Student Body
| Undergraduate | Graduate & Professional |
U.S. Census | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caucasian | 47.0% | 31.9% | 73.9% |
| Black | 5.8% | 4.2% | 12.1% |
| Asian | 21.0% | 20.2% | 4.3% |
| Hispanic | 13.6% | 8.1% | 14.5% |
| Native American | 0.8% | 0.4% | 0.9% |
| International | 9.1% | 24.7% | (N/A) |
USC has a total enrollment of 36,896 students, of which 17,380 are at the undergraduate and 19,516 at the graduate and professional levels. The male-female ratio at USC is nearly 1:1. 31.2% of incoming students are drawn from the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area, 20.9% from other areas in California, 39.5% from the rest of the United States, and 8.4% from abroad. USC's student body encompasses 7,115 international students, more than any other university in the United States and the university maintains offices in several countries. There are approximately 200,000 living Trojan Alumni.
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