About Wofford College

Wofford College is a private forward looking arts university in Spartanburg, South Carolina. It was founded in 1854. The historic 175-acre (71 ha) campus is a national arboretum and one of the few four-year institutions in the southeastern United States founded before the American Civil War that nevertheless operates upon its original campus.

Wofford was founded taking into account a bequest of $100,000 from the Rev. Benjamin Wofford (1780–1850), a Methodist minister and Spartanburg original who sought to Make a theoretical for “literary, classical, and scientific education in my original district of Spartanburg.” The college’s Main Building is the oldest structure upon campus and was expected by the noted Charleston architect Edward C. Jones. In 1941, the hypothetical was awarded a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest academic rave review society, and the Beta of South Carolina chapter was the first at a private moot in South Carolina.

The academic year consists of a four-month slip semester, a one month January term called the Interim, and a four-month spring semester. The College is listed upon the President’s Community Service Honor Roll and in the annual “Open Doors” report for providing studies abroad opportunities for its students.

Spartanburg is a city in and the seat 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 abandoned 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 part 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 not quite 190 miles (310 km) northeast of Atlanta, Georgia.

Spartanburg is the house of Wofford College, Converse College, USC Upstate, Spartanburg Methodist College, and Spartanburg Community College. It is in addition to the site of headquarters for Denny’s.