points of pride Recent points of pride reflecting accomplishments at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Carolina offers bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral and professional degrees in academic areas critical to North Carolina’s future: business, dentistry, education, law, medicine, nursing, public health and social work, among others. Offerings include 77 bachelor’s, 107 master’s, 69 doctorate and six professional degree programs through 14 schools and the College of Arts and Sciences.
• 1st among the 100 U.S. public colleges and universities that offer the best combination of top-flight academics and affordable costs as ranked by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. 1st every time since Kiplinger’s began its periodic ranking in 1998. • 42nd among the world’s top 400 universities in 2012–2013, according to the Londonbased Times Higher Education magazine. This ranking is based on 13 performance indicators that capture the full range of university activities, from teaching to research to knowledge transfer. • Since the U.S. Rhodes Scholar program began in 1904, 48 Carolina students have been selected, including those who won in Canada. With 48, Carolina ranks first among all U.S. public research universities for producing the most Rhodes Scholars for the past 25 years. • In fall 2012, Carolina enrolled 3,914 first-year students from a record 29,497 applications. Nearly 79 percent graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school class, and they posted an average 1304 on the SAT. In all, Carolina enrolled 18,503 undergraduates and 10,775 graduate and professional students.
Rachel M. Myrick of Charlotte, a MoreheadCain Scholar, is our most recent Rhodes Scholar. She will pursue a master’s degree in international relations, studying the causes and consequences of ethnic conflict in world politics.
Oliver Smithies, Excellence Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, received the 2007 Nobel Prize for work that has fundamentally changed the science of genetic medicine and potentially will help millions of people live healthier lives.
Carolina undergraduates have the opportunity to do research that’s directly connected with a local, national, or international issue. Last year, more than half of our graduating seniors took a researchintensive course.
• The Carolina Covenant enrolled its ninth class in fall 2012 with 581 new first-year and transfer students. An estimated 2,600 Covenant Scholars are studying at Carolina, and more than 4,000 students have benefitted from the program since it began in 2003. UNC-Chapel Hill was the first major public U.S. university to announce plans for a program like the Carolina Covenant. Since then, more than 90 similar programs have been established at public and private U.S. campuses. • Faculty attracted more than $767 million in total research grants and contracts in fiscal 2012 for research that is helping to cure diseases and produce new knowledge to help people. Excluding federal stimulus support, research funding totaled $759 million in that category, compared with $732 million last year. • Carolina rose to 9th from 16th among leading private and public research universities for the level of federal funding ($545.99 million) devoted to research and development in all fields during fiscal 2010 (the most recent year for which results are available). The new ranking was based on data compiled by the National Science Foundation. Carolina has gained 10 spots in the national top 25 list since 2008. • The journal Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, named a UNC-led HIV prevention study the 2011 Breakthrough of the Year. Professor Myron Cohen led the international study, which journal editors say “galvanized efforts to end the world’s AIDS epidemic in a way that would have been inconceivable even a year ago.” The study provided proof of a concept developed at UNC more than 20 years in the making. • The University received $287.4 million in gifts from loyal alumni and friends in fiscal 2012. The total marked the University’s second-best year in history and topped the previous fiscal year’s total of $277 million—then the second-highest total—by 4 percent. Commitments also rose for fiscal 2012, to $331.4 million from $305.6 million for an 8 percent increase. Commitments include pledges as well as gifts. The commitments total was the University’s third-best ever and marked the second straight year to exceed $300 million.