How much does USC Lancaster cost?

In-state tuition and fees are $7,558 a year, and $18,238 for out-of-state students. After grants and scholarships, the average net price is $9,801 a year.

How many USC Lancaster programs report graduate pay?

2 associate's programs at USC Lancaster report first-year pay, and 1 of them also report federal debt.

USC Lancaster Programs, Ranked by Graduate Pay and Debt

University of South Carolina-Lancaster
Public university
Lancaster, SC
668 undergraduates

College Scorecard June 2026 release

The short answer

USC Lancaster has two associate's programs that report what graduates earn. Nursing pays more in the first year ($65,139) than Liberal Arts and General Studies ($22,995).

In-state tuition and fees$7,558Per year. Out-of-state $18,238

Average net price after aid$9,801Per year

Graduation rate25%Within 1.5 times the normal program length

Admission rate83%Of applicants

Both associate's programs

Each figure is the median for the program's graduates. "Rank in South Carolina" compares first-year pay with the same field's associate's programs across South Carolina.

Program	Year 1 pay	Year 5 pay	Debt	Rank in South Carolina
NursingAbout 4 graduates a year	$65,139	Not reported	Not reported	14th of 14
Liberal Arts and General StudiesAbout 111 graduates a year	$22,995	Not reported	$11,480	9th of 14

Program names link to the program's own page, and South Carolina ranks link to the full ranking for the field. A program gets its own page when it reports both pay and debt and at least five South Carolina programs in the field do too.

One more associate's program reports debt but not pay, so it isn't listed.

Common questions

Nursing graduates earn a median of $65,139 in their first year, the most of 2 USC Lancaster associate's programs that report pay.

About this data

Earnings and debt only include students who received federal financial aid, and earnings only count graduates who were working and not enrolled in more school.
Debt only includes federal loans. Private loans and credit cards are not counted.
Tuition, net price, graduation rate, and admission rate are for the whole school, not one program.
Some schools with several campuses report one combined figure for all of them. We count each of those schools once, and leave them out of South Carolina rankings when their main campus is in another state.
Scorecard figures describe graduating classes from several years ago.

Sources

U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field of study and institution files, June 2026 release
NCES, IPEDS tuition and fees, 2023-24, for in-district tuition labels