The University of South Carolina’s Graduate School offers more than 230 highly respected graduate degree programs. This research one university offers students a beautiful 359-acre campus in a vibrant and walkable capital city; it’s no wonder more than 6,400 graduate students from 49 states and 83 countries choose USC as their academic home.
The Graduate School staff works tirelessly to enhance the graduate student experience by providing timely and high-quality resources in response to both academic and personal requests from students and faculty. For instance, the Graduate School offers support for dissertation preparation, writing research proposals, securing fellowships and assistantships, career counseling, professional development, and a variety of resources for families, children, and medical care.
Your gift to The Graduate School directly impacts graduate students today! Gifts can be directed to a fellowship or the administrative fund to support ongoing student needs.
The Graduate School Future Fund
The Graduate School Future Fund makes strategic awards like recruitment fellowships and travel grants possible. The Future Fund provides collaborative design initiatives to enhance professional and academic development for our students.
The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious graduate student award at the University of South Carolina. Presidential Fellows are from across disciplines and form an engaged community of scholars and an interactive network. They participate in innovative seminars and professional development workshops led by the Dean of the Graduate School and the Director of the Presidential Fellows Program.
Gifts in Honor of Dr. Johnnie McFadden
Dr. McFadden's 52-year career at the University of South Carolina demonstrated excellence in every manner excellence is measured – through the numerous awards for leadership, the 160 published scholarly works, and thousands of hours in classroom lectures in the pursuit of training young people to take their places in the public education system in South Carolina. Dr. McFadden’s work has no doubt touched the lives of thousands of USC students who were under his tutelage. More impactful than the data points we are so quick to site is Dr. McFadden’s exceptional ability to make everyone feel they were his most important priority. He touched souls, he lifted minds, he patiently nurtured young people, and he demonstrated the power of compassionate learning, which he knew was the most important lesson for South Carolina’s future teachers and university professors.
