Coastal Carolina University
Work PO Box 261954
Conway, SC 29528-6054
Work(843) 349-2026
Admissions E-mail: admissions@coastal.edu
Web site: http://www.coastal.edu
Tier 4
College Category:
Liberal Arts Colleges
Liberal Arts Colleges
Overview : Coastal Carolina University
| General Information | |
|---|---|
| Institutional Control: | Public |
| Year founded: | 1954 |
| Religious affiliation: | N/A |
| Academic calendar: | semester |
| Total number of undergraduates: | 7,573 |
| Setting: | suburban |
| Endowment: | $18,532,495 |
| Fall Admissions | |
| Application deadline: | 8/15 |
| Application fee: | $45 |
| Fall 2008 Acceptance rate: | 69.4% |
| Selectivity: | less selective |
| Expenses | |
| Costs: | 2009-2010 In-state: $8,950; Out-of-state: $18,770 |
| Mission | |
| School mission: | Coastal Carolina University is a growing, comprehensive, public liberal arts institution located in Conway, S.C., near the resort area of Myrtle Beach. The university offers baccalaureate programs to approximately 8,000 students in 40 fields of study and master's programs in education, marine studies and business administration. The characteristics of the institution that set it apart from other universities of comparable size and mission have to do with history and location. Coastal Carolina University was founded in 1954 by a local community determined to improve its educational, economic and cultural capacities. Throughout its history the institution has maintained a close, reciprocal relationship with the surrounding region, which during the past 50 years has altered from a primarily agricultural district to a major Atlantic coast resort. The University's development has been correspondingly dynamic. Begun on a shoestring with evening classes in the local high school, Coastal Carolina was for 30 years a branch campus of the University of South Carolina. Since breaking away from the USC system in 1993, the institution has flourished. Many of the University's most successful programs are based on unique aspects of the area's geography and economy. While honoring its mission to provide opportunity for locals, Coastal Carolina University is a natural magnet for students - and faculty - from distant places who want to live and study and teach near a beach resort. The resultant diversity of the campus community is a distinctive characteristic of the University, and has been a spur to cultural engagement and academic progressiveness. Marine science has been the most popular major for the past decade, its distinguished faculty providing students, largely undergraduates, with remarkable research opportunities. Studies conducted by the University's Burroughs & Chapin Center for Marine and Wetland Studies play a vital role in shaping public policy relating to coastal resource management issues not only along the South Carolina coast but other U.S. shorelines as well. In March 2009 the Center became a major participant in a statewide study to explore the viability of offshore wind energy production. More than 200 students are enrolled in the University's PGA Golf Management Program, founded in 1997 in response to the needs of the thriving golfing industry in the Myrtle Beach area. Coastal Carolina University's program is one of only 20 in the nation that is accredited by the PGA of America. The University's E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business' reputation for high achievement is exemplified by its Wall Fellows program, an elite leadership program that cultivates top students for high-level careers. In recent years, Wall Fellow graduates have been accepted for positions at such prestigious international firms as Rolls-Royce, Deloitte & Touche, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. The Wall College is the only U.S. institution to be accepted as a member of the Consortium of International Double Degrees (CIDD), an association of business schools (primarily in Europe and Asia) that collaborate on dual degree exchanges For most of its history the University concentrated on building a premier undergraduate curriculum, but in response to community need and its own institutional maturity, Coastal Carolina has begun to add more graduate offerings. In addition to longstanding master's programs in education, the University now offers an M.B.A program, a graduate degree in coastal marine and wetland studies, and plans have been approved for a Master of Arts in Writing program and a graduate degree in Education Leadership. Other programs that have earned distinctions recently include the undergraduate program in health promotion, one of only 18 programs in the nation that has been awarded the designation of SABPAC Program Approval. More than half of the region's K-12 teachers are graduates of the University's Spadoni College of Education. |
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