Sherman College of Chiropractic

Accreditation

Programmatic accreditation: The college publishes CCE Policy 56 Completion and National Board Performance Data, indicating the Doctor of Chiropractic program operates under Council on Chiropractic Education accreditation. unverified The accreditation term, the date first accredited and the next review date. The CCE is the authority for status and is the place to check it.
Institutional accreditation: unverified Not captured from the college's own pages in this pass.
Accreditation action, as the CCE announces it: published The Council on Chiropractic Education’s announcement dated August 4, 2026 (Council meeting July 10-11, 2026) states: The following are final accreditation actions taken by the Council at its July 2026 Meeting: It lists Sherman College of Chiropractic (SCC) with the action Continued: Following the progress review meeting, the Council deliberated and reached consensus to continue accreditation of the SCC doctor of chiropractic degree program. https://www.cce-usa.org/uploads/1/0/6/5/106500339/2026-08-04_accreditation_actions_announcement.pdf · checked 2026-10-05 No later announcement listed on CCE’s news pages names this program.
Other approvals stated by the college: Participates in the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act Yellow Ribbon Program, matching VA contributions up to 100 per cent of tuition, awarded to eligible veterans first-come first-served. The college also publishes its Title IV cohort default rate, most recently 0 per cent for fiscal year 2021, with a link to the federal searchable database.
Founding: unverified Not captured from the college's own pages in this pass.
What this accreditation means for licensure in the United States: unverified No dedicated licensure disclosure was found on the pages we read. Absence in what we checked is not absence on the site. The Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards publishes the board-level answer — its Official Directory sets out, board by board, the criteria for obtaining and maintaining a license, including educational requirements and scope-of-practice summaries. See the FCLB entry on the organizations page. A student is licensed by a board, not by a council and not by a college. The licensure page for where this campus is: Boiling Springs, South Carolina — South Carolina licensure →. Studying in a state is not the same as intending to practice there; read the page for wherever you intend to end up, and confirm with the licensing board there. The licensure hub lists every state documented so far.

Campus

One campus, so one card. The per-campus format exists because colleges with more than one location differ materially between them; where there is only one, the card simply says so.

Boiling Springs, South Carolina

2020 Springfield Rd, Boiling Springs, SC 29316. Quarters begin in January, April, July and October.

Tuition, 2026–27

$10,480 per quarter, based on nine credit hours or more. Below nine hours the rate is $1,164 per hour. The college states total annual tuition as $41,920.

Published cost of attendance, per quarter, effective 31 March 2026 – March 2027

Tuition	$10,480
Books and supplies	$300
Room (housing and utilities)	$4,296
Board (food)	$1,989
Transportation, including regular maintenance	$1,550
Miscellaneous personal expenses, including medical	$2,375
Loan fees	$116
Total per quarter	$21,106

The college states plainly that tuition is the only cost actually billed by its business office — everything else on the table is an allowance, not an invoice. It also notes books and supplies for a first quarter can run $300 to $600 rather than the $300 shown.

