USC meaning in Academic & Science ?

The University of San Carlos, also referred to by its acronym USC or colloquially shortened to San Carlos, is a private, Catholic, research, coeducational basic and higher education institution administered by the Philippine Southern Province of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) missionaries in Cebu City, Philippines since 1935. It offers basic education (Montessori academy, grade school, junior high school and senior high school) and higher education (undergraduate and graduate studies). Founded originally in 1595 as Colegio de San Ildefonso, it later became the Colegio-Seminario de San Carlos in 1783 and finally obtained university charter in 1948.

USC has 5 campuses with combined land area of 88 hectares or 217 acres (Talamban campus has 78 hectares). The Commission on Higher Education has recognized 8 of its programs as Centers of Excellence and 12 of its programs as Centers of Development as of March, 2016. USC is ranked by the International/Asia Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) within 451-500 in Asia as of 2021 USC is also ranked by Scimago & Scopus institution ranking and Research Gate as 7th (2021) among universities in the Philippines with the most indexed research publications. The university is certified with International Standards Organization (ISO) 9001:2015 Quality Management System for Institutional and Student Support Services as of September 2017 by Technischer Uberwachungsverein (TUV) Sud Asia Pacific.

USC has about 16,000 students (as of 2020) who are called by the name Carolinians of which 200 are international students, enrolled in collegiate undergraduate and graduate programs and served by about 800 academic faculty and staff with a teacher to student ratio of 1:20. About 500 Carolinian students are academic scholars.