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{{Short description|Public university in Clemson, South Carolina, U.S.}}
{{Infobox university
 | name                   = Clemson University
 | image                  = Clemson University Seal.svg
 | image_upright          = .7
 | established            = {{start date and age|1889}}
 | former_names           = Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina (1889–1964)
 | type                   = Public [[Organization:Land-grant university|land-grant]] research university
 | accreditation          = [[Organization:Southern Association of Colleges and Schools|SACS]]
 | academic_affiliations  = {{hlist|ORAU|Sea-grant}}
 | endowment              = $994 million (2022)<ref>As of March 7, 2022. {{cite report |url=https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Nacubo/Documents/research/2022-NTSE-Public-Tables--Endowment-Market-Values--FINAL.ashx?la=en&hash=362DC3F9BDEB1DF0C22B05D544AD24D1C44E318D|title=U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2021 Endowment Market Value and Change in Endowment Market Value from FY20 to FY21 |publisher=National Association of College and University Business Officers and TIAA |date=2022 |access-date=June 5, 2023}}</ref>
 | faculty                = 1,431<ref name="Clemson University Fact Book">{{cite web|url=http://www.clemson.edu/institutional-effectiveness/documents/oir/minis/F17FactSheet.pdf|title=Clemson University Fact Book |publisher=Clemson.edu |access-date=30 December 2018}}</ref>
 | administrative_staff   = 3,451<ref name="Clemson University Fact Book"/>
 | president              = James P. Clements
 | provost                = Robert H. Jones
 | city                   = Clemson
 | state                  = South Carolina
 | country                = United States
 | coor                   = {{coord|34|40|42|N|82|50|21|W|region:US-SC_type:edu|display=inline,title}}
 | students               = 28,466 (Fall 2022)<ref name="Enrollment">{{cite web |url=https://www.clemson.edu/institutional-effectiveness/oir/factbook/index.html |title=Clemson University Interactive Factbook |publisher=Clemson University Office of Institutional Research |access-date=February 7, 2023}}</ref>
 | undergrad              = 22,566 (2022)<ref name="Enrollment"/>
 | postgrad               = 5,900 (2022)<ref name="Enrollment"/>
 | campus                 = Large suburb<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Clemson&s=all&id=217882|title=IPEDS-Clemson University}}</ref>
 | campus_size            = {{Convert|1400|acre|ha}}
 | colors                 = Orange and regalia<ref>{{cite web|title=Color Palette|url=http://www.clemson.edu/brand/guide/color.html/visual-guide/colors.html|publisher=Clemson University Brand Guide|access-date=March 26, 2017}}</ref><br>{{color box|#F66733}}{{color box|#522D80}}
 | sports_nickname        = Tigers
 | mascot                 = {{hlist|The Tiger|The Cub}}
 | sporting_affiliations  = NCAA Division I FBS –  ACC
 | website                = {{URL|www.clemson.edu}}
 | logo                   = Clemson University Wordmark.svg
 | logo_upright           = .9
 | free_label2            = Newspaper
 | free2                  = ''The Tiger''
 | free_label             = Other campuses
 | free                   = {{hlist|Charleston|Greenville}}
}}

'''Clemson University''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|l|ɛ|m|p|.|s|ən|,_|ˈ|k|l|ɛ|m|.|z|ən|}}<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=6449DwAAQBAJ&dq=clemson+pronunciation&pg=PT288 ''The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary English Pronunciation''], Okim Kang, Ron I. Thomson, John M Murphy eds. Routledge. 2017.</ref><ref>Jones, Daniel. [https://archive.org/details/englishpronounci00dani/page/96 <!-- quote=clemson pronunciation. --> ''English Pronouncing Dictionary'']. Cambridge University Press. 2006. p. 96.</ref>{{ref|fn_a|[note a]}}) is a public [[Organization:Land-grant university|land-grant]] research university in Clemson, South Carolina. Founded in 1889, Clemson is the second-largest university by enrollment in South Carolina.<ref>{{cite web |title=College Navigator – Clemson University |url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?s=SC&l=92+93+94&en=20000&id=217882 |work=College Navigator |publisher=United States Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences |access-date=December 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221230021817/https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?s=SC&l=92+93+94&en=20000&id=217882 |archive-date=December 30, 2022 |url-status=live }}</ref> For the fall 2019 semester, the university enrolled a total of 20,195 undergraduate students and 5,627 graduate students,<ref name="Enrollment"/> and the student/faculty ratio was 18:1.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.niche.com/colleges/clemson-university/ |title=Clemson University - Niche |publisher=Niche |access-date=2018-05-03}}</ref> Clemson's {{Convert|1400|acre|ha|adj=on}} campus<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.clemson.edu/about/ | title=About &#124; Clemson University, South Carolina}}</ref> is in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The campus now borders Lake Hartwell, which was formed by the dam completed in 1962. The university manages the nearby {{Convert|17,500|acre|ha|adj=on}} Clemson Experimental Forest that is used for research, education, and recreation.

Clemson University consists of seven colleges: [[Earth:Agriculture|Agriculture]], Forestry and Life Sciences; Architecture, Arts and [[Social:Humanities|Humanities]]; The Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business; Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences; Education; Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences; and [[Science]].<ref name="clemson today">{{cite web | title= The University Today – Clemson University |url=http://www.clemson.edu/welcome/quickly/univers/univer.htm | access-date=June 20, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070428142440/http://www.clemson.edu/welcome/quickly/univers/univer.htm |archive-date = April 28, 2007}}</ref> Clemson University is [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|classified]] among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=217882| title=Carnegie Classifications – Institution Lookup |publisher=Center for Postsecondary Education |year=2016 |access-date=January 15, 2016}}</ref>

==History==
===Beginnings===
[[File:Fort Hill 1887.jpg|thumb|right|287px|Fort Hill, photographed in 1887, was the home of John C. Calhoun and later Thomas Green Clemson and is at the center of the university campus.]]

Thomas Green Clemson, the university's founder, came to the foothills of South Carolina in 1838, when he married Anna Maria Calhoun, daughter of John C. Calhoun, South Carolina statesman and seventh U.S. Vice President.<ref name="History of Clemson">{{cite web|title=History |url=http://www.clemson.edu/about/history/ |publisher=Clemson University|access-date=3 November 2011}}</ref> When Clemson died on April 6, 1888, he left most of his estate, which he inherited from his wife, in his will to be used to establish a college that would teach scientific agriculture and the mechanical arts to South Carolinians.<ref>{{cite web |url-status=dead |url=http://www.clemson.edu/TGC200/the-will.htm |website=Thomas Green Clemson 200 |title=The Will |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923012204/http://www.clemson.edu/TGC200/the-will.htm |archive-date=September 23, 2016 |publisher=Clemson University |access-date=17 September 2011}}</ref> His decision was largely influenced by the future South Carolina Governor Benjamin Tillman.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kantrowitz |first=Stephen David |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41528409|title=Ben Tillman & the Reconstruction of White Supremacy |date=2000|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|isbn=0-8078-2530-1|location=Chapel Hill|oclc=41528409}}</ref> Tillman lobbied the South Carolina General Assembly to create the school as an agricultural institution for the state and the resolution passed by only one vote.

