If you’re looking to get a fantastic education there is no need to look outside the state of South Carolina. College can be expensive and staying in state can save you significant money by choosing a public university. Luckily, South Carolina has 12 incredible public universities. However, I have to say that in-state tuition in South Carolina is more expensive than in North Carolina. But which South Carolina universities have the cheapest tuition?
This data comes to us from US News and World Report, which released its 2024 Best Colleges Rankings this week. These reports and lists cover a variety of factors from best overall, regional, liberal arts, and best value schools. To create this list of the North Carolina universities with the cheapest tuition I filtered by South Carolina and then sorted the results by cost. This gave me a combination of the public and private universities and cost was filtered by out-of-state. But for your info, I ranked each school by the reported (by US News) tuition cost for in-state students at each of the public universities in SC.
There are 12 public universities in the state. Each of these are incredible, unique universities with lots to offer potential students. You’ll find a profile of each of them below with the tuition as reported by US News in order of least expensive to most expensive. Tuition at South Carolina public universities runs from just under $11,000 to upwards of $15,000 depending upon the school. These costs are just tuition and do not include the cost of room and board, food, and other fees. So you’ll have to factor in them. But it’s great to know our state has so many wonderful higher education institutions.
You can read the info directly from US News here.
