SC’s largest colleges celebrate record applicants for fall 2025. Most aren’t from SC.

The University of South Carolina campus on Monday, Oct. 30, 2023, in Columbia. (Mary Ann Chastain/Special to the SC Daily Gazette)

COLUMBIA — As the college “enrollment cliff” arrives, applications to South Carolina’s four largest universities continue to rise, with heavy interest from students living outside the state.

The University of South Carolina, Clemson University, the College of Charleston and Coastal Carolina University all received a record number of applications from students seeking admission to the four public colleges this coming fall…

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