USC Viterbi School of Engineering
At a Glance

• Enrollment: Undergraduate 1,900. Graduate 3,300.
  
  
• Degrees awarded, 2003: 512 B.S., 950 M.S., 85 Ph.D.
  
  
• Faculty: 165 (Tenure or Tenure Track). Research Faculty: 75.
  
  
• Academic home of 27 members of the National Academy of Engineering (4th highest total among private universities), including 4 winners of the Shannon Award and the 2003 Turing Award co-winner.
  
  
• Consistently ranked in the top ten in the U. S. News and World Report rankings of graduate engineering programs
  
• Research funding: more than $170 million annual research expenditures. Consistently ranks in the top 3 nationally in funding per tenured faculty, first in 2004.
  
  
• One of only four engineering schools nationwide, and the only one in California, that houses two active National Science Foundation-funded Engineering Research Centers: the Integrated Media Systems Center, the only NSF ERC for multimedia and Internet technologies (established 1996, renewed 2001), and the Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems Center (established 2003).
  
  
• Home of the Information Sciences Institute (ISI), birthplace of key Internet technologies, including the Domain Name System (DNS) and (with other centers) the TCP/IP protocols. ISI co-developed the Globus Grid computing architecture. Its MOSIS chip brokerage was instrumental in industrial development of numerous widely used chips.
  
  
• Home of the Biomedical Simulations Resource, which is advancing state-of-the-art biomedical modeling and simulation. No other research center has received more longstanding support from the National Institutes of Health.
  
  
• Basic research at USC or by USC researchers forms the basis of jpeg and mpeg compression standards and numerous pattern recognition systems. USC researchers’ error correction and signal codes are used in CDs, interplanetary communications, cell phones and numerous other applications.
  
  
• USC Engineering Distance Education Network: More than 800 students in 24 M.S. degree programs; 99 masters degrees awarded in 2003.