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USC

How often is it named?

10/36

18 equal of 58 brands, across 6 questions about private research universities.

How is it described?

Not measured yet — nothing has asked about USC by name.

Its 10 mentions come from neutral questions, which show how often it comes up but not how it is characterised.

1 Dukeduke.edu 3597%

2= Massachusetts Institute of Technologymit.edu 3392%

2= Northwesternnorthwestern.edu 3392%

4 Stanfordstanford.edu 3083%

5 Harvardharvard.edu 2878%

6= Pennupenn.edu 2775%

6= Cornellcornell.edu 2775%

8 Columbiacolumbia.edu 2467%

9 Princetonprinceton.edu 2364%

10 Johns Hopkinsjhu.edu 2261%

11 Yaleyale.edu 2158%

12 Caltechcaltech.edu 2056%

13 Ricerice.edu 1850%

14 Carnegie Melloncmu.edu 1747%

15= University of Chicagouchicago.edu 1439%

15= Vanderbiltvanderbilt.edu 1439%

17 Dartmouthdartmouth.edu 1336%

18= Brownbrown.edu 1028%

18= USCusc.edu 1028%

+23 more brands named at least once ranked below the top 19

20= Emoryemory.edu 719%

20= Berkeleyberkeley.edu 719%

22 Case Western Reservecase.edu 617%

23= NYUnyu.edu 514%

23= Georgetowngeorgetown.edu 514%

23= University of Rochesterrochester.edu 514%

26= ETH Zurichethz.ch 411%

26= NYU Sternstern.nyu.edu 411%

26= Northeasternnortheastern.edu 411%

26= Notre Damend.edu 411%

26= University of Michiganumich.edu 411%

31= Boston Universitybu.edu 38%

31= Harvey Muddhmc.edu 38%

31= Imperial College Londonimperial.ac.uk 38%

31= Nanyang Technological Universityntu.edu.sg 38%

31= Tuftstufts.edu 38%

31= Washington University in St. Louiswustl.edu 38%

37= National University of Singaporenus.edu.sg 26%

37= Tsinghua Universitytsinghua.edu.cn 26%

39= Fordhamfordham.edu 13%

39= Juilliardjuilliard.edu 13%

39= Virginiavirginia.edu 13%

39= Wake Forest Universitywfu.edu 13%

16 brands in this market were named in none of the 36 answers: Amherst, Barnard, Bowdoin, CUNY, Emerson, Georgia Tech, Michigan Ross, Pace and 8 more.

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Bigger sites do tend to get named more here, but the relationship is loose enough that size is far from the whole story.

↑how often assistants name it →how much traffic its website gets

Top left — punching above their sizea small site, named often

Bottom right — overlooked despite their sizea big site, named rarely

How to read this chart

Across is web prominence — the brand's domain in the Tranco ranking of the world's most-visited sites, on a logarithmic scale, so each step is roughly ten times more prominent. Up is how many of the 36 answers named it.

Every brand with a ranked domain is plotted, including a domain carrying a whole company still plausibly helps that company's products get named. The 19 least-named brands are left off so the rest can be labelled; the table above has every one of them. Not plotted, having no ranked domain: NYU Stern.

Rank correlation +0.47 across 16 brands — a description of this picture, not a claim about the market as a whole.

By question

Question	Answers	Named it
What are top private universities for engineering students?		4/6
Which private research universities have the best business programs?		3/6
Which private research universities have the strongest alumni networks?		2/6
What are the best private research universities?		1/6
What are good private research universities on the East Coast?		0/6
Which private universities are best for undergraduate research opportunities?		0/6

Where it lands when answers rank brands

median position 9 of about 14
in the top three 0% of ranked answers
from 10 ranked answers
95% interval 16–44% on its own count

The two assistants

Assistant	Named it
anthropic	6/18 (33%)
openai	4/18 (22%)

Method

market private research universities
brands compared 58
answers 36
web prominence Tranco #2,376

USC is counted by the same matcher as every other brand here, against the same list of names, from the same answers. It gets no extra aliases and no special handling.

Web search was off, so this measures what the models already know rather than what they would retrieve today. A difference smaller than about 12 points is not meaningful.

How the table is ordered. By how many of the 36 answers named each brand. Brands on the same count share a rank and are shown in the order the assistants tended to list them. A brand counts once per answer, however many times it is named in it.

How close is close. Two brands share a rank only when their counts are identical. Beyond that, a gap smaller than about four answers is inside what this measurement moves between runs — so read near-neighbours as close rather than settled, which is why every row keeps its interval.