Clemson University

Clemson University

      public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Clemson, South Carolina, U.S. A land-grant university, Clemson offers a curriculum in business, architecture, engineering, agriculture, education, nursing, forestry, arts, and sciences. Both undergraduate and graduate degree programs are available. Important research facilities include more than 29,000 acres (11,700 hectares) of agricultural and forest land in South Carolina. Total enrollment exceeds 16,000.

      Upon his death in 1888, Thomas Green Clemson donated land and money to establish an agricultural college in South Carolina. The land was Fort Hill, the former estate of Clemson's father-in-law, statesman John C. Calhoun (Calhoun, John C). The state established the Clemson Agricultural College the following year, and instruction began in 1893. At the outset the college was a military school and open to men only. In 1955 the school changed its status, becoming a civilian and coeducational institution. It gained university status in 1964.

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