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  1. Admission Tour

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    1. Tutor Campus Center

      The 150,000-square-foot Ronald Tutor Campus Center houses our Admission Center, Alumni Center, the First Generation Plus Success Center, student offices and workspace, multipurpose areas for meetings and gatherings, a wide variety of dining options, and performance venues. The building’s International Plaza provides students a welcoming outdoor space for dining, lounging and studying.

    2. Student Union Building

      The Student Union remains one of the main hubs for extracurricular campus life. Housed inside are offices for cultural centers such as the Center for Black Cultural and Student Affairs, Asian Pacific American Student Services, the Latinx/Chicanx Center for Advocacy and Student Affairs, and the LGBTQ+ Student Center. Here you will also find the Career Center and the Daily Trojan, USC’s student-run newspaper.

    3. Leventhal School of Accounting

      Accounting


      As the long-standing and nationally recognized sister school to the Marshall School of Business, the Leventhal School of Accounting prepares students to achieve the highest levels of success in the accounting profession. All undergraduate accounting majors follow the business administration track for their first two years, then devote their last two years to accounting.

    4. Musick Law Building

      Law

      Housed in the Musick Law Building, the USC Gould School of Law was founded as Southern California’s first law school in 1900. From Silicon Beach to Downtown L.A., USC Gould offers students access to clerkships, externships and career options with law and business firms, public interest agencies, and entertainment, media and technology firms.

      Gould's undergraduate programs, which include the Bachelor of Science in Legal Studies, offer rigorous academic training, guided by renowned professors who are leading experts in their fields.

    5. Mudd Hall

      Letters, Arts and Sciences


      Dedicated in 1930, the Mudd Hall of Philosophy has become a distinct and recognizable landmark on the University Park Campus. It currently houses the Hoose Library, one of the best collections of philosophy texts in the world, along with classrooms and faculty offices.

    6. Harris Hall

      Art and Design


      Harris Hall serves as headquarters for our Roski School of Art and Design. The School offers three undergraduate degrees: the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art (BFA Art), the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design (BFA Design), and the Bachelor of Arts in Art (BA Art). In addition to challenging themselves in a rigorous academic program, students at Roski have interned at a wide variety of companies and institutions including MTV, ABC, Sony Pictures and the J. Paul Getty Museum.

    7. Watt Hall

      Architecture


      The oldest of its kind in Southern California, the USC School of Architecture offers four- and five-year programs and provides study-abroad opportunities in Europe and Asia. Its distinguished alumni include Pritzker Prize winners Thom Mayne and Frank Gehry, as well as renowned African American architect Paul Williams.

    8. Iovine and Young Hall

      Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation

      Engineered and designed to maximize collaboration and the unrestricted flow of ideas, the 40,000-square-foot Iovine and Young Hall includes a fabrication lab; a rapid-prototyping lab with 3D printing and laser cutting capabilities; a multimedia lab for photo, video, audio and motion capture; a podcast booth; an outdoor lounge with views of Exposition Park; and so much more. 

    9. Ronald Tutor Hall

      Engineering

      Here on the southwest side of campus, you will find Ronald Tutor Hall and many other buildings associated with the Viterbi School of Engineering. In addition to having state-of-the-art classrooms and research facilities, Tutor Hall provides students the opportunity to build community and socialize at its popular café and in the Baum Family Student Center, a spacious lounge on the second floor.

    10. Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center

      Gerontology

      This building houses the Davis School of Gerontology, the oldest and largest school of gerontology in the world. A pioneer in the field, the Davis School offered the world’s first PhD program in Gerontology, the first joint master’s degree with Gerontology and Business Administration, and the first undergraduate Health Science track in Gerontology.

    11. Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience

      The Michelson Center brings together the best minds from the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; the USC Viterbi School of Engineering; the Keck School of Medicine of USC; the USC School of Cinematic Arts; and the Information Sciences Institute. Since its grand opening in fall 2017, the Michelson Center has been breaking interdisciplinary barriers and working to solve the most daunting health and medical challenges of our times.

    12. Seeley G. Mudd Building

      Health Professions

      SGM is home to several of our Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences classes, as well as some Health Promotion and Disease Prevention classes. HPDP, as it is commonly called, is a unique option for students who want to focus on the psychological, biological and policy aspects of health and well-being.

