University of South Carolina Aiken
Common Data Set 2019-20
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Acceptance Rate
68.6%
Applications
31,268
Admitted
21,464
Enrolled
6,279
Federal outcomes
Federal data from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard, vintage 2022-23. Outcomes reflect earlier cohorts than the CDS year shown elsewhere on this page.
$45,603
10 yrs after enrollment
40%
6-year completion
$11,641
sticker minus grants
$24,275
federal loans only
All Extracted Fields
145fields parsed from this CDS.
General Information
2 TABLESCountry:United States
WWW Home Page Address:www.sc.edu
Admissions Phone Number (Area Code):803
Admissions Phone Number:777-7700
Enrollment And Persistence
3 TABLESFirst-Time, First-Year Admission
4 TABLESTotal academic units20
English4
Mathematics4
Science3
Of these, units that must be lab3
Foreign language2
Social studies2
History1
Percent in top quarter of high school graduating class59
Percent in top half of high school graduating class90
Percent in bottom half of high school graduating class10
Percent in bottom quarter of high school graduating class2
Percent of total first-time, first-year students who submitted high school class rank:69
Amount of application fee:65
Application closing date (fall): Month12
Application closing date (fall): Day01
Priority Date: Month12
Priority Date: Day01
If yes, maximum period of postponement:1 year
Is your early action plan a “restrictive” plan under which you limit students from applying to other early plans?Yes
Transfer Admission
4 TABLESIf a minimum college grade point average is required of transfer applicants, specify (on a 4.0 scale):2.25
List any other application requirements specific to transfer applicants:GPA requirements are higher for some majors. Auditions are required for music and dance.
Fall Closing Date: Month07
Spring Closing Date: Month11
Fall Closing Date:Day01
Spring Closing Date: Day01
Minimum number of credits that transfers must complete at your institution to earn a bachelor’s degree:30
American Council on Education (ACE)Yes
College Level Examination Program (CLEP)Yes
DANTES Subject Standardized Tests (DSST)No
Number30
Unit Typecredit
Student Life
2 TABLESPercent who are from out of state (exclude international/nonresidents from the numerator and denominator)47%
Percent of males who join fraternities19%
Percent of females who join sororities37%
Percent who live in college-owned, -operated, or -affiliated housing94%
Percent who live off campus or commute6%
Percent of students age 25 and older0%
Percent who are from out of state (exclude international/nonresidents from the numerator and denominator)39%
Percent of males who join fraternities22%
Percent of females who join sororities33%
Percent who live in college-owned, -operated, or -affiliated housing27%
Percent who live off campus or commute73%
Percent of students age 25 and older5%
Average age of full-time students19
Average age of all students (full- and part-time)19
Average age of full-time students21
Average age of all students (full- and part-time)21
Annual Expenses
3 TABLESFinancial Aid
5 TABLESAcademic Year2019-2020 estimated
Provide the number of students in the 2024 undergraduate class who started at your institution as first-time students and received a bachelor's degree between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024. Exclude students who transferred into your institution.4,324
Priority date for filing required financial aid forms:X
Priority date for filing required financial aid forms: Month04
Priority date for filing required financial aid forms: Day01
If yes, starting date (Month):04
If yes, starting date (Day):01
If your institution has recently implemented any major financial aid policy, program, or initiative to make your institution more affordable to incoming students such as replacing loans with grants, or waiving costs for families below a certain income level please provide details:Common Data Set I: Instructional Faculty And Class Size (2019-2020) I-1. Please report number of instructional faculty members in each category for Fall 2019. Include faculty who are on your institution's payroll on the census date your institution uses for IPEDS/AAUP. The following definition of full-time instructional faculty is used by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in its annual Faculty Compensation Survey (the part time definitions are not used by AAUP). Instructional Faculty is defined as those members of the instructional-research staff whose major regular assignment is instruction, including those with released time for research. Use the chart below to determine inclusions and exclusions: Full-time Part-time (a) instructional faculty in preclinical and clinical medicine, faculty who are not p aid (e.g., those Exclude Include who donate their services or are in the military), or research-only faculty, post-doctoral fellows, or only if they pre-doctoral fellows teach one or more non- clinical credit courses (b) administrative officers with titles such as dean of students, librarian, registrar, coach, and the Exclude Include if like, even though they may devote part of their time to classroom instruction and may have faculty they teach status one or more non- clinical credit courses (c) other administrators/staff who teach one or more non -clinical credit courses even though they Exclude Include do not have faculty status (d) undergraduate or graduate students who assist in the instruction of courses, but have titles such Exclude Exclude as teaching assistant, teaching fellow, and the like (e) faculty on sabbatical or leave with pay Include Exclude (f) faculty on leave without pay Exclude Exclude (g) replacement faculty for faculty on sabbatical leave or leave with pay Exclude Include Full-time instructional faculty: Faculty employed on a full-time basis for instruction (including those with released time for research) Part-time instructional faculty: Adjuncts and other instructors being paid solely for part-time classroom instruction. Also includes full-time faculty teaching less than two semesters, three quarters, two trimesters, or two four-month sessions. Employees who are not considered full-time instructional faculty but who teach one or more non-clinical credit courses may be counted as part-time faculty. Minority faculty: Includes faculty who designate themselves as Black, non-Hispanic; American Indian or Alaska Native; Asian, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, or Hispanic. Doctorate: Includes such degrees as Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Education, D