2021 Best Colleges in South Carolina for Students from Iran

When pursuing a degree in today's world, international students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its Best Colleges for Iranian Students in South Carolina ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

After analyzing 2 schools in South Carolina, we came up with our list of those that offered the best educational experiences for Iranian students in South Carolina. Instead of depending on subjective information, we focus on objective factors to determine this ranking. These factors include such things as the total number of international students at the school and the school's overall quality.

Find out more about our ranking methodology.

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Top Colleges in South Carolina for Students from Iran

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

Clemson University
Clemson, SC

$38,550 Avg Tuition & Fees

4.9% International Students

Clemson University tops this year’s ranking as the best school for Iranian students in South Carolina. Located in Clemson, South Carolina, the large public school awarded 5,155 diplomas to qualified bachelor’s degree students in 2020-2021.

Around 4.9% of the total student population at the school is international. Students studying at Clemson come from such countries as India, China, and Iran.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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2

University of South Carolina - Columbia
Columbia, SC

$33,928 Avg Tuition & Fees

4.6% International Students

The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at University of South Carolina - Columbia helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools for Iranian students in South Carolina. UofSC is a public institution located in Columbia, South Carolina. The school has a large population, and it awarded 7,272 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 4.6% of the total student population at the school is international. Students from as far away as China, India, and Saudi Arabia come to UofSC to study.

With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 2 schools only.

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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.