Looking forward by looking back
You can’t blame USC for looking forward. Our university is still rising in stature at a breakneck pace. In two decades we have begun to transition from a commuter to a residential school, seen our admission rate plummet by 46 percent and leapfrogged over our crosstown rival in the U.S. News & Word Report rankings, [...]
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Maybe Three Dog Night was on to something with its 1969 hit song “One.” The song presents a contrast to the value that being No. 1, regardless of how it is achieved, is of the utmost importance. With lines like “One is the loneliest number” and “it’s the saddest experience you’ll ever know,” I can’t [...]
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Stanford victory that snapped No. 1 USC’s 18-game winning streak will likely shakeup the top of the men’s collegiate water polo rankings.
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Though USC is often seen as the private school with the inflated price tag across town, UCLA’s business school is making a precarious step toward privatization — one which will come at the expense of the students’ wallets.
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USC is among top universities, according to many polls recently conducted that rank colleges in various categories.
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USC’s recent rise in rankings over UCLA should only inspire more progress — beginning with the university’s recruiting strategies.
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Stanford University earned the top spot on the Daily Beast’s list.
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On Dec. 5, 2009, we lost our final football game of the season to the University of Arizona. On the same day, seven brave Trojans skipped the game to compete in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition — an excruciatingly difficult, six-hour, 12-question, national mathematics competition. As a past participant, I can attest to the [...]
Read the rest of this article »Marshall drops three spots in BusinessWeek rankings
Undergraduate program ranked 24th overall.
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