Common Data Set 2020-2021 - Office of Institutional Research (2024)

B. Enrollment and Persistence

B1. Institutional Enrollment – Men and Women

Provide numbers of students for each of the following categories as of the institution’s official fall reporting date or as of October 15, 2020.

• Note: Report students formerly designated as “first professional” in the graduate cells.

Total all undergraduates: 19,606

Total all graduate: 26501

GRAND TOTAL ALL STUDENTS: 46,107

B2. Enrollment by Racial/Ethnic Category.

Provide numbers of undergraduate students for each of the following categories as of the institution’s official fall reporting date or as of October 15, 2020.

Persistence

B3. Number of degrees awarded by your institution from July1,2019,toJune30,2020.

B4-B21: Graduation Rates
The items in this section correspond to data elements collected by the IPEDS Web-based Data Collection System’s Graduation Rate Survey (GRS).

• For complete instructions and definitions of data elements, see the IPEDS GRS Forms and Instructions for the 2020-2021 Survey. https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data/survey-components/9/graduation-rates

In the following section for bachelor’s or equivalent programs, please disaggregate the Fall 2013 and Fall 2014 cohorts (formerly CDS B4-B11) into four groups:

• Students who received a Federal Pell Grant*
• Recipients of a subsidized Stafford Loan who did not receive a Pell Grant
• Students who did not receive either a Pell Grant or a subsidized Stafford Loan
• Total (all students, regardless of Pell Grant or subsidized loan status)

*Students who received both a Federal Pell Grant and a subsidized Stafford Loan should be reported in the “Recipients of a Federal Pell Grant” column.
For each graduation rate grid below, the numbers in the first three columns for Questions A-G should sum to the cohort total in the fourth column (formerly CDS B4-B11).

For Bachelor’s or Equivalent Programs

Please provide data for theFall 2014cohort if available. If Fall 2014 cohort data are not available, provide data for theFall 2013cohort.

Fall 2014 Cohort

Fall 2013 Cohort

Note: Questions B12 – B21 have been omitted. They apply to Two-Year Institutions only.

B22. Retention Rates

Report for the cohort of all full-time, first-time bachelor’s (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who entered in Fall 2019 (or the preceding summer term).

• The initial cohort may be adjusted for students who departed for the following reasons:

• Death
• Permanent Disability
• Service in the armed forces
• Foreign aid service of the federal government
• Official church missions
• No other adjustments to the initial cohort should be made.

For the cohort of all full-time bachelor’s (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who entered your institution as freshmen in Fall 2019 (or the preceding summer term), what percentage was enrolled at your institution as of the date your institution calculates its official enrollment in Fall 2020.91.29%

C. FIRST-TIME, FIRST-YEAR (FRESHMAN) ADMISSION

C1-C2: Applications

C1. First-time, first-year (freshman) students:Provide the number of degree-seeking, first-time, first-year students who applied, were admitted, and enrolled (full- or part-time) inFall 2020.

• Include early decision, early action, and students who began studies during summer in this cohort.
• Applicants should include only those students who fulfilled the requirements for consideration for admission (i.e., who completed actionable applications) and who have been notified of one of the following actions: admission, non-admission, placement on waiting list, or application withdrawn (by applicant or institution).
• Admitted applicants should include wait-listed students who were subsequently offered admission.

C2. Freshman wait-listed students (students who met admission requirements but whose final admission was contingent on space availability)

School counselors?

Do you have a policy of placing students on a waiting list? ___Yes _X_No

If yes, please answer the questions below forFall 2020admissions:

Is your waiting list ranked?__
If yes, do you release that information to students? ___
Do you release that information to school counselors? ___

C3-C5: Admission Requirements

C3. High school completion requirement
Check the appropriate box to identify your high school completion requirement for degree-seeking entering students:

C4. Does your institution require or recommend a general college-preparatory program for degree-seeking students?

C5. Distribution of high school units required and/or recommended.Specify the distribution of academic high school course units required and/or recommended of all or most degree-seeking students using Carnegie units (one unit equals one year of study or its equivalent). If you use a different system for calculating units, please convert.

C6-C7: Basis for Selection

C6.Do you have an open admission policy, under which virtually all secondary school graduates or students with GED equivalency diplomas are admitted without regard to academic record, test scores, or other qualifications?No
If so, check which applies:

Open admission policy as described above for all students___

Open admission policy as described above for most students, but
selective admission for out-of-state students___
selective admission to some programs___
other (explain) ___

C7. Relative importance of each of the following academic and nonacademic factors in your first-time, first-year, degree-seeking (freshman) admission decisions.

