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South Carolina: Almanac 2012

August 26, 2012

DEMOGRAPHICS
	State:	Nation:
Population:
State rank: 24	4,625,364	308,745,538
Age distribution:
Up to 4	6.5%	6.5%
5 to 14	12.8%	13.3%
15 to 19	7.1%	7.1%
20 to 24	7.2%	7.0%
25 to 44	25.8%	26.6%
45 to 64	26.9%	26.4%
65 and older	13.7%	13.0%

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DEMOGRAPHICS
	State:	Nation:
Population:
State rank: 24	4,625,364	308,745,538
Age distribution:
Up to 4	6.5%	6.5%
5 to 14	12.8%	13.3%
15 to 19	7.1%	7.1%
20 to 24	7.2%	7.0%
25 to 44	25.8%	26.6%
45 to 64	26.9%	26.4%
65 and older	13.7%	13.0%
Racial and ethnic distribution:
American Indian	0.4%	0.9%
Asian	1.3%	4.8%
Black	27.9%	12.6%
Pacific Islander	0.1%	0.2%
White	66.2%	72.4%
More than one race	1.7%	2.9%
Hispanic (may be any race)	5.1%	16.3%
Other	2.5%	6.2%
Educational attainment of adults (highest level):
8th grade or less	5.9%	6.2%
Some high school, no diploma	11.0%	8.7%
High-school diploma	31.1%	29.0%
Some college, no degree	19.6%	20.6%
Associate degree	8.2%	7.5%
Bachelor’s degree	15.6%	17.6%
Master’s degree	6.2%	7.2%
Doctoral degree	0.9%	1.2%
Professional degree	1.4%	2.0%
Proportion who speak a language other than English at home:
	6.3%	20.0%
Per capita personal income:
State rank: 47	$33,673	$41,663
Poverty rate:
	18.2%	15.3%
New public-high-school graduates:
Estimated for 2012-13	36,960	2,912,480
Projected change from 2007-8 to 2020-21	11.1%	-0.6%
New GED diploma recipients:
	8,265	434,126

FINANCE
	State:	Nation:
Average tuition and fees:
At public 4-year institutions	$10,147	$7,136
At public 2-year institutions	$3,643	$2,439
At private 4-year institutions	$19,560	$22,771
State funds for higher-education operating expenses:
	$859,408,982	$72,543,813,412
One-year change:	-7.5%	-7.5%
State spending on student aid:
Need-based grants	$60,374,000	$6,543,322,000
Non-need-based grants	$267,418,000	$2,698,392,000
Nongrant aid	$208,000	$1,813,221,000
Total	$328,001,000	$11,054,934,000
Total spending on research and development by colleges and universities:
	$660,415,000	$61,234,893,000
One-year change	5.3%	6.9%
Sources of research financing:
Federal government	52.4%	61.2%
State and local governments	1.2%	6.3%
Industry	6.3%	5.2%
Nonprofit	3.8%	6.1%
Institution itself	36.0%	19.4%
Other	0.3%	1.7%
Share of research spending for specific fields:
Engineering	24.3%	15.3%
Environmental sciences	4.7%	4.9%
Life sciences	51.8%	57.0%
Math and computer sciences	2.0%	3.7%
Physical sciences	7.7%	7.6%
Psychology	1.5%	1.8%
Social sciences	1.3%	3.3%
Other sciences	0.2%	1.9%
Fields other than science and engineering	6.6%	4.7%
Largest endowment:
Furman University	$572,162,347
Top fund raisers:
University of South Carolina at Columbia	$75,784,677
Clemson University	$63,061,896
Medical University of South Carolina	$40,178,439

THE PROFESSION
	State:	Nation:
Average pay of full-time professors
Public doctoral institutions:
Professor	$106,617	$112,647
Associate professor	$77,235	$78,804
Assistant professor	$68,288	$67,236
All	$77,869	$81,647
Public master’s institutions:
Professor	$79,125	$87,677
Associate professor	$64,349	$70,215
Assistant professor	$55,759	$59,511
All	$61,731	$68,178
Private nonprofit doctoral institutions:
Professor	$65,095	$133,973
Associate professor	$50,629	$86,108
Assistant professor	$44,648	$72,242
All	$54,614	$95,028
Private nonprofit master’s institutions:
Professor	$76,463	$82,002
Associate professor	$58,475	$66,466
Assistant professor	$50,395	$55,352
All	$58,747	$65,735
Other 4-year institutions:
Public	$54,392	$61,039
Private nonprofit	$53,691	$65,697
2-year colleges:
Public	$46,180	$62,301
Private nonprofit	$43,397	$46,347

STUDENT DEMOGRAPHICS
	State:	Nation:
Enrollment:
Undergraduate	231,604	18,078,672
Graduate and professional	25,689	2,937,454
At public 4-year institutions	103,200	7,924,771
At public 2-year institutions	101,880	7,218,038
At private 4-year institutions, nonprofit	34,156	3,822,260
At private 2-year institutions, nonprofit	933	32,660
At private 4-year institutions, for-profit	14,192	1,588,220
At private 2-year institutions, for-profit	2,932	430,177
Total	257,293	21,016,126
Public institutions	80%	72%
4-year institutions	59%	63%
2-year institutions	41%	37%
Degrees awarded:
Associate	8,727	849,452
Bachelor’s	21,905	1,650,014
Master’s	5,676	693,025
Doctorate	1,496	158,558
Residence of new students:
State: State residents made up 75% of all freshmen enrolled in South Carolina in the fall of 2010 who had graduated from high school in the previous year; 90% of all South Carolina residents who were freshmen attended college in their home state.
Nation: 81% of all freshmen in the fall of 2010 who had graduated from high school in the previous year attended colleges in their home states.
Graduation rates at public 4-year institutions:
All	59.1%	56.0%
Men	56.8%	53.0%
Women	60.9%	58.5%
American Indian	46.9%	37.0%
Asian	60.1%	66.3%
Black	48.1%	38.3%
Hispanic	50.8%	47.8%
White	61.8%	58.9%

ACCESS AND EQUITY
	State:	Nation:
Enrollment highlights:
American Indian	1,084	196,374
Asian	3,758	1,218,118
Black	74,582	3,038,751
Pacific Islander	274	64,046
Hispanic	6,598	2,741,448
White	164,081	12,722,549
Foreign	3,888	709,565
Two or more races	3,028	325,275
Total	257,293	21,016,126
Women	59.9%	57.0%
Minority	34.7%	36.1%
Underrepresented minority	32.0%	28.4%
Foreign	1.5%	3.4%
Full-time	69.5%	62.2%
Test scores:
State: Students averaged 1436 on the SAT, which was taken by an estimated 70% of South Carolina’s high-school seniors.
Nation: Students averaged 21.1 on the ACT and 1500 on the SAT.

COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
	State:	Nation:
Number of institutions:
Public 4-year institutions	13	678
Public 2-year institutions	20	978
Private 4-year institutions, nonprofit	22	1,543
Private 2-year institutions, nonprofit	2	87
Private 4-year institutions, for-profit	11	649
Private 2-year institutions, for-profit	7	664
Total	75	4,599
Institutions censured or sanctioned by the AAUP:
Benedict College, Charleston Southern University, North Greenville University
Institution under NCAA sanctions:
University of South Carolina at Columbia