The University of North Carolina is the first public university to offer classes and recruit graduate students. The University of Georgia was first chartered by 1785, but it was not until 180 1 that classes began. Some private schools were established before the University of North Carolina, but they didn't become public educational institutions until much later. The University of North Carolina is the only American university institution that confers degrees in the18th century.
1932 UNC became one of the three original campuses of the reorganized University of North Carolina (1972 later called the University of North Carolina system). 1963, the reorganized university has realized complete coeducation. Therefore, the University of North Carolina Women's College was renamed the University of North Carolina at Green Sboro, and the University of North Carolina itself became the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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UNC offers 7 1 bachelor's degree,11master's degree and 7 doctoral degrees. Carolina has enrolled more than 26,000 students from all 65,438+000 counties in North Carolina, 49 other states and 47 countries. State law requires that the proportion of students from North Carolina in each freshman should reach or exceed 82%.
The library system of the University of North Carolina has more than 5.6 million books. UNC's North Carolina collection is the largest in the national campus and state-related collections, and Wilson Library's southern and rare collections are the best in the country. The university is ibiblio's hometown. Ibiblio is the third largest WWW website in the world, and it is also one of the largest collections of free materials for software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics and cultural studies in the world.
Among the postgraduate majors, medical school, law school, school of information and library science, school of public health, school of pharmacy, school of journalism and mass communication, school of dentistry, school of nursing, school of education, school of government and Kenan-flagler Business School all enjoy high reputation. The Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) of business schools ranks fifth in the world, ranking twice a year. Global ranking of Kennan-flagler's MBA program 10, Forbes.