Neurosciences at University of Southern California

Every neurosciences school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the neurosciences program at University of Southern California stacks up to those at other schools.

USC is located in Los Angeles, California and approximately 46,287 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Neurosciences section at the bottom of this page.

USC Neurosciences Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Neurosciences

USC Neurosciences Rankings

The neurosciences major at USC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Neurosciences. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

There were 8 students who received their doctoral degrees in neurosciences, making the school the #20 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Neurosciences Student Demographics at USC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the neurosciences majors at University of Southern California.

USC Neurosciences Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 34% of neurosciences bachelor's degrees went to men and 66% went to women. The typical neurosciences bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% men. So male students are more repesented at USC since its program graduates 5% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 20% more racial-ethnic minorities in its neurosciences bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Southern California with a bachelor's in neurosciences.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	24
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	17
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	9

Related Majors

• Other Neurobiology & Neurosciences

Careers That Neurosciences Grads May Go Into

A degree in neurosciences can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for University of Southern California.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Biological Scientists	11,010	$91,340
Natural Sciences Managers	7,870	$168,790
Biological Science Professors	4,360	$128,370

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Original uploader was Padsquad19 at en.wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.