In his will, Clemson explicitly stated he wanted the school to be modeled after what is now [[Organization:Mississippi State University|Mississippi State University]]: "This institution, I desire, to be under the control and management of a board of trustees, a part of whom are hereinafter appointed, and to be modeled after the Agricultural College of Mississippi as far as practicable."<ref>{{cite web|title=The Will of Thomas Green Clemson |url=http://www.clemson.edu/about/history/tgc-will.html |website=Clemson University }}</ref>

===Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina===
[[File:CU Godfrey Hall Aug2010.jpg|thumb|left|287px|Godfrey Hall, constructed in 1897, formerly housed the Textile Department.]]

In November 1889, South Carolina Governor John Peter Richardson III signed the bill, thus establishing the Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina. As a result, federal funds for agricultural education from the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act and the Hatch Act of 1887 were transferred from [[Organization:University of South Carolina|South Carolina College]] (today, the [[Organization:University of South Carolina|University of South Carolina]]) to Clemson.<ref name="History of Clemson"/> Construction of the college began with Hardin Hall in 1890 and then main classroom buildings in 1891. Convict laborers, some as young as 13 years old, built many of the original buildings on campus.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Thomas|first=Rhondda Robinson|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1142013050|title=Call my name, Clemson: documenting the Black experience in an American university community|others=University of Iowa Press|date=November 2, 2020|isbn=978-1-60938-741-9|location=Iowa City|oclc=1142013050}}</ref> Henry Aubrey Strode became the first president of Clemson from 1890 to 1893. Edwin Craighead succeeded Strode in 1893. Clemson Agricultural College formally opened in July 1893 with an initial enrollment of 446. The common curriculum of the first incoming students was English, history, botany, mathematics, physics, and agriculture. Until 1955, the college was also an all-white male military school.

[[File:Cadets on Bowman Field (Oconeean 1904).png|thumb|right|287px|Corps of Cadets at Clemson College in 1904]]
[[File:Snow at Clemson College (Taps 1914).png|thumb|right|287px|Snow at Clemson College, 1914]]

On May 22, 1894, the main building (Tillman Hall) was destroyed by a fire, which consumed the library, classrooms, and offices. Tillman Hall was rebuilt in 1894 and is still standing today. The first graduating class of Clemson was in 1896 with degrees in mechanical-electrical engineering and agriculture. Clemson's first football team began in 1896 led by trainer Walter Riggs. Henry Hartzog, a graduate of The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, became president of Clemson in 1897. Hartzog created a textile department in 1898. Clemson became the first Southern school to train textile specialists. Hartzog expanded the curriculum with more industrialization skills such as foundry work, agriculture studies, and mechanics. In 1902 a large student walkout over the use of rigid military discipline escalated tensions between students and faculty forcing Hartzog to resign. Patrick Mell succeeded Hartzog from 1902 to 1910.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Riley|first1=Helene|title=Clemson University|publisher=Arcadia Publishing}}</ref>

Following the resignation of Mell in 1910 former Clemson Tigers football coach Walter Riggs became president of Clemson from 1910 to 1924.<ref>{{cite web|title=Walter M. Riggs Presidential Records Series.0017 |url=http://media.clemson.edu/library/special_collections/findingaids/archives/Series0017Riggs.html|access-date=5 February 2017}}</ref> The Holtzendorff Hall, originally the Holzendorff YMCA, was built in 1914 designed by Rudolph E. Lee of the first graduating class of Clemson in 1896. In 1915 Riggs Field was dedicated after Walter Riggs and is the Clemson Tigers men's soccer home field. During [[Social:World War I|World War I]] enrollment in Clemson declined. In 1917 Clemson formed a Reserve Officers' Training Corps and in 1918 a Student Army Training Corps was formed. Effects of World War I made Clemson hire the first women faculty due to changes in faculty.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Lusk|first1=Brock|title=Tigers in the Trenches: A Study of Clemson in the Great War |url=http://tigerprints.clemson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3114&context=all_theses&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2Fsearch%3FPC%3DU157%26q%3Dclemson%2Buniversity%2Bduring%2Bworld%2Bwar%2Bii%26first%3D11%26FORM%3DPORE#search=%22clemson%20university%20during%20world%20war%20ii%22|access-date=5 February 2017}}</ref> Riggs accepted a six-month army educational commission in 1919 overseas in France leaving Samuel Earle as acting president. On March 10, 1920, a large walkout occurred protesting unfair "prison camp" style military discipline. The 1920 walkout led to the creation of a Department of Student Affairs. On January 22, 1924, Riggs died on a business trip to [[Place:Washington, D.C.|Washington, D.C.]] leaving Earle the acting president. In October 1924 another walkout of around 500 students occurred when Earle rejected their demands of better food and the dismissal of mess officer Harcombe and the reinstatement of their senior class president. The 1924 walkout resulted in 23 students dismissed and 112 suspended.

[[File:ClemsonMemlStadium06.jpg|thumb|right|287px|Clemson Memorial Stadium in 2006]]

On April 1, 1925, a fire destroyed the interior of the agricultural building and its many research projects and an agricultural museum. The exterior of the building survived, leading to the construction of Sikes Hall to hold the library from Tillman Hall. On May 27, 1926, Mechanical Hall was destroyed in a fire. Present-day Freeman Hall, built in 1926, was the reconstructed shop building. In 1928 Riggs Hall was established in honor of Walter Riggs.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of the Department |url=https://www.clemson.edu/cecas/departments/ece/about/history.html|access-date=5 February 2017}}</ref> President Enoch Sikes increased student enrollment by over 1,000 students and expanded the degree programs with an addition of the first graduate degree. The Department of Arts and Sciences was formed in 1926 with the addition of modern language programs. Programs at Clemson were reorganized into six schools of agriculture, chemistry, engineering, general science, textiles, and vocational studies. In 1927 Clemson received accreditation from the Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges of the Southern States.

During The Great Depression student enrollment and income declined. The New Deal brought needed construction to the campus under the Works Progress Administration with new dormitories to relieve the housing shortages. Long Hall, Sirrine Hall, and 29,625 acres of privately owned farmland was acquired by Clemson through federal funding. Agricultural engineers of Clemson diversified with the Clemson Agricultural Extension to educate farmers on soil conservation and crop storage techniques during The Great Depression. Robert Poole became the first Clemson alumnus to be president in 1940. On September 19, 1942 Memorial Stadium was formally opened as the new stadium for the Clemson Tigers football team previously played on Riggs Field since 1915.<ref>{{cite web|title=Memorial Stadium |url=http://www.collegegridirons.com/acc/MemorialStadium.htm |website=collegegridirons.com |access-date=5 February 2017}}</ref>

During [[Social:World War II|World War II]] more than 6,500 students were sent overseas in the military. As a result of the Clemson ROTC, around 5,850 were commissioned officers. The class of 1943 had a historical low of 343 graduates.<ref>{{cite web|title=Military History at Clemson|url=https://www.clemson.edu/business/departments/air-rotc/about/index.html|website=clemson.edu|access-date=5 February 2017}}</ref> By the end of the war, 376 Clemson students had been killed in it.

