University Facts
What is USC’s mascot?
Traveler
This starting quarterback was recently drafted to the Jets.
Sam Darnold
What did the original Hollywood sign say?
Hollywoodland
If studying in quiet isnt your thing, find a table here! Youll be in the center of community here at USC. It's even where McCarthy Honors Res Coll is located!
What is the USC Village?
This library is located in USC Leventhal. It has several studyrooms that are perfect to practice counting, or something of the sorts.
What is the Accounting Library?
What year was USC founded?
1880
In the rivalry game of USC against UCLA, what does the winner take possession of?
The Victory Bell
This numbered freeway connects USC’s campus to Santa Monica.
I-10 or "the 10"
You'll find plenty of balconies on this part of campus, designed and built to resemble a spanish-style hollywood of the past.
What is SCA?
This library is notorious for being open 24 hours a day, and boosts 4 stories of bookstacks and 3 stories of rooms which can be reserved for individual or group studying.
What is Leavey Library?
This Fleetwood Mac song features the USC marching band
Tusk
How many heisman winners does USC have?
7
Rounding to the nearest 10, how many square miles is Los Angeles proper?
500
This library, within the campus' main library, contains 4 reservable rooms for group and individual work and numerous community tables to study in. It overlooks McCarthy Quad and Leavey Library!
What is the East Asian Library?
This library, formally known as the VKC Library, is an interdisciplinary, graduate-level learning center that supports the current and anticipated research needs of students, faculty, staff, and alumni in political science, international relations, public administration, spatial science, public diplomacy, and urban and regional planning.
What is the Library for International and public affairs?
Every year since these awards were created in 1929, a USC alumnus has been nominated
The Academy Awards (Oscars)
How many times has USC been to the rose bowl?
34
This is the largest art museum in the western US.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
This building is the hub for USC Marshall, and it contains 4 stories of both reservable class rooms and breakout rooms, perfect to reserve with friends and study on!
What is Jill and Frank Fertita Hall?
This library boasts 9 stories of bookstacks, and was the university's first free standing library. Working as the schools main branch, there are three libraries within it!
What is Doheny Memorial Library?
The USC athletic teams were first called this
The Methodists and Wesleyans
What does it take for USC to retire your jersey number?
Win the Heisman
What was the highest ever temperature recorded in Los Angeles County, which occurred on Sep. 6, 2020.
121 F
This library is entirely underground, lit only by skylights that are art installations above ground. To enter you have to go down a staircase that is very dimly lit!
What is the Architecture Library?
This library contains very dim lighting, thus, it is closes daily at sundown.It is located in Mudd Hall on the southernmost part of campus.
What is the Hoose Library of Philosophy.