Our major

goal is to

prepare

students to

successfully

complete

a college

major at a

four-year

institution.

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HBCUs
(Historically Black Colleges
and Universities)

In 1894, the Reverend Nero Crockett, Presiding Elder of the Yorkville District of the South Carolina Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and the Reverend W.M. Robinson, pastor of the Clinton Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church, also of the Yorkville District, founded Clinton Institute. The college was named after Bishop Isom Caleb Clinton, the presiding bishop of South Carolina, at that time. The Clinton Institute began as a boarding high school, providing high quality education to hundreds of newly freed blacks. In the early years of the 20th century, the school became known as Clinton Normal and Industrial Institute, and was authorized to grant state teacher certificates.

Clinton College presently serves as a liberal arts junior college. Our major goal is to prepare students to successfully complete a college major at a four-year institution. We are proud to be designated as a Church related, Historically Black Institution of higher learning. In 2000, Clinton Junior College was accepted as a candidate for accreditation by the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS).