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title: "University of Southern California: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "The University of Southern California is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-university-of-southern-california
type: Organization
wikidata: Q4614
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Southern_California
website: https://usc.cn
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# University of Southern California

> The University of Southern California is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United States
- Founded: 1880-10-06
- Headquarters: Los Angeles
- Status: private
- Website: https://usc.cn
- Employees: 28,873 (as of 2019-01-01)
- Also known as: USC, U.S.C., University of Southern CA, Univ. of Southern California
- Industries: higher education

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/USC
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJDGYVOYi13IqD3CYfETe0w
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/usc
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uscedu

## Key people

- Robert M. Widney, founder (American judge (1838–1929))
- Duncan Haldane (professor of physics at Princeton University)
- Charles Francis Richter (American seismologist)
- bell hooks (American author and activist (1952–2021))
- Douglas Fairbanks (American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer (1883–1939))
- George Andrew Olah (Hungarian chemist (1927-2017))
- Werner Arber (Swiss microbiologist and geneticist)
- Ernst Lubitsch (German-American actor and film director (1892–1947))
- Angus Deaton (British microeconomist (born 1945))
- David Alfaro Siqueiros (Mexican painter and muralist (1908–1974))
- Arieh Warshel (chemist, biochemist and biophysicist)
- Cory Doctorow (Canadian-British-American blogger, journalist, and science fiction author)
- Manuel Castells (Spanish sociologist)

## Revenue

- 2011-01-01: USD 3.7 billion (Wikidata)
- 2012-01-01: USD 3.6 billion (Wikidata)
- 2013-01-01: USD 4 billion (Wikidata)
- 2014-01-01: USD 4.6 billion (Wikidata)
- 2015-01-01: USD 4.6 billion (Wikidata)
- 2016-01-01: USD 4.9 billion (Wikidata)
- 2017-01-01: USD 5.1 billion (Wikidata)
- 2018-01-01: USD 5.6 billion (Wikidata)
- 2019-01-01: USD 5.9 billion (Wikidata)
- 2020-01-01: USD 6.4 billion (Wikidata)
- 2021-01-01: USD 5.4 billion (Wikidata)
- 2022-01-01: USD 5.6 billion (Wikidata)
- 2023-01-01: USD 5.1 billion (Wikidata)
- 2024-01-01: USD 5.6 billion (Wikidata)

## Ownership

Subsidiaries: USC Marshall School of Business, USC School of Cinematic Arts, Center for Quantum Information Science & Technology, USC Thornton School of Music, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, USC Gould School of Law, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California Sea Grant, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Women in Science and Engineering, University of Southern California

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on University of Southern California, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-university-of-southern-california#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4614, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Southern_California
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001581965

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