University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, the oldest private research university in the state and a member of the Association of American Universities since 1969.南加州大学（University of Southern California，缩写 USC）是一所位于美国加利福尼亚州洛杉矶的私立研究型大学，是加州历史最悠久的私立研究型大学，自 1969 年起为美国大学协会成员。

Founded in 1880 by the judge Robert M. Widney, it enrols about 47,000 students across the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and twenty-two professional schools, and ranks 153rd in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.学校由法官罗伯特·维德尼于 1880 年创办，现设有文理学院与二十二所专业学院，在校学生约 4.7 万人，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 153。

History

• Robert Maclay Widney, a Los Angeles judge, led the campaign to found the university, securing land and seed money from three local figures, the nurseryman Ozro Childs, the former governor John Gately Downey and the banker Isaias Wolf Hellman.洛杉矶法官罗伯特·麦克莱·维德尼推动创办了这所大学，并从三位本地人士处筹得土地与启动资金，即园艺商奥兹罗·蔡尔兹、前州长约翰·盖特利·唐尼与银行家伊萨亚斯·沃尔夫·赫尔曼。

• The three donors gave 308 acres for the campus, and the university opened on 6 October 1880 with 53 students and ten faculty members.三位捐赠者共捐出 308 英亩土地用于校园，学校于 1880 年 10 月 6 日开学，当时有 53 名学生与 10 名教师。

• Although founded in association with the Methodist Church, the university ruled from the outset that no student would be denied admission on grounds of race, and it severed its formal church ties in 1952.学校虽最初与卫理公会相关联，但自创办起即规定不得因种族而拒绝录取学生，并于 1952 年正式切断与教会的联系。

• Its first graduating class, in 1884, numbered three students, two men and one woman, and the woman was the class valedictorian.其首届毕业生于 1884 年产生，共三人，两男一女，其中那位女性毕业生是班级的毕业致辞代表。

• Old College, built in 1887, housed the liberal arts college for decades before age and earthquake-safety concerns led to its demolition in 1948.建于 1887 年的老学院楼在数十年间用作文理学院的教学楼，后因年代久远且不抗震，于 1948 年被拆除。

• From 1919 the architect John Parkinson drew up a master plan that pushed the campus beyond its original avenue and gave it the Romanesque Revival character for which it is known.自 1919 年起，建筑师约翰·帕金森拟定的总体规划使校园突破原有那条大道的范围，并赋予校园后来广为人知的罗马复兴式风貌。

• The Bovard Administration Building was completed in 1921, followed by the Gwynn Wilson Student Union in 1927, the Doheny Memorial Library in 1932 and the Allan Hancock Foundation in 1940.博瓦德行政楼于 1921 年落成，其后依次建成格温·威尔逊学生活动中心（1927）、多希尼纪念图书馆（1932）与艾伦·汉考克基金会楼（1940）。

• Rufus B. von KleinSmid, president from 1921 to 1947, oversaw the construction of nineteen buildings in twenty-five years and shaped much of the modern campus.1921 至 1947 年任校长的鲁弗斯·冯·克莱因斯米德在二十五年间主持建造了十九座建筑，塑造了现代校园的相当一部分面貌。

• During the Second World War the university took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program, and by the war's end nearly three-quarters of its male students were serving in some branch of the military.第二次世界大战期间，学校参与美国海军的 V-12 大学训练计划，到战争结束时，其男性学生中有近四分之三在军中服役。

• Enrolment of veterans under the G.I. Bill surged to about 24,000 by 1947, straining the university's facilities and prompting a decade of building.依据《退伍军人权利法案》入学的退伍军人到 1947 年激增至约 2.4 万人，使学校设施不堪重负，并促成了其后十年的建设潮。

• Norman Topping became president in 1958 and, with the architect William Pereira, built 99 structures between 1961 and 1979.诺曼·托平于 1958 年出任校长，并与建筑师威廉·佩雷拉合作，在 1961 至 1979 年间建成 99 座建筑。

• The university joined the Association of American Universities in 1969 and hosted events of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.学校于 1969 年加入美国大学协会，并承办了 1984 年洛杉矶夏季奥运会的部分赛事。

• Steven Sample became president in 1990 and led a period of academic expansion that raised the university's national profile.史蒂文·桑普尔于 1990 年出任校长，其任内推动的学术扩张提升了学校的全国声望。

