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Southern California University ( USC or SC ) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1880, it is the oldest private research university in California. USC has educated historically a large number of business and professional leaders in the country. The University has also used its location in Los Angeles to establish links with research and cultural institutions throughout Asia and the Pacific Rim. As an engine for economic activity, USC contributes US $ 8 billion annually to the economies of the Los Angeles and California metropolitan areas.

For the academic year 2017-18, there are 19,170 students enrolled in the four-year undergraduate program. USC also has 26,517 graduates and professional students in a number of different programs, including business, law, engineering, social work, and medicine. The University is one of the best fundraising agencies in the world, consistently ranked in the top three in external contributions and tribal alumni.

USC is one of the earliest nodes in the ARPANET and is the birthplace of the Domain Name System. Other technologies found in USC include DNA computing, dynamic programming, image compression, VoIP, and antivirus software.

USC maintains a strong tradition of innovation and entrepreneurship, with alumni with established companies like Lucasfilm, Myspace, Salesforce.com, Intuit, Qualcomm, Box, Tinder and Riot Games. By 2017, the university has produced the fourth largest number of alumni of alumni from all university institutions in the world.

USC sponsors various inter-college sports and competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as a member of the Pac-12 Conference. Sports team members, Trojans, have won 104 NCAA teams, ranked third in the US, and 399 individual NCAA championships, second in the US. Trojan athletes have won 288 medals at the Olympics (135 gold, 88 silver and 65 bronze), more than any other university in the United States. If USC is a country, its athletes will collectively receive the 12th Olympic gold medal in history, by 2016. In 1969, he joined the Association of American Universities.

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The University of Southern California was founded following the efforts of Judge Robert M. Widney, who helped secure the donations of several key figures in Los Angeles's early history: a Protestant nursery, Ozro Childs, former Irish governor John Gately Downey and German Jewish banker Isaias W. Hellman. All three donated 308 lots of land to establish campuses and provided seed money needed for the construction of the first buildings. Originally operated in affiliation with the Methodist Church, the school mandated from the beginning that "no students will be denied entry because of race." The university was no longer affiliated with any church, having cut off formal ties in 1952.

When USC opened in 1880, tuition was $ 15.00 per semester and students were not allowed to leave town without the knowledge and consent of the university president. The school has 53 students and 10 faculties. The city has no paved roads, electric lights, telephones, and a reliable fire alarm system. The first graduation class in 1884 was third grade - two men and women of Valedictorian Minnie C. Miltimore.

The color of USC is the cardinal and gold, which was approved by the third president of USC, Reverend George W. White, in 1896. In 1958, the color of gold, which was originally more of an orange color, turned into more yellow shade. The letterman award is the first to make a change.

USC students and athletes are known as Trojans, exemplified by the Trojan Temple, nicknamed "Tommy Trojan", near the center of the campus. Until 1912, USC students (especially athletes) were known as Fighting Methodists or Wesleyans, although no names were approved by the university. During the decisive track and field meeting with Stanford University, the USC team was beaten early and seemed to be convincing. After only the first few events, it seems unreasonable USC will ever win; however, the team is fighting back, winning many events in the future, only losing slightly with little. After this contest, the sports writer Owen Bird reported the USC athletes "fought like the Trojans of old," and university president at the time, George F. Bovard, approved the official name.

During World War II, the USC was one of 131 national colleges and universities that took part in the V-12 Naval Training Program that offered students a path to the Navy's commission.

USC is responsible for $ 5 billion in economic output in Los Angeles County; USC students spend $ 503 million annually in the local economy and visitors to campus add another $ 12 million.

On May 1, 2014, the USC was named one of the many higher education institutions investigated by the Office of Civil Rights for potential Title IX offenses by White House Barack Obama's Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assaults. USC is also under investigation of Title IX concurrently for potential anti-men bias in the disciplinary process, as well as denial of counseling resources for male students, on March 8, 2016.

In 2017, the university became the national spotlight when the Los Angeles Times published information about Carmen A. Puliafito, dean of the USC medical school. After the alleged use of drugs, he resigned from his position as dean in 2016 and was fired from school the following year after the news was published. His medical license was then suspended pending the decision whether to stop. The following year, the Los Angeles Times solved another story about USC focusing on George Tyndall, a gynecologist accused of abusing patients at USC. Inside Higher Ed notes that there are "other incidents where the university is considered to have failed to act for violations by the ruling authorities" when reporting that the university president, C. L. Max Nikias, resigned.

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Campus

The University Park campus is located in the University Park Los Angeles district, 2 miles (3.2 km) southwest of Downtown Los Angeles. The campus boundaries are Jefferson Boulevard to the north and northeast, Figueroa Street to the southeast, Exposition Boulevard to the south, and Vermont Avenue to the west. Since the 1960s, through campus vehicle traffic has been severely restricted or completely banned on some highways. The University Park campus is within walking distance to Los Angeles landmarks such as Shrine Auditorium, and Los Angeles Coliseum. Most of the buildings are in the Romanesque Revival style, although some dormitories, engineering buildings, and physics laboratories are various Modernist styles (especially the two large Brutalist dormitories on the north edge of the campus) which are in stark contrast to the dominant red brick campus. Widney Alumni House, built in 1880, is the oldest university building in Southern California. In recent years the campus has been renovated to remove the remnants of old roads and replace them with quads and traditional gardens. The historic section of the main campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places by 2015.

In addition to its main campus at University Park, USC also operates the College of Health Sciences about 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of the city center. In addition, the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles is managed by the USC faculty of the Keck School of Medicine and is often referred to as the third campus of USC. USC also operates the Orange County center in Irvine for business, pharmacy, social work and education; and the Institute of Information Science, with centers in Arlington, Virginia, and Marina del Rey. For his science students, USC operates the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies on Catalina Island just 20 miles (32 km) off the coast of Los Angeles and home to Philip K. Wrigley Marine Science Center.

