South Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United States of America. The Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution. It was the first state to secede from the Union to found the Confederate States of America. The state is named after King Charles II of England, as Carolus is Latin for Charles. According to 2005 estimates by the U.S. Census Bureau, the state's population is 4,321,249.
Private Liberal Arts Colleges
Allen University
Benedict College
Columbia College (Columbia, South Carolina)
Coker College
Converse College
Erskine College
Furman University
Limestone College
Morris College
Newberry College
Presbyterian College
Wofford College
Private Colleges and Universities:
Anderson University
Bob Jones University
Charleston Southern University
Claflin University
Columbia College
Columbia International University
Johnson & Wales University Charleston
Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary
North Greenville University
South Carolina State University
Southern Methodist College
Southern Wesleyan University
Southern Wesleyan University
Voorhees College
Public Universities:
The Citadel
Clemson University
Coastal Carolina University
College of Charleston
Francis Marion University
Lander University
University of South Carolina Aiken
University of South Carolina Beaufort
University of South Carolina Columbia
University of South Carolina Lancaster
University of South Carolina Salkehatchie
University of South Carolina Sumter
University of South Carolina Union
University of South Carolina Upstate
Winthrop University
Professional Institutions:
Charleston School of Law
Erskine Theological Seminary
Geneva Reformed Seminary
Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Medical University of South Carolina
Sherman College of Straight Chiropractic
W. L. Bonner College
Two-year Colleges:
Aiken Technical College
Central Carolina Technical College
Clinton Junior College
Denmark Technical College
Florence-Darlington Technical College
Greenville Technical College
Horry-Georgetown Technical College
Midlands Technical College
Northeastern Technical College
Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College
Piedmont Technical College
Spartanburg Methodist College
Spartanburg Community College
Technical College of the Lowcountry
Tri-County Technical College
Trident Technical College
Williamsburg Technical College
York Technical College
South Carolina has no major professional franchise of the NFL, NHL, NBA, or MLB located in the state; however the NFL's Carolina Panthers (based in Charlotte, North Carolina) represents both Carolinas, played their first season in Clemson, South Carolina, and the team's training camp takes place every year at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. College sports in particular are very big in South Carolina. Clemson University's Tigers and the University of South Carolina's Gamecocks regularly draw more than 80,000 spectators at the schools' home football games. Smaller universities located in South Carolina also have very competitive sports programs, including the Citadel, Presbyterian College, Furman, Coastal Carolina, Wofford, College of Charleston, Winthrop, North Greenville University, Lander University, and SC State. South Carolina does have several minor league professional teams that play baseball, hockey, and other sports in the state. Columbia, Greenville, Charleston, Myrtle Beach/Conway, and Florence all have or have had minor league professional sports teams.
South Carolina is known as a golfing paradise. Myrtle Beach/Grand Strand has more than a hundred golf courses. Myrtle Beach has more public golf courses per capita than any other place in the country. Some have hosted PGA and LGPA events in the past, but most have been designed for the casual golfer. Hilton Head & Kiawah Island has several very nice golf courses and hosts professional events every year. The upstate of South Carolina also has many nice golf courses, most of the nicer courses are private including the Cliff's courses and Cross Creek Plantation (the Cliff's courses host the annual BMW PRO/AM that brings many celebrities and professionals to South Carolina. Cross Creek Plantation located in Seneca, also private hosted a PGA Qualifier in the 90's). Oconee Country Club also in Seneca, is an extremely nice course, very well-kept, and is open to the public. In 2007, "The Ocean Course" On Kiawah Island was ranked #1 in Golf Digest Magazine's "America's 50 Toughest Golf Courses" and #38 on their "America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses".
Watersports are also an extremely popular activity in South Carolina. With a large coast line, South Carolina has many different beach activities such as surfing, boogie boarding, deep sea fishing, and shrimping. The Pee Dee region of the state offers exceptional fishing. Some of the largest catfish ever caught were caught in the Santee Lakes. The Upstate of South Carolina also offers outstanding water activities. The Midlands region also offers water-based recreation revolving around Lakes Marion and Murray and such rivers as the Congaree, Saluda, Broad, and Edisto.
While there are no race tracks with betting in South Carolina there is significant horse training activity, particularly in Aiken and Camden, which hold steeplechase races.
The capital and largest city in the state is Columbia. The other two major centers in the state are Charleston in the Lowcountry and Greenville in the Upstate. Other notable cities are Anderson, Aiken, Beaufort, Florence, Georgetown, Greenwood, Hilton Head Island, Moncks Corner, Mount Pleasant, Myrtle Beach, Newberry, North Charleston, Orangeburg, Rock Hill, Spartanburg, North Augusta, Lexington and Sumter.
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