Graduate Admission

USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences combines the intimacy of a liberal arts school—enabling close faculty-student working relationships—with the breadth of a major research institution where internationally known scholars develop influential new ideas and inventions, and engage in ground-breaking research.

Graduate certificate, masters and doctoral programs within USC Dornsife are listed on the right, along with post-baccalaureate programs offered. Click on the links to access each program’s information. Please note that some graduate degree programs in USC Dornsife are Ph.D.-track only.

Additionally, USC Dornsife offers online graduate and certificate programs in Geographic Information Science and Technology online. Please visit Geographic Information Science and Technology or USCNow for more information.

Graduate & Professional Programs

American Studies and Ethnicity, Ph.D.
Applied Mathematics, M.A., M.S., Ph.D.
Art History, Ph.D.
Biology (Neurobiology), Ph.D.
Chemistry, Ph.D.
Chemistry (Chemical Physics), Ph.D.
Classics, Ph.D.
Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture (Comparative Media and Culture), Ph.D.
Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture (Comparative Literature), Ph.D.
Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture (French and Francophone Studies), Ph.D.
Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture (Slavic Languages and Literature), Ph.D.
Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture (Spanish and Latin American Studies), Ph.D.
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Ph.D.
East Asian Area Studies, M.A.
East Asian Languages and Cultures, Ph.D.
Economic Developmental Programming, M.A.
Economics, M.A., Ph.D.
English, Ph.D.
Environmental Studies, M.A.
Gender Studies, Graduate Certificate
Geographic Information Science and Technology, Graduate Certificate, M.S.
Geological Sciences, Ph.D.
History, Ph.D.
Human Behavior, Master
Integrative and Evolutionary Biology, Ph.D.
International Relations, M.A.
Liberal Studies, Master
Linguistics, Ph.D.
Linguistics (East Asian Linguistics), Ph.D.
Linguistics (Hispanic Linguistics), Ph.D.
Literature and Creative Writing, Ph.D.
Marine and Environmental Biology, Ph.D.
Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography, Ph.D.
Mathematical Finance, M.S.
Mathematics, Ph.D.
Molecular Biology, Ph.D.
Molecular and Computational Biology, M.S.
Philosophy, Ph.D.
Physics, Ph.D.
Political Science and International Relations, Ph.D.
Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Program
Professional Writing, Master
Public Diplomacy, Master
Psychology, Ph.D.
Sociology, Ph.D.
Statistics, M.S.
Visual Anthropology, M.A.
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