• In 2004 the School of Engineering was renamed the Viterbi School of Engineering after the Qualcomm co-founder Andrew Viterbi and his wife Erna donated 52 million dollars.2004 年，高通联合创始人安德鲁·维特比与妻子埃尔娜捐资 5200 万美元，工程学院由此更名为维特比工程学院。

• George Lucas donated 175 million dollars to the School of Cinematic Arts in 2006, then the largest single gift in the university's history, and the school's acceptance rate has since remained between four and six per cent.乔治·卢卡斯于 2006 年向电影艺术学院捐资 1.75 亿美元，为当时学校史上最大单笔捐赠，此后该学院的录取率长期维持在百分之四至六之间。

• The Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences took its name in 2011 after the trustees Dana and David Dornsife gave 200 million dollars to the university.2011 年，校董达纳与大卫·多恩斯夫捐资 2 亿美元后，文理学院以二人姓氏命名为多恩斯夫学院。

• The USC Village, a 700 million dollar residential and retail development housing 2,700 students, opened in August 2017 as the largest project in the university's history.可容纳 2700 名学生的住宿与商业综合体 USC 村耗资 7 亿美元，于 2017 年 8 月启用，是学校历史上规模最大的工程。

• In March 2023 the university opened a Capital Campus in Washington, D.C., and Beong-Soo Kim became president in July 2025, succeeding Carol Folt.2023 年 3 月，学校在华盛顿特区启用首都校区；2025 年 7 月，Beong-Soo Kim 接替卡罗尔·福尔特出任校长。

• In 2023 research assistants, teaching assistants and lecturers voted by 1,599 to 122 to unionise with the United Auto Workers, creating the first academic worker union at a private university in Los Angeles.2023 年，学校的研究助理、助教与讲师以 1599 票对 122 票决定加入美国汽车工人联合会，成为洛杉矶私立大学中的首个学术工作者工会。

Academics

• The university centres on the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, which grants undergraduate degrees in more than 180 majors and minors and houses about a thousand full-time faculty.学校的核心是达纳与大卫·多恩斯夫文理学院，该院提供 180 多个主修与辅修方向的本科课程，拥有约一千名全职教师。

• Twenty-two professional schools span business, engineering, law, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, social work, public policy, education, music, architecture, art and design, dramatic arts, dance, gerontology and communication.二十二所专业学院涵盖商学、工程、法学、医学、牙医、药学、社会工作、公共政策、教育、音乐、建筑、艺术设计、戏剧、舞蹈、老年学与传播等领域。

• It enrols about 21,000 undergraduates and 26,000 postgraduates, taught by some 4,767 full-time faculty, and its endowment stood at 8.8 billion dollars in 2025 with an annual budget of 7.4 billion.学校在校本科生约 2.1 万人、研究生约 2.6 万人，由约 4767 名全职教师授课；其捐赠基金在 2025 年为 88 亿美元，年度预算为 74 亿美元。

• The university is classified as an R1 doctoral university with very high research activity, and it carries out nearly one billion dollars a year in sponsored research.学校属科研活动极高的 R1 类博士型大学，每年承担近十亿美元的委托科研。

• The School of Cinematic Arts, founded in 1929 with the help of the film industry, is the oldest and largest film school in the United States.电影艺术学院在电影业支持下于 1929 年创办，是全美历史最久、规模最大的电影学院。

• The School of Architecture, established in 1916, was the first in Southern California and has counted Richard Neutra, William Pereira and Pierre Koenig among its teachers and Frank Gehry among its alumni.建筑学院创立于 1916 年，是南加州最早的建筑学院，曾聘有理查德·诺伊特拉、威廉·佩雷拉与皮埃尔·科尼格任教，校友中则有弗兰克·盖里。

• The Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, founded in 1971, is one of two communication schools endowed by the publisher Walter Annenberg, the other being at the University of Pennsylvania.安纳伯格传播与新闻学院创办于 1971 年，是出版家沃尔特·安纳伯格捐资设立的两所传播学院之一，另一所位于宾夕法尼亚大学。

• The Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry dates from 1897, and the Keck School of Medicine and the Price School of Public Policy are among the university's other named professional schools.赫尔曼·奥斯特罗牙医学院的历史可追溯至 1897 年，凯克医学院与普莱斯公共政策学院是学校其他以捐赠者命名的专业学院。

