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university of Southern california
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Total Cost
$78,316 Average Salary
9.03%
Acceptance Rate
1480
Average SAT
24%
International Students
25.4%
Underrepresented Minorities
97.4%
Class of 2022 accepting jobs 90 days after graduation
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he University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business earned a gold medal in the P&Q’s 2023 ranking of best undergraduate business programs. Placing No. 1 and knocking University of Pennsylvania’s The Wharton School out of the top spot for the first time in six years. Marshall offers a quality business education that is characterized by experiential learning opportunities. Of the three methodological categories, Marshall placed highest in Admissions, where they came in 2nd. It placed 9th in Career Outcomes and Academic Experience. USC Marshall’s average SAT score was 1480 this year, relatively high. The B-school had one of the most selective acceptance rates of all ranked undergraduate business schools this year at 9.03% — coming in just behind Cornell’s 4.17%, Northeastern’s D’Amore-McKim, Wharton’s 5.73%, Stern’s 6.60%, Carnegie Mellon Tepper’s 8.62% and Olin’s 9% — yet still more selective than top schools such as Michigan Ross, with an acceptance rate of 9.8%, and UNC’s Kenan-Flagler, with an acceptance rate of 10% this year. Both internship and employment outcomes for Marshall graduates were especially strong this year. A perfect 100% of the Class of 2022 secured an internship before graduation. As for employment, the B-school did rather well as well — with 97.81% landing a full-time position within three months after graduation. The reported average starting salary was the 10th-highest of all ranked undergraduate business schools, coming in at $83,777. For prospective MBAs, it’d be wise to become familiar with the way “breadth with depth” is used at Marshall. 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 Marshall, 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 in July 2021. “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 have the opportunity to experience the state-of-theart Jill and Frank Fertitta Hall. Before, the undergraduate population had