===Becoming civilian and coeducational and desegregated===
In 1955 Clemson underwent a major restructuring and was transformed into "civilian" status for students. It began admitting white women; the university was still segregated.<ref>{{cite web|title=Clemson University Board of Trustees Manual |url=http://media.clemson.edu/bot/manual.pdf|website=clemson.edu|access-date=5 February 2017}}</ref>

In 1963, the school admitted its first African-American student, Harvey Gantt, who later was elected as mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.clemson.edu/oir/factBook/Historical%20Enrollment/Integration.htm |title=Harvey Gantt and the Desegregation of Clemson University; an Online version of an exhibit presented by the Library in conjunction with "Integration With Dignity: A Celebration of 40 Years" on January 28, 2003 |access-date=January 21, 2011 |archive-date=October 14, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014163659/http://www.clemson.edu/oir/factBook/Historical%20Enrollment/Integration.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Clemson University===
In 1964, the college was renamed Clemson University, as the state legislature formally recognized the school's expanded academic offerings and research pursuits.<ref name="History">{{cite web |title=The History of Clemson University |url=http://www.clemson.edu/about/history.html |access-date=June 20, 2007}}</ref>

In 2015, students protested against Tillman Hall being named for Ben Tillman. Tillman was a South Carolina Governor and United States Senator and was a white supremacist during the Reconstruction era as well as a member of the Red Shirts and a known associate of the [[Religion:Ku Klux Klan|Ku Klux Klan]]. The board of trustees voted against renaming the building.<ref>{{cite news|title=UNC students demand new name for building honoring a KKK leader|first=Susan|last=Svrluga |date=March 26, 2015 |newspaper={{wipe|The Washington Post}}|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/03/26/unc-students-demand-new-name-for-building-honoring-a-kkk-leader/}}</ref> In the summer of 2020, following the [[Biography:Murder of George Floyd|murder of George Floyd]], the trustees petitioned the state legislature to remove Ben Tillman's name from the building and restoring the original name ("Old Main"), at the same time it renamed the honors program, which had been named for John C. Calhoun. As of July 2021, no changes have been made toward renaming the building.<ref name=Connolly/>

==Campus==

The Campus of Clemson University was originally the site of U.S. Vice President John C. Calhoun's plantation, named Fort Hill. The plantation passed to his daughter, Anna, and son-in-law, Thomas Green Clemson. On Clemson's death in 1888, he willed the land to the state of South Carolina for the creation of a public university.

The university was founded in 1889, and three buildings from the initial construction still exist today: Hardin Hall (built in 1890), Main Building (later renamed Tillman Hall) (1894), and Godfrey Hall (1898). Other periods of large expansion occurred in 1936–1938, when eight new buildings were constructed, and the late 1950s through 1970, when no fewer than 25 buildings were constructed, most in a similar architectural style.

The campus area first appeared as a census-designated place (CDP) in the 2020 Census with a population of 7,311.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Clemson University CDP, South Carolina Place in South Carolina |url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=1600000US4515040 |accessdate=March 13, 2022 |website=United States Census Bureau}}</ref>

==Academics==

===Admissions===

====Undergraduate====
{{Infobox U.S. college admissions
|year              = 2021
|admit rate        = 49.2
|admit rate change = -1.3
|yield rate        = 19.8
|yield rate change = -11.2
|SAT Total         = 1240-1400
|SAT Total change  = 
|ACT               = 27-32
|ACT change        = 
|float             = right
|ref               = <ref name="FallEnrollmentReport">{{cite web |url=https://clemson.box.com/s/1efxz5heq2bqxv1d5x3arkmh29a0aai7 |title=Clemson University Common Data Set 2021-2022|publisher=Clemson University Office of Institutional Research|access-date=2022-11-06}}</ref>
}}

The 2022 annual ranking of ''U.S. News & World Report'' categorizes Clemson as 'more selective'.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/clemson-university-3425|title=U.S. News Best Colleges Rankings: Clemson University |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |year=2017 |access-date=January 12, 2017 }}</ref> For the Class of 2025 (enrolled fall 2021), Clemson received 47,007 applications and accepted 23,138 (49.2%). Of those accepted, 4,589 enrolled, a yield rate (the percentage of accepted students who choose to attend the university) of 19.8%. Clemson's freshman retention rate is 94%, with 85.5% going on to graduate within six years.<ref name="FallEnrollmentReport" />

The enrolled first-year class of 2025 had the following standardized test scores: the middle 50% range (25th percentile – 75th percentile) of SAT scores was 1240–1400, while the middle 50% range of ACT scores was 27–32.<ref name="FallEnrollmentReport" />

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; float:left; font-size:90%; margin:10px"
|+ '''Fall first-time freshman statistics'''<ref name="FallEnrollmentReport" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://clemson.box.com/s/qce4y1yqxhlve7745w7qhs3gan4hauvj |title=Clemson University Common Data Set 2020-2021|publisher=Clemson University Office of Institutional Research|access-date=2022-11-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.clemson.edu/institutional-effectiveness/documents/2020/CDSClemsonUniversityallcompleted20200310.pdf |title=Clemson University Common Data Set 2019-2020|publisher=Clemson University Office of Institutional Research|access-date=2022-11-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.clemson.edu/institutional-effectiveness/documents/oir/CommonDataSet2018.pdf |title=Clemson University Common Data Set 2018-2019|publisher=Clemson University Office of Institutional Research|access-date=2022-11-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.clemson.edu/institutional-effectiveness/documents/oir/CommonDataSet2017.pdf |title=Clemson University Common Data Set 2017-2018|publisher=Clemson University Office of Institutional Research|access-date=2022-11-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.clemson.edu/institutional-effectiveness/documents/oir/CommonDataSet2016.pdf |title=Clemson University Common Data Set 2016-2017|publisher=Clemson University Office of Institutional Research|access-date=2022-11-06}}</ref>
|-
! 
! 2021 !! 2020 !! 2019 !! 2018 !! 2017 !! 2016
|-
! Applicants
| 47,007 || 28,600 || 29,070 || 28,845 || 26,242 || 23,506
|-
! Admits
| 23,138 || 17,715 || 14,900 || 13,613 || 12,380 || 11,881
|-
! Admit rate
| 49.2 || 61.9 || 51.3 || 47.2 || 47.2 || 50.5
|-
! Enrolled
| 4,589 || 4,199 || 3,932 || 3,792 || 3,649 || 3,684
|-
! Yield rate
| 19.8 || 23.7 || 26.4 || 27.9 || 29.5 || 31.0
|-
! ACT composite*<br /><small>(out of 36)</small>
| 27–32 || 27–32 || 27–32 || 27–32 || 27–31 || 26–31
|- 
! SAT composite*<br /><small>(out of 1600)</small>
| 1240–1400 || 1230–1380 || 1240–1400 || 1220–1400 || 1220–1390 || {{sdash}}
|-
| * middle 50% range
|}

{{clear}}

===Colleges and schools===

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="float:right; font-size:90%"
! College
! Enrollment (2019)<ref name="Enrollment"/>
|-
| College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences
| {{nb5}}2,191
|-
| College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities
| {{nb5}}1,990
|-
| College of Behavioral Science and Health Science
| {{nb5}}4,125
|-
| College of Business
| {{nb5}}5,076
|-
| College of Education
| {{nb5}}1,861
|-
| College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences
| {{nb5}}7,182
|-
| College of Science
| {{nb5}}3,311
|}

