The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as the southern branch of the California State Normal School, which is now San José State University. The campus was transferred to the University of California to become its southern branch in 1919, making it the second-oldest of the 10-campus University of California system after the University of California, Berkeley. It officially became independent from Berkeley on June 14, 1951 and set the precedent to further strip CAL's administrative oversight over University of California, Davis, University of California, Riverside, University of California, San Diego, and University of California, San Francisco.