Recent Accomplishments
- Since 1994 students have won 383 national fellowship and scholarship competitions totaling more than $11.4 million dollars for advanced academic study. Included are seven selections to the USA Today All-Academic Team and nearly 150 Marshall, Rhodes, Truman, National Science Foundation, Fulbright, Goldwater, Madison, Cooke, Javits, Udall, and Knowles Science Teaching fellows and scholars—among others. During the 2007-08 academic year alone, South Carolina students won 31 awards and more than $1.3 million.
- USC was listed as No. 9 among the nation's “Most Promising and Innovative Schools" by U.S. News & World Report. The first-time category is based on “promising, innovative changes” in academics, faculty, students, facilities or the campus.
- In January 2010, it was announced that USC placed the most student-athletes on the 2009 Fall SEC Academic Honor Roll of any of the 12 schools in the conference. The Honor Roll was based on grades from the 2009 Spring, Summer and Fall terms. To be named to the list, a student-athlete must have maintained a 3.00 grade point average during the preceding academic year (two semesters) or a cumulative GPA at or above 3.00. The Gamecocks placed 78 student-athletes on the Honor Roll, while the University of Georgia was next closest with 51.
- On June 30, 2010, USC won the national championship in Division I baseball at the College World Series, defeating UCLA at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha. Sophomore center fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. was named the College World Series Most Outstanding Player.
- On October 9, 2010, USC defeated the top-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide by a score of 35-21 at Williams Brice Stadium in Columbia, SC. ESPN's College GameDay (football) broadcasted live from Old Campus District, University of South Carolina on the Carolina campus during the morning hours before the game. This is the first time in the University's history that the football team has defeated a top ranked opponent.
- On November 13, 2010, Carolina traveled to Gainesville, FL and defeated the Florida Gators 36-14 to clinch the SEC Eastern Division football title. This marked the school's first trip to the SEC Championship Game in Atlanta since the University of South Carolina joined the SEC in 1992.
- On June 28, 2011, USC won the national championship in Division I baseball at the College World Series, defeating Florida at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha. Second baseman Scott Wingo was named the College World Series Most Outstanding Player. The Gamecocks also set records for most consecutive College World Series wins (11) and the most consecutive NCAA tournament wins (16) in the victory.
- In 2012, the South Carolina Honors College was ranked the number one honors college in the nation, according to "A Review of Fifty Public University Honors Programs."
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