C8: SAT and ACT Policies

C8. Entrance exams

A.Does your institution make use of SAT, ACT, or SAT Subject Test scores inadmissiondecisions for first-time, first-year, degree-seeking applicants?
_X_Yes ___No
If yes, place check marks in the appropriate boxes below to reflect your institution’s policies for use in admission forFall 2022.

B. If your institution will make use of the ACT in admission decisions for first-time, first-year, degree -seeking applicants for Fall 2023, please indicate which ONE of the following applies (regardless of whether the writing score will be used in the admissions process):

If your institution will make use of the SAT in admission decisions for first-time, first-year, degree-seeking applicants for Fall 2023 please indicate which ONE of the following applies (regardless of whether the Essay score will be used in the admissions process):

C. Please indicate how your institution will use the SAT or ACT essay component; check all that apply.

D.In addition, does your institution use applicants’ test scores for academic advising?
_X_Yes ___No

E. Latest date by which SAT or ACT scores must be received for fall-term admission:20-Feb
Latest date by which SAT Subject Test scores must be received for fall-term admission:

F. If necessary, use this space to clarify your test policies (e.g., if tests are recommended for some students, or if tests are not required of some students):

G. Please indicate which tests your institution uses forplacement(e.g., state tests):

C9-C12: Freshman Profile

Provide information forALL enrolled, degree-seeking, full-time and part-time, first-time, first-year (freshman)studentsenrolled inFall 2020, including students who began studies during summer, international students/nonresident aliens, and students admitted under special arrangements.

C9.Percent and number of first-time, first-year (freshman) students enrolled in Fall 2020 who submitted national standardized (SAT/ACT) test scores.

• Include information forALL enrolled, degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students who submitted test scores.
• Do not include partial test scores (e.g., mathematics scores but not critical reading for a category of students) or combine other standardized test results (such as TOEFL) in this item.
• Do not convert SAT scores to ACT scores and vice versa.
• If a student submitted multiple sets of scores for a single test, report this information according to how you use the data. For example:
• If you consider the highest scores from either submission, use the highest combination of scores (e.g., verbal from one submission, math from the other).
• If you average the scores, use the average to report the scores.

For each assessment listed below, report the score that represents the 25th percentile (the score that 25 percent of the freshman population scored at or below) and the 75th percentile score (the score that 25 percent scored at or above).

Percentoffirst-time,first-year(freshman)studentswithscoresineachrange:

Percent of first-time, first-year (freshman) students with scores in each range:

C10. Percent of all degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students who had high school class rank within each of the following ranges (report information for those students from whom you collected high school rank information)

C11.Percentage of all enrolled, degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students who had high school grade-point averages within each of the following ranges (using 4.0 scale).

• Report information only for those students from whom you collected high school GPA.

C12.

C13-C20: Admission Policies

C13. Application fee

• If your institution has waived its application fee for the Fall 2021 admission cycle please select no.

Does your institution have an application fee? _X_Yes ___No
Amount of application fee:$85
Can it be waived for applicants with financial need? _X_Yes ___No

If you have an application fee and an on-line application option, please indicate policy for students who apply on-line:
Same fee: _X_
Free: ___
Reduced: ___

Can on-line application fee be waived for applicants with financial need? _X_Yes ___No

C14. Application closing date
Does your institution have an application closing date? _X_Yes ___No
Application closing date (fall): 1/15
Priority date:12/1

C15. Are first-time, first-year students accepted for terms other than the fall? _X_Yes ___No

C16. Notification to applicants of admission decision sent(fill in one only)
On a rolling basis beginning (date): ___
By (date): 1-Apr
Other: ___

C17. Reply policy for admitted applicants(fill in one only)
Must reply by (date): 1-May
No set date: ___
Must reply by May 1 or within2weeks if notified thereafter
Other: ___

Deadline for housing deposit (MMDD): __________
Amount of housing deposit:$800
Refundable if student does not enroll?
_X_ Yes, in full
___ Yes, in part
___ No

C18. Deferred admission:Does your institution allow students to postpone enrollment after admission?
_X_Yes ___No
If yes, maximum period of postponement:1 year

C19. Early admission of high school students:Does your institution allow high school students to enroll as full-time, first-time, first-year (freshman) students one year or more before high school graduation? ___Yes _X_No