The School of Policy, Planning, and Development also runs a satellite campus in Sacramento. In 2005, USC established a federal relations office in Washington, D.C. A University of Health Sciences Alhambra organizes Primary Care Doctor Assistant Program, Institute of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research (IPR), and Master of Public Health Program.

USC was developed under two master plans that were compiled and implemented about 40 years apart. The first was prepared by Parkinson in 1920, who guided much of the early construction of the campus and established Romanesque style and 45-degree building orientation.

The second and largest master plan was prepared in 1961 under the supervision of President Norman Topping, director of campus development Anthony Lazzaro, and architect William Pereira. This plan annexed many of the surrounding cities and many older non-university structures within the newly flattened boundaries. Most of the Pereira buildings were built in the 1970s. Pereira maintains red-brick dominated architecture for new buildings, but infused them with their distinctive techno-modernism style. Recently under President CL Max Nikias, the architecture orientation of the campus has moved towards the Gothic Awakening style, taking cues from the inculative and scholastic forces of the University of Oxford and Harvard University, while supporting the USC's own historical identity present in red-brick construction.

The role of USC in making visible and sustainable improvements in the environment around the Park University campus and Health Sciences earned him a difference of College of the Year 2000 by the Time Review/Princeton Review College Guide.

About half of university students volunteer in community service programs around the campus and throughout Los Angeles. This outreach program, as well as previous government commitments to remain in South Los Angeles amid widespread appeal to move campuses after the 1965 unrest, was credited for university safety during the 1992 Los Angeles Riot. (That the university emerging from the completely unscathed riots were all which is more remarkable given the total destruction of some strip malls in the area, including one across Vermont Avenue from the western security fence of the campus.) The ZIP code for USC is 90089 and the surrounding University Park community is 90007.

USC has a $ 5.6 billion donation and is also allocated $ 430 million per year in sponsored research. USC became the only university to receive eight separate nine-point prizes. $ 120 million from Ambassador Walter Annenberg to create the Annenberg Center for Communication and the next $ 100 million additional prize for USC Annenberg School for Communication; $ 112.5 million from Alfred Mann to establish the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering; $ 110 million from W. M. Keck Foundation for USC School of Medicine; $ 150 million from the W. M. Keck Foundation for USC School of Medicine; $ 175 million from George Lucas to USC School of Cinema-Television, now renamed USC School of Cinematic Arts, $ 200 million from Dana and David Dornsife for College of Letters, Arts and Sciences USC to support undergraduate and Ph.D. program, $ 110 million from John and Julie Mork for undergraduate scholarships, and $ 200 million from Larry Ellison to launch Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine.

These and other donations fund many new construction projects including:

• USC Medical Center
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• Expansion of Comprehensive Cancer Center USC Norris
• Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
• Residential International College at Parkside
• Popovich Building USC Marshall School of Business
• The Galen Center - home to USC Basketball and USC Volleyball
• Celebration of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum - home to USC Trojans Football
• The USC School Cinematic Arts Complex
• Campor Center Ronald Tutor, Trojan Plaza, and Steven and Kathryn Sample Hall (Opened Fall 2010)
• The John McKay Center (Opened 2012)
• Roger and Michele Student Health Center Dedeaux Engemann (Fall 2012 Opening)
• Aquatic Center Uytengsu (Opened Spring 2014)
• Verna and Peter Dauterive Hall (Opened Fall 2014)
• The Wallis Annenberg Hall (Opened Fall 2014)
• Glorya Kaufman International Dance Center (Opened Spring 2016)
• The USC Jill and Frank Fertitta Hall for Marshall School of Business (Opened Fall 2016)
• The USC Stevens Hall, where Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Opened Fall 2016)
• The USC Currie Hall, Student Residence Hall (Opened Fall 2016)
• Parking Structure of USC Temple (Opened Spring 2017)

The main new facilities under development or under construction include:

• Michelson USC Center for Convergent Bioscience (Fall 2011 Opening)
• Norris Health Consultation Center (Autumn Opening 2017)

University Village

In September 2014, the University began construction at USC Village, a 1.25 million square foot residential and retail center directly adjacent to USC University Campus University on 15 hectares of land owned by the university. The USC Village has over 130,000 square feet of retail space on the ground floor, with student housing on four floors above. The $ 700 million project is the biggest development in USC history and also one of the biggest in South Los Angeles history. With the grand opening held on August 17, 2017, USC Village includes Trader Joe's, Target, fitness center, Trojan Town USC shop, outdoor restaurant and dining venues, 400 retail parking lots, community rooms and housing for 2,700 people. students.

Public transit

Metro Expo Line light-rail service from Downtown Los Angeles starts in 2012 and runs into Santa Monica. The Expo Line has three stations around USC's main campus: Jefferson/USC Station, Park/USC Expo Station, and Vermont/Expo Station. In addition, the main campus of USC is served by several Metro bus routes as well as LADOT DASH Route F.

College of Health Sciences

Located three miles (5 km) from downtown Los Angeles and seven miles (11 km) from the University Park campus, the USC Medical College campus is a major center for basic and clinical biomedical research in cancer, gene therapy, neurology, and transplant biology , among others. The 79-hectare campus is home to the world's oldest and oldest medical and pharmacy schools, as well as a recognized program in physical therapy, occupational therapy (each of which is ranked No. 1 and No. 3 by US). News & amp; World Report ) and pharmacy. In addition, USC doctors serve more than one million patients each year.

In addition to the Los Angeles County USC Medical Center, which is one of the nation's largest educational hospitals, the campus includes three patient care facilities: the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, USC University Hospital, and the USC Eye Institute. The staff of this USC faculty and many other hospitals in Southern California, including the internationally acclaimed Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. The health science campus is also home to several research buildings such as the USC/Norris Cancer Research Tower, the Institute of Genetic Medicine, the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, the Harlyne J. Norris Cancer Research Tower and Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research.