    13. Grace Ford Salvatori Hall

      Letters, Arts and Sciences

      Another hub for USC’s largest academic unit, the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, GFS provides space for discussion sections where students delve more deeply into critical concepts and materials. These sections bring a smaller, more tight-knit feel to USC’s larger, entry-level classes. Additionally, GFS houses the Office of Student Accessibility Services. 

    14. Wallis Annenberg Hall

      Communication

      The newest addition to the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, the 88,000-square-foot Wallis Annenberg Hall combines tradition and technological innovation. Students and staff in the Public Relations, Journalism and Communication programs can take advantage of its converged media center, classrooms for multimedia content creation, café and numerous meeting areas. Its exterior is a blend of Romanesque and neo-Gothic elements.

    15. USC Bookstore

      The official store of USC, USC Bookstore serves the academic and spirit needs of students, faculty, staff, alumni and fans. In addition to textbooks and course materials, the store offers a wide selection of school supplies, computer equipment, designer clothing, gifts and Trojan souvenirs. Exclusive USC styles are available here, including custom-designed shirts and shoes created on site.

    16. Katherine B. Loker Track Stadium/Allyson Felix Field

      Home to the men’s and women’s track and field teams, this stadium also provides a playing field for a wide array of club and intramural sports. The five obelisks in the northeast corner of the stadium celebrate USC’s strong Olympic tradition.

    17. Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

      Communication and Journalism

      Named for former U.S. Ambassador and founder of Seventeen magazine and TV Guide, Walter Annenberg, the School remains a leader in the fields of communication, journalism and public relations. Students have the opportunity to receive hands-on experience by participating in Annenberg TV News, Annenberg News Radio and other student publications.

    18. Heritage Hall

      Trojan Athletics makes its home in Heritage Hall, where the coaches’ and athletic administration offices can be found. Heritage Hall also boasts a beautiful display of USC’s six Heisman Trophies, numerous national championship awards and other prestigious athletic accolades.

    19. School of Cinematic Arts Complex

      Cinematic Arts

      Students within the USC School of Cinematic Arts take classes across seven divisions that cover the breadth of film, television and interactive media. The School’s state-of-the-art facilities include classrooms, sound stages, post-production facilities, editing labs, screening rooms, and meeting rooms that give students space for their computing and collaboration needs. 

      Trojan fact: Cinema students have enough resources available to them to produce a feature-length film without ever leaving campus.

    20. The Norris Dental Science Center

      Dentistry

      The Norris Dental Science Center is where students within the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry are able to hone their skills as dental practitioners. Under the supervision of our expert faculty, USC dental students are able to provide comprehensive, state-of-the-art services at a fraction of the cost offered by most private clinics.

    21. Kaufman International Dance Center

      Dance

      The interior of this building was designed to celebrate movement, all the way down to the way the hallways curve through the building. The Kaufman International Dance Center includes six dance studios, one of which is a 3,591-square-foot performance space that can be converted from a studio into a proscenium stage venue with the use of 140 motorized retractable seats and wings. Its grand opening was in 2016.

    22. USC Village

      The USC Village is a town center comprising 1.2 million square feet of retail and residential space, including Trader Joe’s, Target, Starbucks, Bank of America, Cava, and various other dining and public spaces. Eight residential colleges provide 2,500 beds for USC students.

    23. Taper Hall of Humanities

      Letters, Arts and Sciences

      The Taper Hall of Humanities serves as home to USC Dornsife’s departments of Comparative Literature, English and several foreign languages. Numerous General Education courses are taught throughout its undergraduate lecture halls. In addition, two academic resource facilities are located on the top floors of THH: the Writing Center and the Language Center.

      Trojan fact:       The average class size at USC is 26 students, with a student-to-faculty ratio of nine to one. All General Education classes are taught by full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty.

    24. Ramo Hall and Booth Hall

      Music

      These two halls constitute the main buildings for the Thornton School of Music and include classrooms and sound-proof practice rooms. One of the oldest and most distinguished music schools in the country, the School’s conservatory-style curriculum attracts internationally renowned faculty artists, produces more than 500 concerts every year, and remains the only university music school to broadcast a radio program in a major media market.

    25. Queens Courtyard

      Cinematic Arts and Dramatic Arts

      Queens Courtyard is flanked on either side by the Eileen L. Norris Cinema Theater and the Bing Theatre. Part of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, the Norris Theater serves as a classroom as well as a general movie theatre for on-campus screenings. As the largest of USC’s four on-campus theatre performance spaces, the Bing Theatre seats 550 people to accommodate the needs of the School of Dramatic Arts’ large-scale productions.

