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South Carolina State University

University · Orangeburg, SC

South Carolina State University is a historically Black university founded in 1896 that offers over 40 undergraduate and graduate degree programs across engineering, business, education, agriculture, arts, and sciences. The university serves approximately 3,000 students and reports that 95% of its graduates obtain employment or advance to further education.

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About South Carolina

South Carolina runs on three anchors most coverage treats as separate stories rather than one state's real economy. Boeing assembles the 787 Dreamliner at its North Charleston final-assembly plant, the only 787 line outside Everett, Washington -- a real, hard-industrial counterweight to Charleston's tourism-and-port reputation. BMW Manufacturing in Greer, near Spartanburg, is BMW's largest plant in the world by volume, not a satellite factory -- the Upstate corridor around it has become a real auto-supplier cluster in its own right. Michelin North America is headquartered in Greenville, the same Upstate region, a direct descendant of the textile-mill economy that once defined the Piedmont before advanced manufacturing replaced it. Columbia, the state capital, anchors state government and the University of South Carolina. None of these four -- Charleston, the Upstate, Columbia, and the Rock Hill corridor already counted in Charlotte's own edition -- are the same economy, and this edition doesn't flatten them into one.

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Total firms 20

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Companies 5

Schools 15

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