University of Southern California

General Information

Name: University of Southern California
Address: University Park, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Phone:

• General information: (213) 740-2311
• Financial aid office: (213) 740-1111
• Admissions office: (213) 740-8899

Website: www.usc.edu/
Type of Institution: Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Religious affiliation: None

Financial Aid Recipients

Percentage of Students Who Receive Aid:
• Any form of aid: 77%
• Federal grants: 15%
• State/local grants: 11%
• Institutional grants: 62%
• Student loans: 65%

Average Amount of Aid Received:
• Federal grants:$4255
• State/local grants:$8242
• Institutional grants:$15498
• Student loans:$4359

Enrollment

Characteristics of undergraduate students

White non-hispanic: 47%
Black non-hispanic: 6%
Hispanic: 13%
Asian/pacific islander: 21%
American indian/alaska native: 1%
Other: 12%

Degrees offered

Architecture and Related Services
• Architecture (BArch, BA/BS, MArch, MA/MS, PhD) - Bachelor, Master
  
• City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Landscape Architecture (BS, BSLA, BLA, MSLA, MLA, PhD) - Bachelor, Master

Area, Ethnic, Cultural, and Gender Studies
• African-American/Black Studies - Bachelor
  
• American/United States Studies/Civilization - Bachelor, Doctor
  
• Asian-American Studies - Bachelor
  
• East Asian Studies - Bachelor, Master
  
• Ethnic, Cultural Minority, and Gender Studies, Other - Bachelor
  
• Hispanic-American,Puerto Rican & Mexican-American/Chicano Studies - Bachelor

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
• Biochemistry - Bachelor
  
• Biochemistry/Biophysics and Molecular Biology - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Biology/Biological Sciences, General - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Biophysics - Bachelor
  
• Biostatistics - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Epidemiology - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Microbiology, General - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Molecular Biology - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Molecular Toxicology - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Pathology/Experimental Pathology - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Pharmacology and Toxicology - Bachelor
  
• Physiology, General - Bachelor, Master, Doctor

Business, Management, Marketing, & Related Support Services
• Accounting - Bachelor, Master
  
• Business Administration and Management, General - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Business Administration, Management and Operations, Other - Bachelor, Master
  
• Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General - Bachelor
  
• Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management - Bachelor
  
• Restaurant/Food Services Management - Bachelor

Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs
• Broadcast Journalism - Bachelor, Master
  
• Communication and Media Studies, Other - Bachelor, Master
  
• Communication Studies/Speech Communication and Rhetoric - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs, Other - Bachelor, Master
  
• Journalism - Bachelor, Master
  
• Journalism, Other - Bachelor
  
• Public Relations/Image Management - Bachelor, Master

Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services
• Computer and Information Sciences, Other - Master
  
• Computer and Information Sciences, General - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Computer Software and Media Applications, Other - Bachelor, Master

Education
• Bilingual and Multilingual Education - Bachelor, Master
  
• College Student Counseling and Personnel Services - Bachelor
  
• Community College Education - Bachelor
  
• Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Curriculum and Instruction - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Education, General - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Foreign Language Teacher Education - Bachelor
  
• Higher Education/Higher Education Administration - Bachelor, Master
  
• Music Teacher Education - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Teacher Education, Multiple Levels - Master
  
• Teacher Education/Profess Development, Subject Areas, Other - Master
  
• Teaching English as Second/Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor - Bachelor, Master

Engineering
• Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Biomedical/Medical Engineering - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Chemical Engineering - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Civil Engineering, General - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Civil Engineering, Other - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Computer Engineering, General - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Computer Software Engineering - Bachelor
  
• Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Engineering, General - Bachelor
  
• Engineering, Other - Bachelor, Master
  
• Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering - Bachelor, Master
  
• Geotechnical Engineering - Bachelor, Master
  
• Industrial Engineering - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Manufacturing Engineering - Bachelor, Master
  
• Materials Engineering - Bachelor, Master
  
• Materials Science - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Mechanical Engineering - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Ocean Engineering - Bachelor, Master
  
• Operations Research - Bachelor, Master
  
• Petroleum Engineering - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Structural Engineering - Bachelor, Master
  
• Systems Engineering - Bachelor, Master
  
• Transportation and Highway Engineering - Bachelor, Master
  
• Water Resources Engineering - Bachelor, Master

English Language and Literature/Letters
• American Literature (United States) - Bachelor
  
• Creative Writing - Bachelor, Master
  
• English Language and Literature, General - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• English Language and Literature/Letters, Other - Bachelor, Doctor

Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
• Classics/Classical Languages, Lit & Linguistics, General - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Comparative Literature - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Other - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• French Language and Literature - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• German Language and Literature - Bachelor, Doctor
  
• Italian Language and Literature - Bachelor
  
• Linguistics - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Russian Language and Literature - Bachelor
  
