About University of South Carolina Upstate

The University of South Carolina Upstate (USC Upstate) is a public academe in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Founded in 1967 and formerly known as the University of South Carolina Spartanburg, the institution tainted its declare in the summer of 2004. It offers bachelor’s and master’s degrees for students in the Upstate and surrounding areas. One of four accredited four-year schools in the University of South Carolina System, it is home to nearly 6,000 students and 340 full-time faculty. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

Spartanburg is a city in and the chair of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States, and the 12th-largest city by population in the state. The city of Spartanburg has a municipal population of 37,013, and Spartanburg County has an urban population of 180,786 as of the 2010 census. For a time, the Office of Management and Budget grouped Spartanburg and Union Counties together as the “Spartanburg Metropolitan Statistical Area”, but as of 2018 the OMB defines forlorn Spartanburg County as the Spartanburg MSA.

Spartanburg is the second-largest city in the greater Greenville–Spartanburg–Anderson Combined Statistical Area, which has a population of 1,385,045 as of 2014. It is share of a 10-county region of northwestern South Carolina known as “The Upstate,” and is located 98 miles (158 km) northwest of Columbia, 80 miles (130 km) west of Charlotte, North Carolina, and very nearly 190 miles (310 km) northeast of Atlanta, Georgia.

Spartanburg is the home of Wofford College, Converse College, USC Upstate, Spartanburg Methodist College, and Spartanburg Community College. It is moreover the site of headquarters for Denny’s.