<p>So I was choosing between Berkeley (pre-Haas) and USC Marshall undergraduate.
What I was worried about, if I chose SC, was that I would be limited in my job search to soCal. How accurate is this?
I know that USC's influence greatly diminishes as you move farther from Southern California, but how difficult is it to get a job in San Francisco or New York for example. I am hearing that USC is starting to infiltrate jobs outside of it's normal realm of influence.
Ultimately, how strong is this Trojan Family both inside and outside SoCal. And how concrete will it be in my search for both an internship during my years at college and a job after graduation?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>PS, Im really glad I chose SC. Super excited to attend!</p>
<p>Our alumni network is vast, in fact international, I believe it is called society 53 or something but search up that as well as usc alumni clubs across the country and you will truly see how vast we are. I’m sure you could find Trojans hiring Trojans especially in urban areas such as New York. Welcome to the Trojan family and fight on!</p>
<p>We live in Georgia. There is an active alumni club here which has events scheduled all year. Alumni I have met hold positions in top law firms, businesses, CNN, real estate and medical groups. </p>
<p>The alumni support the admitted students reception, fall admissions information seminar and give a SCendoff party for the new Trojans before they leave for Los Angeles. In addition, the club gives scholarships to continuing students already enrolled.</p>
<p>Some USC students have had internships here through Annenberg. </p>
<p>On another post I listed companies that came to Marshall to recruit. Many of these companies have offices/branches across the country.</p>
<p>I currently am helping a friend’s dad develop a marketing plan for a new product for his manufacturing company (he’s the president). The company headquarters is in Newport Beach, CA, but they also have offices in Hong Kong, and in Germany. I’m actually going to Hong Kong/Macau this summer as my compensation for my part-time work. They do a lot of business in China and Japan, and USC is very well-known there for international business. My boss (USC alum) says that his Asian associates know the name of the school and regard it as on par with Cal and UCLA, probably due to USC’s marketing efforts in the Pacific Rim. So it definitely does have international reach, especially if you are talking about Asia. Also, coming from Orange County with family in LA, I do want to second that USC’s influence in California is absolutely huge. I do have family that has spent time on the East Coast, however, and they have found that USC’s name tends to get eclipsed by other great schools there; (my uncle spent some time there at Fordham Law before transferring to UCLA Law; my aunt went to Columbia Business School after USC and still works there currently at a hedge fund). However, I see the same phenomena on the west coast with great east coast schools. My little sister is looking at Tufts and Georgetown, and has also mentioned Wash U and Vandy in conversations, and occasionally does get a look like… “What? What’s that?”. I think its mainly just the Ivies + MIT + Stanford that gets general public acknowledgement coast to coast. However, employers nationwide will recognize good schools and I see USC as being on par with places like Tufts, UCLA, Cal, Georgetown, UVA, etc.</p>
<p>I have a friend who goes to Cal Tech, and someone on the east coast was like: “is that a trade school?”. Just wanted to share: funny story. Really keep in mind who you’re talking to in conversations with people cross-coast when they offer evaluations of your school. The important people: employers and grad school admissions committee, will know if a school is good. You’ll find this phenomena ESPECIALLY with top tier liberal arts schools. And everyone in the know knows that those schools are great.</p>
<p>All of the USC alums I know are ecstatic at hiring USC alums. However, I live in Orange County and only know people from here (and am only 18), so I can’t offer anything on how nation-wide USC’s reach is. Though I do know from personal anecdotes from my boss that we are indeed international and at least viewed like UCLA and Cal in Asia, which is a huge market.</p>