Clemson University is a top public land-grant school in Upstate South Carolina that impacts local and global communities through research. Founded in 1889 through a bequest from Thomas Green Clemson, it became a coeducational, civilian institution in 1955 and was the first traditionally white institution in South Carolina to desegregate in 1963. It is a Carnegie R1 public research institution, one of the most productive research universities in the United States.