The University of Southern California (USC or  SC) is a private, not-for-benefit, and nonsectarian exploration college established in 1880 with its principle grounds in the city territory of Los Angeles, California. As California's most seasoned private exploration university, USC has truly instructed an extensive number of the locale's business pioneers and experts. In late decades, the college has additionally utilized its area in Los Angeles to build up associations with examination and social foundations all through Asia and the Pacific Rim. A motor for monetary movement, USC contributes around $5 billion yearly to the economy of the Los Angeles region area. As of 2014, the college has delivered the fourth biggest number of extremely rich person graduated class out of all undergrad foundations in the world.

For the 2014-2015 scholastic year, there were 18,740 understudies selected in four-year undergrad programs.USC is additionally home to 23,729 graduate and expert understudies in various distinctive projects, including business, law, designing, social work, and medicine. The college has a "high" level of examination movement and got $687 million in supported exploration from 2014 to 2015. Multiple rankings rundown the University of Southern California as being among the main 25 colleges in the United States.

Campus

The University Park grounds is in the University Park locale of Los Angeles, 2 miles (3.2 km) southwest of Downtown Los Angeles. The grounds' limits are Jefferson Boulevard on the north and upper east, Figueroa Street on the southeast, Exposition Boulevard on the south, and Vermont Avenue on the west. Subsequent to the 1960s, through grounds vehicle movement has been either extremely confined or completely restricted on a few lanes. The University Park grounds is inside of strolling separation to Los Angeles points of interest, for example, the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, and Los Angeles Coliseum. Most structures are in the Romanesque Revival style, albeit a few residences, designing structures, and physical sciences labs are of different Modernist styles (particularly two huge Brutalist quarters at the grounds' northern edge) that forcefully diverge from the overwhelmingly red-block grounds. Widney Alumni House, manufactured in 1880, is the most seasoned college building in Southern California. Lately the grounds has been revamped to evacuate the remnants of old streets and supplant them with customary college quads and gardens. The memorable segment of the principle grounds was recorded on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

Admissions

More than 51,000 understudies connected for admission to the college course of 2019, with 9,181 being conceded (17.7%). Among conceded understudies, the interquartile range for SAT composite scores was 2040-2260 and the normal unweighted GPA was 3.82, while among enlisted rookies, the SAT extent was 1980-2200 and the normal GPA was 3.73. Twenty-nine percent of the acknowledged understudies in 2015 had flawless GPAs of 4.0. Twenty percent of conceded and going to understudies are SCions, or understudies with familial binds to USC, while 14 percent are the original in their family to go to any type of school. There were likewise 247 National Merit Scholar champs and 7 National Achievement Scholars in the conceded class. USC positions among the main five schools in the country as far as its enlistment of National Merit Scholars. USC's affirmation rate has dropped to 20% for the class of 2016, after its reception of the Common Application. USC was positioned the tenth most connected to college in the country by U.S. News and World Report.

Academics

USC is a huge, essentially private examination university. most of the understudy body was undergrad until 2007, when graduate understudy enlistment started to surpass undergraduate. The four-year, full-time undergrad instructional project is named "adjusted expressions and sciences/callings" with a high graduate concurrence. Confirmations are portrayed as "most particular, lower move in"; 95 undergrad majors and 147 scholastic and expert minors are offered.The graduate project is delegated "thorough" and offers 134 master's, doctoral, and proficient degrees through 17 proficient schools. USC is authorize by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The college was chosen to the Association of American Universities in 1969. USC's scholarly divisions fall either under the general human sciences and sciences of the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences for students, the Graduate School for graduates, or the college's 18 proficient schools.

Ranking

USC was positioned 23rd in U.S. News and World Report's 2016 yearly positioning of national universities. In the Niche Best Colleges rankings, USC positioned tenth in general for 2016. USC is positioned 49th among world colleges and 32nd among colleges in the Americas by the Academic Ranking of World Universities, and thirteenth (tied with seven different colleges) among national colleges by The Center for Measuring University Performance. In 2015, USA Today positioned USC 22nd by and large for American colleges in light of information from College Factual.

USN&WR positions USC's School of Law 18th, the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism is positioned 1st, the Marshall School of Business is positioned ninth in undergrad instruction with the USC Leventhal School of Accounting fourth, the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies third and twentieth for its MBA program, Keck School of Medicine of USC 34th in examination and unranked in essential care, the Viterbi School of Engineering 9th, USC School of Architecture 5th, and the Rossier School of Education 14th, and the Roski School of Fine expressions Graduate system 37th, the Sol Price School of Public Policy 7th, the USC School of Social Work eighth. USC's graduate projects in word related treatment  and physical therapy are both positioned the country's best. The Philosophical Gourmet Report positions USC's graduate logic program as eighth broadly.