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Welcome to USC’s Marshall School of Business! We hope this site helps you discover why so many transfer students choose USC Marshall as the most exciting place to spend their college years.

At USC Marshall, you will develop a thorough knowledge of business fundamentals, including organizational behavior, finance and business economics, business communication, accounting, marketing and business strategy. During your junior and senior years you will choose courses that allow you to study one more specific areas of business in depth. Every semester our academic advisors help you plan your schedule so that you can graduate on time.

Anyone who has attended college after high school and wishes to attend USC is eligible to apply as a transfer student. We recommend that transfer students seek admission after they have completed a minimum of 30 transferable units, including USC Marshall prerequisites.

Students interested in pursuing the Bachelors of Science in Business Administration or Accounting must apply to the Business Administration major, and should indicate Business Administration as their first-choice major on the application. Please contact your Admissions Counselor in the Enrollment Services Division for more information.

USC's Enrollment Services Division, which makes all admission decisions for USC Marshall undergraduate degree programs, can help you with pre-admission counseling and related support services through a variety of on-campus programs. Transfer Information Sessions occur weekly on Tuesdays at 3pm, and Transfer Days occur monthly throughout the fall. Admissions counselors in the Enrollment Services Division are also available to meet with students on a limited walk-in basis.

We encourage you to get to know us from our receptions, campus tours and more, and to learn about us even if you can’t make it to campus. Find more information download our brochures (below) and discover how being a USC Marshall student will jumpstart your career and transform your world.

Download our brochures

• Recruiter Handbook
• The Marshall Curriculum: Flexibility for the Future
• Business Without Boundaries
• First Person: The Marshall Experience
• Minors Programs
• Transfer to USC Brochure

USC offers some helpful guidance to students who are considering transferring to the University and being admitted to Marshall.

We recommend that you read more about basic academic requirements, transfer credit and policies, and USC’s core requirements. The PDFs noted on the left are also helpful.

= A sample sequence of courses for 4-year Marshall undergraduates is shown on the right. Please see the USC catalog for course descriptions.

Courses marked ‘X’ are transferable to USC. Transferring these courses assists with admission consideration and degree progress.

Transfer candidates must complete the following equivalent courses for admissions consideration:

• WRIT 130/140 (English Composition 2, also a University requirement)
• MATH 118 or MATH 125 (Calculus)

The following suggested transferable courses are optional (not all courses taken elsewhere will transfer to USC). Completion will advance University matriculation.

• Accounting 1 and Accounting 2 (Transferable accounting sequence will replace one business core accounting class)
• (BUAD 280 and 281 are replaced with BUAD 305x)
• General Education Categories 1, 2, 3 and 5 and Diversity Requirements

With the recommended transfer preparation, admitted students will complete these remaining courses at USC:

• ECON 251x and ECON 252x
• WRIT 340
• (GE) Requirements 4 (Science & Its Significance) and 6 (Social Issues)
• Business Core classes and three, upper-division, Marshall electives

The USC Office of Articulation and the Marshall School Admission Office can help you learn whether courses taken at your schools will transfer to USC. Contact us at:

• phone: (213) 740-8885
• email: busadm@marshall.usc.edu

Our top priority is supporting you as you pursue your dreams.

The cost of attending USC can be offset by financial aid and a variety of student scholarships.

Featured Scholarship

The Norman Topping Student Aid Fund (NTSAF) assists students with high financial need who demonstrate an extraordinary level of community awareness in their pursuit of higher education at the University of Southern California. Applicants residing in areas surrounding the University Park and Health Science campuses, in addition to first-generation college students, are given primary consideration, although the scholarship is not limited to these populations. The Norman Topping Student Aid Fund is the only student initiated, student funded, primarily student administered scholarship in the nation.