• The USC Libraries, among the oldest private academic research libraries in California, hold nearly four million printed volumes, six million microform items and three million photographs across twenty-two libraries.南加州大学图书馆系统是加州历史最久的私立学术研究图书馆之一，二十二座图书馆共藏有近 400 万册印刷图书、600 万件缩微品与 300 万张照片。

• The Warner Bros. Archives, donated to the university in 1977, is the largest single studio collection in the world, documenting Warner Bros. from 1918 until its sale in 1968.1977 年捐给学校的华纳兄弟档案是世界最大的单一制片厂档案，记录了华纳兄弟自 1918 年首部重要影片至 1968 年出售期间的历史。

• The Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, established after the 1994 film Schindler's List, holds the testimony of some 52,000 Holocaust survivors and witnesses.大屠杀基金会视觉历史与教育研究所因 1994 年电影《辛德勒的名单》而设立，收藏着约 5.2 万名大屠杀幸存者与见证人的证言。

• USC faculty have included the chemists George Olah, winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize, and Arieh Warshel, winner of the 2013 prize, and the computer scientist Leonard Adleman, winner of the 2003 Turing Award.学校教师中包括 1994 年诺贝尔奖得主、化学家乔治·欧拉，2013 年诺贝尔奖得主、化学家阿里耶·瓦谢尔，以及 2003 年图灵奖得主、计算机科学家伦纳德·阿德尔曼。

• Five Nobel laureates have served on the university's staff, and its researchers have taken part in projects ranging from the early ARPANET to the operation of a commercially available quantum computer.先后有五位诺贝尔奖得主在学校任职，其研究人员参与的项目从早期的阿帕网直到商用化量子计算机的运行。

• The university hosts the Southern California Earthquake Center, funded by the National Science Foundation and the United States Geological Survey, and was named the first Homeland Security Center of Excellence.学校设有由美国国家科学基金会与美国地质调查局资助的南加州地震中心，并曾被列为首个国土安全卓越中心。

• USC has partnered with Shanghai Jiao Tong University to deliver an executive MBA programme in Shanghai, and its Dornsife College runs study centres in Paris and Madrid.学校与上海交通大学合作在上海开设高级工商管理硕士项目，其多恩斯夫学院在巴黎与马德里设有海外学习中心。

• The university's medical enterprise includes the Keck School of Medicine, the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, one of the largest teaching hospitals in the country.学校的医疗体系包括凯克医学院、诺里斯综合癌症中心与洛杉矶县—南加州大学医学中心，后者是全美规模最大的教学医院之一。

• About 72 per cent of the student body receives financial aid totalling some 810 million dollars a year, and the average aid package among recipients was 71,169 dollars in 2025.约百分之七十二的学生获得资助，年度资助总额约 8.1 亿美元，2025 年受助者的平均资助金额为 71169 美元。

Campus

• The University Park campus covers about 226 acres in the University Park neighbourhood of Los Angeles, roughly two miles south-west of downtown and bordered by Jefferson Boulevard, Figueroa Street and Vermont Avenue.大学公园主校区占地约 226 英亩，位于洛杉矶大学公园街区，距市中心西南约两英里，四周以杰斐逊大道、菲格罗亚街与佛蒙特大道为界。

• Most buildings are in the Romanesque Revival style, in red brick, and the historic core was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.校区多数建筑为红砖砌成的罗马复兴式，其历史核心区于 2015 年被列入美国国家史迹名录。

• The Widney Alumni House, built in 1880, is the oldest university building in Southern California, and the campus is within walking distance of the Shrine Auditorium and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.建于 1880 年的维德尼校友之家是南加州最古老的大学建筑，校园步行可达神殿礼堂与洛杉矶纪念体育场。

• The Health Sciences campus, about 79 acres three miles from downtown, hosts the region's oldest medical and pharmacy schools and three patient-care facilities.健康科学校区占地约 79 英亩，距市中心三英里，设有该地区历史最久的医学院与药学院以及三处病患照护设施。

• The university also operates the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies on Catalina Island, a satellite centre in Sacramento, an Orange County centre in Irvine and the USC Capital Campus in Washington, D.C.学校还在卡塔利娜岛设有里格利环境研究所，在萨克拉门托设有分校区，在尔湾设有橙县中心，并在华盛顿特区设有首都校区。

