UNC Charlotte is North Carolina's urban research university. It leverages its location in the state's largest city to offer internationally competitive research and creative activity programs, exemplary undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs, and a focused set of community engagement initiatives. UNC Charlotte maintains a particular commitment to addressing the greater Charlotte region's cultural, economic, educational, environmental, health, and social needs.
Wide variety. That's the hallmark of UNC Charlotte's undergraduate programs, whether you're looking for your BA, BS or TBD. Even with more than 140 graduate programs, none will feel more important than yours. Your renowned UNC Charlotte faculty is here to help you make your dream a reality.
The Office of Disability Services works to ensure that students with disabilities have access to education and campus life at UNC Charlotte. Through collaboration with the institution's diverse community, Disability Services facilitates accommodations, discourse, and engagement to promote a universally accessible learning environment for all.
The Levine Scholars Program takes the brightest, most capable students. It gives them the tools, resources, and environment they need to explore the world around them, engage deeply in their communities, and excel across the discipline. The four-year scholarship includes full tuition, room, board, a grant to implement a service project of the Scholar's design, and four summers of experiences that will develop leadership skills, social awareness, and an international perspective. This four-year package's total value is estimated at $105,000 for in-state students and $155,000 for out-of-state students.
The Scholars value the benefits of the rigorous academic programs at UNC Charlotte, the state's only urban research university noted for its innovative interdisciplinary programs and opportunities for student research. To complement classroom learning, Levine Scholars participate in rich and varied opportunities in the vibrant commercial and cultural center of Charlotte, North Carolina, the state's largest metropolitan region.
Civic engagement is at the core of the Levine Scholars Program. Through a commitment to ongoing volunteerism, internships with local nonprofits, grant projects with community partners, and customized curricula, Levine Scholars graduate fully prepared to begin their next chapter as versatile intellects, thoughtful leaders, and compassionate humanitarians.
Chancellor Philip L. Dubois and his Cabinet set the course for the University and preside over day-to-day operations. He is supported in his efforts by a 13-member Board of Trustees comprised of civic and business leaders and individuals with extensive experience in education. Rounding out our prestigious leadership team is the Student Body president, who serves as an ex-officio member, presenting our students' point-of-view.
UNC Charlotte is one of a generation of universities founded in metropolitan areas of the United States immediately after World War II in response to rising education demands generated by the war and its technology.
To serve returning veterans, North Carolina opened 14 evening college centers in communities across the state. The Charlotte Center opened Sept. 23, 1946, offering evening classes to 278 newcomers and sophomore students in Charlotte's Central High School facilities. After three years, the state closed the centers, declaring that on-campus facilities were sufficient to meet the needs of returning veterans and recent high school graduates.
Charlotte's education and business leaders, long aware of the area's unmet needs for higher education, moved to have the Charlotte Center taken over by the city school district and operated as Charlotte College, offering the first two years college courses. Later the same leaders asked Charlotte voters to approve a two-cent tax to support that college. Charlotte College drew students from the city, Mecklenburg County, and a dozen surrounding counties. The two-cent tax was later extended to all of Mecklenburg County. Ultimately financial support for the college became a responsibility of the State of North Carolina.
As soon as Charlotte College was firmly established, efforts were launched to give it a campus of its own. With the backing of Charlotte business leaders and legislators from Mecklenburg and surrounding counties, the land was acquired on the northern fringe of the city, and bonds were passed to finance new facilities. In 1961, Charlotte College moved its growing student body into two new buildings to become a 1,000-acre campus 10 miles from downtown Charlotte.
Three years later, the North Carolina legislature approved bills making Charlotte College a four-year, state-supported college. The next year, 1965, the legislature approved bills creating the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the fourth campus of the statewide university system. In 1969, UNC Charlotte began offering programs leading to master's degrees. In 1992, it was authorized to offer programs leading to doctoral degrees.
Now a research-intensive university, UNC Charlotte is the third largest of the 16 institutions within the University of North Carolina and Charlotte region's most comprehensive public institution.
The University comprises seven professional colleges and offers 18 doctoral programs, 62 master's degree programs, and 90 degrees. More than 1,000 full-time faculty include the University's academic departments, and the 2017 fall enrollment exceeded 29,000 students. UNC Charlotte boasts more than 120,000 living alumni and adds roughly 4,000 to 4,500 new alumni each year.
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