C20. Common application:Question removed from CDS. (Initiated during 2006-2007 cycle)

C21-C22: Early Decision and Early Action Plans

C21. Early decision:Does your institution offer an early decision plan (an admission plan that permits students to apply and be notified of an admission decision well in advance of the regular notification date and that asks students to commit to attending if accepted) for first-time, first-year (freshman) applicants for fall enrollment? ___Yes _X_No

If “yes,” please complete the following:

First or only early decision plan closing date: ___
First or only early decision plan notification date: ___

Other early decision plan closing date: ___
Other early decision plan notification date: ___

For the Fall 2020 entering class:

Number of early decision applications received by your institution: ___
Number of applicants admitted under early decision plan: ___
Please provide significant details about your early decision plan: ___

C22. Early action:Do you have a nonbinding early action plan whereby students are notified of an admission decision well in advance of the regular notification date but do not have to commit to attending your college? ___Yes _X_No

If “yes,” please complete the following:

Early action closing date:
Early action notification date:

Is your early action plan a “restrictive” plan under which you limit students from applying to other early plans? ___Yes ___No

D. TRANSFER ADMISSION

D1-D2: Fall Applicants

D1.Does your institution enroll transfer students? _X_Yes ___No
(If no, please skip to Section E)
If yes, may transfer students earn advanced standing credit by transferring credits earned from course work completed at other colleges/universities?
_X_Yes ___No

D2.Provide the number of students who applied, were admitted, and enrolled as degree-seeking transfer students in Fall 2020.

D3-D11 Application for Admission

D3.Indicate terms for which transfers may enroll:

_X_Fall ___Winter _X_Spring ___Summer

D4.Must a transfer applicant have a minimum number of credits completed or else must apply as an entering freshman?
__Yes _X_No
If yes, what is the minimum number of credits and the unit of measure?__

D5.Indicate all items required of transfer students to apply for admission:

D6.If a minimum high school grade point average is required of transfer applicants, specify (on a 4.0 scale):n/a

D7.If a minimum college grade point average is required of transfer applicants, specify (on a 4.0 scale):n/a

D8.List any other application requirements specific to transfer applicants:

D9.List application priority, closing, notification, and candidate reply dates for transfer students. If applications are reviewed on a continuous or rolling basis, place a check mark in the “Rolling admission”column.

D10.Does an open admission policy, if reported, apply to transfer students?___Yes _X_No

D11.Describe additional requirements for transfer admission, if applicable:

D12-D17: Transfer Credit Policies

D12.Report the lowest grade earned for any course that may be transferred for credit:C-

D13.Maximum number of credits or courses that may be transferred from a two-year institution:n/a
Number: 64 Unit type:semester credits

D14.Maximum number of credits or courses that may be transferred from a four-year institution:n/a
Number: 64 Unit type:semester credits

D15.Minimum number of credits that transfers must complete at your institution to earn an associate degree:n/a

D16.Minimum number of credits that transfers must complete at your institution to earn a bachelor’s degree:64.00

D17.Describe other transfer credit policies:

D18.Does your institution accept the following military/veteran transfer credits:

D19.Maximum number of credits or courses that may be transferred based on military education evaluated by the American Council on Education (ACE):n/ap
Number: 64 Unit type:semester credits

D20.Maximum number of credits or courses that may be transferred based on Department of Defense supported prior learning assessments (College Level Examination Program (CLEP) or DANTES Subject Standardized Tests (DSST)):n/ap
Number:___ Unit type: ___

D21.Are the military/veteran credit transfer policies published on your website?:n/ap _X_Yes ___No
If yes, please provide the URL where the policy can be located:

https://arr.usc.edu/services/articulation/generalinfo.html

D22.Describe other military/veteran transfer credit policies unique to your institution:Credit policies are for all students. Military/verteran credit transfer policies are the same.

H. FINANCIAL AID

Aid Awarded to Enrolled Undergraduates

H1.Enter total dollar amountsawardedto enrolled full-time and less than full-time degree-seeking undergraduates(using thesame cohort reported in CDS Question B1, “total degree-seeking” undergraduates)in the following categories.

