Preparing for Your Future
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From the moment you arrive at USC Dornsife, you’ll prepare for life after college.
Whether you plan to attend graduate school or pursue that dream job, one-of-a-kind internships and research opportunities will help you stand out in a competitive marketplace. And the support doesn’t end when you leave campus — our career services are here for you even after you earn your degree.
A Future-Proof Education
Every field across the liberal arts and sciences helps you become proficient in analysis and reason, communication, collaboration, and making connections that aren’t immediately obvious. As professions evolve and new ones emerge, the knowledge needed to succeed in a specialized field may change. But these future-proof skills will always be in high demand.
Career Advising & Training
Building a bulletproof resume. Nailing an interview. Negotiating a higher salary. Pitching yourself and your projects. You’ll discover the secrets to these vital job skills through seminars and workshops offered by Career Pathways. Additionally, one-on-one career counselors are available to answer any questions that come up as you navigate new professional landscapes.
Get the Dornsife Edge
Intensives
USC Dornsife Intensives are an official academic credential built around three course clusters anchored by an intentional through-line. You’ll gain expertise in a focused area that gives you an edge in the job market or grad school. It might sharpen what you’re already doing — or strategically expand your range. Any USC undergraduate can take an Intensive, no matter what you’re studying.
Success Starts Here
Their paths are winding, uncommon, and often unexpected. But many USC Dornsife alumni say their career success is directly connected to experiences they had as undergraduates.
Journalist Christina Pascucci traces her journey back to her BA in Spanish
An interdisciplinary major at USC still influences Neil Vora’s work at the CDC
Mayor of Yorba Linda Tara Campbell credits her Dornsife Degree with giving her crucial communication skills
You’re Already On the Job
At USC Dornsife, students are making big professional strides well before graduation.
Preparing for Their Future Today
New AI Essentials courses give students 3 perspectives on AI
A new three-course initiative from USC Dornsife, USC Marshall and USC Viterbi gives undergraduates complementary perspectives on artificial intelligence: how it works, how to use it, and what it means for humanity.
History and ROTC prepared USC Dornsife grad for the military
A childhood encounter with a best-selling book about the Revolutionary War sparked a love of history for Benjamin Goff, a USC ROTC alumnus who graduated from USC Dornsife with a history degree in 2025.
USC students explore conservation careers on Catalina Island
With The Macfarlane Foundation support, students learn from environmental leaders and discover new ways to turn their interests into careers.
USC Dornsife students excel in D.C. summer internships
This summer, USC students interned across the public, private and nonprofit sectors in the nation’s capital, working in a variety of industries ranging from business to government to medicine and beyond.
Summertime for these Trojan undergrads means diving into research
USC offers unique opportunities for students like biochemistry major Nico Matias and quantitative biology major Juliette Deiss to do hands-on, lifesaving research alongside faculty mentors.
How USC Dornsife helped shape acclaimed singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc’s career
The Grammy-nominated performer says his studies in linguistics, psychology and neuroscience continue to influence his music, philanthropy and work as a biotech entrepreneur.
USC ROTC helped Allison Parra find confidence — and her calling
The USC Dornsife psychology alumna overcame academic struggles, rebuilt a USC rugby program, completed one of the Army’s most demanding challenges, and now leads a platoon of 33 soldiers.
When alumni mentors give back, they gain, too
The USC Dornsife Alumni Mentorship Program gives both students and alumni opportunities to expand their horizons in meaningful ways.
After global innovation win, USC Dornsife graduate aims to make calling for help safer
Darnell Adler’s Lifeline AI took the top prize at Red Bull Basement’s World Final, giving the recent economics graduate new momentum to build what he hopes will become a global standard for discreet emergency alerts.
How early health challenges fueled two graduating seniors’ passion for medicine
Driven by their own experiences with childhood illness — along with breakthrough research experience and service to the community — two stand-out USC Dornsife students look forward to medical school.
Gateway Internship Program
The USC Dornsife Gateway Internship Program provides opportunities to explore a career through a paid summer internship experience. Gateway couples on-the-job experience with mentorship from a distinguished professional and participation in specialized seminars in career skills.
Environmental Communications Internship
The Wrigley Institute’s Environmental Communications summer internship trains undergraduates to talk about complex climate science in ways that the general public can easily understand.
Policy Research Internship
Through the Unruh Institute of Politics, students participate in a research internship focusing on public policy. Taking part in a team-based research projects, they develop evidence-based policy solutions to real world problems. At the conclusion of the program, each team presents their final product to the partnering organization that can put recommendations into action.
Contact Us
USC Dornsife Career Pathways
(213) 740 – 2534
careerpathways@dornsife.usc.edu