In July 1955, the four schools that made up Clemson—Agriculture, Arts & Sciences, Engineering and Textiles—were transformed into nine colleges: Architecture, Arts and Sciences, Liberal Arts, Sciences, Commerce and Industry, Education, Engineering, Forestry and Recreation Resources, and Nursing.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ellers|first=Joseph|title=Getting To Know Clemson University Is Quite An Education|year=1987|publisher=Blueridge Publications|isbn=978-0934870177|page=95}}</ref> This structure was used by the university until 1995 when the university's nine colleges were condensed into five: Agriculture, Forestry, and Life Sciences; Architecture, Arts, and Humanities; Business and Behavioral Science; Engineering and Science; Health, Education, and Human Development.<ref name="CU Colleges">{{cite web|title=Colleges, Schools, and Departments|url=http://www.clemson.edu/academics/colleges-schools-departments.html|publisher=Clemson University}}</ref> {{as of|2014|July|14}}, the Eugene T. Moore School of Education broke off from the College of Health, Education, and Human development, thus becoming the sixth college.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newsstand.clemson.edu/mediarelations/clemson-names-petersen-founding-dean-of-moore-school-of-education/|title=Clemson names Petersen founding dean of Moore School of Education|author=Laderman, Michael|date=May 7, 2014|access-date=April 25, 2015|archive-date=January 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126030920/https://newsstand.clemson.edu/mediarelations/clemson-names-petersen-founding-dean-of-moore-school-of-education/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

An academic reorganization effective July 1, 2016, created seven new colleges: College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences; College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities; College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences; College of Business; College of Education (including the Eugene T. Moore School of Education); College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences; and College of Science.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.clemson.edu/forward/reorganization/|title=College Reorganization|publisher=Clemson University}}</ref>

====College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Life Sciences====
The College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Life Sciences (CAFLS) supports Clemson University's land-grant mission to provide education, research, and service to the public. CAFLS faculty members teach major subjects and core curricula while preparing students to be leaders, creative thinkers, and communicators.  Emphasis is placed on engaging students in research, internships/coops, study abroad, and service learning. CAFLS research is focused on the sustainability of agriculture, forests, and natural resources; food and packaging systems to ensure a healthy and safe food supply, and biomedical sciences to improve human and non-human health.<ref name=CAFLS>{{cite web|url=http://www.clemson.edu/cafls/|title=College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences}}</ref>

====College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities====
[[File:CU Lowry Hall Aug2010.jpg|thumb|Lee and Lowry Halls are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.]]

The College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities (CAAH) contains three schools: the School of the Arts, the School of Design and Building, and the School of the Humanities. Within these schools are ten departments: Art, Architecture, Construction Science and Management, English, History, Landscape Architecture, Languages, Performing Arts, Philosophy and Religion, and Planning, Development, and Restoration.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.clemson.edu/caah/about/index.html|title=About the College - College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities - Clemson University, South Carolina|access-date=11 January 2017}}</ref> One of the departments of the college, the School of Architecture, was ranked as the  No. 16 graduate school for architecture in the country by Design Intelligence.<ref name="Clemson architecture programs ranked among nation's best">{{cite news|title=Clemson architecture programs ranked among nation's best|url=http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20131105/NEWS/311050056/|access-date=November 9, 2013|newspaper=The Greenville News|date=November 5, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131110000305/http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20131105/NEWS/311050056/|archive-date=November 10, 2013}}</ref> The Brooks Center serves as performing arts venue for the college.<ref name="brooks">{{cite web| title=Brooks Center for the Performing Arts| url=https://www.clemson.edu/centers-institutes/brooks/about/index.html| work=clemson.edu/centers-institutes/brooks | publisher=Clemson University}}</ref>

====Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business====
The College of Business is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

==== College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences====
[[File:CU McAdams Hall Aug2010.jpg|thumb|McAdams Hall]]

The College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Sciences (CECAS) specializes in engineering as well as the physical sciences such as physics and chemistry. Inspired by Thomas Green Clemson's dream to create a "high seminary of learning to benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts," engineering and sciences have been an integral part of the university's development. Since the first degrees were granted in 1896, Clemson engineers and scientists have made significant contributions to South Carolina, the nation, and the world.

CECAS was formed in 1995, joining the engineering disciplines with the chemistry, computer science, geological science, mathematical science, and physics and astronomy departments.<ref name=CoES>{{cite web|url=http://www.clemson.edu/ces/about/|title=Clemson College of Engineering and Science|access-date=November 9, 2013}}</ref>

====Clemson University Honors College====
The Clemson University Honors College focuses on education for highly motivated, academically talented students. Entrance to the college is very competitive, with only 250 incoming freshmen accepted each year with an average SAT score of 1400 or higher and finished in the top 3% of their high school graduating class.<ref name="Honors College">{{cite web|url=http://www.clemson.edu/cuhonors/|title=Calhoun Honors College|access-date=November 9, 2013}}</ref> The college was founded in 1962 and originally named for John C. Calhoun, a South Carolina native and politician, who was the vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832.<ref name=Connolly>{{cite news |last1=Connolly |first1=Matt |title=Clemson's Calhoun Honors College has a new name after pushback |url=https://www.thestate.com/sports/college/acc/clemson-university/article243484016.html |access-date=June 12, 2020 |work=The State |date=June 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612184903/https://www.thestate.com/sports/college/acc/clemson-university/article243484016.html |archive-date=June 12, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>

====College of Education====
The College of Education is Clemson's newest college. It is centered in the famous Tillman Hall. The college has some 600 undergraduate students, and 600 graduate students, with the mission to embrace the diverse faculty, staff, and students and provide them with a diverse set of experiences. The COE also houses the Call Me MISTER Program and the Moore Scholars.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clemson.edu/hehd/departments/education/about/index.html|title=About the School of Education|publisher=Clemson University}}</ref>

On June 12, 2020, university trustees petitioned the state legislature for authorization to rename Tillman Hall. “Pitchfork” Ben Tillman was a governor and U.S. senator who used virulent racism to dominate South Carolina politics after Reconstruction.<ref>{{cite web |title=Clemson to remove the name of pro-slavery politician |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/clemson-remove-name-pro-slavery-politician-school-s-honor-college-n1230671?cid=sm_npd_ms_fb_lw |website=NBC News | date=June 12, 2020 |access-date=June 14, 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

====Graduate school====
The Graduate School offers more than 100 graduate degree programs in 85 disciplines on the college's main campus and at sites such as Clemson at the Falls and the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research in Greenville, the Clemson Architecture Center in the historic Cigar Factory in Charleston, the Restoration Institute in North Charleston, as well as some online/distance-learning programs. Many of the graduate programs are highly ranked nationally, and the school offers several unique interdisciplinary programs.<ref name="Clemson Graduate School">{{cite web|url=http://www.grad.clemson.edu/ |title=Graduate School – Clemson University|access-date=November 9, 2013|publisher=Clemson University}}</ref>

===Rankings===
Admission to Clemson is rated "more selective" by ''U.S. News & World Report''.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/clemson-university-3425|title=U.S. News Best Colleges Rankings: Clemson University |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |year=2017 |access-date=January 12, 2017}}</ref>

