<p>I recently took a tour of USC, and I loved it.</p>
<p>What other schools compare mostly to USC.
- academic
- social
- prestige
- athletics</p>
<p>Location is not a factor</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>BY usc I mean Southern California</p>
<p>UCLA, Stanford, and Berkeley.</p>
<p>Oh, that's right. They are 3 inchest above USC on paper. Sorry for my misunderstanding.</p>
<p>^^^ haha rightttt... deffiantly not. stanford and berkeley are in a totally different league than usc. and if location is not a factor as the poster stated, then to say ucla is similar is a stretch as well.</p>
<p>3 inchest above on paper???
what exactly are you trying to say. are you kidding? stanford and berkeley are deff not just a little bit better than usc. are you on crack?</p>
<p>Tell me, are you comparing prestige or the OTHER factors listed by the OP. They all have pretty good academics, social life, and athletics. All four schools are in Division I, ranked in top 30 on US News, and have a decent size undergraduate population.</p>
<p>if you think across the board academically that usc is on par with stanford or berkeley, or hell even ucla, you are on crack. socially usc is far more of a party school than stanford/berkeley/ucla. this could be a good or bad thing, depending on how you look at it. but i dont think usc is anything at all like berkeley or stanford. i do agree however that all the schools have good academics, but there is a large difference between stanford and berkeley academically and usc. of course there are exceptions, such as some of usc's premier departments like film and engineering, but across the board usc does not even come close to rivaling stanford and berkeley. that said, usc would likely offer signifcantly smaller classes than berkeley at the undergrad level likely with more personalized attention and easier grading scales, which could deffiantly help when applying to a graduate program. However, stanford offers equally small classes, possibly smaller, with far better academics across the board. one more note. usc is rising fast in the rankings. just a five years ago i believe, usc was not even ranked in the top 40 universities in the country by us news. today it is at its highest point ever, 27. Best of luck looking at colleges.</p>
<p>Well, I am not going to argue with you and I am not here to rank schools. If the original poster is interested, look further into those schools.</p>
<p>I would say UMiami is similar to USC. While USC is much stronger academically, they are both known for their football teams. Social life is a strong point, and the students are all about fun, but still get their stuff done.</p>
<p>i am not trying to argue. but when a poster asks what are similar colleges, both socially and academically to usc and you rank one ultra elite (stanford) and one huge public elite (berkeley), that seems ridiculous.... the large similarity is that they are all from california. yet the poster stated he did not want location as one of the similarities. socially berkeley and usc could not be more different.</p>
<p>i agree with ucchris</p>
<p>other comparable schools:
Notre Dame
Ohio State
Illinois (not as good in sports, but up there)
UofM-Ann Arbor (much better academically)
UCLA (much better academically)</p>
<p>I second the UMiami suggestion. Other possibilities include Boston College or SMU (kind of a "poor man's version" of USC, if such a thing can exist), maybe Tulane. Also GW or U of Denver if you can stand the lack of football and cheer for hoops or hockey instead.</p>
<p>Uh, UCLA is in no way "much better" academically than USC. They're "rival" schools, which suggests on some level they are comparable academically. Basically, UCLA has a leg up on USC in the humanities. Otherwise, I think the schools are pretty comparable, and USC has stronger programs than UCLA in some professional areas. Ex., UCLA doesn't even have a business or journalism school. Both film schools are great. USC's music industry program is one of the toughest to get into in the nation.</p>
<p>Boston College
Boston University
Brown University
Cornell University
Johns Hopkins University
Loyola Marymount University
New York University
Northwestern University
Pepperdine University
Stanford University
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Los Angeles
University of California-San Diego
University of Miami
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
University of San Diego
Vanderbilt University
Washington University in St. Louis</p>
<p>Northwestern, Stanford, Berkeley, and Brown shouldn't be in this discussion.</p>
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<p>Last I checked, Anderson Business School was pretty well known as actually existing.</p>
<p>I think you meant to say that UCLA doesn't have an undergraduate business degree, which is true. :p</p>
<p>Anyway, schools similar to USC?</p>
<p>I'd say that most larger privates will have similar characteristics. Notre Dame is an excellent suggestion, and I think that Duke might offer a similar environment as well.</p>
<p>UCLA Anderson is much better than USC's Marshall on the MBA level.</p>
<p>"UCLA doesn't even have a business or journalism school."</p>
<p>umm anderson school of business at ucla is one of the finest in the country. ranked significantly higher than usc marshall. im not sure what your talking about. and just because usc is ucla's cross town rival does not meen academically they are comparable. hell back in the day usc was not near as respected as it is today, and it was still ucla's rival. michigan and michigan state are cross town rivals, does that meen that michigan state is comparable to michigan. of course not. usc is closing the gap, but still has a long way to go academically to match ucla. if you think ucla only has an advantage in the humanities, think again. last time i checked the sciences and social sciences existed. so lets see, better med school, better business school, better social sciences overall, better humities overall, better sciences overall. hmmm... seems quite clear to me, with the exception of journalism, engineering, film and a few other select programs, the ucla is the clearly the better overall institution.</p>