University of Southern California facts for kids
The University of Southern California (also called USC, SC, and Southern California) is a private, research university in the Exposition Park neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, USA. USC was founded in 1880, and it is California's oldest private research university.
USC has 16,384 undergraduate and 17,024 graduate students and gave 4,676 bachelor's and 5,380 advanced degrees in 2007. USC students come from all 50 states in the United States as well as over 115 countries.
USC employed 3,127 full-time faculty, 1,363 part-time faculty, and about 8,200 staff members in 2007. The university has a "very high" level of research activity, and it got $484.6 million in sponsored research in 2007. The Integrated Media Systems Center and the Center for Biomimetic Microelectronic Systems are at USC.
USC has 19 sports teams that compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I-A Pacific-10 Conference. Their nickname is the Trojans. The Trojans have won 89 NCAA team championships, third in the nation (behind UCLA and Stanford), and 347 Individual NCAA Championships, second in the nation. 362 Trojan athletes have been in the Olympic games winning 112 gold, 66 silver, and 58 bronze medals. Their basketball team plays in the Galen Center and is coached by Kevin O'Neill. Their football team plays in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and is coached by Lane Kiffin. The football team has won several national championships and 23 Rose Bowls, a game played between two of the top football teams in the country. In sports, USC has a strong rivalry with UCLA, the other big school in Los Angeles, in all sports and a strong rivalry with Notre Dame in football.
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Notable Alumni
Astronauts
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The Widney Alumni House, the campus's first building
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"Tommy Trojan" is a major symbol of the university, though he is not the mascot.
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Doheny Library
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Zumberge Hall, one of the original buildings on the University Park Campus
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The Leavey Library, completed in the mid-1990s, reflected a shift to earlier Romanesque architecture in that era.
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The original Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center
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Bovard Hall, home of USC's central administration, shortly after completion in 1921; the streets later became pedestrian-only
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The Law School building is one of the handful of examples of Brutalist architecture on the main campus.
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Mudd Hall of Philosophy
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School of Cinematic Arts.
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The Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
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The Eileen L. Norris Cinema Theatre, where the THX sound system was first developed and installed by Tomlinson Holman.
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The Galen Center, home of USC basketball and volleyball
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The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum during a USC football game
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USC mascot Traveler with Trojan Warrior and The Spirit of Troy
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During the week prior to the traditional USC-UCLA rivalry football game, the Tommy Trojan statue is covered to prevent UCLA vandalism.
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The drum major of the Spirit of Troy wears a more elaborate uniform and conducts the band with a sword.
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The Song Girls celebrating a USC Trojans football victory
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Fountain outside of Doheny Library with the Center for International and Public Affairs; both buildings were used in the film The Graduate as stand-ins for UC Berkeley.
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Dexter Holland
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Ron Mix
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Jon M. Chu
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Matthew Weiner
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Mark Z. Danielewski
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In Spanish: Universidad del Sur de California para niños
