Student Right to Know Information

Firsts

• Limestone College, founded in 1845, was the first woman’s college in South Carolina.
• The Block Program, established in 1976, was the first step in offering college opportunities to students in the evening program.
• The Virtual Campus was established in 1996. Limestone became a leader in offering college classes via the Internet.
• The off-campus and Internet programs became known as the Online & Evening. The Online & Evening changed the evening program classes to “hybrid” classes in 2014. Today there are five Online & Evening sites available, as well as Internet programs. They serve over 1000 students per semester.
• The MBA program was the first master’s degree program at Limestone College. The first graduate students were admitted in Summer, 2012; the first graduates completed their degrees in May 2014.

Faculty

• Percentage of Day Classes taught by full-time faculty and staff is 70 % (2020)
• Percentage of full-time faculty with terminal degrees is 82% (2020)
• Limestone's Day Student: Faculty Ratio is 14:1 (2020); 19:1 overall.

Students

• At over 2,000, Limestone is one of the three largest private accredited colleges in South Carolina (2020).
• Day Program Enrollment: 64% Male, 36% Female. (2020)
• The Fall, 2020 Honor Roll included 16/ students on the Honor Roll and 171 on the Dean’s List.
• Limestone College's Day Program has students from 28 countries, and 25 states from across the United States. (2020)
• Limestone College had 80 International students in the Day program from 28 countries (Spring 2020). 100% of those students were athletes.

Athletics

• As of Spring, 2019, Limestone College has 25 sports, 12 for men and 14 for women.
• 72% of our Day students are athletes (2020).