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USC has been a member of the Association of American Universities since 1969 and is the oldest private research university in the American West. The University of Southern California is well known for its professional schools in communication, law, dentistry, medicine, business, engineering, journalism, public policy, and architecture, as well as for its School of Cinematic Arts. Additionally, USC's School of International Relations is the third oldest, and one of the most highly regarded, such schools in the world. It also offers the Master of Professional Writing Program.
The incoming freshman class for the 2005 fall term had 31,634 students applied admitting 8,408 and a final matriculation population of 2,741 with an average unadjusted GPA of 3.8 out of 4.0 and an average SAT score of 1368 out of 1600. 19 percent of the students are SCions, or students with familial ties with USC, while 9 percent are the first generation in their family to attend any form of college. There were also 194 National Merit Scholar winners in the most recent admitted class.
Currently, USC ranks among the top 10 private universities receiving federal funds for research and development support and 17th among all research universities in the United States. TheCenter at the University of Florida ranks USC at 12th as a Top American Research Universities.
USC was ranked 27th overall in the country by U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Undergraduate Colleges in 2007.
The following are the rankings for some of the specific schools at USC:
- The School of Cinematic Arts - 1st
- The Leventhal School of Accounting - 5th
- The Marshall School of Business - 9th
- Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies - 3rd
- Marshall School of Business International Business Program - 5th
- The Viterbi School of Engineering - 31st
- The School of Architecture - 6th
Internationally, USC is ranked as the 37th best university in the nation, and 50th best university in the world, by The Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University; and 36th best university in the country, and 124th best in the world, by The Times Higher Education Supplement's list of the top 200 universities in the world;
The 2006 U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Graduate Schools ranked USC graduate programs as the following:
- The School of Cinematic Arts - 1st
- Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy - 1st
- Masters of Professional Writing Program - 4th
- Marshall School of Business Professionals and Managers MBA Program - 5th
- Marshall School of Business Entrepreneur Program - 6th
- The School of Architecture - 6th
- Viterbi School of Engineering - 7th
- School of Policy, Planning, and Development - 7th
- Leventhal School of Accounting - 7th
- School of International Relations Program - 10th
- Gould School of Law - 17th
- Marshall School of Business for MBA - 10th (Wall Street Journal Rankings)
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