• Slavic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Spanish Language and Literature - Bachelor, Doctor

Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences
• Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences, Other - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Critical Care Nursing - Bachelor
  
• Dental Hygiene/Hygienist - Bachelor
  
• Dentistry (DDS, DMD) - First Professional
  
• Family Practice Nurse/Nurse Practitioner - Bachelor, Master
  
• Health/Health Care Administration/Management - Bachelor, Master
  
• Hospital and Health Care Facilities Administration/Management - Bachelor, Master
  
• Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Medical Scientist (MS, PhD) - Bachelor, Master
  
• Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry (MS, PhD) - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Medicine (MD) - First Professional
  
• Nurse Anesthetist - Bachelor, Master
  
• Nurse Midwife/Nursing Midwifery - Bachelor, Master
  
• Nursing Administration (MSN, MS, PhD) - Bachelor, Master
  
• Nursing, Other - Bachelor
  
• Nursing/Registered Nurse (RN, ASN, BSN, MSN) - Bachelor
  
• Occupational Therapy/Therapist - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Oral/Maxillofacial Surgery (Cert, MS, PhD) - Bachelor
  
• Orthodontics/Orthodontology (Cert, MS, PhD) - Bachelor
  
• Periodontics/Periodontology (Cert, MS, PhD) - Bachelor
  
• Pharmacoeconomics/Pharmaceutical Economics (MS, PhD) - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Pharmacy (PharmD [USA], PharmD or BS/BPharm [Canada]) - Bachelor, First Professional
  
• Pharmacy Administration/Policy/Regulatory Affairs (MS, PhD) - Bachelor, Master
  
• Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration, Other - Bachelor
  
• Physical Therapy/Therapist - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Physician Assistant - Bachelor, Master
  
• Prosthodontics/Prosthodontology (Cert, MS, PhD) - Bachelor
  
• Public Health Education and Promotion - Bachelor, Doctor
  
• Public Health, General (MPH, DPH) - Bachelor, Master

History
• History, General - Bachelor, Master, Doctor

Legal Professions and Studies
• Comparative Law (LLM, MCL, JSD/SJD) - Master
  
• Law (LL.B.,J.D.) - First Professional
  
• Programs for Foreign Lawyers (LLM, MCL) - Master

Mathematics and Statistics
• Applied Mathematics - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Mathematics and Statistics, Other - Bachelor, Master
  
• Mathematics, General - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Statistics, General - Bachelor, Master

Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies
• Biological and Physical Sciences - Bachelor
  
• Gerontology - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Historic Preservation and Conservation - Bachelor, Master
  
• Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Neuroscience - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Systems Science and Theory - Doctor

Natural Resources and Conservation
• Environmental Science - Bachelor
  
• Environmental Studies - Bachelor, Master

Parks, Recreation, Leisure and Fitness Studies
• Kinesiology and Exercise Science - Bachelor, Master, Doctor

Philosophy and Religious Studies
• Philosophy - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Religion/Religious Studies - Bachelor, Master, Doctor

Physical Sciences
• Astronomy - Bachelor
  
• Chemical Physics - Bachelor, Doctor
  
• Chemistry, General - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Geology/Earth Science, General - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Physical Sciences - Bachelor
  
• Physics, General - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Physics, Other - Bachelor, Master

Psychology
• Psychology, General - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Psychology, Other - Bachelor

Public Administration and Social Service Professions
• Public Administration - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Public Administration and Social Service Professions, Other - Bachelor
  
• Public Policy Analysis - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Social Work - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Social Work, Other - Bachelor

Social Sciences
• Anthropology - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Anthropology, Other - Bachelor, Master
  
• Demography and Population Studies - Bachelor, Master
  
• Economics, General - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Economics, Other - Bachelor
  
• Geography - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Geography, Other - Bachelor
  
• International Relations and Affairs - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Political Science and Government, General - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Political Science and Government, Other - Master
  
• Sociology - Bachelor, Master, Doctor

Visual and Performing Arts
• Acting - Bachelor
  
• Art/Art Studies, General - Bachelor
  
• Arts Management - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Cinematography and Film/Video Production - Bachelor, Master
  
• Conducting - Bachelor, Master
  
• Directing and Theatrical Production - Bachelor, Master
  
• Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts, General - Bachelor, Master
  
• Drawing - Bachelor, Master
  
• Film/Cinema Studies - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Film/Video and Photographic Arts, Other - Bachelor, Master
  
• Fine Arts and Art Studies, Other - Bachelor, Master
  
• Jazz/Jazz Studies - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Music History, Literature, and Theory - Bachelor, Doctor
  
• Music Management and Merchandising - Bachelor
  
• Music Performance, General - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Music Theory and Composition - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Music, General - Bachelor, Master
  
• Music, Other - Bachelor, Master, Doctor
  
• Playwriting and Screenwriting - Bachelor, Master