Endowment $3.489 billion [1]
President C. L. Max Nikias
Academic staff 4,735[2]
Admin. staff 10,774
Students 38,010[3]
Undergraduates 17,414[3]
Postgraduates 20,596[3]
Location Los Angeles, California
Campus Urban
308 acres (1.25 km2) [4]
Nobel Laureates 5[5]
Colors USC Cardinal & USC Gold[6]
Athletics NCAA Division I FBS
21 varsity teams
Nickname Trojans
Men/Women of Troy
Mascot Traveler
Affiliations AAU
ACHA
Pac-12
MPSF
Website www.usc.edu
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Location of University of Southern California
Location of University of Southern California
University of Southern California
University of Southern California (Los Angeles Metropolitan Area)
The University of Southern California (known as USC or SC[a]) is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university founded in 1880 with its main campus in Los Angeles, California. As California's oldest private research university,[7] USC has historically educated a large number of the region's business leaders and professionals. In recent decades, the university has also leveraged its location in Los Angeles to establish relationships with research and cultural institutions throughout Asia and the Pacific Rim. Reflecting the status of Los Angeles as a global city, USC has the largest number of international students of any university in the United States.[8] In 2011, USC was named among the Top 10 Dream Colleges in the nation.[9]
As of 2011, USC enrolls 17,414 students in its four-year undergraduate program.[3] USC is also home to 20,596 graduate and professional students in a number of different programs, including business, law, social work, and medicine.[3] The university has a "very high" level of research activity and received $560.9 million in sponsored research from 2009 to 2010.[10] USC sponsors a variety of intercollegiate sports and competes in the NCAA Pacific-12 Conference. Members of the sports teams, the Trojans, have won 98 NCAA team championships, ranking them third in the nation, and 361 NCAA individual championships, ranking them second in the nation.[11] Trojan athletes have won 287 medals at the Olympic games (135 golds, 87 silvers and 65 bronzes), more than any other university in the world.[12] If USC were a country, it would rank 14th in most Olympic gold medals.[12]
Contents [hide]
1 History
2 Campus
2.1 Health Sciences campus
2.2 Former agricultural college campus
3 Organization and administration
3.1 Student government
3.2 List of university presidents
3.3 Department of Public Safety
4 Academics
4.1 University library system
4.2 Rankings
