Clubs for graduate and professional students at UCLA

Most club advice at UCLA is written for first-year undergraduates. Graduate and professional students join groups too, but theirs are organized differently: around a school or program, run on that school's calendar, and often not listed in the university-wide registry at all. This directory has 388 groups for graduate or professional students only, and 588 more that take undergraduates and graduate students alike.

School clubs

Professional schools keep their own lists of student organizations, separate from UCLA's central registry. This directory brings in 143 of them, most for that school's students.

Anderson's list covers professional associations for consulting, investment finance, tech, entertainment and real estate, identity and affinity groups, and sports and hobby clubs. Dentistry's list mixes specialty study clubs (orthodontics, endodontics, oral surgery) with outreach programs and cultural associations. The medical school's are mostly specialty interest groups, from family medicine to interventional radiology, plus service projects. Luskin's list is mostly caucuses: groups organized around a shared identity, area of practice or cause.

School clubs follow their own school's calendar rather than the undergraduate one. The school's club page is the quickest way to the current officers.

Registered graduate organizations

252 groups in UCLA's central registry are for graduate students only. Many serve the professional schools: 59 in law, most of them at the School of Law, including its journals and practice-area societies, and 73 in medicine and dentistry. The rest include identity and cultural associations, academic and research groups, and departmental associations.

A few law school examples:

• Business Law AssociationOur goal is to bring together students and faculty from different UCLA Law Departments to provide students with greater insight into…Grad students
• Law and Entrepreneurship AssociationThe Law and Entrepreneurship Association ("LEA") promotes education, discussion, and career development for students interested in the…Grad students
• AI Law AssociationA UCLA School of Law student organization founded in 2023 focused on the intersection of AI and law. It hosts panels, speaker series…Grad students
• Fashion and Beauty Law Association at UCLA, TheNearly every person in the world wears clothing, and each piece of clothing has an impact. The Fashion and Beauty Law Association aims to…Grad students

Graduate student government

The Graduate Students Association is UCLA's graduate and professional student government, founded in 1936. Elected officers and a Forum of delegates from its academic councils approve budgets and organize social, academic and community programs for graduate students. The Forum meets every other Thursday at 5:30 pm in the Bruin Viewpoint Room on Ackerman Union's A-level, and graduate students can attend, subscribe to the newsletter or join a committee. Its councils are made up of representatives of departmental graduate student associations, like the ones psychology and political science students run.

Clubs that take everyone

Nothing stops a graduate student from joining an open undergraduate club, and 588 groups explicitly welcome both. The club Swim team says undergraduate and graduate students are welcome, and UCLA Symphony is open to graduate students, faculty and staff.

The directory's Grad students filter shows everything open to you, graduate-only or mixed.