Life in USC Housing

USC strives to provide its students with a pleasant living environment that includes features and services not always available elsewhere. Living in USC housing will be a whole new experience. Beyond simply being a place to stay, university housing offers a community of roommates, neighbors, and faculty and staff members, as well as events, activities and programs that will complement your academic endeavors.

Choices

Although most housing directly on campus is reserved for our incoming freshman class, we offer 35 housing facilities for upperclassmen and graduate students in the adjacent North University Park neighborhood. (Freshman housing is covered in our companion brochure, Living at USC: Freshmen-Year Students 2021-2022.) USC housing features a variety of buildings, floor plans, locations and living arrangements. Our goal is to give our residents options that fit their housing needs. We have something for just about every resident.

Value

We offer a variety of living arrangements to accommodate individual needs and budgets. Housing contracts for undergraduates cover the nine-month academic year rather than the 12-month calendar year, so residents are not required to pay rent for the summer. (Housing is available, however, for those who plan to stay for the summer.) Full-year contracts are available to graduate students living in certain buildings.

All university housing units are furnished and include free cable TV and Internet connections, both Ethernet and WiFi. Gas, water and electricity are included in the rent for all buildings.

USC Housing Staff

One of the advantages of living in university housing is the ability to call on trained, full-time staff to help with maintenance issues, check-in and check-out, room assignment questions, and other day-to-day concerns. USC Housing has 13 Customer Service Centers (CSCs) to assist residents. For a complete listing of CSCs and the buildings each serves, please see page 33.