University of Southern California

The University of Southern California (USC or SC) is a private, not-for-profit, and nonsectarian analysis university founded in 1880 with its capital campus in the city-limits breadth of Los Angeles, California. As California's oldest clandestine analysis university,USC has historically accomplished a ample amount of the region's business leaders and professionals. In contempo decades, the university has aswell leveraged its breadth in Los Angeles to authorize relationships with analysis and cultural institutions throughout Asia and the Pacific Rim. An engine for bread-and-butter activity, USC contributes about $5 billion annually to the abridgement of the Los Angeles canton area.

For the 2014–15 bookish year, there were 18,740 accepting enrolled in four-year undergraduate programs. USC aswell has 23,729 alum and able accepting in a amount of altered programs, including business, law, engineering, amusing work, and medicine. The university is one of the top fundraising institutions in the world, consistently baronial a part of the top 3 in alien contributions and alumni giving rates. Multiple bookish rankings account the University of Southern California as getting a part of the top 25 universities in the United States. With an accepting amount of 16 percent, USC is aswell a part of the a lot of careful bookish institutions in the nation.

USC maintains a able attitude of addition and entrepreneurship, with alumni accepting founded companies such as Lucasfilm, Myspace, Salesforce.com, Intuit, Qualcomm, Box, Tinder, and Riot Games. As of 2014, the university has produced the fourth better amount of billionaire alumni out of all undergraduate institutions in the world.

Like added clandestine universities, the nominal amount of appearance is high, about the University's ample award and cogent acquirement streams acquiesce it to action acceptable banking aid packages Additionally, USC is one of the accomplished ranked universities to action half-tuition and full-tuition merit-based scholarships. These factors accept propelled USC into getting the 4th a lot of economically assorted university in the nation.

USC sponsors a array of intercollegiate sports and competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as a affiliate of the Pac-12 Conference. Members of the sports teams, the Trojans, accept won 102 NCAA aggregation championships, baronial them third in the nation, and 378 NCAA alone championships, baronial them additional in the nation. Trojan athletes accept won 288 medals at the Olympic amateur (135 golds, 88 silvers and 65 bronzes), added than any added university in the United States.If USC were a country, its athletes would accept collectively accustomed the 12th-most Olympic gold medals in history. In 1969, it abutting the Association of American Universities.