The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has grown from a small private medical school founded in 1824 into one of the nation's top academic health science centers, with a 700-bed medical center (MUSC Health) six colleges. As South Carolina's only comprehensive academic health center providing a full range of programs in the biomedical sciences, MUSC is engaged in activities statewide. Its campus is located on more than 80 acres in Charleston, with an overall population of about 13,000 clinicians, faculty, staff, and students. Nearly 3,000 students in six colleges (Dental Medicine, Graduate Studies, Health Professions, Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy) study for degrees at the baccalaureate, master's, doctoral, and other professional levels. The university also provides residency training for more than 700 graduate health professionals. The teaching staff is comprised of more than 1,700 full and part-time faculty.
Our purpose is to create an academic health care community where every member is respected and valued by leveraging differences to understand and understand and work together productively to change what is possible.
Inspired by the university's mission and values, diversity and inclusion are an integral part of the fabric of the MUSC family. These values establish the Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan's foundation of introspection, awareness, understanding, and mutual respect. "We are committed to creating an inclusive experience for the lives we touch."
The Medical University of South Carolina is home to six colleges and a diverse group of students, staff, and faculty. The colleges of Dental Medicine, Graduate Studies, Health Professions, Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy offer students degrees at the baccalaureate, master's, doctoral, and other professional levels. The university also provides residency training for more than 750 graduate health professionals.
The primary responsibility for funding your education rests with the student and their family. Financial aid from federal, state, and institutional sources is meant to supplement a student's resources. Students need to understand that all expenses may not be met through financial aid.
The Division of Education and Student Life provides university-level support for student learning and student life through Enrollment Management, Academic Support Services, Student Health and Wellness, Student Programs, and Educational Technology Services.
The Division of Education and Student Life strives to be a national model, dedicated to providing professional education support services. Our knowledge of effective educational and regulatory practices will allow us to be a resource to students, faculty, and peer institutions.
With access to an education that prepares culturally competent health professionals, our graduates will model and promote healthy lifestyles, engage in lifelong learning, adapt readily to changing technology, and provide for the increasingly complex, pluralistic health care needs of South Carolina.
The Division of Education and Student Life is dedicated to fostering the academic success and development of health professionals within an inclusive learning community.
The Center for Academic Excellence (CAE) and the Writing Center are central to MUSC's goal of ensuring that all students communicate, learn efficiently and creatively, and benefit from master teachers.
CAPS seeks to facilitate your growth and development by enhancing your assets, increasing your self-understanding, and developing more effective coping strategies. The Office of Enrollment Management (OEM) is committed to serving MUSC students from application through graduation.
The Division of Education and Student Life is dedicated to fostering the academic success and development of health professionals within an inclusive learning community. The OII aims to integrate students and professionals across Colleges to improve satisfaction, efficiency, profitability, value, innovation, marketability, and scientific rigor in all educational, clinical, and research activities.
ITFR is an office within the Division of Education and Student Life, merging creative elements from across campus to form a "one-stop-shop" for faculty, staff, and students.
Student Health Services is devoted entirely to providing quality health care to the students at MUSC. The Office of Student Programs and Student Diversity is your connection to opportunities and resources that enhance your education and future as a healthcare professional. MUSC Wellness Center is open to the public to promote healthy lifestyles for all seasons of life.
Founded in 1824, The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) continues the tradition of excellence in education, research, and patient care. MUSC educates and trains more than 3,000 students and 700 residents in six colleges and has nearly 13,000 employees, including approximately 1,500 faculty members. As the state's only academic health science center and largest non-federal employer in Charleston, the university and its affiliates have collective annual budgets over $2.4 billion, with an annual economic impact of nearly $4 billion and annual research funding over $250 million. MUSC operates a 700-bed medical center, which includes a nationally recognized children's hospital, the NCI-designated Hollings Cancer Center, a Level I trauma center, Institute of Psychiatry, more than 100 outreach locations across the state, and South Carolina's only transplant center/
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