University of South Carolina
The University of South Carolina (also referred to as USC, SC, South Carolina, or simply Carolina) is a public, co-educational research university located in Columbia, South Carolina, United States, with seven satellite campuses. Its campus covers over 359 acres (145 ha) in downtown Columbia not far from the South Carolina State House. The University is categorized by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as having “very high research activity” and curricular community engagement. It has been ranked as an “up-and-coming” university by U.S. News & World Report, and its undergraduate and graduate International Business programs have ranked among the top three programs in the nation for over a decade. It also houses the largest collection of Robert Burns and Scottish literature materials outside Scotland, and the largest Ernest Hemingway collection in the world.
Founded in 1801 as South Carolina College, South Carolina is the flagship institution of the University of South Carolina System and offers more than 350 programs of study, leading to bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from fourteen degree-granting colleges and schools. The University of South Carolina has an enrollment of approximately 49,220 students, with 33,575 on the main Columbia campus as of fall 2015.[10] USC also has several thousand future students in feeder programs at surrounding technical colleges. Professional schools on the Columbia campus include business, engineering, law, medicine, pharmacy, and social work.
- # 1 Undergraduate international business for 13 consecutive years
- # 1 Graduate international business (20 consecutive years as either # 1 or # 2)
- # 1 Honors College among 50 public university honors programs
- # 2 Pediatrics residency program
- # 2 School library media
- # 3 School psychology doctoral program
- # 4 Graduate social psychology
- # 5 Health education doctoral program
- # 5 MBA programs for Latin Americans
- # 7 Electrical engineering doctoral program (#1 Southern Region*)
- # 8 Exercise science
- # 9 Hotel, restaurant, & tourism management
- # 10 Publication rates of faculty research (Dept. of Political Science)
- # 10 Undergraduate Insurance/Risk Management
- # 10 Geography doctoral program (#2 Southern Region)
Darla Moore School of Business
The Darla Moore School of Business’ undergraduate international business MBA program is ranked as the #1 international MBA program in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.
International MBA Rankings | |
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# 1 | University of South Carolina (Moore) |
# 2 | University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) |
# 3 | Thunderbird School of Global Management |
# 4 | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (Ross) |
# 5 | Columbia University |
# 6 | New York University (Stern) |
# 7 | Harvard University |
# 8 | University of California—Berkeley (Haas) |
# 9 | Stanford University |
# 10 | University of Southern California (Marshall) |
Internationally Recognized Faculty
- #1 for research productivity among international business faculty in United States and #2 worldwide in Journal of International Business Studies, 2006-11
- #1 for experimental accounting research productivity (Brigham Young University study, 2010)