Facts and Figures

Overall Global Rankings

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranks 29th among global universities and 20th among U.S. universities, according to the 2021 Academic Rankings of World Universities produced by the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.
UNC-Chapel Hill ranks 39th among the world’s top 1,750 research universities and 7th among U.S. public campuses, according to the 2022 U.S. News and World Report Best Global Universities rankings.
UNC-Chapel Hill ranks 52nd worldwide and 22nd among U.S. universities, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2021-22.

UNC-Chapel Hill ranks 22nd among global universities and 2nd among U.S. universities, according to the 2020 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings.
UNC-Chapel Hill ranks 23rd among global universities and 3rd among U.S. universities, according to the 2020 UI GreenMetric World Universities Ranking.

UNC-Chapel Hill ranks 6th among leading private and public research universities for federal research $721 million. (2021)
$1.15 billion of sponsored research activity secured annually makes UNC-Chapel Hill the 12th largest US research university in volume and annual expenditures. (2021)
More than 95 countries are served by the Carolina Population Center. (2019)
UNC-Chapel Hill ranks 14th among public research institutions for the number of faculty members inducted into National Academies. (2020)

UNC-Chapel Hill has 5 Title VI National Resource Centers, ranking Carolina 1st among universities in the Southeast U.S. and 6th among public universities. (Fall 2018)
The Duke-UNC Rotary Peace Center, jointly managed with Duke’s Center for International Development, is one of only six such centers worldwide.
UNC-Chapel Hill’s graduate certificate in Languages Across the Curriculum is the first such professional certification in the U.S.
More than 25 languages are offered to Carolina students, ranging from Chinese to Russian to Lingala to Yucatec Maya (Fall 2019 to Summer 2020).
UNC Libraries collection holds more than 9.2 million titles in nearly 200 languages (2017).

54 Rhodes Scholars have been selected for study at Oxford University in England; highest among U.S. public universities. (2021)
414 Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants have been offered for international research, study or teaching since 1949. (2021)
UNC-Chapel Hill ranks 7th among all public research universities in student Fulbright awards for 2019-2020.
40 Luce Scholars have been selected for internship in Asia, the highest in the U.S. (2020)
7 George J. Mitchell Scholars have been selected for graduate study in Ireland and Northern Ireland. (2020)
20 Winston Churchill Foundation Scholars have been selected for graduate study at England’s University of Cambridge. (2020)
22 Marshall Scholars have been selected for two years of graduate study at any British university. (2021)
18 National Security Education Program David L. Boren Undergraduate Scholarships have been selected. (2020)

Carolina ranked 26th among top host institutions for international scholars in the United States according to the Institute of International Education’s (IIE) 2020 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange.
UNC-Chapel Hill enrolled 2,400 international students from 106 countries as of Fall 2019.
UNC-Chapel Hill hosted 1,254 international scholars from 79 countries during the 2019-2020 academic year.

Carolina ranks 5th among large U.S. colleges and universities for the number of alumni volunteering for the Peace Corps with 43 Heels serving in communities around the globe as teachers, health care workers, small business mentors and much more. (2019)
14 alumni have served as U.S. Ambassadors. (2012)
Over 6,200 alumni live in more than 140 countries. (2019)

41% of undergraduate students studied abroad before graduating. (2018-2019)
From Fall 2018 through Summer 2019, 2,479 undergraduate, graduate and professional students received academic credit for travel to over 60 countries.
374 study abroad programs in 70 countries were offered by the Study Abroad Office in the College of Arts and Sciences in 2019.
$978,122 was awarded to 212 students in the College of Arts and Sciences for study abroad during the 2018-2019 academic year.
UNC-Chapel Hill ranks 18th among all U.S. higher institutions for the number of students earning credit for study abroad, according to the Institute of International Education’s (IIE) 2020 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange.