USC is an acronym for the University of Southern California. It is one of the prestigious private research Universities in Los Angeles. USC is best known for arts, technology, and international business. It is known as the home to the college of Letters, Arts, and Science with 21 academic schools and units.
The USC was birth out of passion in early 1880 by Judge Robert Maclay Widney. And commenced fully in 1880 with 53 students and 10 lectures and now it has over 48,000 students and 4,400 full-time faculty, and it’s situated in a big metropolis Los Angeles.
USC
Usc is one of the prestigious private universities in United southern California. The school was founded in 1980 by Robert Widney. It’s the home of many inventions including DNA computing, dynamic programming, image compression, VoIP, and Antivirus software.
According to Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Southern_Califonia USC has notable alumni of Rhodes scholars and 12 Marshall scholars. 10 Nobel laureates, six MacArthur fellows, and one Turning Award winner affiliated to the university.
Also, USC hosts different intercollegiate sports and competes in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as a member of the Pac-12 conference. The USC sports team are known as the Trojans, they’ve won about 107 NCAA team championship, ranking third in the united states and 412 NCAA individual championship, and they rank third in the United States and second among NCAA Division in schools. Also, the University of Southern California has remained the biggest private employer in Los Angeles and has affected the economic development of California with an estimated generation of about $8 billion.
USC Campus
The University has different campuses such as the University Village, Health Science campus, Public Transit, and Former agricultural college campus.
The University has beautiful and most of its buildings are in the Romanesque Revival style, while some dormitories, like engineering and Physical sciences labs, are built-in modern styles. The university has many campuses outside Los Angeles, the centers in Arlington, Virginia, and Marina del Rey. Its science students at the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies on Catalina Island about 50 miles off the coast of Los Angeles.
Admission
The USC is known as the most selective University and very selective in admission processes. As reported it rates in admission selection of 98 out of 99. About or more than 70,000 students applied for admission to the undergraduate class for 2021, and about 12% were being admitted.
Applicants admitted into the University have an SAT score from the range of 1360 tob1530 or an ACT score of 31 and 34. However, the number of the admitted applicants that meet the scores is about one-quarter and one-quarter score below these ranges.
For applicants to be offered admission into the University of Southern California, a student’s GPA is very valuable and important. Also, high rank in class performance is considered and letters of recommendation too. The application fee is about $85.
Courses offered
The University of Southern California offers about 23 courses. The courses range from letters, Arts and Sciences, Accounting, Architecture, Arts and Design, Arts, Technology, Business, cinematic Arts, communication, journalism, Dance, Dentistry, Dramatic Arts, Education, Engineering, Gerontology, Law, Medicine, Music, Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy, Physical Therapist, Professional studies, Public Policy, Social Work, and others.
USC Admission Rate
USC statistics for the admission year 2021-2022 incoming class acceptance rate has been narrowed to 12% with a large pool of applicants. Significantly, the number of applicants has risen by over 20% from the previous year. Last year the admittance rate was 16%, 2021 fall term was 26%.
However, international students are about 14% of the admitted class, from about 88 different countries. Also, this year that prospective students applied to the University when there was a COVID-19 outbreak, which made students off-campus from March 2020.
The possible suspected factor for an increase in application rate is USC’s financial aid initiative that offers free tuition for U.S students that their family makes less than $80,000 each year. Usc is one of the prestigious universities in Los Angeles and has a good ranking rate among others.
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