<p>A recent study indicated the faculty is one of the most diverse as well. Students have been selected by prestigious graduate schools as well as for highly selective fellowships. In the last four years SC has had dozens of Fulbright scholars, four Boren scholars, Rotary Fellowships, Luce, Marshall, Rhodes and last year a Churchill Scholar.</p>
<p>Over 60% of the students are active in community service projects or volunteer groups. SC is the only university that has Topping Scholars. These scholars are student funded, student mentored and the program is partially student administered. Topping Scholars are selected not only for academic promise and financial need, but also have a background in community service.</p>
<p>Freshmen retention is now at 97% which is the same as Dartmouth, Berkeley, Duke, Brown and Johns Hopkins. Student faculty ratio is 9/1.</p>
<p>Faculty have won National Medals, Guggenheim Fellowships, Nobel Prizes, Honda Prize, Pulitzer Prizes, Fellows of the IEEE, Presidential Award, Academy Awards, Fulbright Fellowships, Lifetime Achievement Awards, Pritzer Prizes, Turing Prizes, MacArthur Fellowships and Edward R. Murrow Awards as well as other honors.</p>
<p>Alumni participate in campus life by interviewing, lecturing, providing internships, mentoring and donating large numbers of scholarships. Alumni and others last year donated over $1 billion dollars to the university.</p>