The University of South Carolina is a public, co-educational research university established in 1801 and located in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. It was founded as South Carolina College on December 19, 1801, and offers more than 350 programs of study leading to bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees from fourteen degree-granting colleges and schools. University has an enrollment of approximately 47,724 students, with 32,848 on the main Columbia campus for 2013. Professional schools on the Columbia campus include social work, business, engineering, law, medicine, and pharmacy. USC is one of 62 public and 32 private research institutions and the only university in South Carolina classified a research institution of "very high research activity" by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
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