For the Class of 2022 (enrolling Fall 2018), Clemson received 28,845 applications and accepted 13,613 (47.2%), with 3,792 enrolling.<ref name="CDS">{{cite web |url=https://www.clemson.edu/institutional-effectiveness/documents/oir/CommonDataSet2018.pdf |title=Clemson University Common Data Set 2018-2019, Part C |publisher=Clemson University}}</ref> The middle 50% range of SAT scores for enrolling freshmen was 610–690 for reading and writing, and 610–710 for math.<ref name=CDS /> The middle 50% ACT composite score range was 27–32.<ref name=CDS/> The average high school grade point average (GPA) was 4.43.<ref name=CDS />

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{{Infobox US university ranking
| Forbes = 113
| THE_WSJ = 188
| THES_W = 801–1000
| QS_W = 801–1000
| USNWR_NU = 86
| USNWR_W = 689
| Wamo_NU = 161
| ARWU_W = 501–600
}}
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|-
! colspan=4 |National program rankings<ref name="USNWR Grad School Rankings">{{cite magazine|title=Clemson University Rankings|magazine=U.S. News & World Report|access-date=October 6, 2020|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/clemson-university-217882/overall-rankings}}</ref>
|-
! Program
! Ranking
|-
| Biological Sciences || 140
|-
| Business || 83
|-
| Chemistry || 96
|-
| Computer Science || 82
|-
| Economics || 72
|-
| Education || 91
|-
| Engineering || 72
|-
| Fine Arts || 110
|-
| Mathematics || 94
|-
| Physics || 110
|-
| Psychology || 98
|}
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{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible collapsed" style="float:right; text-align:center"
|-
! colspan=4 |Global program rankings<ref name="USNWR Global Univ Rankings">{{cite magazine|title=Clemson University - U.S. News Best Global University Rankings|magazine=U.S. News & World Report|access-date=October 6, 2020|url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/clemson-university-217882}}</ref>
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! Program
! Ranking
|-
| Agricultural Sciences || 244
|-
| Chemistry || 740
|-
| Engineering || 385
|-
| Environment/Ecology || 322
|-
| Materials Science || 320
|-
| Physics || 637
|-
| Plant & Animal Science || 264
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| Social Sciences & Public Health || 459
|}
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[[File:CU Sikes Hall Aug2010 01.jpg|thumb|Sikes Hall is the principal administration building of Clemson.]]

For 2023, ''U.S. News & World Report'' ranked Clemson as tied for the 86th best national university in the U.S. overall, and tied for the 43rd top public school.<ref name=USNEWS>{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/clemson-university-3425/overall-rankings |title=Clemson University Rankings |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |year=2021 |access-date=October 6, 2020}}</ref>

In 2016, The Princeton Review ranked Clemson University number one in three categories: Student Career Services, Town-Gown Relations, and Students pack the stadium.<ref>Gouch, John. [http://newsstand.clemson.edu/mediarelations/clemson-ranked-no-1-in-three-categories-by-the-princeton-review/ "Clemson Ranked No. 1 in three categories by The Princeton Review"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706234002/https://newsstand.clemson.edu/mediarelations/clemson-ranked-no-1-in-three-categories-by-the-princeton-review/ |date=2020-07-06}}. Clemson Media Relations. 3 August 2016. Accessed 5 September 2016.</ref>

===Research===
The Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) was established in 2013 in Greenville as a seminary for automotive research and innovation.<ref>{{cite web|title=Quick Facts|url=http://cuicar.com/about/quick-facts/|website=cuicar.com|publisher=CUICAR|access-date=5 February 2017}}</ref> CU-ICAR is a {{convert|250|acre|ha|0|adj=on}} automotive and motorsports research campus. The department of Automotive Engineering was ranked tenth in the world in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://justengineeringschools.com/top-10-automotive-engineering-schools-world/|title=Top 10 Automotive Engineering Schools In The World In 2015|publisher=Just Engineering Schools|access-date=May 30, 2014|date=2014-05-30}}</ref> CU-ICAR includes a graduate school offering master's and doctoral degrees in automotive engineering, and programs focused on systems integration. The campus also includes an Information Technology Research Center being developed by [[Company:BMW|BMW]]. BMW, [[Company:Microsoft|Microsoft]], [[Company:IBM|IBM]], Bosch, Timken, JTEKT/Koyo and Michelin are all major corporate partners of CU-ICAR. Private-sector companies that have committed to establishing offices and/or facilities on the campus include the Society of Automotive Engineers and Timken. Plans for the campus also include a full-scale, four-vehicle capacity rolling road [[Physics:Wind tunnel|wind tunnel]].

In 2004 the Restoration Institute was founded in North Charleston. Its mission is to "advance knowledge in integrative approaches to the restoration of historic, ecological, and urban infrastructure resources." The institute includes the Hunley Commission which is undertaking the stabilization of the ''H. L. Hunley'', a Civil War [[Engineering:Submarine|submarine]] that was the world's first to sink a ship. {{as of|2013}}, the institute is constructing a 7.5MW and a 15MW [[Physics:Wind turbine|wind turbine]] test facility for $100 million.<ref>PJ Randhawa. "[http://clemsonenergy.com/news/state-investigating-investment-into-wind-energy/ State investigating investment into wind energy]" ''Clemson Energy'', July 17, 2013. Accessed: September 28, 2013.</ref><ref>"[http://clemsonenergy.com/facilities/drivetrain-testing-facility/ Wind Turbine Drivetrain Testing Facility] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131001225325/http://clemsonenergy.com/facilities/drivetrain-testing-facility/ |date=2013-10-01 }}" ''Clemson Energy''. Accessed: September 28, 2013.</ref>

In 2016, Clemson announced a new partnership with [[Company:Siemens|Siemens]], including a grant with a total value of $357,224,294. This grant is the largest in the school's history. Through it, students in Clemson's College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Sciences will have access to a variety of new software.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newsstand.clemson.edu/mediarelations/siemens-provides-clemson-with-largest-in-kind-technology-grant-in-university-history/|title=Siemens provides Clemson with largest in-kind technology grant in university history|access-date=11 January 2017|archive-date=October 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024010228/https://newsstand.clemson.edu/mediarelations/siemens-provides-clemson-with-largest-in-kind-technology-grant-in-university-history/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2015, Clemson University broke ground on the Zucker Family Graduate Education Center in the City of North Charleston. The 70,000 sq. ft. facility is estimated to cost more than $22 million.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150115/PC05/150119617/1505/clemson-breaks-ground-on-215m-zucker-family-graduate-education-center-in-north-charleston|title=Clemson breaks ground on $21.5M Zucker Family Graduate Education Center in North Charleston|date=January 15, 2015|author=McDermott, John}}</ref>

