University of Southern CA

We Are USC

Leadership

USC’s leadership includes the university president, board of trustees, academic deans and senior administration. These dedicated individuals are steered by a profound passion for guiding the university’s central mission.

Faculty

Our faculty inspire, guide and drive the engines that move the university forward in knowledge and research. With a focus on diverse, multidisciplinary skills and engaging ideas, our faculty embody the university’s mission.

Values

USC embarked on an audacious journey to uncover the values that unite the campus community. Following a universitywide engagement effort, when 24,000+ students, faculty and staff provided unfettered feedback, six unifying values emerged as hallmarks of the Trojan Family. By exploring our shared values together at the start of a new decade, Trojans are forging an ideal path forward for the future of USC.

Facts and Stats

USC is an innovative private research university that blends the autonomy for exploration emblematic of a private institution with its size and resources, along with the breadth and scale of a public university.

Our History

When USC first opened its doors to 53 students and 10 teachers in 1880, the “city” still lacked paved streets, electric lights, telephones and a reliable fire alarm system. Today, USC is home to more than 48,000 students and over 4,400 full-time faculty, and is located in the heart of one of the biggest metropolises in the world.