In July 2013, the University expanded its medical services to hill communities in northern Los Angeles when it acquired 185 beds of the Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale, California. USC plans to make at least $ 30 million in capital increase for the facility, which was officially renamed USC Verdugo Hills Hospital. The 40-year-old hospital provides community 24-hour emergency departments, primary stroke centers, delivery/delivery and delivery, cardiac rehabilitation, and imaging and diagnostic services.

Former college agricultural college

Chaffey College was founded in 1883 in the city of Ontario, California, as the campus of the USC branch of agriculture under the name Chaffey College of Agriculture of the University of Southern California. USC administered Chaffey College of Agriculture until financial troubles closed schools in 1901. In 1906, schools were reopened by municipal and local governments and officially separated from USC. Renamed Chaffey College, now available as a community college as part of the California Community College System.

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Organization and administration

USC is a privately held non-profit private company controlled by a Supervisory Board consisting of 50 voting members and a number of guardians, guardians, and non-voting guardians. Voting members of the Supervisory Board are elected for a term of five years. A fifth of the Supervisors stand for re-election each year, and votes are only given by the guardians who are not standing for election. Supervisors tend to be high-level executives from large companies (both domestic and international), successful alumni, upper echelon members of the university administration, or a combination of all three.

The university administration consists of a president, a provost, several vice presidents from various departments, treasurers, chief information officers, and an athletic director. The current President is C. L. Max Nikias. In 2008, the predecessor of Nikias, Steven Sample, was one of the highest paid university presidents in the United States with a salary of $ 1.9 million.

USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, Graduate Schools, and 17 professional schools are each led by an academic dean. USC occasionally rewards emeritus for former administrators. There are six emeriti administrators.

17 professional schools of Southern California University include the USC Leventhal School of Accountancy, USC School of Architecture, USC Marshall School of Business, USC School of Cinematics USC, USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism, Herman Ostrow USC School of Medicine, USC Rossier School of Education, USC Viterbi Technical School , USC Rosis School of Art and Design, USC Davis School of Art, USC Gould Law School, USC Gould School of Medicine, USC Thornton School of Music, USC School of Pharmacy, USC School of Social Work and USC School of Theater.

Student governance

The Government of Undergraduate Students (USG) makes decisions that represent university undergraduates. It consists of a designated chief executive board, a popularly elected legislative branch, and judicial oversight, along with a programming board (commonly referred to as "Program Board"). All ultrasound activities are funded by student activity costs, which are controlled by the Treasury arrangements and the Senate approves. In addition to USG, residents in residential universities are represented and regulated by the Residential Student Government (RSG), which is shared by dormitories. The Graduate Student Government (GSG) consists of senators selected by students from each of the schools proportional to the registration and activities funded by graduates and the cost of the activities of professional students.

List of university presidents

1. Marion M. Bovard (1880-1891)
2. Joseph P. Widney (1892-1895)
3. George W. White (1895-1899)
4. George F. Bovard (1903-1921)
5. Rufus B. von KleinSmid (1921-1947)
6. Fred D. Fagg, Jr. (1947-1957)
7. Norman Topping (1958-1970)
8. John R. Hubbard (1970-1980)
9. James H. Zumberge (1980-1991)
10. Steven B. Sample (1991-2010)
11. C. L. Max Nikias (2010-2018)

Department of Public Security

The USC Public Security Department (DPS) is one of the largest campus law enforcement agencies in the United States, employing 306 full-time personnel and 30 part-time workers. The DPS patrol and response area covers a 2.5-mile radius around the main USC campus. The Public Security Department headquarters are on the campus of Park University, and there are substations on the campus of Health Sciences. This department operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. All USC Armed Public Safety Officers (about 120) are required to become graduates of the police academy so that they can be designated a reserve police officer with the authority of a peace officer sworn anywhere in the state while serving under the California Criminal Code 830.75.

The department has a formal working relationship with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), which includes USC paying for newly hired officials to attend the 24-week Los Angeles Police Academy. The USC/LAPD combined special task force of DPS USC personnel and about 40 selected Los Angeles police officers are assigned exclusively to the USC campus community to address crime and quality of life issues. The University of Park Task Force (UPTF) utilizes intelligence and crime-related crime data to more effectively deal with crimes affecting the USC Community.

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Academics

USC is a large residential research university. The majority of student bodies were undergraduate until 2007, when the enrollment of graduate students began to exceed the undergraduate. Full-time four-year undergraduate instructional courses are classified as "balanced art/science/professions" with the co-existence of high graduates. Reception is marked as "the most selective, lower in" transfer; 95 undergraduate majors and 147 under-age children academically and professionally offered. The graduate program is classified as "comprehensive" and offers 134 master's, doctoral, and professional degrees through 17 professional schools. USC is accredited by the Association of Schools and Western Colleges. The University was elected to the American University Association in 1969. The USC academic department falls well under the general liberal arts and sciences of the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences for undergraduate, graduate students or university professional schools.

USC currently has five Nobel laureates on staff, eight Scholar Rhodes, five MacArthur Fellows, 181 Fulbright Scholars, one Turing Award winner, three National Medal of Medal winners, one National Humanity Medal winner, three National Science Medal winners, and three Medalist Technology winners and National Innovation among alumni and faculty. In addition to its academic awards, USC has produced the largest Oscar winner from any institution in the world with significant margins.

USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, the oldest and largest of the USC schools, graduate degrees in over 130 majors and children throughout the humanities, social sciences, and natural/physical sciences, and offer doctoral and mastered the program in more than 20 fields. Dornsife College is responsible for the general education program for all USC students, and has full-time faculty around 700, over 6500 undergraduate majors (approximately half of the total USC undergraduate population), and 1200 doctoral students. In addition to 30 academic departments, the College also houses dozens of research centers and institutes. In the academic year 2008-2009, 4,400 undergraduate degrees and 5,500 advanced degrees are awarded. Previously called "USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences", the College received a $ 200 million prize from USC trustees Dana and David Dornsife on March 23, 2011, after which the College renamed respects them, following other school naming patterns and departments professionals at the University. All Ph.D. degree awarded at USC and most of the master's degrees are under the jurisdiction of the Graduate School. Professional degrees are awarded by each respective professional school.

The School of Cinematic Arts, the oldest and largest film school in the country, grants degrees in six different programs. Because the university administration considered cinematic skills too valuable to be saved for film industry professionals, the school opened its class to university in 1998. In 2001, the film school added Interactive Media & The Games Division studied stereoscopic cinema, panoramic cinema, immersive cinema, interactive cinema, video games, virtual reality, and mobile media. In September 2006, George Lucas donated $ 175 million to expand the film school, which at that time was the single largest donation to USC (and a fifth over $ 100 million). Donations will be used to build new structures and expand faculty. The admission rate to the School of Cinematic Arts has consistently remained between 4-6% over the past few years.

USC Architecture School was founded in 1916, the first in Southern California. From at least 1972 to 1976, and possibly for several years before 1972, it was called The School of Architecture and Fine Art. The School of Fine Art (known as SOFA for several years after Architecture and Fine Arts were separated) was finally named the Roski Art School in 2006 during the opening ceremony, then, the new Masters of Visual Arts that occupied previously and completely restored, the Lucky Blue Jean. This small department is growing rapidly with the help of the Allied Architects of Los Angeles. The separate School of Architecture was held in September 1925. The school has been home to teachers such as Richard Neutra, Ralph Knowles, James Steele, A. Quincy Jones, William Pereira and Pierre Koenig. The architecture school also claims famous alumni, Frank Gehry, Jon Jerde, Thom Mayne, Raphael Soriano, Gregory Ain, and Pierre Koenig. Two of the alumni have become Pritzker Prize winners. In 2006, Qingyun Ma, an architect based in Shanghai, was named dean of the school.

USC Thornton School of Music is one of the most respected music schools in the United States. Training at Thornton School often attracts graduate students from such institutions as Juilliard, Oberlin College, Rice, and Eastman School of Music; and Thornton School graduates often study in these and other institutions, such as the Colburn School, the Curtis Music Institute, or the Manhattan School of Music. The most active source of live music in all of Los Angeles, Thornton School offers everything from medieval music to music today. In addition to the classical music department, there are departments for popular music and even the early music department, making USC's music school one of the few in the United States that offers a special degree in pre-classical music.

The Technical School of Andrew and Erna Viterbi is led by Dean Yannis Yortsos. Formerly known as the USC School of Engineering, its name was changed on March 2, 2004, in honor of Qualcomm co-founder Andrew Viterbi and his wife Erna, who have donated $ 52 million to school. Viterbi School of Engineering was ranked No. 9 in the United States in US. News & amp; World Report ' engineering ratings for 2013-14.

Annenberg School for Communication & amp; Journalism, founded in 1971, is one of two communications programs in the country endowed by Walter Annenberg (the other at the University of Pennsylvania). The School of Journalism, which became part of the School for Communication in 1994, features a core curriculum that requires students to devote themselves equally to print, broadcast and online media for the first year of study. School journalism is consistently among the country's top journalism schools. USC Annenberg School's contribution increased from $ 7.5 million to $ 218 million between 1996 and 2007. By 2015, a new building called Wallis Annenberg begins to serve all lecturers and students.

The Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry at the University of Southern California was founded in 1897 as the College of Dentistry, and today provides undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. Led by Dean Avishai Sadan, D.M.D., the school has traditionally retained five Divisions: Academic & amp; Student Life, Clinical Field, Continuing Education, Research, and Public Health Program and Hospital Affairs. In 2006, the USC Department of Physical Therapy and Biokinesiology, and the USC Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, both of which had previously been organized as "Independent Health Professions" programs at USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, were administratively aligned under School of Dentistry and renamed "Division," brought the number of Divisions in School of Dentistry to seven. In 2010, alumnus Herman Ostrow donated $ 35 million to name the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry. In 2013 the school introduced its eighth division, and in 2014 the $ 20 million prize was endowed and named USC Mrs. T.H. Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy.

USC is working with Shanghai Jiao Tong University to offer the USC (Executive) EMBA program in Shanghai. USC Dornsife also operates two international study centers in Paris and Madrid. The Marshall School of Business has satellite campuses in Orange County and San Diego.

In May 2006, the USC's Board of Supervisors and administration traveled to China to announce the establishment of USC-China Institute (USCI). USCI focuses on the multidimensional and growing US-China relationship and trend in China. USCI has funded research into a variety of topics including the history of US-China diplomatic exchanges, aging, property rights, environmental challenges, agricultural policy, new media, migration, and technology exchange. The Institute produces the highly respected documentary series of Assignment: China about American media coverage of China from 1940 to the present day. It also publishes two magazines, US-China Today "and Asia Pacific Arts .

In 2012, USC founded Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, the university's first first school in 40 years, which is a gift from philanthropist Glorya Kaufman. The USC Kaufman School offers individual classes in engineering, performance, choreography, production, theory and history open to all students at USC. Beginning in fall 2015, USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree to selected students who wish to pursue dance as their majors. This four-year professional title will be placed in the sophisticated Glorya Kaufman International Dance Center, now under construction.

University library system

The USC Library is one of California's oldest private academic research libraries. For over a century the USC has built up collections to support university teaching and research interests. The most important collections include American literature, Cinema-Television including Warner Bros. studio archives, European philosophy, gerontology, German exile literature, international relations, Korean studies, Latin American studies, natural history, Southern California history, and University Archives.

