UCLA or UCSD for Computer Science?
iamelgringo: I lived in LA for 2 years, and attended meetings for the LA chapter of ACM Siggraph.  They really have some kick ass presentations in graphics.  When I was there, pretty much every month, there were VFX supervisors talking about the effects done on a movie that was just released.It's a great resource if you want to learn about graphics, and cutting edge parallel processing environments (huge render farms).  There's a lot of great graphics/CS work that's done in LA.  If that's the route you're interested in going in, it's a great option.It was those meetings + Hackers and Painters that got me to switch from being a design/animation geek to studying software engineering.