Program and entry

Program length and format: Quarter system. The program is three and a half years, fourteen quarters, with an estimated 35 hours per week in class. An academic year is nine calendar months. New classes enrol every quarter.
Prerequisites: unverified Not fetched in this pass under ruling R2: the college's site refused our capture with HTTP 403 on 2026-09-23 and 2026-09-24, and a 403 is not routed around. "Unverified" is a statement about our capture, not about what the college publishes. Absence in what we checked is not absence at the college.
Application route: unverified Not fetched under ruling R2: the college's site refused our capture with HTTP 403 on 2026-09-23 and 2026-09-24, and a 403 is not routed around. Unverified is a statement about our capture, not about what the college publishes. Absence in what we checked is not absence at the college.
Application fee: unverified Not fetched under ruling R2: the college's site refused our capture with HTTP 403 on 2026-09-23 and 2026-09-24, and a 403 is not routed around. Unverified is a statement about our capture, not about what the college publishes. Absence in what we checked is not absence at the college.
Deadlines and start terms: unverified Not fetched under ruling R2: the college's site refused our capture with HTTP 403 on 2026-09-23 and 2026-09-24, and a 403 is not routed around. Unverified is a statement about our capture, not about what the college publishes. Absence in what we checked is not absence at the college.
Interview: unverified Not fetched under ruling R2: the college's site refused our capture with HTTP 403 on 2026-09-23 and 2026-09-24, and a 403 is not routed around. Unverified is a statement about our capture, not about what the college publishes. Absence in what we checked is not absence at the college.
International and transfer applicants: unverified Not fetched under ruling R2: the college's site refused our capture with HTTP 403 on 2026-09-23 and 2026-09-24, and a 403 is not routed around. Unverified is a statement about our capture, not about what the college publishes. Absence in what we checked is not absence at the college.
Degree and licensure, as the program words it: unverified Not fetched under ruling R2: the college's site refused our capture with HTTP 403 on 2026-09-23 and 2026-09-24, and a 403 is not routed around. Unverified is a statement about our capture, not about what the college publishes. Absence in what we checked is not absence at the college.
Pre-enrollment practice contact: unverified Not fetched under ruling R2: the college's site refused our capture with HTTP 403 on 2026-09-23 and 2026-09-24, and a 403 is not routed around. Unverified is a statement about our capture, not about what the college publishes. Absence in what we checked is not absence at the college.
What the pages checked do not answer: Among the fields above, none is marked not-published.
Additional required costs beyond tuition: The college states tuition is the only cost billed by the business office. An application fee exists — one scholarship offers a waiver of it — but the amount was not published on the pages we checked. unverified The application fee amount.
Discounts published: Where spouses are both enrolled full time, each may apply for a 25 per cent tuition discount. Members of the immediate family — children, parents, brothers and sisters — enrolled in the program each receive a 10 per cent discount. Both require the student to self-identify to the admissions or financial aid office rather than being applied automatically.
Scholarships: The college publishes a named scholarship list on the tuition page itself, with amounts, academic level, GPA requirement and criteria for each, plus the contact for applications. That is a more detailed public list than we found on the two other program pages built so far — but we did not open their scholarship pages, so this is a difference in what we looked at, not a difference between the colleges. No comparison is being made and none should be read.
NBCE pass rates: Published. Findability path: a footer link on every page, titled "CCE Policy 56 Completion and National Board Performance Data", opening a dated PDF. unverified The rate figures themselves, which sit inside that PDF and were not opened in this pass. That the college publishes them, and where, is confirmed.
What the board figure measures: unverified Not established in this pass. The college publishes the data in a dated PDF, and what the figure counts — which examination parts, whether a time window applies, and whether any route other than examination is included — was not established, because the PDF was not opened. Absence in what we checked is not absence on the site.
What a percentage counts is stated by the college that publishes it, and this field carries it in that college's own words.
Publishing practice: Publishes a full line-item cost of attendance for one representative quarter, with a combined total, plus total annual tuition, its cohort default rate and a named scholarship list on the same page. Does not publish every term of the program, and does not show the prior year's figures alongside the current ones.
Tuition adjustment notice: unverified No published statement was found on the pages we read about whether tuition and fees may be changed, by whom, or with what notice to students. That is a field, not an absence — ask the college if you are budgeting several years from the figures above.
Student organizations present: unverified Which student association chapters are active, and whether any association membership fee is covered by the college.

Student clubs and organizations

What a student actually does outside class is the part of a program nobody publishes comparably. This section records what the college itself publishes, in its own words, without ordering the clubs or suggesting which matter.