• The Center for International and Public Affairs, topped by a 5,500-pound globe, is the tallest structure on the University Park campus.国际与公共事务中心顶部装有一尊重达 5500 磅的地球仪，是大学公园校区最高的建筑。

• The Metro E Line light rail wraps around the southern and eastern edges of the main campus, with three stations serving it, and the campus is close to Interstate 110.地铁 E 线轻轨环绕主校区南缘与东缘，设有三座车站服务校区，校园也紧邻 110 号州际公路。

• The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which USC operates and manages, stands beside the campus and has hosted two Summer Olympic Games.由南加州大学运营管理的洛杉矶纪念体育场紧邻校园，曾两次承办夏季奥运会。

Reputation

• The university places 153rd in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, joint 71st in the 2027 Times Higher Education ranking, 68th in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities and joint 74th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities.学校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 153，2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名并列第 71，2026 年软科世界大学学术排名第 68，2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名并列第 74。

• Its research-oriented standing is higher than its QS position suggests, a gap that reflects the weight that the QS table gives to reputation surveys.其以科研为导向的声誉高于 QS 名次所反映的水平，这一落差源于 QS 榜单对声誉调查的较高权重。

• In the QS 2026 subject tables it ranks eighth in communication and media studies, 28th in philosophy and 30th in music and performing arts.在 2026 年 QS 学科排名中，其传播与媒体研究位列第 8，哲学第 28，音乐与表演艺术第 30。

• The 2026 ARWU subject tables place it 16th in medical technology, 20th in management, 21st in finance and 24th in law.2026 年软科学科排名将其医学技术列为第 16，管理学第 20，金融学第 21，法学第 24。

• The university has graduated more winners of Academy and Emmy Awards than any other institution, a record built on the School of Cinematic Arts.学校培养的奥斯卡奖与艾美奖得主数量超过其他任何院校，这一纪录建立在其电影艺术学院之上。

• Athletically, Trojan teams have won 113 NCAA team championships, third only to Stanford and UCLA, and USC athletes have taken 326 Olympic medals, more than those of any other American university.体育方面，特洛伊队共夺得 113 项 NCAA 团体冠军，仅次于斯坦福与加州大学洛杉矶分校；其运动员累计获得 326 枚奥运奖牌，超过美国其他任何大学。

• Eleven Rhodes Scholars, twelve Marshall Scholars, six MacArthur Fellows and a Turing Award winner are counted among its alumni and affiliates.其校友与关联人士中包括十一位罗德学者、十二位马歇尔学者、六位麦克阿瑟奖得主以及一位图灵奖得主。

• Its undergraduate admissions are rated most selective, with an admit rate of 9.9 per cent for the class entering in 2023 out of 80,790 applicants.其本科招生被评为最具选择性，2023 年入学的这一届收到 80790 份申请，录取率约百分之九点九。

Student life

• The university's motto is Palmam qui meruit ferat, Latin for let whoever earns the palm bear it, and its colours are cardinal and gold.学校校训为拉丁语（Palmam qui meruit ferat，意为“赢得棕榈枝者得之”），校色为深红与金色。

• Students and athletes are known as Trojans, a name adopted after a 1912 track meet in which USC athletes were said to have fought on like the Trojans of antiquity.学校师生与运动员被称为“特洛伊人”，这一称号源于 1912 年一场田径赛，当时有报道称赞南加大队员“像古代特洛伊人那样战斗到底”。

• Traveler, a white Andalusian horse, is the official mascot, while the bronze Trojan Shrine known as Tommy Trojan is the campus meeting point and a much-photographed landmark.官方吉祥物是白色安达卢西亚马“旅行者”，而名为“汤米·特洛伊”的青铜特洛伊武士像则是校园集合点与热门留影地标。

• The official fight song Fight On was composed in 1922 by the dental student Milo Sweet, and the Spirit of Troy marching band has performed at two Olympic Games.官方战歌《Fight On》由牙科学生迈洛·斯威特于 1922 年谱写，特洛伊精神行进乐队曾两度在奥运会演出。