octor of Juridical Science, and Doctor of Public Health in any field such as arts, sciences, education, engineering, business, and public administration. Also includes terminal degrees formerly designated as “first professional,” including dentistry (DDS or DMD), medicine (MD), optometry (OD), osteopathic medicine (DO), pharmacy (DPharm or BPharm), podiatric medicine (DPM), veterinary medicine (DVM), chiropractic (DC or DCM), or law (JD). Terminal degree: The highest degree in a field: example, M. Arch (architecture) and MFA (master of fine arts). Full-Time Part-Time Total a) Total number of instructional faculty 1,555 680 2,235 b) Total number who are members of minority groups 326 107 433 c) Total number who are women 696 410 1,106 d) Total number who are men 859 270 1,129 e) Total number who are nonresident aliens (international) 57 16 73 f) Total number with doctorate, or other terminal degree 1,395 307 1,702 g) Total number whose highest degree is a master's but not a terminal 142 285 427 master's h) Total number whose highest degree is a bachelor's 11 68 79 i) Total number whose highest degree is unknown or other (Note: Items 7 20 27 f, g, h, and i must sum up to item a.) j) Total number in stand-alone graduate/ professional programs in which 209 83 292 faculty teach virtually only graduate-level students I-2. Student to Faculty Ratio Report the Fall 2019 ratio of full-time equivalent students (full-time plus 1/3 part time) to full-time equivalent instructional faculty (full time plus 1/3 part time). In the ratio calculations, exclude both faculty and students in stand-alone graduate or professional programs such as medicine, law, veterinary, dentistry, social work, business, or public health in which faculty teach virtually only graduate level students. Do not count undergraduate or graduate student teaching assistants as faculty. Fall 2019 Student to Faculty ratio: 17 to 1 (based on 31,132 students and 1,836 faculty) I-3. Undergraduate Class Size In the table below, please use the following definitions to report information about the size of classes and class sections offered in the Fall 2019 term. Class Sections: A class section is an organized course offered for credit, identified by discipline and number, meeting at a stated time or times in a classroom or similar setting, and not a subsection such as a laboratory or discussion session. Undergraduate class sections are defined as any sections in which at least one degree- seeking undergraduate student is enrolled for credit. Exclude distance learning classes and noncredit classes and individual instruction such as dissertation or thesis research, music instruction, or one-to-one readings. Exclude students in independent study, co-operative programs, internships, foreign language taped tutor sessions, practicums, and all students in one-on-one classes. Each class section should be counted only once and should not be duplicated because of course catalog cross-listings. Class Subsections: A class subsection includes any subsection of a course, such as laboratory, recitation, and discussion subsections that are supplementary in nature and are scheduled to meet separately from the lecture portion of the course. Undergraduate subsections are defined as any subsections of courses in which degree-seeking undergraduate students enrolled for credit. As above, exclude noncredit classes and individual instruction such as dissertation or thesis research, music instruction, or one-to-one readings. Each class subsection should be counted only once and should not be duplicated because of cross-listings. Using the above definitions, please report for each of the following class-size intervals the number of class sections and class subsections offered in Fall 2019. For example, a lecture class with 800 students who met at another time in 40 separate labs with 20 students should be counted once in the "100+" column in the class section column and 40 times under the "20-29" column of the class subsections table. Number of Class Sections with Undergraduates Enrolled Undergraduate Class Size (provide numbers) CLASS 2-9 10-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-99 100+ Total SECTIONS 183 1,148 1,028 360 244 388 194 3,545 CLASS SUB- 2-9 10-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-99 100+ Total SECTIONS 177 211 325 9 54 6 1 783 Common Data Set J: Degrees Conferred Degrees conferred between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019 For each of the following discipline areas, provide the percentage of diplomas/certificates, associate, and bachelor's degrees awarded. To determine the percentage, use majors, not headcount (e.g., students with one degree but a double major will be represented twice). Calculate the percentage from your institution's IPEDS Completions by using the sum of 1st and 2nd majors for each CIP code as the numerator and the sum of the Grand Total by 1st Majors and the Grand Total by 2nd major as the denominator. If you prefer, you can compute the percentages using 1st majors only. Category Diploma/Certificates Associate Bachelor’s CIP 2010 Categories to Include Agriculture 1 Natural resources and conservation 0.60% 3 Architecture 4 Area, ethnic, and gender studies 0.38% 5 Communication/journalism 7.01% 9 Communication technologies 10 Computer and information sciences 3.64% 11 Personal and culinary services 12 Education 2.84% 13 Engineering 7.94% 14 Engineering technologies 15 Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics 0.43% 16 Family and consumer sciences 19 Law/legal studies 22 English 1.70% 23 Liberal arts/general studies 1.93% 24 Library science 25 Biological/life sciences 10.57% 26 Mathematics and statistics 0.78% 27 Military science and military technologies 28 & 29 Interdisciplinary studies 30 Parks and recreation 2.94% 31 Philosophy and religious studies 0.32% 38 Theology and religious vocations 39 Physical sciences 1.28% 40 Science technologies 41 Psychology 4.10% 42 Homeland Security, law enforcement, firefighting, 3.19% 43 and protective services Public administration and social services 0.78% 44 Social sciences 5.63% 45 Construction trades 46 Mechanic and repair technologies 47 Precision production 48 Transportation and materials moving 49 Visual and performing arts 100% 3.31% 50 Health professions and related programs 10.57% 51 Business/marketing 29.01% 52 History 1.06% 54 Other TOTAL (should = 100%) 100% 0% 100%
Instructional Faculty And Class Size
2 TABLESFall 2025 Student to Faculty ratio17
based on ____ students31,132
and ____ faculty1,836