How the college publishes it: A named list, dated to a specific quarter, with the changeability stated. The college publishes the clubs running in a given quarter — the list below is Fall Quarter 2025, on a page last modified March 2026 — and says plainly that clubs may change from quarter to quarter depending on students' needs and interests. It also links a current club brochure and runs a Club Day each quarter through Student Affairs.
Three colleges, three publishing practices. One publishes descriptions in a PDF at a 2022 path and says its Student Services office maintains the current listing. One publishes a live list with each club's own social account. This one publishes a dated snapshot and tells you it is a snapshot, so you know how old the information is.
Membership cost — and this college answers it directly: Free to join, with the exception stated by the college itself. In its own words: “You can join as many clubs as you'd like at no cost, and there's no obligation once you join. Some clubs offer certifications, which may require purchasing learning materials and attending seminars; these usually involve additional commitment. These certifications are optional, and you can participate in a club without pursuing certification.”
That is the caveat this site has been writing as its own inference, published by a college as fact. On the other program pages we note that a club costing nothing to join may sit in front of a paid program the college neither sets nor knows about. Here the college says so itself, and separates the free thing from the paid thing before a student has to find out.
Technique clubs, as the college lists them: Activator · Applied Kinesiology · Animal Chiropractic · Bio-Geometric Integration · Blair · Evolutionary Percussive Instrument Corrections · Gonstead · Knee Chest Society · Network Spinal · NUCCA · Sacro-Occipital Technique · Thompson · Tonal Integrative Correction · Torque Release Technique · Technique Mastery.
Most are traditions documented on the techniques page. Meeting times are published too: most clubs meet Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11am, at lunch, so students can attend — a scheduling decision that says more about whether clubs are real than any description does.
Coaching groups — the college's own category, and it matters: This college sorts its clubs into “Techniques, Organizations, Coaching Groups, Social Clubs, Sororities, and Fraternities.” The coaching groups it lists include AMPED · Dynamic Essentials · Focus · Mastery, Love, Service · Salutogenic Culture · The Remarkable Practice · Simply Speaking.
That category is external confirmation of a distinction this site draws separately. The techniques page maps training cultures as a layer apart from adjusting techniques; here a college makes the same split in its own club taxonomy. Mastery, Love, Service and Dynamic Essentials both appear here as student clubs, which is a training culture appearing as a student club.
National affiliations present on campus: The college lists the International Chiropractors Association, the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association and the International Federation of Chiropractors and Organizations as campus clubs. Its FAQ separately names the Student American Black Chiropractic Association, the World Congress of Chiropractic Students and the League of Chiropractic Women.
unverified Which nationally affiliated clubs run at any given college is not reliably published by anyone. The college states its clubs vary by quarter and that students can start their own. The organizations page lists, in each entry’s student block, the college rosters on this site that name the body. If a particular organization matters to you, ask the college whether a chapter currently runs — and treat that as true of every body equally, not just the largest ones. Several of the bodies named above are documented on the organizations page.
Other organizations the college lists: Governance: Chiropractic Student Government, which the college states has oversight of all campus clubs and meets on alternating Tuesdays, open to all students.
Community and identity: Christian Chiropractic Association · Veterans in Motion · Pediatric Experience.
Greek: Delta Sigma Chi · Pi Kappa Chi fraternity · Zeta Phi Chi sorority.
Does the college cover any national membership fee for its students?: unverified Not stated for any organization, though this college comes closest to answering the cost question generally by stating clubs are free to join. That covers club membership, not membership of a national body. Whether any other college publishes such coverage is unchecked.
Open to pre-chiropractic or other-school students?: unverified Not stated. The college frames club participation as beginning “once you're enrolled,” which suggests an enrolled-student audience but does not say so of any particular club.
How a student joins: Through Student Affairs or the Chiropractic Student Government, both of which publish an email address — stuaffairs@sherman.edu and csg@sherman.edu — and through Club Day each quarter. Clubs are student-run and organized, and the college publishes a route to start a new one. No route here runs through us.
Last checked: September 2026, against the college's clubs and interests page (Fall Quarter 2025 list, page modified March 2026), its clubs and student government page, its Office of Student Affairs page and its FAQ. The club brochure linked from that page was not opened.

The same observation recorded at the other colleges documented here, because it holds again and reporting it once would make it a fact about one college rather than about the profession. This published list runs from percussive instrument techniques and tonal correction through practice-coaching groups, a faith-based association, a veterans' club, three Greek organizations and a student government with oversight of all of them. All on one page, in one register, published by one college. The profession holds genuinely different accounts of itself, and sometimes all of them are inside one institution.

Two things this page carries that the others did not

Board examination fees, and the college links the fee schedule.

Sherman states that the cost of taking the NBCE boards is included for the quarters when a student is eligible to apply for each of the five boards — Parts I, II, III, Physiotherapy and IV — and links directly to the NBCE's published fee schedule rather than leaving a student to find it.

Sherman names all five parts and links a route to the actual numbers. The question gets asked of all nineteen programs at once or it does not get published as a finding. Board fees are $710 each for Parts I, II and III, $1,585 for Part IV and $450 for Physiotherapy, read 5 October 2026; the NBCE’s fee schedule prints no total — see the earnings page.

The college publishes its own average graduate debt figure.

Sherman states that average debt on graduation is $240,000, covering tuition, books and living expenses, based on fourteen quarters of study, and explicitly excluding undergraduate loans and accrued interest.

It is worth being precise about what this figure is: it is a different measurement from the federal figure, which reports median cumulative federal loan debt at completion and excludes private borrowing. A college-published average that includes living expenses and a federal median that counts only federal loans are answering different questions and will not match.

We have not checked whether other colleges publish an equivalent, so this is not a comparison and must not be read as one. It is included for the same reason the board-fee allowance is included on the other program pages: a fact published by the institution on its own cost page belongs in the cost section, whether it flatters the institution or not.