South Carolina colleges and universities

There are 58colleges, universities, and technical schools in South Carolina. Combined, these South Caroliniancolleges and universitiesemploy 18,697 people, earn more than $2 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $6 billion.

Types of colleges and universities in South Carolina

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
58
$1,715,661,146
33
$1,549,346,910
14
$81,704,102
2
$84,504,634
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Colleges and universities by major South Carolina cities

Metro areaNonprofitsRevenues
14
$702,886,810
13
$320,447,848
5
$216,838,261
4
$17,184,629
4
$120,737,972
3
$27,888
2
$23,387,886
2
$34,709,782
1
$418,252
Showing 9 of 9metros

Job trends for South Carolina colleges and universities

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
10
1-10
3
11-25
2
26-100
2
101 to 1,000
18
1,000+
7
Key takeaways for employment stats:

Sizes of colleges and universities in South Carolina

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
7
$250k to $1M
1
$1M to $5M
7
$5M to $25M
8
$25M to $100M
17
$100M+
5
Key takeaways for revenue stats:
  • Large organizations like Furman University, Wofford College, Anderson University (AU), Charleston Southern University, and Bju earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in South Carolina colleges and universities.
  • Organizations with less than $1 million in revenue account for 0.0% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in South Carolina colleges and universities with more than $100 million account for 43.2% of nonprofit earnings.

Directory of colleges and universities in South Carolina


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Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF with the IRS. We collect and aggregate this information from OCR'd paper taxreturns, XML e-file taxreturns, IRS-provided extract, the Business Master File, and Cause IQ secret sauce for data cleaning, categorization, classification, analytics, etc.
This category corresponds to the "B40: Higher Education Institutions" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.