Our School of Public Health was ranked top public school of public health by U.S. News & World Report in 2007), and it tied with Harvard for second place overall. 

Schools of public health are ranked by U.S. News & World Report about every three years.  The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health has been ranked in the top three ever since the graduate school rankings began.

Other rankings

• The Department of Health Policy and Management's executive master's program for physician-executives has been ranked best overall by Modern Healthcare magazine (2007) for the second year in a row.
  
  
• The Department of Health Policy and Management was ranked 3rd best in healthcare management master's programs by U.S. News' annual graduate school rankings (2008 edition, ranked in 2007).
  
  
• The public health nursing program offered by the Public Health Leadership Program was ranked 4th best for community/public health clinical nursing by U.S. News' annual graduate school rankings (2008 edition, ranked in 2007).

• The Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering was tied for 9th, in the engineering category, for environmental/environmental health by the U.S. News and World Report's "America's Best Graduate Schools" (2010 edition, ranked in 2009).

• The Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering was ranked in the top ten for its environmental policy and management programs by the U.S. News and World Report's "America's Best Graduate Schools" (2008). 
  

University rankings

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill consistently ranks among the top public universities.  

• Best public college combining great academics and affordable tuition, eight consecutive times, by Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine (November 2008)
  
  
• Best public university in "Great Schools, Great Prices" by U.S. News & World Report (2009 edition)
  
  
• 5th best public university by U.S. News & World Report (2009 edition)
  
  
• "Best value" two years in a row by The Princeton Review (2006)
  
  
• 5th best public university in The Top American Research Universities (2007 edition)