-29%
Clinton College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Clinton College are 29% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($30.2k vs $42.6k).
State hub · South Carolina · vintage 2025-05
South Carolina Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in South Carolina — and every program where federal data is published. Sourced from College Scorecard, IPEDS, and Treasury tax records.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags across South Carolina
Top signals rolled up across South Carolinainstitutions — a mix of warnings and improvements, alternating so the page isn't skewed in either direction. Detectors: short-arc shift (recent 3-year window), earnings trend, peer outlier, completion drop, enrollment cliff, and debt-to-earnings warning. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section.
-29%
Denmark Technical College · Public certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Denmark Technical College are 29% below the public certificate-predominant peer median ($25.4k vs $35.8k).
-28%
Allen University · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Allen University are 28% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($30.5k vs $42.6k).
-28%
Morris College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Morris College are 28% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($30.6k vs $42.6k).
-25%
Benedict College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Benedict College are 25% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($31.9k vs $42.6k).
+103%
Denmark Technical College · Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Denmark Technical College rose 103% between 2017 and 2020 ($7.5k → $15.2k).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across South Carolina Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
75
Title-IV main campuses2,909
with published outcomes$39,325
across institutions44.4%
median across institutions195,898
latest historical vintage$12,570
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How South Carolina has shifted
Federally available history. Sparkline coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Statewide undergraduate enrollment, all Title-IV institutions.
Median completion rate within 150% of expected time.
+45%
Statewide · completion · 150% rose
32.3% → 47.0%
+44%
Statewide · undergrad enrollment rose
135,996 → 195,898
+250%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$3,590 → $12,570
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
37 institutions with 1,000+ undergrads, ranked by 10-year earnings
Click any column header to sort. Click any row for the full institution page. Heat-shading runs against the displayed values; em-dash means the cell was suppressed by federal privacy rules. Institutions with fewer than 1,000undergrads are filtered out here — small specialty schools (cosmetology, barbering, single-credential institutes) arithmetically dominate the extremes on every metric and aren't comparable to larger schools.
Showing 37 of 75 Title-IV institutions · Public 34 · Private 25 · For-profit 16
SECTION 04 · TOP BY EARNINGS
Highest 10-year median earnings
Treasury earnings, 10 years after entry. Includes non-completers and out-of-state movers in the cohort.
SECTION 05 · TOP BY COMPLETION
Highest 150%-time completion
Share of first-time, full-time freshmen who complete within 150% of expected time (IPEDS GR). Filtered to institutions with more than 1,000undergrads — tiny cohorts skew toward 100% and aren't comparable to larger schools.
BY CITY
All 38 South Carolina cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
- Aiken
- Allendale
- Anderson
- Beaufort
- Bluffton
- Camden
- Central
- Charleston
- Cheraw
- Clemson
- Clinton
- Columbia
- Conway
- Denmark
- Due West
- Elgin
- Florence
- Gaffney
- Graniteville
- Greenville
- Greenwood
- Hartsville
- Kingstree
- Lancaster
- Mullins
- Myrtle Beach
- Newberry
- North Augusta
- North Charleston
- Orangeburg
- Pendleton
- Piedmont
- Rock Hill
- Spartanburg
- Sumter
- Tigerville
- Union
- West Columbia
METHODOLOGY
What these numbers are — and aren't
Earnings are median tax-record earnings for federally aided students, 4–10 years after first enrollment. They describe cohorts, not future outcomes — and they include non-completers and out-of-state movers. Selection bias is real: high-earning programs may attract higher-earning students. We surface descriptive numbers, not causal claims.