Established 2001 Founded 2001 | Phone +1 843-953-4723 | |
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Students Approximately 300 enrolled each semester Website www.LowcountryGradCenter.org Similar Centura College, Virginia College in Charleston, The Citadel - The Milita, Trident Technical College, Charleston Southern University Profiles | ||
Achieving success at the lowcountry graduate center
The Lowcountry Graduate Center (LGC) is a public higher education consortium located in North Charleston, South Carolina. The Lowcountry Graduate Center was established in 2001 to expand opportunities for graduate education to working professionals in the Charleston region, and thereby spur economic growth in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.
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- Achieving success at the lowcountry graduate center
- Lowcountry graduate center five years of growth
- History
- References
Lowcountry graduate center five years of growth
History
In the late 1990s, Lowcountry business and legislative leaders were concerned that the region was losing high-tech companies because of the limitations in graduate education available in the area. What should have been a perfect setting for economic growth in the new economy – the nation’s fourth largest seaport, a center of Homeland Security activity and a region of ecological and historical richness – was hampered by the lack of graduate opportunities needed to attract and retain employees and new businesses.
The creation of the Lowcountry Graduate Center in 2001 brought together the power of several local public universities – The College of Charleston, The Medical University of South Carolina and The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. Through the LGC, these institutions, plus the University of South Carolina and Clemson University, have formed new partnerships and new ways to bring graduate education to the Lowcountry, focused on the economic development needs.