In the mid-2010s, USC was embroiled in numerous controversies and scandals. Bovard, approved the name officially.ĭuring World War II, USC was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program, which offered students a path to a Navy commission. After this contest, Los Angeles Times sportswriter Owen Bird reported the USC athletes "fought on like the Trojans of antiquity", and the president of the university at the time, George F. After only the first few events, it seemed implausible USC would ever win, but the team fought back, winning many of the later events, to lose only by a slight margin. During a fateful track and field meet with Stanford University, the USC team was beaten early and seemingly conclusively. Until 1912, USC students (especially athletes) were known as Fighting Methodists or Wesleyans, though neither name was approved by the university. USC students and athletes are known as Trojans, epitomized by the Trojan Shrine, nicknamed "Tommy Trojan", near the center of campus. " Tommy Trojan" is a major symbol of the university, though he is not the mascot. USC is the largest private employer in the Los Angeles area, with an estimated annual impact of $8 billion on the state of California. USC has had 537 football players drafted to the National Football League, the second-highest number of draftees in the country. As of 2021, Trojan athletes have won 326 medals at the Olympic Games ( 153 golds, 96 silvers, and 77 bronzes), more than any other university in the United States. Members of USC's sports teams, the Trojans, have won 107 NCAA team championships, ranking them third in the United States, and 412 NCAA individual championships, ranking them third in the United States and second among NCAA Division I schools. USC sponsors a variety of intercollegiate sports and competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as a member of the Pac-12 Conference. USC is also the birthplace of technologies such as the Domain Name System, VoIP, DNA computing, transform coding, and dynamic programming. As of January 2021, 10 Nobel laureates, six MacArthur Fellows, and one Turing Award winner have been affiliated with the university.
USC's notable alumni include 11 Rhodes scholars and 12 Marshall scholars. USC has graduated more alumni who have gone on to win Academy and Emmy Awards than any other institution in the world by a significant margin, in part due to the success of the School of Cinematic Arts, and has conferred degrees upon 29 living billionaires. USC is ranked as one of the top universities in the United States and admission to its programs is considered highly selective. It is also a member of the Association of American Universities, which it joined in 1969.
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The university is composed of one liberal arts school, the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and 22 undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools, enrolling roughly 21,000 undergraduate and 28,500 post-graduate students from all 50 U.S.
Widney, it is the oldest private research university in California. The University of Southern California ( USC, SC, Southern Cal or SoCal) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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