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Test policy: Test-optional.","Middle 50% of enrolled first-years who submitted that test: SAT 1440\u20131550, ACT 32\u201335. 32% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, 14% an ACT \u2014 these ranges describe students who submitted, not the whole class. Average admitted GPA 3.9 (unweighted, 2024-25, as published by the college).","Cost: about $32,740 a year on average with aid, $90,300 a year at full price.","Median earnings ten years after entry: $92,498 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $794,020 ahead with aid, $563,780 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Computer Science ($192,897); Computer Engineering ($166,369); Real Estate ($143,977).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 7% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 55% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","Aid pledge published by the college for 2026-27: families earning under $80,000 pay no tuition; the college meets full demonstrated need.","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name University of Southern California: 150, 838 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often Orange County School of the Arts (23.0 per class year, 23 over 1 class year, Class of 2026); Crossroads School (9.0 per class year, 27 over 3 class years, classes of 2023-25); Harvard-Westlake School (9.0 per class year, 9 over 1 class year, BY THE CLASSES OF 2021-2025, counted column \"CLASS OF '25\"). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/university-of-southern-california.","High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming University of Southern California: 13, 67 admissions between them \u2014 ranked by admissions per class year, most often Archbishop Mitty High School (32.0 per class year, 32 over 1 class year, Class of 2025); St Andrews School Of Boca Raton Inc (3.0 per class year, 3 over 1 class year, Class of 2026); The Chapin School (1.8 per class year, 9 over 5 class years, 2022-2026, counted column \"Admitted\"). Admits are counted at each college, so this counts admissions, not students. These are a different set of documents from the matriculation lists above and the two are never added together; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/university-of-southern-california.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/university-of-southern-california.json"],"caveats":["Admit rate, SAT/ACT bands and applicant counts are IPEDS (federal); admit rates by major are the college system's own reporting (UC Information Center; CSU Chancellor's Office).","UC admits to the campus, not the major, at most programs; a UC admit rate by major is a guide to selectivity, not a rule.","'transfer_only' majors at a CSU had no first-year row reported: freshmen enter as a pre-major and apply into the program later.","net_price_with_aid is the average for aid recipients; full_price is the cost of attendance. The federal $110K+ income bracket is never shown because it fits no family.","Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians; they travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college.","Payoff = ten years of median earnings minus four years of cost, in dollars.","SAT/ACT bands describe ENROLLED first-years who submitted that test, not the admitted pool and not the whole class; at a test-optional college check admissions.submit_share before reading a band as the class profile."],"control":"Private nonprofit","cost":{"by_family_income":[{"band":"$0\u201330K","net_price":13516},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":14394},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":19539},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":24976}],"full_price":90300,"in_state_basis":false,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":32740,"npc_url":"https://financialaid.usc.edu/npc","tuition_in_state":72097,"tuition_out_of_state":72097},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":92498,"median_6yr_after_entry":74461},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":67,"note":"Counts are copied from each high school's own published, numbered list of college acceptances \u2014 where its graduates were ADMITTED, not where they enrolled. 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