unitid 123961 · Los Angeles, CA · private nonprofit 4-year · city (large)
University of Southern California
Private university in Los Angeles, California, US
- founded
- 1880
- enrollment 2023
- 52,694
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- usc.cn
- motto
- “Palmam qui meruit ferat”
The University of Southern California is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in California and has an enrollment of more than 47,000 students. wikipedia rev 1362953431 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within private nonprofit 4-years
The record
admission rate
10%
3rd pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
undergraduates
20,443
99th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
Pell share
22%
undergrads on Pell grants
24th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
completion
92%
finish within 150% time
95th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$90,300
100th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
avg net price / yr
$32,740
after aid, aided students
86th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$92,498
after entry, Title IV students
96th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median grad debt
$18,000
15th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $13,516 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of private nonprofit 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k31%
- 30-48k16%
- 48-75knot reported
- 75-110knot reported
- 110k+not reported
- Median family income
- $45,149
- First-generation students
- 25%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $72,097
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 5.1× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 1,272 | $148,578 | — |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 1,221 | — | — |
| Computer Science. | 1,185 | $207,395 | — |
| Social Work. | 649 | $72,091 | — |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 525 | $192,109 | — |
| Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies. | 522 | $80,312 | — |
| Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering. | 409 | $144,597 | — |
| Computer and Information Sciences, General. | 357 | — | — |
| Communication and Media Studies. | 315 | $96,903 | — |
| Educational Administration and Supervision. | 313 | $127,355 | — |
| Legal Professions and Studies, Other. | 307 | $178,778 | — |
| Computer Science. | 305 | $180,906 | $20,178 |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 7,112 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (1,337) · basketball player (593) · university teacher (448) · actor (409) · film director (347) · screenwriter (338) · American football player (317) · writer (295)
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Neil Armstrong
218 wikis · Public domain
George Lucas
133 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
John Wayne
119 wikis · Public domain
Mohamed Morsi
117 wikis · Public domain
Diane Keaton
98 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Zac Efron
95 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
93 wikis · Public domain
Frank Gehry
83 wikis · Attribution
Robert Zemeckis
82 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Forest Whitaker
80 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Will Ferrell
78 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Miranda Cosgrove
71 wikis · CC BY 3.0
Ron Howard
70 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bob Saget
70 wikis · CC BY 3.0
James Coburn
67 wikis · Public domain
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
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- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1362953431), CC BY-SA 4.0.