USC Warner Bros. Archives is the largest single studio collection in the world. Donated in 1977 to the School of Cinematic Arts of the University of Southern California, by Warner Communications, the WBA listed records of departments detailing Warner Bros. activities of the first major feature of the studio, My Four Years in Germany (1918). ), for his sale to Seven Arts in 1968.

Announced in June 2006, the testimony of 52,000 survivors, savers and others involved in the Holocaust was placed at USC College of Letters, Arts & Science as part of the USC Shoah Foundation Foundation for History and Visual Education.

In addition to the Shoah Foundation, the USC Library's digital literature collection includes photographs from the California Historical Society, the Korean American Archives Automobile Club of Southern California, and the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California. The USC Digital Library provides the main and original source material in various formats.

In October 2010, the collection at ONE National Gay & amp; The Lesbian Archives, the largest repository for documents from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities in the world, is part of the USC Library system. The collection on ONE includes over two million archival items documenting the history of LGBT including periodicals; book; film, video and audio recording; taking pictures; artworks; epemera, clothing, costumes, and buttons of the kind; organizational records; and personal paper.

22 USC libraries and other archives store nearly 4 million print volumes, 6 million items in microform, and 3 million photos and subscribe to over 30,000 current serial titles, nearly 44,000 feet (13,000 m) from manuscripts and archives, and subscribe to more than 120 electronic databases and over 14,000 journals in print and electronic format. Each year, the transaction reference number approaches 50,000 and about 1,100 instructional presentations are made to 16,000 participants. Southern California University Library System is one of the 35 largest university library systems in the United States.

The Leavey Library is an undergraduate library and is open 24 hours a day. The recently opened basement has many discussion tables for students to share their thoughts and group discussions. Edward L. Doheny Memorial Library, Jr. is a major research library on campus

Ratings

USC is ranked 21st in the US. News & amp; World Report ' s 2018 national university annual ranking. In the rank of Niche Best Colleges, USC is ranked 10th for 2016 based on academics and the quality of life of students. USC is ranked 31st among national universities in the US and ranked 49th in the world by Academic Rankings of the World University , and ranked 13th (tied with seven other universities) among national universities by Measurement Center University Performance. In 2015, USA Today rated USC 22 for American universities based on data from College Factual. Among the top 25 universities, USC is ranked by US. News & amp; World Report has the fourth most economically diverse student body. Reuters ranked USC as the 14th most innovative university in the world by 2015, as measured by the global commercial impact and patents granted. USC ranked 15th overall in 2016 inaugural ranking of Wall Street Journal/Times High School from US college. The Best College Reviews puts the 80th USC among the 100 most beautiful American universities and liberal arts colleges based on green space, landscape and architecture in 2017.

In 2016, USC was ranked as the "Top 10 Dream College" for both parents and students according to The Princeton Review, which was provided from a survey of 10,000 respondents. USC appears in the top 10 list for parents and students.

On the "Green Report Card" 2011, published by the Sustainable Endowments Institute, the university accepts B-.

Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism is ranked 1st in 2014 by USA Today . In 2016, AS. News & amp; World Report rated USC School of Law as 19th, Marshall School of Business tied for 10th in undergraduate education with USC Leventhal School of Accounting 6th, Lloyd Greif Center for the 3rd Entrepreneurial Studies, and an MBA program tied to the 25th. Marshall no longer appears among the top 9 business schools previewed. The Keck School of Medicine of USC was ranked 31st in the study and tied for the 72nd in primary care. US. News & amp; World Report in 2016 further ranked School of Viterbi Engineering tied to 10, Rossier School of Education 15, postgraduate program Roski School of Fine Arts 36th, School of Public Policy Price Sol 2, USC Working Schools of Social 11, and USC School of Pharmacy is tied to 9. The USC graduate program in physical therapy and occupational therapy is ranked first and third best country programs, respectively, for 2016 by US. News & amp; World Report . USC School of Architecture is ranked fifth in 2014. The Gourmet Philosophical Report in 2015 puts the USC graduate philosophy program as the 8th nationally.

The Hollywood Reporter rated the School of Cinematic Arts # 1 film school. 1 in the United States for the third consecutive year in 2014. In addition, USA Today rated School of Cinematic Arts, No movie school. 1 in the United States in 2014. The different classes of programs, facilities, and proximity to industry are the main reasons for this ranking.

USA Today rated USC Marshall School of Business as the No.3 school to study undergraduate business in the country, by 2015. By 2015 Forbes placed the 3rd USC Marshall School of Business in the country. producing graduates who are most satisfied with their work.

The Princeton Review puts the USC video game design program as the first of 150 schools in North America. The university's video game design program is interdisciplinary, involving Interactive Media & amp; Games Division School of Cinematic Arts and CS Games program at the Department of Computer Science at USC Viterbi School of Engineering.

The Academic Rankings of the World University by 2015 rank the combined USC engineering and computer science departments as the world's 10th, social science 31, and economics and business departments 29.

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Student body

USC has a total enrollment of approximately 43,000 students, of which 19,000 are in graduate and 24,000 levels at graduate and professional levels. About 53% of students are female and 47% are male. For classes entering the first year, 43% of incoming students are drawn from California, 42% of the rest of the United States, and 15% from abroad. The USC student body includes 12,300 international students, the second most from all universities in the United States. Of the regularly enrolled international students, the most widely represented countries/regions are China (Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan not included) , India, South Korea, and Taiwan region, in that order.

As with any other private university, the cost of a high nominal attendance, but significant university contributions and significant revenue streams allows it to offer generous financial aid packages. In addition, USC is one of the highest ranked universities to offer cost-based scholarships and full-time scholarships. These factors have driven the USC to become the fourth most economically diverse university in the country.

Twenty percent of the admitted and present students are SCION, or students with family ties to USC, while 14 percent are the first generation in their family to attend any form of college. Twenty-four percent of USC students qualify for Pell Grant, which is defined by deriving from household income of less than $ 50,000. There are about 375,000 live Trojan alumni.

