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THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
The University of North Carolina is a single, multi-campus university comprising all the state’s public educational institutions that grant baccalaureate degrees. It was chartered in 1789 and is the oldest public university in the nation. According to the UNC website, it was the only public university in the United States to graduate students in the eighteenth century. It currently enrolls approximately 191,500 students and the projected Fall 2009 enrollment is greater than 199,500. The 16 UNC constituent institutions house:
- two medical schools and a teaching hospital;
- a veterinary school;
- a dental school;
- a school of pharmacy;
- a specialized institution for performing artists;
- a school of journalism and mass communication;
- two law schools;
- three schools of engineering;
- ten nursing programs;
- fifteen schools of education;
- fifteen schools or programs in business or management;
- two land grant institutions; and
- a broad array of liberal arts programs.
Other campus-centered activities under the UNC umbrella include the nine Area Health Education Centers and cooperative extension and research services that reach all 100 counties in North Carolina. The University also operates the UNC Center for Public Television with its 11 station statewide TV network.
The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, a residential high school in Durham for gifted students from across the state, is an affiliated school of the University. The North Carolina School of the Arts also houses a residential program for talented high-school students.
Tuition Rates: Each university in the UNC system has a tuition and fee schedule set according to groups of credit hours rather than by the credit hour. (Ex. 1-5 credit hours, 6-8 credit hours, 9-11 credit hours, 12 + credit hours, and yearly), According to the 2007-2008 UNC System website, the yearly, undergraduate, non-boarder rates for the three universities from the UNC system that are in the Southeast Region are: Fayetteville State University, $3,312.00; UNCP, $3,468.00 and UNCW, $4,613.40. The same information for the two private universities in the Southeast Region is: Methodist College, $20,480 and St. Andrews, $20,375.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA TOMORROW
University of North Carolina Tomorrow is committed to identifying the needs of our state and implementing responses to those needs. Therefore, UNC President, Erskine Bowles, initiated this effort to examine how all of the campuses within the UNC System are responding to the most pressing needs facing the state now and over the next 20 years. The work of UNC Tomorrow will center on the three areas of UNC’s mission: Teaching, Research and Scholarship, and Public Service.
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