The Technical College of the Lowcountry (TCL) is a public community college in Beaufort, South Carolina, United States, that serves the Lowcountry region of South Carolina.

Additional facilities are in the New River area (between Bluffton and Hardeeville), Hampton, Parris Island, and at the Marine Corps Air Station in Beaufort.

[citation needed] TCL traces its roots to the private Mather School, established in 1868 by Rachel Crane Mather to provide education for children of newly freed slaves in Beaufort County, South Carolina.

During that time, the institution began to expand to serve populations in Colleton, Hampton, and Jasper counties.

TCL achieved its current name in 1988 to better reflect the four-county area to which the institution had grown to serve.