Reception

More than 64,000 students apply for entry into undergraduate classes entering 2018, with 12.9% being accepted. Among newly enrolled students for Autumn 2017, the interquartile range for the SAT composite score is 1300 - 1500 and the average GPA without weight is 3.76. Thirty-four percent of students accepted in 2018 have a perfect GPA of 4.0 and 60 percent score 99 percent on standardized tests. There are 257 National Bachelor of Liberty registered for the academic year 2016-17 (including 60 National Merit $ 2,500 scholarship recipients), the third USC ranking in the country. USC is ranked the 10th most widely applied to universities in the country for autumn 2014 by US. News & amp; World Report .

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Faculty and research

The university has a very high level of research activity and receives $ 687 million in sponsored research from 2014 to 2015.

USC employs approximately 3,249 permanent faculty, 1,486 part-time teachers, and about 10,744 staff members. 350 postdoctoral colleagues are supported along with over 800 medical residents. Among USC faculties, 15 are members of the National Academy of Sciences, 17 are members of the Institute of Medicine, 34 are members of the National Academy of Engineering, 92 are members of the American Association for Advancement of Science, and 32 are members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 6 for the American Philosophical Society, and 9 for the National Academy of Public Administration. 29 USC faculties are listed as one of "Highly Cited" in the Institute for Scientific Information database. George Sports won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994 and became founder director of Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute. Leonard Adleman won the Turing Award in 2003. Arieh Warshel won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013

The University also supports the Pacific Council on International Policy through joint programs, leadership collaboration, and facilitated connections among students, faculty and members of the Pacific Council.

The University has two Technical Research Centers funded by the National Science Foundation: Center for Integrated Media Systems and Center for Biomimetic Microelectronics Systems. The Department of Homeland Security chose USC as the first Domestic Security Center of Excellence. Since 1991, USC has been the headquarters of the NSF and USGS funded by Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC). The University of Southern California is a founding and founding member of CENIC, Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California, a nonprofit organization, which provides highly-performing Internet-based networks to the California K-20 research and education community. USC researcher Jonathan Postel is an editor of the new Internet communications protocol, also known as the ARPANET.

In July 2016 the USC became home to the world's strongest quantum computer, housed in a very cool facility, magnetically protected at the USC Information Sciences Institute, the only other commercial quantum computing system operated jointly by NASA and Google.

Fakultas USC terkenal termasuk atau telah termasuk yang berikut: Leonard Adleman, Richard Bellman, Bender Aimee, Barry Boehm, Warren Bennis, Todd Boyd, T.C. Boyle, Leo Buscaglia, Drew Casper, Manuel Castells, Erwin Chemerinsky, George V. Chilingar, Thomas Crow, AntÃÆ'³nio DamÃÆ'¡sio, Francis De Erdely, Percival Everett, Murray Gell-Mann, Seymour Ginsburg, G. Thomas Selamat Malam, Jane Goodall, Solomon Golomb, Midori Goto, Susan Estrich, Janet Fitch, Tomlinson Holman, Jascha Heifetz, Henry Jenkins, Thomas H. Jordan, Mark Kac, Pierre Koenig, Neil Leach, Leonard Maltin, Daniel L. McFadden, Viet Thanh Nguyen, George Olah, Scott Page, Simon Ramo, Claudia Rankine, Irving Reed, Michael Waterman, Frank Gehry, Arieh Warshel, Lloyd Welch, Jonathan Taplin, dan Diane Winston.

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Atletik

The USC Trojans participate in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) as a member of the Pac-12 Conference and have won 123 national teams total championships, 97 for men and 26 for women, including non-NCAA championships. Of these, 80 and 14 are NCAA National Championships for men and women, respectively. The NCAA does not include college football championships in its calculations. Although there are many organizations that call the national championship, USC claims 11 football championships. The Individual 361 men's championship is the second best in the country and 53th over third place, Texas Longhorns. USC's cross-city rivals are the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), with whom there is fierce athletic and scholastic competition. The USC competition with the University of Notre Dame preceded UCLA's competition for three years. Notre Dame's competition mainly stems from the annual soccer game played between these two universities and is considered one of the greatest competition in college athletics.

USC has won 104 NCAA team championships, 3 behind Stanford (117) and UCLA city rivals (116). The Trojans have also won at least one national team title in 26 consecutive years (1959-60 to 1984-85). USC won the National All-Sports Championship Championship, an annual ranking by USA Today of the country's top athletic program, 6 times since its founding in 1971. Four Trojans have won the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in America: diver Sammy Lee (1953 ), shooting putter Parry O'Brien (1959), swimmer John Naber (1977) and swimmer Janet Evans (1989).

From the 1904 Summer Olympics through the 2014 Winter Olympics, 632 Trojan athletes have competed in the Olympics, bringing home 135 golds, 88 silver and 65 bronze medals. If it is an independent country, USC will be ranked 12th in the world in terms of medals. Since 1912, USC is the only university in the world to have gold medal athletes in every summer Olympics.

Men's sports

In men's sports, USC has won 97 national championship teams (84 NCAA titles) - more than any other school - and male athletes have won a record of 303 individual NCAA titles. The Trojans have won 26 championships in track and field, 21 in tennis, 12 in baseball, 9 in swimming and diving, 9 in water polo, 6 on volleyball, 2 on track and indoor pitch, and 1 in gymnastics. USC men's basketball has appeared in the NCAA tournament 15 times, and made 2 NCAA Final Four appearances.

The USC football program has historically ranked best in the FBS Division I. The Trojans football team has won 11 national championships. Seven players have won the Heisman Cup, even though the school claims six, after alleged violations involving Reggie Bush. In 2011, 472 Trojans have been taken in the NFL draft, more than any other university.

