FACULTY AND STUDENT DIVERSITY AT USC
Key demographic data for the USC faculty, undergraduate and graduate student populations, including sex and ethnicity, as of fall 2016. Faculty data also include breakdowns by field and tenure.
Faculty and Student Diversity Dashboards
As of Fall 2016
Faculty Sex Composition by Line
All Faculty by Race/Ethnicity
Faculty Race/Ethnicity by Line
Faculty Sex Composition by Field
Faculty Ethnicity by Field
Faculty Data by Line
Sex Composition of USC Active Full-time Faculty, October 2016 |
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| N | #Female | %Female | #Male | %Male | |
| Tenured | 1172 | 307 | 26.2% | 865 | 73.8% |
| Tenure-Track | 323 | 137 | 42.4% | 186 | 57.6% |
| RTPC | 2649 | 1323 | 49.9% | 1326 | 50.1% |
| Total | 4144 | 1767 | 42.6% | 2377 | 57.4% |
Summary Data on 2016 USC Full-time Faculty Composition
Ethnic Composition of USC Active Full-time Faculty, October 2016 |
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| Total | Asian | Black | Hispanic | Native American | Two or more races | White | Non-resident | Decline to state | |||||||||||
| N | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | |||
| Tenured | 1172 | 181 | 15% | 29 | 2% | 44 | 4% | 2 | 0% | 19 | 2% | 893 | 76% | 0 | 0% | 4 | 0% | ||
| Tenure-Track | 323 | 82 | 25% | 8 | 2% | 20 | 6% | 1 | 0% | 6 | 2% | 177 | 55% | 6 | 2% | 23 | 7% | ||
| RTPC | 2649 | 604 | 23% | 97 | 4% | 181 | 7% | 6 | 0% | 99 | 4% | 1607 | 61% | 6 | 0% | 49 | 2% | ||
| Total | 4144 | 867 | 21% | 134 | 3% | 245 | 6% | 9 | 0% | 124 | 3% | 2677 | 65% | 12 | 0% | 76 | 2% | ||
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2016 Ethnic Composition Summary |
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| Asian | 21% | ||||
| Black | 3% | ||||
| Hispanic | 6% | ||||
| Native American | 0% | ||||
| 2 or more Races | 3% | ||||
| White | 65% | ||||
| Non-Resident | 0% | ||||
| Decline to state | 2% | ||||
| Total | 100% | ||||
Faculty Sex Data by Field
2016 Sex Composition of Faculty by Field Groupings |
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| #Faculty | #Female | %Female | #Male | %Male | |
| Arts and Humanities | 656 | 308 | 47% | 348 | 53% |
| Tenured | 244 | 96 | 39.3% | 148 | 60.7% |
| Tenure-Track | 73 | 37 | 50.7% | 36 | 49.3% |
| RTPC | 339 | 175 | 51.6% | 164 | 48.4% |
| Social Sciences | 835 | 391 | 46.8% | 444 | 53.2% |
| Tenured | 320 | 104 | 32.5% | 216 | 67.5% |
| Tenure-Track | 107 | 41 | 38.3% | 66 | 61.7% |
| RTPC | 408 | 246 | 60.3% | 162 | 39.7% |
| Science and Engineering | 894 | 296 | 33.1% | 598 | 66.9% |
| Tenured | 364 | 55 | 15.1% | 309 | 84.9% |
| Tenure-Track | 85 | 28 | 32.9% | 57 | 67.1% |
| RTPC | 445 | 213 | 47.9% | 232 | 52.1% |
| Medicine | 1724 | 756 | 43.9% | 968 | 56.1% |
| Tenured | 243 | 52 | 21.4% | 191 | 78.6% |
| Tenure-Track | 58 | 31 | 53.4% | 27 | 46.6% |
| RTPC | 1423 | 673 | 47.3% | 750 | 52.7% |
2016 Sex Composition Summary |
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| Female | Male | ||||
| Art and Humanities | 308 | 348 | |||
| Social Sciences | 391 | 444 | |||
| Science and Engineering | 296 | 598 | |||
| Medicine | 756 | 968 | |||
[3] Arts and Humanities includes Dornsife Humanities, Kaufman, Roski, Architecture, Cinematic Arts, Dramatic Arts, Thornton, and USC Libraries; Social Sciences includes Dornsife Social Sciences, Annenberg, Gould, Marshall, Rossier, Social Work and Price; Life and Natural Sciences (excluding Keck) includes Dornsife Natural Sciences, Davis, Ostrow, Pharmacy, and Viterbi; Medicine/Keck.
