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The University of South Carolina is a state university located in Columbia,
the capital of South Carolina.
- Moore School of Business was founded in 1919 as the School of Commerce, and in 1998 became the
first major business school to be named for a woman.
- Moore School of Business offers a complete undergraduate and graduate business education,
offering 9 major areas of the baccalaureate degree program; a full-time International MBA with the
option of eight Language Tracks or Global Track; a flexible MBA offered through combinations of
live TV, streaming video, and online media; three specialized master's programs, in accounting,
human resources, and economics; and Ph.D. programs in business administration and economics.
- Moore School of Business is a leader in distance education – first in the nation to offer an
MBA to South Carolina's working professionals by live TV with interactive audio. The Professional
MBA program has operated continuously since 1970.
- The faculty is composed of 160 teachers, scholars, and practitioners in specialized
fields. They represent more than 50 graduate institutions.
- Programs are enriched by extensive facilities including a 12,000 square-foot networked computer
center, a business library, and two multi-media television-studio classrooms, a multi-media
auditorium, and several multi-media classrooms and labs.
- Research programs, directed by the school's Division of Research, keep the faculty at the
forefront of expertise and strengthen all academic curricula. The school is home to several leading
journals, including the
Economics of Education Review, the
Human Resource Planning Journal, and the
Journal of Risk and Insurance. The Moore School of Business, accredited by
AACSB-International (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) has an
enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate students and 700 graduate students.
- The U.S. Department of Education selected USC as one of five universities in the country, and
the only one in the Southeast, to serve as a Center for International Business and Education
Research (CIBER) to teach educators throughout the region how to teach international business
more effectively.
- The Daniel-Mickel Center for Executive Education is the oldest permanently
established executive education center in the Southeast. The Moore School's Certificate Programs in
Management continue to grow in popularity, offering frontline managers or high-potential middle
managers advancement opportunities.
- Both our undergraduate and graduate programs have been consistently ranked number one or two in
the nation for the international business specialty in reputational surveys by
U.S. News & World Report.
