Colleges Near MCAS Beaufort
About seventy miles southwest of Charleston, South Carolina, you can find MCAS Beaufort, a 6,900-acre installation. Nicknamed Fightertown East, the air station is home base for seven Marine Corps F/A-18 and two Navy F/A-18 squadrons. The facility's mission is to ensure that the 3,400 members of Marine Air Group 31 and its components are readily deployable.
MCAS Beaufort Education, Community, and More
If you'd like to go to school, the resident MCAS Beaufort colleges include:
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
- Webster University
- University of South Carolina
- Park University
- University of Phoenix Online
- Technical College of the Low Country
More than 17,000 active duty military members and their families live and work in the Beaufort area, and with three military installations there, the community is military friendly.
