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Give every student the opportunity to succeed.

With your support, USC can make sure that every student who is admitted and wants to attend the university has the means to do so. When you make a gift to support USC students, you open wide the doors of access and affordability. You create exciting new learning opportunities and foster personal growth. Ultimately, you transform lives and make the world a better place.

Destination of choice.

“We start with our overarching goal — to increase the stature and impact of USC, by making USC the international standard-bearer and innovator for collaborative learning and discovery, and making USC the top choice for students, faculty, and staff who seek purpose-driven work and lives.”

– President Carol L. Folt, State of the University 2022

“It’s hard for me to find words to describe that feeling of confidence, that feeling of self-belief, that feeling that all my hard work was worth it. Scholarships really do change lives. I wouldn’t be here without a scholarship.”

– Jessica Holmes MS ’20
USC Viterbi School of Engineering

USC student support by the numbers

$635M

Amount USC awarded (including university, state, federal and other sources) in 2022-2023.

$50M

Invested in faculty and institution-wide diversity.

12,091

Total number of undergraduates receiving USC scholarships and grants in 2019-20.

USC President Carol Folt with students

Support USC’s commitment to affordability and accessibilty

USC President Carol L. Folt’s affordabilty initiative entered its fourth year, making a USC education tuition-free for families making less than $80,000 a year.

Scholarships transform lives

Designed for students who grew up in the foster care system, the Trojan Guardian Scholars program connects students with all the resources of the university and brings them together with others from similar backgrounds.

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