    26. Trousdale Parkway

      On a typical day at USC, Trousdale Parkway is bustling with students and professors. As the main thoroughfare on campus, Trousdale has become a center of student activity and the location of key events such as the Undergraduate Research Symposium, the Involvement Fair, the Career Fair, and the Internship Fair, to name just a few.

    27. Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs

      Letters, Arts and Sciences

      This large brick building is home to four of the departments in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences: International Relations, the Unruh Institute of Politics, East Asian Studies, and Art History. Established in the 1920s, the USC School of International Relations is the third oldest in the world.

    28. Waite Phillips Hall

      Education

      Waite Phillips Hall is home to the Rossier School of Education, which works to improve learning opportunities and outcomes in urban settings and to address disparities that affect historically marginalized groups. Rossier teaches students to value and respect the cultural context of the communities in which they work and to interrogate the systems of power that shape policies and practices.

    29. Social Work Center

      Social Work

      The 14,000-square-foot Social Work Center was built in 2003 to accommodate the growing needs of the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. The centerpiece of this facility is a smart classroom that maximizes wireless multimedia technology and video-conferencing capabilities, making it one of the most advanced classrooms of its type on campus.

    30. Leavey Library

      As one of USC’s 23 libraries, Leavey offers computers, printing stations and soundproof rooms to facilitate studying and research. It stays open 24 hours a day, seven days a week to accommodate every student’s busy schedule. 

      Trojan fact: The USC library system houses over four million volumes of books.

    31. McCarthy Quad

      McCarthy Quad serves as the hub of student life, especially for first-year students. Surrounding the Quad are several of our 11 residence halls and suites. Nearby Marks Tower and Pardee Tower compose the South Area Residential College. All first-year students are housed in residential colleges with faculty in residence. Every Wednesday during the school year, McCarthy Quad hosts a bustling farmers market.

    32. Widney Alumni House

      Upon USC’s founding in 1880, the Alumni House (California Historical Landmark #536) stood as the university’s first and only building, accommodating 53 students and 10 faculty members. It now serves the Alumni Association, which comprises more than 450,000 Trojans worldwide. 

      Trojan fact: This house has been moved four times since 1880. It was originally located at the corner of Watt Way and Hellman Way, where the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism Building (25) now stands.

    33. Fertitta Hall

      Business

      Fertitta Hall is the newest addition to the Marshall School of Business. It features 20 classrooms, 50 state-of-the-art breakout rooms, a lounge, a café and outdoor seating. Marshall’s prestigious faculty, location in Los Angeles, and access to an active alumni network make this program one of the leading business schools in the nation.

       

    34. Ralph and Goldy Lewis Hall

      Public Policy

      This beautifully constructed hall serves as the main headquarters for the Price School of Public Policy, which combines practical hands-on work with a solid theoretical foundation.




    35. Doheny Memorial Library

      The oldest research library on the USC campus, Doheny comprises nine separate floors that house approximately 790,000 books. Doheny also boasts impressive architectural features such as marble pillars and a stained-glass study room known as the “Intellectual Commons.” Students, staff and visitors can find indoor and outdoor seating areas and a peaceful place for study or conversation in Doheny’s quaint coffee shop, LiteraTea.

    36. Bovard Administration Building and Auditorium

      The second oldest concert hall in Los Angeles, Bovard Auditorium seats nearly 1,250 people. Throughout the year, the auditorium hosts special events, speakers and performances for our Visions and Voices arts and humanities series. Past participants have included authors Isabel Allende and David Sedaris, the Diavolo Dance Theatre, and the world’s most acclaimed tap dancer, Savion Glover.

      Additionally, John Williams conducted a performance of several film scores in this auditorium. Bovard also houses the offices of the university president, provost and other members of the senior administration.

    37. Tommy Trojan

      Originally called the Trojan Shrine, this handsome statue was installed in 1930 to commemorate USC’s 50th anniversary. On Tommy’s pedestal are the five ideal attributes of a Trojan: faithful, scholarly, skillful, courageous and ambitious. These traits distinguish USC graduates both in Los Angeles and around the globe. Tommy Trojan is a true symbol of USC.