As the nation’s first state university, the UNC campus is full of history and tradition, which is evident not only in its consistent academic prestige, but also in its architecture and landscaping—those original buildings and quadrangles shaded by ancient oaks where many generations have walked.  

Over the years, the campus has expanded to 729 acres, excluding its non-central locations and satellite campuses.  The many decades of experience and growth shine in the University’s academics—the bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral and professional degrees in fields such as business, education, law, medicine and public health among many others.  Academics at UNC overlap the medical and physical sciences with liberal arts and technology programs, encouraging a rounded and balanced education, worldview and practice.  Education at UNC, conducted by highly-regarded and prestigiously-awarded faculty, is based on a genuine passion for research and service to the local, national, and global community.

At UNC, science-based research is considered the fundamental key to improvement, to change and to the future.  Such emphasis on research is enabled and supported by funding measures that rank among the most generous in the nation for research at public universities and also by a campus research library that is among the nation’s most sophisticated and broad. 

Because research would offer no hope for improvement if it were not put into practice, UNC is dedicated to sharing their discoveries and serving each county in North Carolina, as well as the rest of the nation and world.  Locally and globally, UNC faculty and students participate in field work in hopes to catalyze physical and social improvement throughout economies, environments and peoples around the world.

To continue this rich tradition of academic growth and influence, the University of North Carolina remains committed to providing its students with the most advanced resources and technologies available so that they can most effectively learn and grow themselves.  UNC is also committed to its past and strives to maintain its core, historical foundation and architecture.  To expand, modify and preserve the campus, UNC has undertaken a 1.5 billion dollar construction and renovation project.  The project is restoring and modernizing original buildings as well as creating new facilities, one being the School of Public Health’s newly-completed Michael Hooker Research Center.