USC's international character has been part of our culture from the very beginning. It's in our DNA.
When USC was founded in 1880
international students were among our first classes.
As one of the leading universities
located in the creative capital of the world a full quarter of our student body is international and their graduates join an
unparalleled network of over three hundred and seventy-five thousand alums worldwide.
When I first arrived at USC I was surprised by how welcoming the community was and how quickly I became part of the Trojan Family.
The campus at USC is by far the most beautiful campus I've seen.
It's always sunny first of all, and you see people skateboarding around, biking around campus.
I'm lucky enough to live in McCarthy Honors Residential College which is part of the USC Village.
It has dorms but it also has things like cafes, restaurants, retail, lots of facilities that make life better for students.
I love the ability here to
study a wide variety of different things. From languages to the sciences to the arts and humanities to
engineering and the cinematic arts. You can really do it all within that four-year period.
Every student who receives a USC education
represents the potential for positive global change.
We educate the leaders of tomorrow.
The world bachelor in business program consists of four years of undergraduate study.
The first year happens at USC Marshall School of Business,
the second year's in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong,
and the third year in Bocconi University in Milan.
And the fourth year you get to choose where you want to go back
to finish your undergraduate degree and I decided to come back here USC because I wanted to take advantage of the entrepreneurship
resources that USC offers.
The USC entrepreneurial ecosystem is deep and vast.
Everything that you could ever dream of is available at the university.
We have incubators for both early-stage ventures and more mature ventures with traction.
We have six or seven competitions that give away three hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year.
We have a mentor network that is second to none and then we have access to
technology and entertainment and digital media like no other university because we're located in Los Angeles.
In my classes students learn how film and television is produced.
Students have access to unbelievable facilities.
It's like walking around the back lot of Warner Brothers here. You've got sound stages,
mixing stages, editing rooms. The minute they graduate they are industry ready.
My experience of the USC School of Cinematic Arts has been only positive.
I've been given lots of opportunities to work in both film and television.
Through the curriculum I've learned every skill.
If you're interested in filmmaking at all I can think of nothing better than coming over to Los Angeles in the hub of
filmmaking and cinema where you can live and breathe creativity on a daily basis.
In addition to the film community in Los Angeles we have a blossoming, booming
interactive and digital business in an area called Silicon Beach.
Here at USC Games the experience we give our students is extremely professional grade.
When we're running production there are six faculty members,
all six of us if you add it up there's something like a hundred and fifty years of game development experience.
We model how we work and manage professional teams with our students with one caveat
they're allowed to raise their hand and say help.
As a computer science games major, I take half of my classes in the Viterbi School of Engineering
and the other half in the School of Cinematic Arts
where you're taught how to be designers and we're taught how to be
engineers and we're taught how to combine those two things.
Our faculty and our students are encouraged to have an entrepreneurial mindset.
They experiment with the tools at their disposal
They break new ground in terms of their research and scholarship.
They're thinking constantly not just about these industries today
but what these industries are going to look like in the future and how they can play a leadership role in them.
I had an internship in Rio de Janeiro
with General Electric during the Olympics.
I was aggregating content, pictures, newsletters, press releases.
Being an Annenberg student gave me the confidence I needed to take that direction and
be successful and it's amazing to me that I got to do this all as an undergrad.
My undergraduate experience at USC has been incredibly rewarding,
very spirited and very, very supportive.
The academics, the campus life, the extracurriculars, living in L.A.
I don't think there's anywhere else in the world where you can receive an education and the experience that USC offers as a whole.
Come and visit us in sunny California and Fight On!