Coastal at a Glance

Student Profile
Enrollment: more than 7,000 students

• South Carolina residents: 64 percent
• Out-of-state residents: 33 percent from 47 states
• International students: 3 percent from 44 countries
• Male/Female: 42/58 percent

Average SAT score for first-time freshmen: 1,046

Academic Program
Coastal Carolina University offers baccalaureate degree programs in 36 major fields of study and 33 undergraduate minors. The University also offers master’s degree programs in education, including a master’s of education degree in Educational Technology, and a new master’s degree in Coastal Marine and Wetland Studies. The University also offers seven cooperative degree programs with other South Carolina universities, and a growing array of international programs that take students to places such as Australia, Costa Rica, Cuba, England, Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, Germany, India, Japan and Russia.

Coastal Carolina University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award the baccalaureate and master’s degrees.

The E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration is accredited by AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

The Spadoni College of Education is accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and the South Carolina State Board of Education.

Coastal Carolina University is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD).

The Department of Computer Science is accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).

Faculty

Full-time faculty members: 208
Faculty members with doctoral or terminal degrees: 79 percent
Student to faculty ratio: 19:1

The Campus

Coastal comprises 41 buildings on 272 acres including the Burroughs & Chapin Center for Marine and Wetland Studies in the Atlantic Center on U.S. 501. The University also offers courses from the Coastal Carolina University Higher Education Center in Myrtle Beach, the new Waccamaw Higher Education Center in Litchfield, and a campus in Georgetown. Waites Island, 1,062 acres of pristine barrier island on the Atlantic coast, provides a natural laboratory for extensive study in marine science and wetlands biology.

Athletics

NCAA Division I
Big South Conference

Women’s varsity teams: basketball, cross country, golf, indoor track and field, soccer, softball, tennis, outdoor track and field, volleyball

Men’s varsity teams: baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis, outdoor track and field, football.

Based on Fall 2003 data