USC Southern University, founded in 1880, is a Methodist university. This campus was donated by three wealthy Los Angeles residents. At the beginning of the university, * * * enrolled 53 students and 0 faculty members/kloc-0. There are three first-time graduates-two men and one woman. Decades later, Southern California ceased to have religious beliefs and officially became independent from the Methodist Church. The University of Southern California has been growing since its foundation. In addition to the main campus (University Park Campus) located 2 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, the school has also set up a health science campus 2 miles north of downtown, and established a college of business, pharmacy, social work and education in Irvine, Orange County. There are also the Institute of Information Science in Arlington County, Virginia and Marina Delry, and the School of Public Administration is located in the satellite campus of Sacramento, California. In 2005, the University of Southern California set up a federal relations office in Washington, D.C., and a health science campus in Alhambra, which includes the Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (IPR), focusing on public health.

USC Southern University expanded to China in May, 2004. Its Marshall School of Business cooperated with Antai school of economics and management of Shanghai Jiaotong University to open the overseas EMBA project of USC Southern University-GEMBA. This project adopts the same curriculum and teaching mode as the top 10 EMBA program in Los Angeles, and selects the top professors of Marshall Business School to take classes directly in Shanghai, which shows that the school attaches great importance to this project. The program is a 20-month on-the-job program, with 5 days of intensive teaching every 6-8 weeks. * * * There are 13 modules, of which the second and last module is taught at the College of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and the tenth module is Asian study tour. The project started in early May every year and has a history of 12 years.

In 2006, Marshall Business School will establish a satellite campus in San Diego.

On March 2, 2004, the School of Engineering of the University of Southern California, led by its president Max Nikias, was renamed Andrew and Erna Viterbi School of Engineering to commemorate the founders of Qualcomm, Andrew and Erna Viterbi, who donated 52 million dollars to the school. This gift is the biggest renaming in the history of the School of Engineering. Viterbi College of Engineering has been receiving donations from all parties, including the Stevens College of the University of Southern California, which was founded by Silicon Valley capitalists Mark Stevens and Mary in 2004. In 2002, Epstein's Department of Industrial Engineering was named as real estate entrepreneur Daniel J Epstein; In 2005, the Merck family of chemical engineering and materials science was named after John Merck family, CEO of American energy company; Also in 2005, Ken Klein, CEO of Winrell, an American company, established the engineering organization of Klein University. In 2006, Xie Ming, the founder of Cogent, which invented the fingerprint identification system, donated $35 million to the Department of Electrical Engineering in Xie Ming, Southern California, which was the largest sum ever received by a single department.

Southern California has a history of 100 years, and its curriculum level is highly recognized. Among them, business schools, movies, communication, architecture, medicine and science and engineering are quite well-known in American universities, and they have never been absent from the rankings of American news and world reports. Especially with the development of Hollywood film industry, the Film Academy has trained many wizards in the film industry. The most famous alumni are george lucas, director of Star Wars series, Ben Bout, director of The Da Vinci Code, Ron Howard, director of Forrest Gump, robert zemeckis and John Mirios, and director of The Chocolate Factory. After their success, these alumni sponsored the development of the school with funds, which is one of the strong financial resources of the school.