unitid 199120 · Chapel Hill, NC · public 4-year · city (small)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Public university in North Carolina, US
- founded
- 1789
- enrollment 2023
- 34,089
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- unc.edu
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1789, the university began enrolling students in 1795, making it one of the oldest public universities in the United States. wikipedia rev 1359591164 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years
The record
admission rate
15%
1st pctl among public 4-years
undergraduates
20,752
88th pctl among public 4-years
Pell share
20%
undergrads on Pell grants
16th pctl among public 4-years
completion
91%
finish within 150% time
99th pctl among public 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$26,055
70th pctl among public 4-years
avg net price / yr
$11,655
after aid, aided students
41st pctl among public 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$72,200
after entry, Title IV students
92nd pctl among public 4-years
median grad debt
$14,000
26th pctl among public 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $2,004 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k21%
- 30-48k16%
- 48-75k17%
- 75-110knot reported
- 110k+not reported
- Median family income
- $58,193
- First-generation students
- 20%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $8,994
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 5.2× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 824 | — | — |
| Biology, General. | 544 | $64,430 | $15,100 |
| Communication and Media Studies. | 521 | $67,532 | $15,500 |
| Public Health. | 514 | $96,186 | — |
| Behavioral Sciences. | 503 | — | — |
| Economics. | 443 | $96,785 | $15,843 |
| Computer Science. | 427 | $124,977 | $14,131 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 401 | $125,645 | $14,339 |
| Political Science and Government. | 369 | $71,082 | $15,100 |
| Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness. | 365 | $58,954 | $16,575 |
| Accounting and Related Services. | 219 | $104,860 | — |
| Medicine. | 199 | $173,217 | — |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 6,364 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (1,967) · basketball player (538) · university teacher (513) · politician (370) · lawyer (314) · writer (211) · American football player (171) · association football player (159)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Robert F. Furchgott Medicine 1998
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
James K. Polk
143 wikis · Public domain
Michael Jordan
138 wikis · Public domain
Louise Fletcher
68 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mia Hamm
60 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Thomas Wolfe
58 wikis · Public domain
William R. King
56 wikis · Public domain
Robert F. Furchgott
54 wikis · CC BY 3.0
Marion Jones
50 wikis · Public domain
John Edwards
47 wikis · Public domain
Andy Griffith
46 wikis · Public domain
Vince Carter
44 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Francis Collins
44 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
43 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
James E. Webb
43 wikis · Public domain
Billy Crudup
42 wikis · CC BY 4.0
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
- Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1359591164), CC BY-SA 4.0.