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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC-Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) [14] is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolling students in 1795, making it one of the oldest public universities in the United States .
North Carolina A&T State University: Greensboro: Public Research university: 13,885 1891 North Carolina Central University: Durham: Public Master's university: 7,965 1909 North Carolina State University: Raleigh: Public Research university: 37,323 1887 North Carolina Wesleyan University: Rocky Mount: Private : Baccalaureate college: 1,345 1956 ...
The program was created in 2000 by benefactor Julian Robertson, a 1955 graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill. Mr. Robertson sought to encourage collaboration between Duke and the University of North Carolina and to promote the development of young leaders. [2]
Learn more in Dean’s List, The N&O’s higher education news roundup, about the UNC System’s budget priorities for the upcoming fiscal year.
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During the Great Depression, the North Carolina General Assembly searched for cost savings within state government. Towards this effort in 1931, it redefined the University of North Carolina, which at the time referred exclusively to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the new Consolidated University of North Carolina was created to include the existing campuses of University of ...
The university has not operated a school specifically dedicated to engineering since 1935, when the engineering programs at UNC and NC State University — then NC State College — consolidated ...
The Morehead-Cain Scholarship (originally the Morehead Scholarship) was the first merit scholarship program established in the United States. [1] [2] [better source needed] It was founded at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1951 and was named for its benefactors, John Motley Morehead III and the Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation. [2]