{"id":4401,"date":"2022-10-31T11:34:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T15:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/imms\/?page_id=4401"},"modified":"2025-09-25T11:43:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:43:51","slug":"about-clemson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/imms\/about-clemson\/","title":{"rendered":"About Clemson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1>About Clemson<\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; border_width=&#8221;2&#8243; accent_color=&#8221;#f56600&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;4409&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]Clemson University is a selective, public, Carnegie R1 research university in a college-town setting. Established in 1899 through the will of the founder, Thomas Green Clemson, the university is located on a 20,000-acre campus in Upstate South Carolina in the shadow of the\u00a0Blue Ridge Mountains\u00a0and adjacent to\u00a0Lake Hartwell. The City of Clemson has approximately 18,800 year-round residents located in Pickens County, South Carolina. Clemson enjoys a moderate temperature year-round with average temperatures in January of 30\u00b0\u201350\u00b0F and in August of 69\u00b0\u201390\u00b0F. Clemson is a short 40-minute drive from downtown Greenville, an hour and a half from Asheville, NC, and two hours from both Atlanta and Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>The University provides bachelor\u2019s, master\u2019s and doctoral degrees in more than 100 majors through seven academic colleges: Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences; Architecture, Arts and Humanities; Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences; Business; Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences; Education; and Science. The University also has Extension offices in every county of the state as well as teaching and research sites in Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, and Greenwood, as well as four international sites. Today, Clemson has a total enrollment of 21,653 undergraduate and 5,688 graduate students. The student to faculty ratio is 16:1, with an average undergraduate class size of 31. The six-year graduation rate is 85.5 percent. More information can be found at:<\/p>\n<p>Clemson, SC in Wikipedia<\/p>\n<p>Official Tourism web for Clemson, SC<br \/>\nClemson Football<\/p>\n<p>Apartments for rent at zillow.com<\/p>\n<p>Weather forecast weather.com[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=84LPPNpdiRg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;62px&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>By the numbers<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; border_width=&#8221;2&#8243; accent_color=&#8221;#f56600&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;4387&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;] About Clemson [\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; border_width=&#8221;2&#8243; accent_color=&#8221;#f56600&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;4409&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]Clemson University is a selective, public, Carnegie R1 research university in a college-town setting. Established in 1899 through the will of the founder, Thomas Green Clemson, the university is located on a 20,000-acre campus in Upstate South Carolina in the shadow of the\u00a0Blue Ridge&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-4401","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/imms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/imms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/imms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/imms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/imms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/imms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/imms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}