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Founded as the College of Commerce and Business Administration in 1920 within the University of Southern California (USC), USC Marshall became the Graduate School of Business Administration in 1960. It developed the US’ first entrepreneurship programme in 1972 and its PRIME (Pacific Rim Education) programme in 1997, one of the first MBA programmes to require students to study abroad.In 1999, state-of-the-art building, Popovich Hall, became the main graduate building for USC Marshall.USC Marshall has 4,064 undergraduate students (44 per cent of which are women) and 444 full-time MBA students (32 per cent of which are women), with 441 part-time MBA students, 227 executive MBA students, 64 online MBA and 71 PhD students.Courses run across seven departments: business communication; Leventhal School of Accounting; Lloyd Greif School for Entrepreneurial Studies; data sciences and operations, management and organisation; finance and business economics and marketing.Among the undergraduate courses is the world bachelor in business (WBB) that unites the University of Southern California, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Bocconi University to allow students to live and study on three continents and earn degrees from three universities.The school offers a diverse range of specialised master's programmes, including; business analytics; entrepreneurship and innovation; finance; marketing; social entrepreneurship; master of science in global supply chain management; master of management in library and information science; master of business for veterans; master of medical management; master of management studies; master of science in business administration and master of science in food industry leadership.