==Student life==
{| class="wikitable floatright sortable collapsible"; text-align:right; font-size:80%;"
|+ style="font-size:90%" |Student body composition as of May 2, 2022
|-
! Race and ethnicity<ref>{{cite web |title=College Scorecard: Clemson University|url=https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?217882-Clemson-University |publisher=United States Department of Education |access-date=May 8, 2022}}</ref>
! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total
|-
| [[Social:Non-Hispanic whites|White]]
|align=right| {{bartable|80|%|2||background:gray}}
|-
| Hispanic
|align=right| {{bartable|6|%|2||background:green}}
|-
| Black
|align=right| {{bartable|6|%|2||background:mediumblue}}
|-
| Other{{efn|Other consists of Multiracial Americans & those who prefer to not say.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|4|%|2||background:brown}}
|-
| Asian
|align=right| {{bartable|3|%|2||background:purple}}
|-
| Foreign national
|align=right| {{bartable|1|%|2||background:orange}}
|-
! colspan="4" data-sort-type=number |[[Social:Economic diversity|Economic diversity]]
|-
| Low-income{{efn|The percentage of students who received an income-based federal Pell grant intended for low-income students.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|15|%|2||background:red}}
|-
| Affluent{{efn|The percentage of students who are a part of the American middle class at the bare minimum.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|85|%|2||background:black}}
|}
[[File:2021-05-09 11.48.36 DSCF1221.jpg|thumb|500px|Clemson University Outdoor Theater and Cooper Library]]

===Intramurals===

In addition to their varsity programs, Clemson offers a wide variety of intramural sports:<ref>"Intramural Sports." ''Clemson Campus Recreation''. Clemson University, 1 Jan. 2014. Web. 8 Feb. 2015.{{full citation needed|date=February 2014}}</ref>
{{div col|colwidth=15em}}
* Basketball
* Billiards
* [[Engineering:Bowling|Bowling]]
* Cornhole
* Dodgeball
* Flag football
* Indoor soccer
* Kickball
* Racquetball
* Soccer
* Softball
* Spikeball
* Tennis
* Ultimate Frisbee
* Volleyball
* Wiffleball
{{div col end}}

===Fraternity and sorority life===

The university's fraternities and sororities system is somewhat different from other large universities in the southern U.S. in that there are no Greek houses on campus, although there are residence halls designated for fraternities and sororities. There are a few fraternity houses off campus. The remaining sororities' on-campus housing is on the other end of campus, in what is commonly referred to as "the horseshoe," in Smith and Barnett Halls.

In 2017 15% of men and 31% of women were involved in Greek life, out of 19,825 undergraduate students.<ref name="Fall 2017 Greek Life Grade Summary">{{cite web | title= Fall 2017 Grade Summary | url=http://www.clemson.edu/campus-life/fraternity-sorority-life/documents/Fall%202017%20Grade%20Summary.pdf |access-date=May 3, 2018}}</ref> While the required GPA to join Greek life is 2.7, the mean GPA of each sorority was above the all-university mean.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clemson.edu/campus-life/fraternity-sorority-life/|title=Fraternity and Sorority Life - Clemson University Student Affairs|access-date=11 January 2017}}</ref>

[[File:Clemson ROTC cannon.jpg|thumb|250px|Clemson's U.S. Army ROTC Battalion headquarters, found in Johnstone Hall]]

===Military heritage===
The university is home to detachments for U.S. Army and {{wipe|United States Air Force}} Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) as well as a host school for the U.S. Marine Corps PLC program adjacent to the Semper Fi Society.

In addition to students from the university, these organizations also serve students from [[Organization:Anderson University (South Carolina)|Anderson University]], [[Organization:Southern Wesleyan University|Southern Wesleyan University]], Bob Jones University,  and Tri-County Technical College. The following organizations are present among the military personnel at Clemson:<ref name="student Organizations">{{cite web | title=List of Student Organizations | url=http://dcit.clemson.edu/resources/student_organizations/all.php | access-date=June 20, 2007 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070222133021/http://dcit.clemson.edu/resources/student_organizations/all.php | archive-date=February 22, 2007 }}</ref>
* Company C-4 Pershing Rifles
* K-7 Scabbard and Blade
* Maj. Rudolf Anderson, Jr Squadron Arnold Air Society (AAS)
* Maj. Dennis H. Satler Chapter Silver Wings
* Clemson Rangers
* Tiger Platoon
* Clemson Corps

The university's AAS squadron was selected to be home of Arnold Air Society's National Headquarters for the 2005–2006 year, and again for the 2006–2007 year. This is the first time in AAS's history that any university has served as national headquarters two years in a row.<ref name="Arnold Air Society">{{cite web | title=Student Achievements | url=http://business.clemson.edu/news/bragging/news_brag_students.htm | access-date=June 20, 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090525094658/http://business.clemson.edu/news/bragging/news_brag_students.htm | archive-date=2009-05-25 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

The C-4 Pershing Rifles have won the national society's drill meet nine times: 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, and 2017.<ref name="Arnold Air Society" /> Company C-4 also performs color guards, twenty-one-gun salutes, exhibition-drill performances, and POW/MIA ceremonies. Company C-4 performs Colorguard performance at the university's home football games. In addition to the C-4 drill company, the university is the former home of the fourth Regimental Headquarters (4RHQ), the National Headquarters for the Junior ROTC level of Pershing Rifles (BlackJacks), and the Co-ed Auxiliary for Pershing Rifles (CAPeRs).

The university has also developed a group of Marines and Marine Officer Candidates within an organization called the Semper Fi Society. The society is not associated with the ROTC but can lead to a commission into the U.S. Marine Corps via the Platoon Leaders Course program.

===Student media===
Clemson University has five completely student-run media outlets. These organizations operate under Tiger Media, the university's student media department, and are each on the third floor of the Hendrix Student Center. These include ''The Tiger'', Tigervision, ''The Pendulum'', ''The Chronicle'', and WSBF-FM.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Tiger Media|url=http://www.cutigervision.com/about|work=Tiger Media}}</ref>

[[File:TheTigerClemson1917.png|thumb|right|400px|Logo from ''The Tiger'' Vol. XII No. 25 on May 2, 1917]]

Founded in 1907, ''The Tiger'' is the oldest student-run newspaper in South Carolina. ''The Tiger'' publishes local and university-related news pieces. Additionally, the paper publishes opinion articles on general and national issues, and lifestyle articles on topics such as food, sex, and music. With sports being a major part of Clemson University's culture and events, ''The Tiger'' also contains a large sports section focusing on football, basketball, baseball, and soccer. ''The Tiger'' is printed biweekly, on Thursdays, and maintains a staff of over 30 senior members and numerous contributing staff.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Us|url=http://www.thetigernews.com/about.php|work=The Tiger News|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130204112131/http://www.thetigernews.com/about.php|archive-date=2013-02-04}}</ref>

''The Tiger Town Observer'' is a conservative news magazine that focuses on university politics. The magazine identifies itself as a "traditionally conservative" news source and lists its political values as liberty, transparency, lifelong learning, free market, and charity.<ref>{{cite web|title=About us|url=http://tigertownobserver.com/?page_id=7|work=Tiger Town Observer|access-date=29 March 2012}}</ref>

Tigervision, Clemson's student-run TV station, broadcasts on channel 88 on the university's campus cable network. The station was created in 1994 under the name Clemson Cable Network by students at WSBF-FM who were interested in television production. The station aired a variety of student-created content as well as recently released movies via a licensing agreement. By 2006, after experiencing a decline in membership and viewers, CCN was no longer consistently producing content and fell into relative obscurity. However, in 2007, CCN was reorganized into Clemson Television and began to produce student comedy shows as well as airing public domain films. As content quality began to increase, so did membership. In 2014, CTV was renamed Tigervision to coincide with its switch to high-definition broadcasting.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Tigervision|url=http://www.cutigervision.com/about|work=Tigervision}}</ref>

