Charleston Southern University is an independent, comprehensive university affiliated with theSouth Carolina Baptist Convention. This suburban coeducational institution with liberal arts and professional curricula offer degrees at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The university was founded upon the principle that students should have an opportunity for a quality education under the Christian faculty's guidance. The university promotes academic excellence in a Christian environment.
The university aims continuously to increase the academic quality of its students. Students currently are drawn primarily from the Southeastern region of the United States and pursue a wide variety of careers in the arts and sciences and business, education, and nursing.
The South Carolina Baptist Convention founded the institution in 1964 as the Baptist College at Charleston. The campus is located 16 miles from Charleston's city, within the city limits of North Charleston. The institution changed its name to Charleston Southern University in 1990 to reflect the offering of graduate programs.
Charleston Southern University is affiliated with the South Carolina Baptist Convention. However, young men and women of all faiths are invited to share in our programs. The university is under the Board of Trustees (elected by the South Carolina Baptist Convention). They are charged with the responsibility of operating the university within the purpose for which it has been chartered. Income for the university is derived from tuition, endowments, gifts, funds from the South Carolina Baptist Convention, and friends who believe in the institution's purposes.
The Campus Activities Board is a student-run organization that plans events for students. Through these services and coordination of the campus calendar, we hope to enhance and unify the campus community by providing well-balanced, quality events in response to students' needs and interests. The board meets weekly and opens its doors to new members each semester.
College is a life experience; it is not just four years of classes, studying, and tests. Charleston Southern University knows that, so we have built a vibrant campus life experience that allows you to be active and involved -- at your level. You can hang out in Java City and surf the Internet, chat with friends, or listen to music. Are you looking for something more active? Grab your wheels and longboard across campus, play hoops or work out in the Brewer Center or toss a Frisbee.
Charleston Southern University has been named America's 100 Best College Buys and America's Best Christian Colleges. Explore our undergraduate degree programs, including Nursing, Business, Computer Science, Education, Music, Graphic Design, Christian Studies, Biology, Music and Worship Leadership, and more.
The Graduate School at Charleston Southern University will prepare you with advanced skills in your professional field. Learn online or in the classroom. We have degree options in business, criminal justice, computer science, nursing, education, Christian studies, Biology, and Physician Assistant.
The Campus Activities Board is a student-run organization that plans events for students. Through these services and coordination of the campus calendar, we hope to enhance and unify the campus community by providing well-balanced, quality events in response to students' needs and interests. The board meets weekly and opens its doors to new members each semester.
The Student Employment office works with university departments and the community to create work-study employment opportunities for students. Meeting students' work-study employment needs is our job, and we work diligently to ensure our joint venture has lasting benefits. We look forward to working with you.
The Career Center provides career services to students and facilitates the process of connecting God-given passion for skills and abilities through CSU majors. We endeavor to increase students' job placement opportunities by partnering with businesses, churches, and the Charleston Southern community.
The U.S. Department of Education requires higher education institutions that receive federal funds to provide students and other interested parties with appropriate information regarding filing complaints.
Charleston Southern University, formerly Baptist College at Charleston, is the largest accredited, private university in South Carolina. Affiliated with the South Carolina Baptist Convention, the university offers 57 undergraduate degrees, 18 graduate degree programs, one doctoral degree, and enrolls 3,600 students. The university has graduated more than 18,000 students in its 50-year history.
The urgent need for another college in the Lowcountry became a matter of active and organized consideration in 1954. South Carolina Baptists made its establishment a matter of official deliberation at a meeting of the General Board in September 1955.
The university has grown from an initial student body of 588. There are now many significant campus buildings to provide for the needs of the university. From its beginning, the university has sought to provide not only excellent academic opportunities but has, in all its planning, held to the idea of the development of the total individual. The employment of personnel deeply committed to assisting each student in attaining his maximum potential within a Christian environment has made this institution distinctive.
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