University of Southern California

University of Southern California
NIST Sector	Data Education Wellbeing
GICS Industrial
Smart Tag(s)
Business type	Nonprofit
Year Founded	October 6, 1880
Founder(s)	Robert M. Widney
City, State	Los Angeles CA
Country	United States
Region Served	State
Executives	Carol Folt
Revenue	$5.5B€ 4.84 <br />£ 4.07 <br />CA$ 6.985 <br />CNY 34.815 <br />KRW 6.74 <br />
Number of employees	21320
Sponsorship Level	Of Interest

Members

The USC Price Center for Social Innovation develops ideas and illuminates strategies to improve the quality of life for people in low-income, urban communities.

Activities

		Neighborhood Data for Social Change
		The Neighborhood Data for Social Change (NDSC) platform is a free, publicly available online resource for civic actors to learn about their communities.

		Neighborhood Data for Social Change Platform
		The Neighborhood Data for Social Change (NDSC) platform is a free, publicly available online resource for civic actors to learn about their communities.

Details

The University of Southern California is a private research university in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in California.

The university is composed of one liberal arts school, the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and twenty-two undergraduate, graduate and professional schools, enrolling roughly 21,000 undergraduate and 28,500 post-graduate students from all fifty U.S. states, and more than 115 countries. USC is ranked as one of the top universities in the United States and admission to its programs is considered highly selective.

USC was one of the earliest nodes on ARPANET and is the birthplace of the Domain Name System. Other technologies invented at USC include DNA computing, dynamic programming, image compression, VoIP, and antivirus software.