• If the data being reported are final figures for the 2019-2020 academic year (see the next item below), use the 2019-2020 academic year’s CDS Question B1 cohort.
• Include aid awarded to international students (i.e., those not qualifying for federal aid).
• Aid that isnon-need-based but that was used to meet need shouldbe reported in the need-based aid column.
• For a suggested order of precedence in assigning categories of aid to cover need, see the entry for “non-need-based scholarship or grant aid” on the last page of the definitions section.
• Do NOT include any aid related to the CARES Act or unique to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Indicate the academic year for which data are reported foritems H1,H2,H2A, andH6below:
___2020-2021 estimated or _X_2019-2020 final

Which needs-analysis methodology does your institution use in awarding institutional aid?

H2. Number of Enrolled Students Awarded Aid:List the number of degree-seeking full-time and less-than-full-time undergraduates who applied for and were awarded financial aid from any source.

• Aid that isnon-need-based but that was used to meet need should be counted as need-based aid.
• Numbers should reflect the cohort awarded the dollars reported in H1.
• In the chart below, students may be counted in more than one row, and full-time freshmen should also be counted as full-time undergraduates.
• Do NOT include any aid related to the CARES Act or unique to the COVID-19 pandemic.

H2A. Number of Enrolled Students Awarded Non-need-based Scholarships and Grants:List the number of degree-seeking full-time and less-than-full-time undergraduates who had no financial need and who were awarded institutional non-need-based scholarship or grant aid.

• Numbers should reflect the cohort awarded the dollars reported in H1.
• In the chart below, students may be counted in more than one row, and full-time freshmen should also be counted as full-time undergraduates.
• Do NOT include any aid related to the CARES Act or unique to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Note: These are the graduates and loan types to include and exclude in order to fill out CDS H4 and H5.

Include:

• 2020 undergraduate class: all students who started at your institution as first-time students and received a bachelor’s degree between July 1, 2019 and June 30, 2020.
• only loans made to students who borrowed while enrolled at your institution.
• co-signed loans.

Exclude:

• students who transferred in.
• money borrowed at other institutions.
• parent loans
• students who did not graduate or who graduated with another degree or certificate (but no bachelor’s degree.
• Any aid related to the CARE Act or unique the COVID-19 pandemic.

H4.Provide the number of students in the 2020 undergraduate class who started at your institution as first-time students and received a bachelor’s degree between July 1, 2019 and June 30, 2020. Exclude students who transferred into yourinstitution.3365

H5.Number and percent of students in class (defined in H4 above) borrowing from federal, nonfederal, and any loan sources, and the average (or mean) amount borrowed. NOTE: The “Average per-undergraduate-borrower cumulative principal borrowed,” is designed to provide better information about student borrowing from federal and nonfederal (institutional, state, commercial) sources. The numbers, percentages, and averages for each row should be based only on the loan source specified for the particular row. For example, the federal loans average (row b) should only be the cumulative average of federal loans and the private loans average (row e) should only be the cumulative average of private loans.

Aid to Undergraduate Degree-seeking Nonresident Aliens(Note: Report numbers and dollar amounts for the same academic year checked in item H1.)

H6.Indicate your institution’s policy regarding institutional scholarship or grant aid for undergraduate degree-seeking nonresident aliens:

If institutional financial aid is available for undergraduate degree-seeking nonresident aliens, provide the number of undergraduate degree-seeking nonresident aliens who were awarded need-based or non-need-based aid: 740

Average dollar amount of institutional financial aid awarded to undergraduate degree-seeking nonresident aliens:$16,380

Total dollar amount of institutional financial aid awarded to undergraduate degree-seeking nonresident aliens: $12,121,505

H7.Check off all financial aid forms nonresident alien first-year financial aid applicants must submit:

Process for First-Year/Freshman Students

H8.Check off all financial aid forms domestic first-year (freshman) financial aid applicants must submit:

H9.Indicate filing dates for first-year (freshman) students:

Priority date for filing required financial aid forms:17-Feb
Deadline for filing required financial aid forms:
No deadline for filing required forms (applications processed on a rolling basis): ___

H10.Indicate notification dates for first-year (freshman) students (answer a or b):
a) Students notified on or about (date):1-Apr
b) Students notified on a rolling basis: ___Yes ___No If yes, starting date: ___

H11.Indicate reply dates:
Students must reply by (date):5/1
or within___ weeks of notification.

Types of Aid Available

Please check off all types of aid available to undergraduates at your institution:

H12.Loans

FEDERAL DIRECT STUDENT LOAN PROGRAM (DIRECT LOAN)

H13.Scholarships and Grants

H14.Check off criteria used in awarding institutional aid. Check all that apply.

