USC Upstate is home to 4,500 students from 38 states and 71 nations. It offers challenging, first-rate academic courses, small class sizes, personal experiences, remarkable diversity, an expansive international community, and a dynamic campus life. Our acclaimed and accredited academic programs create real opportunities for our students to build bridges to their future through internships, field service, study abroad, and more.
We believe that global education is one of the true imperatives of higher education in our time, like no other time. Real, substantive international education wherein students learn the deep currents within and among nations over time, with opportunities to study those currents from varying disciplinary perspectives … maybe history, political science, religion, philosophy, geography, economics, commerce, health care, education, culture or language.