Faculty Ethnicity Data by Field
2016 Ethnic Composition of Faculty by Field Grouping |
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| Total | Asian | Black | Hispanic | Native American | Two or more races | White | Non-resident | Decline to state | |||||||||||
| N | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | |||
| Arts and Hum. | 656 | 54 | 8.2% | 24 | 3.7% | 46 | 7% | 3 | .46% | 8 | 1.2% | 498 | 75.9% | 2 | 0.30% | 21 | 3.2% | ||
| Tenured | 244 | 16 | 6.6% | 12 | 4.9% | 13 | 5.3% | 2 | .82% | 4 | 1.6% | 196 | 80.3% | 0 | 0% | 1 | 0.4% | ||
| Tenure-Track | 73 | 9 | 12.3% | 3 | 4.1% | 9 | 12.3% | 1 | 1.37% | 0 | 0% | 44 | 60.3% | 1 | 1.37% | 6 | 8.2% | ||
| RTPC | 339 | 29 | 8.6% | 9 | 2.7% | 24 | 7.1% | 0 | 0% | 4 | 1.2% | 258 | 76.1% | 1 | 0.29% | 14 | 4.1% | ||
| Social Sciences | 835 | 104 | 12.5% | 43 | 5.1% | 57 | 6.8% | 2 | 0.24% | 16 | 1.9% | 584 | 69.9% | 3 | 0.36% | 26 | 3.1% | ||
| Tenured | 320 | 42 | 13.1% | 12 | 3.8% | 19 | 5.9% | 0 | 0% | 5 | 1.6% | 241 | 75.3% | 0 | 0% | 1 | 0.3% | ||
| Tenure-Track | 107 | 26 | 24.3% | 1 | 0.9% | 6 | 5.6% | 0 | 0% | 2 | 1.9% | 53 | 49.5% | 3 | 2.80% | 16 | 15.0% | ||
| RTPC | 408 | 36 | 8.8% | 30 | 7.4% | 32 | 7.8% | 2 | 0.49% | 9 | 2.2% | 290 | 71.1% | 0 | 0% | 9 | 2.2% | ||
| Science and Engineering | 894 | 205 | 22.9% | 15 | 1.7% | 47 | 5.3% | 1 | 0.11% | 21 | 2.3% | 593 | 66.3% | 6 | 0.67% | 6 | 0.7% | ||
| Tenured | 364 | 71 | 19.5% | 2 | 0.5% | 9 | 2.5% | 0 | 0% | 4 | 1.1% | 278 | 76.4% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | ||
| Tenure-Track | 85 | 26 | 30.6% | 3 | 3.5% | 3 | 3.5% | 0 | 0% | 2 | 2.4% | 49 | 57.6% | 2 | 2.35% | 0 | 0% | ||
| RTPC | 445 | 108 | 24.3% | 10 | 2.2% | 35 | 7.9% | 1 | 0.22% | 15 | 3.4% | 266 | 59.8% | 4 | 0.90% | 6 | 1.3% | ||
| Medicine | 1724 | 501 | 29.1% | 50 | 2.9% | 91 | 5.3% | 3 | 0.17% | 79 | 4.6% | 976 | 56.6% | 1 | 0.06% | 23 | 1.3% | ||
| Tenured | 243 | 52 | 21.4% | 3 | 1.2% | 3 | 1.2% | 0 | 0% | 6 | 2.5% | 177 | 72.8% | 0 | 0% | 2 | 0.8% | ||
| Tenure-Track | 58 | 21 | 36.2% | 1 | 1.7% | 2 | 3.4% | 0 | 0% | 2 | 3.4% | 31 | 53.4% | 0 | 0% | 1 | 1.7% | ||
| RTPC | 1423 | 428 | 30.1% | 46 | 3.2% | 86 | 6.0% | 3 | 0.21% | 71 | 5.0% | 768 | 54% | 1 | 0.07% | 20 | 1.4% | ||
2016 Ethnic Composition Summary |
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| Arts and Humanities | Social Sciences | Science and Engineering | Medicine | ||
| Asian | 54 | 104 | 205 | 501 | |
| Black | 24 | 43 | 15 | 50 | |
| Hispanic | 46 | 57 | 47 | 91 | |
| Native American | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 2 or more Races | 8 | 16 | 21 | 79 | |
| White | 498 | 584 | 593 | 976 | |
| Non-Resident | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | |
| Decline to state | 21 | 26 | 6 | 23 | |
All Enrolled Students (Sex and Ethnicity)
Undergraduate Students
Graduate Students
Student Data
IPEDS Fall 2016 Enrollment |
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| Graduate | Undergraduate | Total | ||||
| # | % | # | % | # | % | |
| White | 7,104 | 28% | 7,403 | 39% | 14,507 | 33% |
| Hispanic | 3,121 | 12% | 2,603 | 14% | 5,724 | 13% |
| Black | 1,627 | 6% | 825 | 4% | 2,452 | 6% |
| Asian | 3,832 | 15% | 3,883 | 21% | 7,715 | 18% |
| Unknown | 898 | 4% | 359 | 2% | 1,257 | 3% |
| International | 7,906 | 32% | 2,669 | 14% | 10,575 | 24% |
| Multi-Ethnic | 457 | 2% | 987 | 5% | 1,444 | 3% |
| Native American | 70 | 0% | 23 | 0% | 93 | 0% |
| Pacific Islander | 62 | 0% | 42 | 0% | 104 | 0% |
| Totals | 25,077 | 18,794 | 43,871 | |||
IPEDS Fall 2016 Enrollment |
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| Graduate | Undergraduate | Total | ||||
| # | % | # | % | # | % | |
| Men | 11,545 | 46% | 9,076 | 48% | 20,621 | 47% |
| Women | 13,532 | 54% | 9,718 | 52% | 23,250 | 53% |
| 25,077 | 18,794 | 43,871 | ||||
Student Ethnicity by Enrollment Level |
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| Graduate | Undergraduate | Total | ||||
| % | % | % | ||||
| White | 28.3% | 39.4% | 33.1% | |||
| Hispanic | 12.4% | 13.9% | 13% | |||
| Black | 6.5% | 4.4% | 5.6% | |||
| Asian | 15.3% | 20.7% | 17.6% | |||
| Unknown | 3.6% | 1.9% | 2.9% | |||
| International | 31.5% | 14.2% | 24.1% | |||
| Multi-Ethnic | 1.8% | 5.3% | 3.3% | |||
| Native American | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.2% | |||
| Pacific Islander | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
