Top News

One of the world's top private research universities known for its film, business, and arts programmes is a common link between the two generations of Bollywood personalities - Zeenat Aman and Aryan Khan. Zeenat Amanullah Khan, professionally known as Zeenat Aman, was born in 1951. She completed her schooling in Panchgani and attended University of Southern California in Los Angeles on student aid. However, due to unknown reasons, Zeenat Aman was unable to complete her graduation. A few decades later, the 1997 born Aryan Khan, eldest son of Shah Rukh Khan, also went to the same university to pursue a Film Degree in the US university. Khan did his schooling at Mumbai's Dhirubhai Ambani International School until age 15, after which he attended the Sevenoaks School in Kent. In 2020, Khan graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in film and television production from the USC School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. Following this, he launched a luxury collective brand in 2022, followed by a premium liquor brand of Vodka, luxury apparel brand, and then turned towards direction. He is currently in news for his upcoming directorial debut, The Ba***ds of Bollywood, on which he served as showrunner, writer, and director. These two names of Bollywood are not the only Indian celebrities who have attended this famous US university. Others who have attended University of Southern California (USC) are:

Name	Background
Ami Vashi	Femina Miss India 2003; model and dancer
Nandana Sen	Actress/filmmaker; MFA in Film Producing
Sohil Vaidya	National Award-winning filmmaker; MFA in Film
Asha Jadeja Motwani	Venture capitalist and philanthropist; Engineering degrees
Radha Basu	Tech entrepreneur; CEO of iMerit
Piara Singh Gill	Scientist and advisor; former CSIO director

University of Southern California (USC) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. It was founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney. The university consists of the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, its liberal arts school, along with 22 other undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools. It hosts nearly 21,000 undergraduate students and around 28,500 postgraduate students, representing all 50 US states and over 115 countries. The university also has the School of Cinematic Arts, the oldest and largest film school in the country, that confers degrees in six different programmes. USC boasts about having alumni community that includes Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the Moon; Charles Bolden, the former director of NASA and a former astronaut; O. J. Simpson, American football player, actor, and accused murderer; Byron Allen, founder, chairman and CEO of Allen Media Group; Lillian Copeland, Olympic champion in the discus throw; George Lucas, creator of Star Wars and Indiana Jones; Andrew Viterbi, co-founder of Qualcomm and inventor of the Viterbi algorithm; Academy Award winner John Wayne; Dexter Holland, co-founder, lead singer and guitarist of The Offspring, actor and comedian Will Ferrell; Emmy Award-winning actor John Ritter; Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry; Hall of Fame football player Ron Mix; longtime Los Angeles Lakers owners Jerry Buss, as well as his daughter and current Lakers owner Jeanie; recycling symbol designer Gary Anderson; entertainer Larry Harmon, better known as his alter ego, Bozo the Clown; former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher; deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi; actress America Ferrera; journalist Julie Chen; former prime minister of Jordan Fayez Tarawneh; Taiwanese actress and singer Michelle Chen; American influencer Jake Shane; and Hwang Dong-hyuk, South Korean director of Netflix's most watched TV show, Squid Game. Additionally, USC presently has ten Nobel Laureates on staff, and its affiliates include eleven Rhodes Scholars, twelve Marshall Scholars, six MacArthur Fellows, 181 Fulbright Scholars, and one Turing Award winner.