its website or Instagram. We don't republish text from UCLA's directory or other sites, so clubs we haven't profiled yet show their contacts and join notes only. Each club page says where its description comes from and links the pages a profile was written from.
- How to join
- Researched for each club from its own Instagram, Linktree and website between September 30 and October 2, 2026, and written up here. 1,161 groups have notes specific to them; the rest show the usual process for their kind of group, and say so.
- Guides
- The guides are written for this site from the directory's information and the clubs' own pages. Their counts update with the directory.
730 clubs list a sign-up form and 420 a Discord or group chat. Google Forms that stopped taking responses, expired Discord invites and sign-ups with past deadlines were left out, and websites that failed twice were removed or replaced with the school's listing page.
Club officers can update their own listing with the "Run this club? Update its listing" link on its page. Updates are checked against the club's own public pages before they go in, and the page then shows the date.
Known gaps
- Some registered organizations have no description anywhere public. Their pages still show category, email and Instagram, and are kept out of search results until there is more to say.
- Links change fast at the start of the year: forms close and invites expire. If one no longer works, the club's Instagram bio usually has the new one, and the "Suggest an edit" link on its page tells us.
- Registration renews every fall. 2026–27 re-registration closed October 9, 2026, and organizations that didn't re-register lose their status October 31. The directory is refreshed after that.
- Student media, residence councils and department programs that aren't in the registry may be missing. Tell us and we'll add them.
Not an official UCLA site
For anything official, UCLA's own organization search is the tiebreaker.