Poets&Quants Top Business Schools

University of Southern California Marshall School of Business

#13

Contact Information

Location:
3670 Trousdale Pkwy
Los Angeles, California 90089
Admissions Office:
213-740-8885

Total Cost (In-State): $278,844*

Total Cost (Out-of-State): $278,844*

Graduates With Jobs 90 Days After Graduation: 90.3%

Acceptance Rate: 17.7%

Average SAT: 1369

Average ACT: 31

National Merit Scholars: 7.2%

HS Class Top Ten: 88%*

When do students declare their majors: Freshman Year

*Total Cost In-State and Out-of-State is the estimated total cost of earning the degree over four years including tuition, fees, room, board, and living expenses for the most recent graduating class.

* HS Class Top Ten is the percent of the student population that graduated high school in the top ten percent of their class.

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Coming in at 13th on the Poets&Quants ranking is the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business located in downtown Los Angeles. For high school students interested in studying business at USC, it’d be wise to become familiar with the term “breadth with depth.” The school’s administrators use it to describe the idea of studying the appropriate amount of depth in a student’s specific area of interest. This is reflected in the curriculum by a commitment to liberal arts even for business students.

Within the business school, students choose from a business administration major or an accounting major. However, USC Marshall has one of the most unique degree programs in the World Bachelor in Business Program. A joint program more akin to an executive MBA than a bachelors degree in business, students spend for years studying at USC, HKUST Business School in Hong Kong, and Università Bocconi in Milan, Italy.

“The World Bachelor Program in particular touches on things like university processes, admissions, housing, and medical insurance,” Vice Dean of Undergraduate Programs at USC Marshall Tyrone Callahan told Poets&Quants last July. “We had to make sure we considered every aspect of the program and what the student experience would be like. Through that I was able to learn a lot about how the university works in different capacities in a way that most faculty members are unaware of.”

Incoming students will also get to experience the state-of-the-art Jill and Frank Fertitta Hall. Before, the undergraduate population had been spread out among multiple buildings, but Fertitta Hall — opened this fall — serves as a hub for undergraduates at Marshall. Another relatively recent innovation made by Marshall was to “trim the fat” of unnecessary core courses. The result was freeing up a lot of electives.

“Within the business curriculum, students have a minimum of 24 free electives, and that’s enough to do pretty much every minor,” Callahan pointed out in his interview.

USC Marshall finished in a five-way tie for ninth in the most recent U.S. News ranking, but was not included in the latest Bloomberg Businessweek ranking because it did not hit the minimum student response rate. While Marshall finished seventh in the admissions category of Poets&Quants ranking, its 17th finish in employment data brought it down to 13th. At more than $278,000 in total cost for four years of tuition and fees and living expenses, USC Marshall is one of the priciest schools on the list.

For more info about USC Marshall, see this exclusive interview with Tyrone Callahan. For an exclusive feature on the World Bachelors in Business program, click here.