South Carolina State University, an active part of Orangeburg, South Carolina, is committed to providing affordable and accessible programs from the arts to the natural sciences. (A master鈥檚 program for education specialists and several doctoral degrees are also available.) The school鈥檚 mission statement is to prepare 鈥渉ighly skilled, competent, and socially aware graduates to enable them to work and live productively in a dynamic, global society,鈥 which is why it offers over 60 degree-earning or certificate programs, including the unique Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering, the only one of its kind in South Carolina or at an HBCU. That鈥檚 also why all incoming first-years are required to participate in the University 101 program, which aims to help them embrace learning strategies for academic success early on in their educational pursuits.