Faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences teach
100 percent of first- and second-year students
and 87 percent of all undergraduate credit hours
Medicine
1.2%
Education
1.6%
Nursing
Journalism
1.9%
& Mass Communication
3.4%
Business
3.6%
Public Health
0.6%
Dentistry
0.4%
Information
& Library Science
0.3%
Arts & Sciences
86.9%
The college has 22 percent of all UNC graduate
and professional students
Journalism
& Mass Communication
1%
Nursing
2%
Information
& Library Science
3%
Social Work
3%
Dentistry
4%
Off-Campus
Non Degree
1%
Arts & Sciences
22%
Pharmacy
6%
Education
7%
The Oldest
and Largest
on Campus
The College of Arts and Sciences is the oldest and largest
academic unit on campus, forming
the core of Carolina’s academic
programs. The total number of
people on the college’s payroll is
4,539. These include tenure-track
faculty (710), fixed-term faculty
(261), full-time staff (540), part-time staff (748), post-docs (140)
and graduate students ( 2,140).
The College of Arts and Sciences has a teaching mission. College faculty members teach 100
percent of first- and second-year
students and 87 percent of all
undergraduate credit hours. That
amounts to 175,000 grades per
year. Undergraduate academic
majors in the college account for
74 percent of all juniors and seniors, but the college faculty teach
79 percent of upper class credit
hours because even students who
choose majors outside the college
take electives and requirements in
the college. The college has 22
percent of all UNC graduate and
professional students.
Core Values
of the College
■ Originality
■ Curiosity
■ Transparency
■ Diversity
Tuition and Fees
■ Duke $33,963
■ Wake Forest $32,140
■ Michigan $9,723 (in-state) $29,131
■ Virginia $7,845 (in-state) $25,945
■ UC Berkeley $6,654 (in-state) $25,338
■ UCLA $6,522 (in-state) $25,206
■ UNC* $5,340 (in-state) $20,988
* The UNC figures are for the current year. Those for other schools are for 2006-07.
Continuing Studies
Non Degree
7%
Medicine
14%
Law
7%
Business
10%
Public Health
13%
Fundraising priorities
■ Faculty expansion
■ Faculty retention
■ Graduate student support
■ Facilities
■ Initiatives
■ Undergraduate education
SOURCE: COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