For the 2015 season, USC football ranked 1st overall in recruitment by Rivals.com, with a 4-star five-star, 17-star commit, and a five-star commitment.

Female Women's sports

The women's team has won 27 national championships. The Women of Troy has brought home 64 individual NCAA crowns. Two women from Troy athletes have won the Honda-Broderick Cup as the best female college athlete of the year: Cheryl Miller (1983-84) and Angela Williams (2001-02). And the Trojan women won 8 Honda Awards, as the top female athletes in their sport.

The Women of Troy has won 7 championships in tennis, 6 volleyball, 4 in water polo, 3 in golf, 2 basketball, 2 beach volleyball, 1 in swimming and diving, 2 on track and field and 2 in soccer.

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Student traditions and activities

As one of the oldest universities in California, the University of Southern California has a number of traditions. The official USC fight song is "Fight On", compiled in 1922 by USC Milo Sweet medical students with lyrics by Sweet and Glen Grant.

Rivalry

USC has competition with many schools. Though generally limited to football, USC has great competition with Notre Dame. The annual game is played for Shillelagh Permata. Competition has featured more national championship teams, Heisman, All-American, and NFL hall-of-fames of the future than any other college game. Both schools have kept the annual game on their schedule since 1926 (except 1942-44 due to restrictions on World War II travel) and this game is often referred to as the greatest intersecttional competition in college football.

The youngest rival USC is UCLA, with whom there is a fierce athletic and scholastic competition. Both universities are in Los Angeles and about 10 miles (16 km) apart. Until 1982, the two schools also shared the same football stadium, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The winner of the annual soccer game takes home Victory Bell. The Trojans and Bruins also compete in all-year sports competitions for the Lexus Gauntlet Trophy. Pranks between UCLA and USC were commonplace a few decades ago. Both universities have been cracking down on pranks since the 1989 incident when USC students released hundreds of crickets to the main UCLA library during the last week. The day before the clash between UCLA and USC rivals in 2009, the Bruins mascot was damaged. It was splashed in cardinal and gold paint, the official color of USC that triggered memories of the jokes that had been played in previous years. A week before the annual soccer match with UCLA was known as "Troy Week" and featured a number of traditions including CONQUEST! "Ultimate Trojan Experience", Good Night Tommy, CONQUEST! Campfire, and all the chaos by the Trojan Knights to protect the campus from UCLA Bruins.

In addition, USC has competition with other Pac-12 schools, especially the Stanford Cardinal because they are the only two private universities in the Pac-12 Conference and located in the opposite region of California, as well as the two oldest private research universities in California , 1880 and 1891 respectively. Recently, competition began to exist between USC and the University of Oregon because the dominant soccer program of the two universities, with each school often serving as the toughest match on the opponent's schedule.

Mascots

The traveler, the Andalusian white horse, is the official university mascot. It first appeared in a soccer match in 1961, driven by Richard Saukko, and is known as Traveler I. Horse is now known as the Traveler VII.

Tommy Trojan, officially known as the Trojan Temple, is a bronze statue in the Trojan fighter model in the center of the campus. Usually this is considered the official school mascot. The statue was modeled after a Trojan football player, and the statue was engraved with the ideal characteristics of the Trojan. This is a popular meeting place for students and landmarks for visitors.

In the 1940s, George Tirebiter, a car chasing dog, was the most popular unofficial mascot. After that bit the mascot of the UCLA Bruins, it gained fame among the students, and was kept by the Trojan Knights. The dog is known to chase cars on the Trousdale Parkway, which runs through campus. After the original dog died, the other three succeeded. A statue was built in 2006 to honor an unofficial mascot.

Marching band

The USC marching band, known as The Spirit of Troy, has been featured in at least 10 major films, and has performed at the 1932 Summer Olympics and 1984 in Los Angeles. They also performed on television shows and with other musicians.

The band performed on the title track of the 1979 Fleetwood Mac album Tusk , which later became a multi-platinum record. The band performed during halftime at Super Bowl XXI in 1987 and Super Bowl XXII in 1988. In 1990, the band performed live at America's Funniest Home Videos . In addition, the band later played on another multi-platinum Fleetwood Mac album, The Dance (1997). The Spirit of Troy is the only college band that has two platinum records. In recent years, the band has appeared at the 2009 Grammy Awards, accompanying Radiohead; at the 2009 Academy Awards with Beyoncà ©  © and Hugh Jackman; and during the end of American Idol 2008, supporting Renaldo Lapuz in the instrumentation of the original song "We're Brothers Forever." In 2009, the band played on the show Dancing with the Stars .

The USC band was only one of two American groups invited to line up in the Chinese New Year's Hong Kong parade in 2003 and 2004. Marching Band Troya performed at the World Expo 2005 in Nagoya, Japan. In May 2006, the Trojan Marching Band traveled to Italy, performing once in Florence, and twice in Rome (included in front of the Coliseum). The band also, over the years, performed Overture 1812 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (or sometimes with other orchestras) every year at the Hollywood Bowl "Tchaikovsky Spectacular".

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Song Girls

For over 45 years, USC Song Girls has been regarded as the "USC Spirit Crown Jewel." Founded in 1967, USC Song Girls appear in all soccer, basketball and volleyball games and other sporting events, public meetings, and university and alumni functions. The squad also appear internationally. The squad has traveled to Italy, Austria, France, Hungary, Czech Republic, Japan, China and Australia, the last to travel to Milan, Italy to perform at the World Expo 2015 on American Independence Day. Unlike other cheerleading teams in college, Song Girls is primarily a dance team and does not do gymnastics, stunts or lead cheers. The Song Girls perform with music and often appear with The Spirit of Troy. Together with the Trojan Marching Band, they are the visible public face of the University and serve as ambassadors of goodwill and goodwill for the Trojan Family.

