Colleges in South Carolina

What this count of 63 includes

Other sites publish very different totals for South Carolina, and most do not say what they are counting. Here is exactly what this one counts, so you can check it against anyone else's.

By level

40 listed as universities and 23 as community colleges. CampusPin records this as an institution type, and uses it as an approximation of four-year versus two-year; it is not a separately reported degree-level field.

By control

33 public and 30 private. CampusPin records control as public or private only, so private nonprofit and private for-profit institutions are not separated here.

• Every institution counted has its own CampusPin profile listing the figures behind it and where each one came from, so the total can be checked against its parts rather than taken on trust.
• This is CampusPin's directory of 3,798 institutions nationwide, not the full federal universe. NCES counted 5,829 Title IV institutions, administrative offices, and U.S. service academies nationwide for 2024-25. That figure includes entities a student would never apply to, which is one reason published totals differ so widely.
• Figures come from federal sources on a reporting lag, so a very new or very recently closed institution may not be reflected yet. Found something wrong? Tell us and we will correct it.