Well said.
Per USC… these are the new #s for the Class of 2027: By March 24, a record-high 80,790 applications had been received, and USC sent acceptance letters to 9,277 students, yielding a record low 9.9% fall admission rate.
Of those admitted, 23% will be the first in their family to attend college — the highest rate ever recorded at USC. Legacy students make up 12% of the admitted class.
A third of students identify with a historically underrepresented racial or ethnic group.
Californians make up 38% of the new class, followed by New York, Texas, Illinois, Washington and New Jersey as the most represented states. 19% are international students from 87 different countries.
3.9 was the average GPA for the class of 2027. 41% of students earned perfect grades in high school.
So… yes - the stats listed at University of Southern California - College Confidential are rather outdated. And yes… the descriptions are rather generic and not really tailored to describe USC specifically.
I would instead say something more like…
The University of Southern California was founded in 1880 in Los Angeles and is the oldest private research university in California. USC is composed of 23 undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools, enrolling roughly 21,000 undergraduate and 28,500 post-graduate students from all 50 U.S. states and more than 115 countries. USC is ranked as one of the top universities in the United States and with a fall 2023 acceptance rate of only 9.9%, admission to its programs is considered highly selective.
Current Facts and Figures:
Students (2022-2023 academic year) Rounded to the nearest 500
Undergraduates 21,000
Graduate and professional 28,000
Total 49,000
Student Demographics (Fall 2022)
Asians 19.3%
Black/African-American 5.8%
Hispanic 15.3%
White/Caucasian 24.8%
International 26.6%
Other 8.2%
International Students (Fall 2022)
Regularly Enrolled International Students 13,056
Student Retention Rate (Fall 2022)
Fall 2021 (% enrolled Fall 2022) 97%
Six-Year Graduation Rate (Student Right-to-Know*)
2022 (Fall 2016 freshman class) 92%
Undergraduate Tuition: $63,468 (2022-23 undergraduate estimate of costs)
Financial Aid awarded, all sources (2021-22 fiscal year): $773.4 million
Alumni: There are more than 450,000 living alumni in the Trojan Family. USC alumni can be found in positions of leadership all over the world, with more than half of them living in California.
Endowment (as of June 30, 2021): $8.1 billion
University Budget (2021-22 fiscal year): $6.2 billion
USC sponsors a variety of intercollegiate sports and competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as a member of the Pac-12 Conference. 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. 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. USC has had 537 football players drafted to the National Football League, the second-highest number of draftees in the country.
USC has graduated more alumni who have gone on to win Academy and Emmy Awards than any other institution, largely due to its top-ranked School of Cinematic Arts. The university has conferred degrees upon 29 living billionaires. USC’s notable alumni include 11 Rhodes scholars and 12 Marshall scholars. As of January 2021, 10 Nobel laureates, six MacArthur Fellows, and one Turing Award winner have been affiliated with the university. USC is also the birthplace of technologies such as the Domain Name System, VoIP, DNA computing, transform coding, and dynamic programming. Other top-ranked programs include USC’s Thornton School of Music, School of Dramatic Arts, and Kaufman School of Dance. Among its highly ranked programs, stellar standouts include the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Viterbi School of Engineering and Marshall School of Business.