USC Song Girls follows the university code in describing class image, sophistication and advanced choreography. Their trademark white uniforms pruned at Cardinal and Gold have become a recognizable and well-established part of the University's tradition. Three dozen or more choreographed dances and performed with each new year. Dedication, loyalty and quest for continuous improvement are the hallmarks of the USC Song Girl program. The USC Song Girls are the dance athletes who focus on continuing the "Tradition of Trojan Excellence" university.

Yell Leaders

Lindley Bothwell founded USC Yell Leading Squad in 1919 in his first year as a student at USC. He feels that together, with some friends, he can help "shoot" the crowd during a soccer game. The USC Yell Leaders teamed up with The Spirit of Troy and Song Girls to lead cheers and stunts to gather Trojan fans in soccer, basketball and volleyball games. The sweater-clad team is made up of all men for most of its existence, although the squad then opened up to applicants of both sexes and did showcase one of Yell Leader's women in 1998. They were dissolved by the University after the 2005-06 season and were replaced by Spirit Leaders that is built.

Spirit Leaders

The USC Spirit Leaders are responsible for leading the stadium's broad chants and increasing audience participation in all Trojan sports events, including soccer and basketball games. Working in a proud partnership with Troy Marching Band and USC Song Girls, USC Spiritual Leaders helped create a winning atmosphere for all Trojan athletes.

Student media

The Daily Trojan has been a USC student newspaper since 1912 and is a major source of news and information for campus. This secures President Richard Nixon's first interview after his resignation. Publications do not receive financial assistance from universities and are otherwise fully run on advertising revenue. Published from Monday to Friday during autumn and spring semesters, newspapers turn into Summer Trojan during the summer and are published once a week. This is a note paper on campus.

Trojan Vision (often abbreviated TV8 ) is a Student television station at USC. TV8 was founded in 1997 by Annenberg School for Communication, but is now part of the School of Cinematic Arts. Trojan Vision broadcast 24/7 from Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts to University Park Campus on Channel 8.1 and online through their website. Programming is also available for the larger Los Angeles community on the LA36 local channel. In addition to the regular selection of performances from many genres, Trojan Vision also broadcast events of the Platformum, a debate event at a round table; Annenberg TV News , news programs; and CU @ USC , the interview program, aired every working day from 17.30 to 19.00.

El Rodeo is a student year book managed by USC. One of the oldest university student traditions, the first edition was released in 1889 and was originally called The Sybil . The name was changed to El Rodeo in 1899 to reflect cowboy-themed events thrown by students to advertise the yearbook as a "rounding" of this year's event. It's been a long time packed with Student Activity Card, which gives students access to all home sports games. Since the card was dissolved in 2007, the yearbook has been sold as a stand-alone item.

Neon Tommy is a news website and content aggregator at USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism. This is the only web publication created in 2009. This does not cover campus news.

Greek Life

The Greek community, which makes up about one fifth of the student body, has a long and influential history on campus. Focused on the part of West 28th Street known as "The Row", between Figueroa Street and Hoover Street north of the campus, the Greek system of USC began shortly after the founding of the school when Kappa Alpha Theta established a chapter in 1887.

With 23 fraternities and 12 associations of students at the Interfraternity Conference (IFC) and Panhellenic Conference (PHC), respectively, the Greek community USC has more than 2,650 members and is one of the largest on the West Coast.

Beyond the Panhellenic and Interfraternity conferences, the Greek community at USC is very diverse, boasting Multicultural, Asian, Inter-Fraternity (composed of professional fraternity), and the Pan-Hellenic (historically black) Council. The organization governed by this council includes chapters from some of the oldest Latin and Greek organizations in the country and the oldest Asian fraternity in Southern California; while also including established professional, engineering, and fraternal business relationships and other multicultural-based groups.

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Popular media

Due to the proximity of USC to Hollywood, the close relationship between the School of Cinematic Arts and the entertainment industry, and architecture on campus, the university has been used in films, television series, commercials and music videos. USC is often used by filmmakers, standing in many other universities. According to IMDB, the USC campus has been featured in at least 180 film and television titles.

Movies filed at USC include Forrest Gump , Legal Blonde , Land Travel , The Girl Next Door < i> Harold & amp; Kumar Go to White Castle , Love & amp; Basketball , Blue Chips , Ghostbusters , Live Free or Die Hard Number 23 , Social Network and The Graduate . Television series that have used the USC campus include the How to Remain With Murder , Cold Case , Entourage , > The OC , Beverly Hills, 90210 , Moesha , Saved by Bell: The College Years -Air , Home MD , CSI: NY , Not Yet Rated , West Wing Alias ​​, Office , Biksu , United States Tara , < i> Gilmore Girls , Scrubs , and The Roommate .

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Alumni

There are over 365,000 alumni members. Among the renowned alumni of the University of Southern California have become leading scientists, musicians, entrepreneurs, engineers, architects, athletes, actors, politicians, and those who have gained national and international fame. In order for the alumni to stay connected, the Trojan network consists of more than 100 alumni groups on five continents. The common saying among those associated with school is that it is "Trojan for Life". Among the notable alumni are Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon; Shinzo Abe, the 57th & amp; Japanese Prime Minister to-63; O.J. Simpson, the soccer star of the 1960s; George Lucas, creator of Star Wars ; Andrew Viterbi, co-founder of Qualcomm Inc. and the inventor of the Viterbi Algorithm; Academy Award winner John Wayne (who also plays on the USC football team); actor and comedian Will Ferrell; Emmy Award-winning actor, John Ritter; Pritzker prize-winning architect, Frank Gehry; Hall of Fame footballer Ron Mix; the old owner of Los Angeles Lakers, Jerry Buss; recycled symbol designer Gary Anderson; former Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of Pakistani democracy; former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi; and Former Jordanian Prime Minister Fayez Tarawneh; the first democratically elected president in the country's history, and Troian Bellisario, the award-winning actress.

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