2023 Most Focused Colleges for Statistics in South Carolina

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Stats Major in South Carolina” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Statistics is the 85th most popular major in the country with 9,979 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, statistics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $62,014 and had an average of $20,584 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Carolina, there were 37 statistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Stats Major in South Carolina” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in statistics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in statistics.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools Highly Focused on Stats Major in South Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Stats Major in South Carolina”.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Statistics in South Carolina

1

University of South Carolina - Columbia
Columbia, South Carolina

#2 overall quality in South Carolina

$47,342 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,143 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Stats Major in South Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Carolina - Columbia landed the #1 spot on the list. University of South Carolina - Columbia is a large school located in Columbia, South Carolina that handed out 37 ’s stats degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.

Read full report on Statistics at UofSC

2

Coastal Carolina University
Conway, South Carolina

#10 overall quality in South Carolina

$33,500 Average Early-Career Earnings

$27,179 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Coastal Carolina University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Stats Major in South Carolina. Conway, South Carolina is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s stats degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Full Coastal Carolina University Statistics Report

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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