<p>In places like Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, etc.</p>
<p>I plan to move there after graduating and I'm wondering if it's a well known school in Asia. I guess the real question is, will I be able to get into top companies in Asia with a degree from USC?</p>
<p>good, though obviously not as good as UCLA or those more established ones.</p>
<p>USC was not even top 50 until 15 years ago. Was not top 100 25 years ago. It takes time for reputation to catch up with performance. It used to be similar in quality to SMU and that’s the way many people still think of it (B students with money to pay for a private school).</p>
<p>OOPS, sorry I disqualify my answer… I don’t live in East Asia.</p>
<p>I can only vouch for Koreans, but most Koreans would never have heard of USC.</p>
<p>Back in the '80s, busload after busload of Japanese tourists would come into the student store and buy almost anything that said UCLA. It was a big enough business that Ackerman had staff who could speak Japanese, and Japanese price lists/descriptions. Not sure what the situation is now, but at least in terms of Japan UCLA was the overwhelming favorite.</p>
<p>Most etcs. will never have heard of USC.</p>
<p>USC is working really, really hard at being a top university regarding the Pacific rim. Particularly the business school. They are having some trouble getting off the ground, but they’re big enough that any Asian company with an international component will have heard of them.</p>
<p>[Los</a> Angeles: Capital of the Pacific Rim - USC Globalization](<a href=“http://globalization.usc.edu/photos/little_tokyo.html]Los”>http://globalization.usc.edu/photos/little_tokyo.html)</p>
<p>[USC</a> Marshall Pacific Rim Entrepreneur Summit](<a href=“http://www.marshall.usc.edu/ciber/pacrimentrepreneursummit.htm]USC”>http://www.marshall.usc.edu/ciber/pacrimentrepreneursummit.htm)</p>
<p>Here’s the link to the East Asia faculty. Write one of these guys and ask. You’ll look like a hero.
[East</a> Asian Studies: Faculty](<a href=“http://college.usc.edu/east_asian_studies/faculty/]East”>http://college.usc.edu/east_asian_studies/faculty/)</p>
<p>pnb2002,
How do you know about most of Koreans in Korea? Some prominent Koreans, including a former president, went to USC. And solely by the fact that LA Koreantown is next door to USC campus, I bet a lot of Koreans know of USC.</p>
<p>USC is effectively the new WUSTL.</p>
<p>@QW553. I live half a year in Korea, half a year in the U.S. And USC might be up and coming, but most people in Korea will never ever heard of USC.</p>
<p>pnb… the implied question isn’t whether people will have heard of USC, but whether people will have heard of other universities much more than USC. I feel confident saying 5x of 10x as many people in Korea, Japan, China, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and other “etc.” recognize UCLA as a quality university vs. USC.</p>
<p>In another 50 years, this will not be the case.</p>
<p>OP, feel like a pioneer?</p>
<p>@DunninLA. Well, other posters have already said that people over in EA know well of UCLA. That’s why I didn’t speak for that. And we are basically saying the same thing, so I don’t see what the problem is…</p>
<p>And I don’t completely agree that USC will necessarily be more well-known in EA than, say, UCLA or Berkeley (in case of Korea, again) in 50 years… I just don’t think I can say that with confidence.</p>
<p>I think USC should have some sort of reputation in Japan since two of her prime ministers (Takeo Miki and Shinzō Abe) studied at USC for a little while. In South Korea, a former prime minister (Kang Young-Hoon) received both his MA and PhD from USC.</p>
<p>I think I read a newspaper article about USC being one of Samsung’s top recruiting schools.</p>
<p>I do not feel there is any objective data which indicates which U. S. universities are well known in Asian countries.
As far as USC is concerned it is a Pacific Rim university and has long standing ties to Asia. Seventeen alumni groups are active in Asian countries including groups in Hong Kong, Taipei, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan. USC President, Dr. Steven Sample, served as the first president of the Association of Pacifc Rim Universities, now a consortium of 42 research universities.<br>
Many prominent Asians are alumni including the former Prime Minister mentioned above. Yang Ho Cho, President and CEO of Korean Airlines, is an alumnus. Lu Chen, who received her Ph.D from the university, was a MacArthur Foundation grant recipient. She came to SC from China. Also from China is Ming Hsieh, founder of Cogent Systems. He gave 35 million to USC.</p>
<p>Most people haven’t heard of USC (heck, most people haven’t heard of Ivies like Brown), but people “in the know” generally know what the better schools in the US are.</p>
<p>For instance, peope “in the know” would be impressed by a person graduating w/ a degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois.</p>
<p>LOL… Los Angelos the Capital of the Pacific Rim?</p>
<p>It’s definitely Hong Kong, Singapore, or Tokyo…</p>
<p>When a little kid said things like “most … never …”, we should just shrug it off. </p>
<p>There are numerous successful businessmen, scholars, and super stars in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Korea who are USC alumni. Some richest men in Taiwan sent their kids to USC (I know that as a fact), so are they not part of your “most”?</p>
<p>I don’t claim this to be tangible data by any means, but for whatever it’s worth…</p>
<p>We have close friends who live in Shanghai and whose kids attend the American School there. They were just back in the U.S. for a round of college visits for their son who is a hs junior. Where do you think the number one school they visited was? USC. According to them, this is the “hot” school for Asians to come to and there is great buzz about it in top high schools there. They also told us that there are many, many USC alums working for big companies in Shanghai and Hong Kong. And we know the Trojan alum network is like no other!</p>
<p>I’ve lived in Korea for all my life. I think I’m qualified to answer OP’s question.</p>
<p>USC is well known in Korea as ‘Nam Ga Ju Dae’. (Nam means the South; Ga means California; Ju means the state; and Dae means the college)</p>
<p>USC is considered as a fine institution, but its reputation is yet far beyond that of UCLA.</p>