University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA

F
Score: 386/1400
20,619
Undergraduate students
94%
Retention rate
$64,726
Annual tuition
0.56
Diversity Index
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Large Campus
Large Campus
private
Private University
Urban Campus
Urban Campus
Four-Year College
Four-Year College
West Region
(Neo)Liberal Campus
(Neo)Liberal Campus
Sports Culture
Sports Culture
Noisy Campus
Noisy Campus
Graduate Students Unionized
Graduate Students Unionized

Description

Are all campus buildings physically accessible to students who use wheelchairs or other mobility aids?

NO

In 2015, the Daily Trojan reported, "Academic buildings identified by the task forces as being inaccessible to students with disabilities included the University Religious Center, Raubenheimer Music Faculty Building, Leventhal School of Accounting and the College Academic Services Building. Housing buildings included Regal Trojan, Century Apartments, Parkside Apartments, International Residential College at Parkside and New North Residential College.

"The task forces also identified that the Disability Office lacks confidential conversation spaces for students to meet with staff members."

Are class session recordings readily available for lecture courses?

YES

Are students required to provide documentation of disability to qualify for receiving initial accommodations?

YES

Is there required diversity and inclusivity training for faculty/staff/and students, and does training include recognition of neurodivergence and disability?

NO

What types of student-run peer support groups exist on campus?

Disability Cultural Center

NO

Mutual Aid Networks

NO

Peer Support Groups

YES

Other

NO

Peer Support: https://news.usc.edu/149434/usc-student-support-programs-trojansupport/ 

Have you experienced ableism, discrimination, or witnessed stigmatizing language?

YES

See Negative Experiences section.

Are police involved in responding to student mental health crises?

YES

Does your college have a Student of Concern reporting page?

Yes (Allows anonymous reporting)

https://campussupport.usc.edu/students/

Clery Report data: Number of sexual assaults reported on campus per thousand students.

2

*2021 data

Has the college published an official statement in support of racial justice movements?
Black Lives Matter Logo

Support for Black Lives Matter

YES

Support for Land Back

NO

On June 9, 2020, USC President Carol L. Folt issued the following statement: "Black lives matter. To honor black lives, out of respect for Black lives, and for our self-respect, we need to seize this moment of self-awareness, to work together until we put an end to 400 years of tragic injustice."

Does your college offer a Disability Studies curriculum?

NO

Does your college offer a course on Critical Theory?

NO

Does the college engage in morally questionable research?

Animal Experimentation

YES

Cure Autism

NO

Other

NO

Negative Student Experiences:

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News
Submitted by:
admin
2021-11-10

Over the past decade, the University of Southern California has used a for-profit company to help enroll thousands of students in its online social-work master's program.

The nonprofit school used its status-symbol image to attract students across the country, including low-income minority students it targeted for recruitment, often with aggressive tactics. Most students piled on debt to afford the tuition, which last year reached $115,000 for the two-year degree. The majority never set foot on the posh Los Angeles campus but paid the same rate for online classes as in-person students.

…

The school formulated marketing campaigns to woo applicants, using demographic profiles of the kinds of students they would recruit, internal documents used by the marketing department and reviewed by the Journal show. The profiles include cartoon characters depicting potential recruits; in one depiction, a Black woman dubbed Needy Nelly "needs hand-holding" and "calls and emails everyone" because she has trouble with her application.

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News
Submitted by:
admin
2020-02-26

Eight days later, during the homecoming tailgate, the Black and brown fraternities and sororities of Alpha Phi Alpha, Omega Phi Beta, Lambda Upsilon Lambda were fenced in and kept under heavy policing by both DPS and LAPD officers, with the occupancy capped at a number far below what was possible for so many organizations.

During the Fall 2019 semester, a total of five hate crimes occurred on campus according to USC Annenberg Media, and DPS has so far only commented on two. One instance, on Oct. 18, consisted of a racial slur that was written on a whiteboard on a student’s door. The other incident, on Nov. 19, a “Keep America Great” sticker was found on the apartment door of four Muslim women living in the Nemirovsky and Bohnett Residential College.

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