• Professor lecturing in a classroom with students sitting in tiered rows of tables.
  • Three fountains in a reflecting pool surrounded by benches with a view of campus and the USC smokestack in the background.
  • Life as a Gamecock

  • A student laughing while walking down the sidewalk.
  • Cocky with his arms stretched out on the football field with a crowd behind him.
  • American flag and SC state flag flying on front of President's residence on Historic Horseshoe.
  • Student holding peace signs smiling at friends.
  • Student wearing rollerskates hanging out at an event on Greene Street.
  • A crowd of students cheering in the stands at a football game.
  • A professor talks with two students while working on building robots with legos.
  • Two students walking through a patio on a beautiful spring day.
  • Two students going head to head under the basketball goal shooting the ball.
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    Pursue Knowledge

  • Student smiling and laughing.
  • Make Your Way

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    Experience Student Life

  • Students gathered at an outside table studying together with laptops and notebooks.
  • McKissic Museum sits at the top of the Historic Horseshoe with large columns and University of South Carolina banners.
  • Student playing a large game of Connect Four at an outdoor event on Greene Street.
  • Looking over a researcher's shoulder pipetting into a small tube.
  • Stone pineapples sit atop a brick wall on the Historic Horseshoe.
  • Student at a lab bench swirling a yellow liquid in a beaker.
  • Two students studying at an outdoor table on a spring day.
Maxcy Monument on the Historic Horseshoe with the sun shining through the trees.

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