H15.If your institution has recently implemented any major financial aid policy, program, or initiative to make your institution more affordable to incoming students such as replacing loans with grants, or waiving costs for families below a certain income level please provide details below:

For students entering USC in Fall 2020: Students from U.S. families with an annual
income of $80,000 or less with typical assets will attend USC tuition free. Owning a home will not be counted in the calculation used to determine a student’s financial need.
Ensures total university need-based grant funding will continue to outpace annual tuitio

Are these policies related to the COVID-19 pandemic?

I. INSTRUCTIONAL FACULTY AND CLASS SIZE

I-1. Please report the number of instructional faculty members in each category for Fall 2020. Include faculty who are on your institution’s payroll on the census date your institution uses forIPEDS/AAUP.

The following definition of full-time instructional faculty is used by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in its annual Faculty Compensation Survey (the part time definitions are not used by AAUP). Instructional Faculty is defined as those members of the instructional-research staff whose major regular assignment is instruction, including those with released time for research. Use the chart below to determine inclusions and exclusions:

Full-time instructional faculty:faculty employed on a full-time basis for instruction (including those with released time for research)

Part-time instructional faculty:Adjuncts and other instructors being paid solely for part-time classroom instruction. Also includes full-time faculty teaching less than two semesters, three quarters, two trimesters, or two four-month sessions. Employees who are not considered full-time instructional faculty but who teach one or more non-clinical credit courses may be counted as part-time faculty.

Minority faculty: includes faculty who designate themselves as Black, non-Hispanic; American Indian or Alaska Native; Asian, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, or Hispanic.

Doctorate: includes such degrees as Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Education, Doctor of Juridical Science, and Doctor of Public Health in any field such as arts, sciences, education, engineering, business, and public administration. Also includes terminal degrees formerly designated as “first professional,” including dentistry (DDS or DMD), medicine (MD), optometry (OD), osteopathic medicine (DO), pharmacy (DPharm or BPharm), podiatric medicine (DPM), veterinary medicine (DVM), chiropractic (DC or DCM), or law (JD).

Terminal master’s degree: a master’s degree that is considered the highest degree in a field: example, M. Arch (in architecture) and MFA (master of fine arts in art or theater).

I-2.Student to Faculty Ratio

Report the Fall 2020 ratio of full-time equivalent students (full-time plus 1/3 part time) to full-time equivalent instructional faculty (full time plus 1/3 part time). In the ratio calculations, exclude both faculty and students in stand-alone graduate or professional programs such as medicine, law, veterinary, dentistry, social work, business, or public health in which faculty teach virtually only graduate level students.

• Do not count undergraduate or graduate student teaching assistants as faculty.

Fall 2020 Student to Faculty ratio: 9to1 (based on18,908students and2,244 faculty).

I-3.Undergraduate Class Size

In the table below, please use the following definitions to report information about the size of classes and class sections offered in the Fall 2020 term.

• Please include classes that have been moved online in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Class Sections: A class section is an organized course offered for credit, identified by discipline and number, meeting at a stated time or times in a classroom or similar setting, and not a subsection such as a laboratory or discussion session. Undergraduate class sections are defined as any sections in which at least one degree-seeking undergraduate student is enrolled for credit. Excludedistance learning classes and noncredit classes and individual instruction such as dissertation or thesis research, music instruction, or one-to-one readings. Exclude students in independent study, co-operative programs, internships, foreign language taped tutor sessions, practic*ms, and all students in one-on-one classes. Each class section should be counted only once and should not be duplicated because of course catalog cross-listings.

Class Subsections: A class subsection includes any subsection of a course, such as laboratory, recitation, and discussion subsections that are supplementary in nature and are scheduled to meet separately from the lecture portion of the course. Undergraduate subsections are defined as any subsections of courses in which degree-seeking undergraduate students enrolled for credit. As above, exclude noncredit classes and individual instruction such as dissertation or thesis research, music instruction, or one-to-one readings. Each class subsection should be counted only once and should not be duplicated because of cross-listings.

Using the above definitions, please report for each of the following class-size intervals the number ofclass sectionsandclass subsectionsoffered in Fall 2020. For example, a lecture class with 800 students who met at another time in 40 separate labs with 20 students should be counted once in the “100+” column in the class section column and 40 times under the “20-29” column of the class subsections table.

Number of Class Sections with Undergraduates Enrolled

Undergraduate Class Size (provide numbers)]