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USC THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA • Founded in 1880, the University of Southern California is the oldest private research university in the western United States. • There are more than 240,000 living alumni in the Trojan Family. While nearly three-quarters of them live in California, USC alumni can be found in positions of leadership all over the world. • USC is home to 17 professional schools, in addition to the USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School. These schools train specialists in fields ranging from medicine and law to business, communication, engineering and music. • An anchor institution in Los Angeles, USC has two main campuses: the University Park Campus, near Exposition Park in the heart of Los Angeles' Downtown Arts and Education Corridor; and the Health Sciences Campus, three miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles. • USC also has programs and centers in Marina Del Rey, Alhambra, Orange County, Catalina Island and other Southern California locations, as well as in Sacramento and Washington, D.C. • The university's fall 2011 enrollment was 38,000, including 17,500 undergraduates and 20,500 graduate and professional students. • Diversity is a hallmark of the USC student community. USC students come from all 50 states, five territories and 115 countries. • For 10 consecutive years, USC has been at the top of U.S. universities in terms of international enrollment. As of fall 2011, USC's student body included 7,200 regularly enrolled international students. • USC offers bachelor's degrees in 162 undergraduate majors and has developed 155 different academic and professional minors—the broadest selection of any U.S. university—to encourage students to study subjects across widely separated fields. • Since 1969, USC has been a member of the Association of American Universities, the elective body that unites the 61 premier public and private research universities in the United States and Canada. • With more than $600 million in annual research expenditures, USC is one of a small number of premier research institutions upon which the United States depends for a steady stream of new knowledge, art and technology. • USC has nearly 3,400 full-time faculty members, in addition to more than 4,500 volunteer faculty affiliated with the Keck School of Medicine of USC, and more than 430 volunteer faculty affiliated with the USC School of Pharmacy. • USC's faculty include Nobel laureates George A. Olah, Murray Gell-Mann and Daniel McFadden as well as National Medal of Arts winner Morten Lauridsen, National Humanities Medal winner Kevin Starr, National Medal of Science winner Andrew Viterbi, Turing Prize winner Leonard Adleman, Pritzker Prize winner Frank Gehry, MacArthur fellows Luis Alfaro and Elyn Saks, violinists Glenn Dicterow and Midori Goto, poet and former National Endowment for the Arts chair Dana Gioia, Manuel Castells (interpreter of the Internet age), Antonio Damasio (pioneer in the neural basis of emotions) and Michael Waterman (a founder of computational genomics). • USC's faculty includes members of the National Academy of Sciences (15), National Academy of Engineering (37), Institute of Medicine (14), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (32), and American Academy of Arts and Letters (3). • Among USC's distinguished alumni are astronauts Neil Armstrong and Charles Bolden; musicians Herb Alpert and Lee Ritenour; opera star Marilyn Horne; sportscaster Frank Gifford; architects Frank Gehry, Jon Jerde and Paul Revere Williams; sports-medicine pioneer Robert Kerlan; directors Ron Howard, George Lucas, Sam Peckinpah and John Singleton; Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf; former U.S. secretary of state Warren Christopher; retired California Supreme Court chief justice Malcolm Lucas and associate justice Joyce L. Kennard; former U.S. ambassador to Australia, South Africa, Liberia and the United Nations Edward Perkins; former South Korean prime minister Kang Young-Hoon; actors Will Ferrell, Fess Parker, John Ritter, Cybill Shepherd, Marlo Thomas, John Wayne and Forest Whitaker; symphony conductor Michael Tilson Thomas; film composers Elmer Bernstein and Jerry Goldsmith; producers Barney Rosenzweig and David L. Wolper; Indian novelist and journalist Raj Kamal Jha; columnist Art Buchwald; AARP founder Ethel Percy Andrus; and entrepreneurs David Bohnett, Scott Cook, Chris DeWolfe, Ming Hsieh, A. C. "Mike" Markkula Jr., Paul Orfalea, Sol Price and Andrew Viterbi. 3