The University of South Carolina in the United States is equivalent to that in China.
This university is the second best university in South Carolina, after Clemson University. Nationally, public universities with upper-middle level have some very good majors (such as geography), but they are still not as good as those famous public universities. Geographically, South Carolina is equivalent to Fujian or Zhejiang in China. Therefore, clemson is roughly equivalent to Xiamen University and the University of South Carolina is roughly equivalent to Fuzhou University.