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Idealist or Pragmatist? Yes.
Whether you’re a pragmatist looking for a rewarding career or an idealist who wants to change the world (or a little of both), there’s a place for you at USC Price.
Change for the Common Good
Our students, faculty, staff, and alumni provide solutions to today’s most important challenges, creating consequential change that builds equitable and vibrant communities worldwide.
Research Areas
Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions
Our research has informed everything from vaccination policies to traffic safety to voting rights. Through our interdisciplinary research centers, the Price School provides students with enormous opportunities to engage in real research that changes lives.
Research Areas
Economic Development
USC Price School research analyzes drivers of economic development, examining employment strategies to promote growth; how fashion, art and culture affect economies; and the role of hospitals and clinics in neighborhood economic development.
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Environment
Our faculty research multiple avenues related to the environment. They study alternative energy and efficiency strategies, demonstrate how to improve climate change communication, develop green ratings systems, and explore possibilities for collaboration across government and industry.
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Governance
Governance is woven into many of our programs and has been a core research area since the school’s founding in 1929. Price faculty produce widely cited research and engage public officials as a result of their commitment to making government and civil society more effective.
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Health Policy and Management
USC Price School experts are leaders in numerous aspects of our healthcare system. They examine hospital administration, insurance design, Medicare, service delivery, and health economics, as well as analyze the global consequences of policy affecting pharmaceutical and medical device innovation.
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Housing Security
Our Homelessness Policy Research Institute – a partnership with the USC School of Social Work – collaborates with more than 100 researchers, policymakers, service providers and experts who have experienced homelessness to accelerate equitable and culturally informed solutions to homelessness in L.A. County.
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International Development
Our focus on international development is enshrined in our mission to improve the quality of life in communities worldwide. We’ve provided recommendations for improving trust in public drinking water around the world, and demonstrated how a simple procedure could save millions of children’s lives in developing countries. And so much more.
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Nonprofit Management
From research presentations at the White House to groundbreaking studies, our experts have been leading the way in action-oriented empirical analysis for more than 25 years. Our renowned experts in the Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy engage in scholarly work that is rigorous, relevant and accessible.
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Public Policy and Administration
Virtually every area of our research directly or indirectly informs and shapes more effective, just public policy. Our research led to expanding health insurance for 65 million people in India. We helped Southern California create or retain more than 8,500 manufacturing jobs. And on and on.
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Real Estate
The USC Price School’s Wilbur H. Smith III Department of Real Estate Development is home to three powerhouse organizations — The USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, the USC Ross Program in Real Estate and the USC Casden Multifamily Forecast. The annual Casden Forecast is a widely cited source of information about trends in the multi-family residential real estate market.
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Security and Risk Analysis
Our CREATE Homeland Security Center and the USC Safe Communities Institute (SCI) use a variety of fact-based approaches to evaluate and counter risks to foster safer communities. CREATE was the Department of Homeland Security’s first center of excellence; SCI is directed by a former Sheriff of L.A. County.
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Social Innovation
From addressing homelessness in L.A. County to developing new economic pathways so that a person’s zip code doesn’t determine life outcomes, Social Innovation research is tackling today’s most urgent urban challenges — seeking to develop and inform new models that advance equity and opportunity for low-income families.
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Transportation
Our faculty examine the role of transportation to improve mobility options for all people; reduce pollution and GHG emissions; and contribute to making more livable cities. The METRANS Transportation Consortium focuses on solving transportation problems of large metropolitan areas through interdisciplinary research, education and outreach.
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Urban Planning
Our urban planning experts focus on designing more livable communities. They include renowned experts who have been named to leadership and advisory roles at the U.S Department of Housing & Urban Development and have provided expert testimony to the Senate Committees on Finance and Banking.
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Featured Faculty: Christian Grose
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Featured Faculty: Santina Contreras
Minnesota Star Tribune
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Featured Faculty: Paul B. Ginsburg
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Currid-Halkett quoted about the shared values and concerns of Ohio voters across different political affiliations
Featured Faculty: Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
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