 At the same time, hospital-based nurse training programs were being phased out all over the nation and replaced by college and university training.In February 1967, hospital officials signed an agreement with University of South Carolina (USC) trustees to establish USC-Spartanburg (now known as USC-Upstate) complete with a nursing school.After 48 years of educating nurses, the Spartanburg General Hospital School of Nursing graduated its final class in 1969.