• The annual football game with the University of Notre Dame, contested for the Jeweled Shillelagh and played almost every year since 1926, is among the best-known intersectional rivalries in American college sport.学校与圣母大学一年一度的橄榄球赛以“镶宝木杖”为奖杯，自 1926 年起几乎年年举行，是美国大学体育中最著名的跨区宿敌对决之一。

• The cross-town rivalry with the University of California, Los Angeles, played for the Victory Bell, divides Los Angeles and was for decades a fixture of the same conference.学校与加州大学洛杉矶分校的同城宿敌之争以“胜利钟”为赌注，这座城市因此一分为二，两队长期同属一个联盟。

• The Daily Trojan has been the student newspaper since 1912 and once secured the first interview with President Richard Nixon after his resignation.《特洛伊日报》自 1912 年起为学生报纸，曾独家刊出尼克松总统辞职后的首次访谈。

• The university's Greek system dates to 1887, when Kappa Alpha Theta established a chapter, and fraternities and sororities remain concentrated on West 28th Street, known as The Row.学校的希腊字母社团体系始于 1887 年卡帕·阿尔法·西塔设立分会，兄弟会与姐妹会至今仍集中在被称为“社团街”的西二十八街一带。

• Because of its proximity to Hollywood, the campus has appeared in at least 180 films and television titles, from Forrest Gump and The Graduate to The Social Network.由于邻近好莱坞，校园至少在 180 部影视作品中出现，从《阿甘正传》《毕业生》到《社交网络》。

Notable people

• Robert M. Widney, the judge who founded the university and secured its land, and the three donors Ozro Childs, John Gately Downey and Isaias Wolf Hellman, stand at the head of the institution's history.创办学校并筹得土地的法官罗伯特·维德尼，以及奥兹罗·蔡尔兹、约翰·唐尼与伊萨亚斯·赫尔曼三位捐赠者，居于学校历史的开端。

• Marion M. Bovard, the first president from 1880, and Rufus B. von KleinSmid, who led the university from 1921 to 1947, shaped its early growth.1880 年起任首任校长的马里恩·博瓦德，以及 1921 至 1947 年主政的鲁弗斯·冯·克莱因斯米德，共同塑造了学校的早期成长。

• George Olah won the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and founded the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, and Arieh Warshel won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.乔治·欧拉获 1994 年诺贝尔化学奖并创办洛克碳氢化合物研究所，阿里耶·瓦谢尔则获 2013 年诺贝尔化学奖。

• Leonard Adleman, a faculty member who helped develop the RSA public-key cryptosystem, received the 2003 Turing Award.参与研发 RSA 公钥密码系统的教师伦纳德·阿德尔曼获 2003 年图灵奖。

• Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the Moon, took a master's degree in aerospace engineering at the university in 1970.首位在月球上行走的尼尔·阿姆斯特朗于 1970 年在该校取得航空航天工程硕士学位。

• George Lucas, creator of Star Wars and Indiana Jones, and the architect Frank Gehry, a Pritzker Prize winner, are among its best-known alumni.《星球大战》与《夺宝奇兵》的创作者乔治·卢卡斯与普利兹克奖得主、建筑师弗兰克·盖里，是学校最知名的校友之一。

• Andrew Viterbi, co-founder of Qualcomm and inventor of the Viterbi algorithm, graduated from the university, which later named its engineering school after him.高通联合创始人、维特比算法的发明者安德鲁·维特比毕业于该校，学校后来以其姓氏命名了工程学院。

• Warren Christopher, a former United States secretary of state, and Marc Benioff, co-founder and chief executive of Salesforce, are counted among its graduates in public life and business.美国前国务卿沃伦·克里斯托弗与云计算公司 Salesforce 联合创始人兼首席执行官马克·贝尼奥夫，是学校在公共事务与商界的毕业生代表。

• Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, a former president and prime minister of Pakistan, and Mohamed Morsi, a former president of Egypt, both studied at the university.巴基斯坦前总统兼总理佐勒菲卡尔·阿里·布托与埃及前总统穆罕默德·穆尔西都曾在该校就读。

• Jerry Buss and his daughter Jeanie, long-time owners of the Los Angeles Lakers, and the musician Dexter Holland of The Offspring, are also among its alumni.洛杉矶湖人队长期持有者杰里·巴斯及其女儿珍妮·巴斯，以及摇滚乐队 The Offspring 的德克斯特·霍兰德，也在其校友之列。