''TAPS Yearbook'' was established in 1907 after members of the Clemson College Chronicle, the literary arts magazine at the time, wanted to publish a new book printed annually. It is named after the song "Taps", which was played each night when cadets went to bed during the college's time as a military school. Each edition of ''TAPS'' contains student portraits, information on student organizations, and reviews of the past year's events.<ref>{{cite book |title=TAPS Yearbook|date=2011|pages=357}}</ref> In 2017, ''TAPS'' announced the end of the 2017–18 academic year would mark the final edition of the yearbook. Its student media group will replace it with a quarterly interest magazine beginning in fall 2018.<ref>{{cite web|title=Final edition of TAPS yearbook on sale, move to quarterly magazine outlined|url=http://newsstand.clemson.edu/mediarelations/final-edition-of-taps-yearbook-on-sale-move-to-quarterly-magazine-outlined/|work=TAPS}}</ref>

WSBF-FM was founded in 1958 and made its first broadcast on April 1, 1960. In the beginning, WSBF's content was mostly agriculture education shows and classical music. By the mid-1960s, the station began to air sports programs such as ''The Frank Howard Show'' along with the news. The station would eventually shift to a "progressive" format where it focused on new, up-and-coming contemporary music groups. During the 1980s, the format would shift gradually changed to the station's current "alternative" format. WSBF plays a variety of genres including jazz, rap, punk, rock, and folk focusing on independent artists. The station broadcasts to the Clemson area and upstate South Carolina on 88.1 FM as well as online.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of WSBF|url=https://wsbf.net/#/history|work=WSBF}}</ref>

''The Chronicle'' is a literary art magazine that publishes biannually. It was founded in 1897 and prints student-created content ranging from poetry, short stories, photography, and drawings.<ref>{{cite web|title=About The Chronicle|url=https://www.facebook.com/pg/ClemsonChronicle/about/?ref=page_internal|work=Chronicle}}</ref>

''The Pendulum'' is a student-run international affairs magazine. It was established in 2014 and officially joined Tiger Media the following year. It publishes twice a year during the fall and focuses on international politics, economics, and global affairs. ''The Pendulum'' often takes these topics and discusses how they affect students and the Clemson community.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clemsonpendulum.org|title=The Pendulum|access-date=11 January 2017}}</ref>

==Traditions==

===Tiger Paw===

The Tiger paw became the official logo for Clemson University in 1970, in place of the previous tiger logo. The change was inspired by President Robert Edwards to "upgrade the image of the university." The Tiger Paw logo was introduced at a press conference on July 21, 1970. It was created by John Antonio and developed by Helen Weaver of Henderson Advertising in Greenville, South Carolina, from a mold of a [[Biology:Bengal tiger|Bengal tiger]] sent to the agency by the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. The paw is now used on all athletic teams and collegiate documents. The tiger paw is also painted on surfaces throughout campus and on highways leading to the campus.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bradley|first=Bob|title=Death Valley Days|year=1991|publisher=Longsteet Press|isbn=978-1563520068|pages=36–42}}</ref>

===Homecoming and Tigerama===

Every year Clemson students have the opportunity to attend Homecoming and Tigerama. The Clemson Homecoming tradition began in 1914 and has been held annually at Clemson University ever since. During homecoming week, various student organizations design and build Homecoming floats on Bowman Field. The floats are then revealed on the Saturday of the football game and judged by a select panel. Since 1957, Clemson has held "Tigerama" on the Friday night of homecoming week. Tigerama is one of the nation's largest student-run-pep rallies, averaging about 40,000 people. This Clemson event includes the crowning of Miss Homecoming, skits by various academic organizations, as well as a fireworks show.<ref name="Blackman 1999 144"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Traditions|url=http://www.clemson.edu/about/traditions.html|publisher=Clemson University|access-date=24 July 2012}}</ref>

===First Friday Parade===
The First Friday Parade has been held on the Friday before the first home football game every year since 1974. The parade includes fraternities, sororities, the Clemson marching band, the university President, as well as many other student organizations.  The parade route travels through portions of Highway 93 and Main Street and concludes at the university's amphitheater, where the first pep rally of the year is held. In 1985, the parade had its highest attendance, when accompanying CBS commentators were the Grand Marshalls.<ref name="Blackman 1999 144">{{cite book|last=Blackman|first=Sam|title=Clemson: Where the Tigers play|year=1999|publisher=Sports Publishing|isbn=978-1583820056|page=144}}</ref><ref name="Traditions">{{cite web|title=Traditions|url=http://www.clemson.edu/about/traditions.html|access-date=6 June 2013}}</ref>

===Alma mater===
The Clemson University alma mater originated in the 1910s after a group of Clemson ROTC cadets in May 1918 was asked to sing the school's song at a gathering of ROTC cadets in Plattsburgh, New York; they were unable to do so, as Clemson had no song at the time. One of the cadets in attendance, A.C. Corcoran of Charleston, South Carolina, decided to remedy the situation and wrote the words to the alma mater and set them to Annie Lisle, which was the melody of [[Organization:Cornell University|Cornell University]]'s alma mater, as well as many others. The words were later officially accepted by the then-named Clemson Agricultural College as the alma mater and were first performed by the Clemson Glee Club on February 17, 1919.<ref name="Alma Mater">{{cite web|title=The Mystery of the Clemson Alma Mater|url=http://www.clemson.edu/tigerband/History_AlmaMater.htm|publisher=Clemson University|access-date=20 January 2013}}</ref>

In 1947 the club "Tiger Brotherhood" decided that, rather than continue borrowing another school's melody, the university should compose its own. As a result, the Tiger Brotherhood sponsored a contest to have Clemson students compose a unique melody. On May 5, 1947, Clemson University's school newspaper "The Tiger" announced Robert E. Farmer of Anderson, South Carolina, a member of the glee club at the time, as the winner. Farmer's melody was slightly altered in 1970 but was restored to its original tune in 2009.<ref name = "Alma Mater" />

===Fight song===
The university's fight song is the jazz standard, the "Tiger Rag".<ref>"[http://www.clemson.edu/about/traditions.html Traditions]". Clemson University. 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2011.</ref>

===Memorial Stadium traditions===

==Athletics==

Clemson University teams are known as the Tigers. They compete as a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level (Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) sub-level for football), primarily competing in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) for all sports since the 1953–54 season. Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, tennis, and track & field; while women's sports include basketball, cross country, golf, rowing, soccer, diving, tennis, track & field, softball, and volleyball.

The most-prominent athletics facilities on campus are Memorial Stadium, Littlejohn Coliseum, Doug Kingsmore Stadium, Historic Riggs Field, and Fike Recreation Center.

In 2020, university officials decided to dissolve its Men's Track and Field and Cross Country teams at the end of the academic year.  Despite pressure from student activists, the university did not reverse its decision until a class-action Title IX lawsuit was formed. Following pressure from state officials, the university reversed its decision on April 22, 2021. The university followed this by announcing the additions of women's lacrosse and gymnastics.

