Law school or faculty of law · part of University of South Carolina
Joseph F. Rice School of Law, University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina, United States
Overview
Public law school of the University of South Carolina in Columbia, offering the JD and online Master of Studies in Law programs.
Verified subjects: General law
Verified in official records: American Bar Association; Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges.
Programs
Each program is listed with its award, delivery format and published price. Prices, schedules, prerequisites requirements and teaching language belong to the program, not to the school.
JD and professional law degrees
$20,322per year
LLM and master’s degrees
Price not published
Teaching locations
Places where teaching actually happens. Facilities are stated per location, only as published. Online programs are not tied to a location.
The source pages do not describe the facilities at these locations in detail.
Columbia campus
Columbia, South Carolina, United States
Recognition
Recognition is described exactly as sourced. There is no single accreditation for law schools, and association membership is not accreditation. Degree-granting institutions are normally accredited or licensed by an authority in their country; many specialist providers of short courses are not, and a school-issued certificate is not an accredited qualification.
Verified in official recordAmerican Bar AssociationProgram approval
Scope: J.D. program (Council-approved law school)
Approval of a specific law program by a regulator or accreditor, for example for use in a professional pathway. Approval in one jurisdiction does not apply in another.
Verified in official recordSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on CollegesAccreditation
Reference: Accredited since 01/01/1917
Scope: Institutional accreditation of the parent institution, University of South Carolina-Columbia (IPEDS ID 218663); the law school is part of it
Institutional or program accreditation by an accrediting body or authority.
Sources and verification
How this profile was verified
Facts come from the school’s own pages and from official records, each with a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. Last checked 1 November 2026. Research methodology.
Sources (checked 1 November 2026)