Educated

• 45% of the city’s population holds a bachelor’s degree or higher.
• Five 4-year colleges, one of the state’s largest technical colleges and a nationally-ranked research university with a law school and medical school with a combined 50,000 plus students annually.
• USC’s Darla Moore School of Business is the #1 ranked undergraduate program for international business and one of the world’s highest rated International MBAs.
• USC’s College of Engineering with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in aerospace engineering and research opportunities funded by NASA at the McNair Aerospace Center.

Diverse

• Two HBCUs, Benedict College and Allen University, educate more than 4,000 undergraduates each year.
• The Benedict College Business Development Center supports small and minority business development.
• The South Carolina Women’s Business Center at Columbia College, backed by Google and the S.C. Department of Commerce, is creating more woman-owned, million dollar businesses.
• Home to over 30 international companies from 13 countries

Skilled

• The nationally recognized readySC workforce development and training program provides flexible, quick-response recruitment, curriculum design and training for businesses—including Nephron, GE and BMW.
• IT-ology, a collaboration of BlueCross BlueShield, IBM and USC provides IT training to meet current and future workforce needs.
• Fort Jackson, the largest military basic training installation in the country, is located here and we’re a permanent home for thousands of military veterans.

Motivated

• The University of South Carolina is ranked among the top 100 patenting universities.