<gallery>
File:MemorialStadiumSept2006.jpg|Memorial Stadium
File:Littlejohn_Coliseum_Nov_11_2016.jpg|Littlejohn Coliseum
File:Clemson baseball panoramic 1.jpg|Doug Kingsmore Stadium
File:Riggs Field At Clemson university.JPG|Riggs Field
File:CU Fike Recreation Center Aug2010.jpg|Fike Recreation Center
File:CU Jervey Gym Aug2010.jpg|Jervey Athletic Center
</gallery>

==Public safety==
Clemson University operates with the Clemson University Police Department and the Clemson University Fire & EMS for public safety needs. Both departments are staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The Clemson University Fire & EMS has two stations:<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.clemson.edu/cusafety/cufd/contact/index.html | title=Contact Clemson Fire Department }}</ref> the headquarters at 1521 Perimeter Road, and a second station at 740 Issaqueena Trail. The Police Department is located at 124 Ravenel Center Place, Seneca.

==Notable alumni==
* Major Rudolf Anderson Jr., the only person killed by enemy fire during the Cuban Missile Crisis.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Nixon|first1=Angela|title=Clemson marks anniversary of Maj. Rudolf Anderson's flight during Military Appreciation Day|url=http://newsstand.clemson.edu/mediarelations/clemson-marks-anniversary-of-maj-rudolf-andersons-flight-during-military-appreciation-day/|access-date=5 February 2017|publisher=Clemson Newstand|date=October 16, 2012}}</ref>
* David Beasley, South Carolina governor (1995–1999).<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_south_carolina/col2-content/main-content-list/title_beasley_david.html|title =   South Carolina Governor David M. Beasley|publisher= National Governors Association |access-date= December 21, 2012}}</ref>
* Kris Benson, baseball player.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=bensokr01|title = Kris Benson Stats| publisher=Baseball Almanac |access-date= December 21, 2012}}</ref>
* Jay Berger (born 1966), tennis player.
* Tajh Boyd (born 1990), football player.
* Robert H. Brooks, founder of Hooters of America, Inc.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Martin|first1=Douglas|title=Robert H. Brooks, 69, Owner of Hooters Restaurant Chain, Is Dead|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/18/business/18brooks.html|access-date=5 February 2017|newspaper=NY Times|date=July 18, 2006}}</ref>
* Jonathan Byrd, golfer.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jonathan Byrd|url=http://www.cbssports.com/golf/players/playerpage/238106/jonathan-byrd|website=cbssports.com|access-date=5 February 2017}}</ref>
* James F. Byrnes, politician.
* Dwight Clark, football player.
* Wynn Coggins, acting Secretary of Commerce under Joe Biden. 
* Chad Connelly, Chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party<ref>{{cite web|title=Chad Connelly|url=https://gop.com/author/chad-connelly|website=GOP.com|access-date=5 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205183455/https://gop.com/author/chad-connelly|archive-date=5 February 2017|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
* Brian Dawkins, football player.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=DAWKIBRI01 |title=Brian Patrick Dawkins |publisher=databaseFootball.com |access-date=December 21, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021031734/http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=DAWKIBRI01 |archive-date=October 21, 2012 }}</ref>
* Dave Dondero, singer-songwriter and guitarist.
* Steven Duggar, baseball player.
* Lt. Col. Jimmie Dyess, recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Carnegie Medal of Honor.
* Ekwee Ethuro, Speaker of the Kenyan Senate.
* Harvey Gantt, first black Mayor of Charlotte.
* Lucas Glover, golfer.
* Nikki Haley, politician
* James M. Henderson, advertising executive.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.knowitall.org/legacy/laureates/james%20m.%20henderson%20.html|title=James M. Henderson (1921-1995)|publisher=knowitall.org|access-date=May 4, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130612213338/http://www.knowitall.org/legacy/laureates/james%20m.%20henderson%20.html|archive-date=June 12, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Stuart Holden, soccer player.
* DeAndre Hopkins, football player.
* Rob Huebel, actor.
* Autar Kaw, academic.
* Kristie A. Kenney, diplomat.
* Trevor Lawrence, football player.
* Brad Miller, baseball player.
* Nancy O'Dell, [[Engineering:Television|television]] host and entertainment [[Engineering:Journalist|journalist]].
* Oguchi Onyewu, soccer player.
* William "Refrigerator" Perry, football player.
* John W. Raymond, general.
* Jane Robelot, television host.
* Ben Robertson, war correspondent in [[Social:World War II|World War II]], author.
* Brianna Rollins, track and field athlete.
* Phillip Sandifer, writer and recording artist.
* Jim Speros, football coach
* C. J. Spiller, football player.
* Elijah Thomas, basketball player.
* Strom Thurmond, longest-serving Senator in U.S. history.
* Sammy Watkins, football player.
* Deshaun Watson, football player.
* Shawn Weatherly, Miss Universe 1980.
* Jaw Shaw-kong, former Senators of Taiwan, founder of Taiwan's New Party.
* David H. Wilkins, politician.
*Vanessa E. Wyche, director of the Johnson Space Center.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/about/people/orgs/bios/wyche.html|title=JSC Deputy Director Vanessa E. Wyche|last=Wong|first=Michael|date=2017-11-07|website=NASA|access-date=2018-12-18}}</ref>

==Notable faculty==
*John Ballato, Professor of [[Physics:Materials science|materials science]] and engineering, [[Electrical engineering|electrical]] and [[Computer engineering|computer engineering]]. 
*[[Biography:Donald D. Clayton|Donald D. Clayton]], Professor of Physics & Astronomy
*Murray S. Daw, Professor of Physics
*Thomas Hazlett, Professor of Economics
*[[Biography:John W. Huffman|John W. Huffman]], Professor of Chemistry<ref>{{cite journal|last=Wang|first=Linda|title=C&EN Talks With John W. Huffman|journal=Chemical & Engineering News|date=June 28, 2010|volume=88|issue=26|page=43|url=http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/88/8826sci3.html|access-date=October 8, 2011|doi=10.1021/cen-v088n026.p043}}</ref>
*Jo Jorgensen, politician
*Donald Liebenberg, Professor of Physics and Astronomy
*Trudy Mackay, Professor of Genetics and Biochemistry
*Michael J. Padilla, former Director of the Eugene T. Moore School of Education
*June Pilcher, Professor of Psychology
*[[Biography:Ramakrishna Podila|Ramakrishna Podila]], Professor of Physics
*Apparao M Rao, Professor of Physics
*David Reinking, Professor of Education
*C. Bradley Thompson, Professor of Political Science
*Robert Tollison, Professor of Economics
*[[Biography:Antony Valentini|Antony Valentini]], Professor of Physics and Astronomy
*Nicholas Vazsonyi, Dean of the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities
*Victor J. Vitanza, Professor of Rhetoric
*Bruce Yandle, Professor of Economics

==See also==
* List of forestry universities and colleges

==Explanatory notes==
:{{note|fn_a|note a:}} The local pronunciation of ''Clemson'' is [klɛmpsən]. Because of the pin–pen merger in Southern American English, {{IPAblink|ɪ}} can be substituted for {{IPAblink|ɛ}} as the first vowel, as [klɪmpsən]. Those not familiar with the local pronunciation often say [klɛmzən] or [klɛmsən], as the spelling would suggest. See generally [https://books.google.com/books?id=6449DwAAQBAJ&dq=clemson+pronunciation&pg=PT288 ''The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary English Pronunciation''].
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==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.clemsontigers.com Clemson Athletics website]

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