ADVISORY/UCLA/USC Rivalry Moves to the Corporate Arena.Business & Education Editors ADVISORY...for Thursday (Aug. 2) NOTE TO EDITORS: Multimedia Assets Available With This Story Include Logos, Photos, Text News Releases --(BUSINESS WIRE) The latest chapter in the ongoing rivalry between the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). at Los Angeles (UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX ) and the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission (USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. ) is taking place at a rather unlikely location: the corporate headquarters of KB Home (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :KBH), one of the largest homebuilders in the U.S. and France. KB Home has launched its first annual KB Home Marketing Challenge, in which graduate students from both schools are competing against each other to come up with a winning business idea for the Company. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?3630 This multimedia news story is for free and unrestricted use on your news information site (and for print or broadcast too). Visit http://www.newstream.com to download video, audio, text, graphics and photos. If you have any questions about the story, or about Newstream.com, please write to us at info@newstream.com. |
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