Welcome

• FACULTY ADVISORY COUNCIL
• MISSION STATEMENT

Welcome to the Office of Research and Graduate Education at the University of South Carolina!

By providing our faculty and students with the best opportunities and resources possible, we seek to improve the lives of others through innovative discovery and scholarship in the humanities; technology; and the environmental, health, and social sciences.

University of South Carolina research funding has increased by nearly $100 million since 2002. Our record $210.3 million funding total in a turbulent fiscal year 2009 marked a 2 percent increase over 2008's total. More importantly, it demonstrates the ability of our faculty and staff to further our research mission - even in financially uncertain times.

Such consistent funding growth also indicates Carolina researchers continue to compete successfully with top scientists at the nation’s most prestigious schools on the quality, relevance, and societal impact of their investigations.

Many of those investigations are also a key part of our graduate students’ learning experience, and some Carolina students in support of our high-profile, leading-edge research efforts, deal with critical environmental issues, develop worldwide disease controls, design electronic systems for Navy ships, apply robotic solutions to handle hazardous materials, develop economic strategies, and build new technologies one atom at a time. 

Graduate education is key to meeting society’s need for scientists, engineers, and scholars, and the continued development of new knowledge and innovation. Graduate education hones the undergraduate generalist’s ability to think critically, contribute to the advancement of expertise in specific disciplines through research, perceive those disciplines as a science or profession and apply their knowledge in ways beneficial to society.