University of South Carolina

The University of South Carolina also referred to  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 acre 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 has been ranked as an "up-and-coming" university by U.S. News &  and graduate International Business programs have ranked among the top three programs in the nation for over a

 decade also houses the largest collection of Robert Burns and Scottish literature materials outside of Scotland and the largest Ernest Hemingway collection in the 

Founded in 1801 as South Carolina College, South Ca

s 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 students, with 32,848 on the main 

Columbia campus a schools on the Columbia campus include business, engineering, law, medicine, pharmacy, and social work.

Seventy-two students were present for classes in January 1862 and the college functioned as best it could until a call by the 18 system of conscription would begin  March 20 for all men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, so on March 8 all of the students at the college volunteered for service in order to avoid the d

f having been conscripted. Despite the deletion of students, the professors issued a notice that the college would temporarily close and

n to those under eighteen. When the college reopened on March 17, only nine students showed up for classes and it became quite apparent to all that the college would not last past the end of the term in June.

On June 25 with the consent of the state government, the Confederate authorities took possession of the college buildings and converted them into a hospital. After many unsuccessful attempts to reopen the college, the trustees passed a resolution on December 2,

 1863 that officially closed the college. By February 1865, Sherman's army had reached the outskirts of Columbia and the college was spared from destruction by the Union forces because of its use as a hospital. In addition, a company of the 25th I at the campus on February 17 to protect it from harm and to thwart off pillaging Yankee soldiers.