USC among top college users of ChatGPT, renews OpenAI contract for $2.5M

University of South Carolina gobbled up 30 million credits on ChatGPT last school year, one of the top college users in the country

By: Jessica Holdman

Outlets: South Carolina Daily Gazette

Published: August 20, 2026

Words: 1,048

Last Updated: 2 months ago

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COLUMBIA — University of South Carolina students and staff gobbled up 30 million credits on ChatGPT last school year — 30 times what it was contracted for — making it one of the top college users on the platform in the country.

“The use has been through the roof,” said Brice Bible, the schools chief of information technology.

As a result, students will now find guardrails on how often they can use the more advanced …

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