The college has over 100 faculty teaching the students everything about the nursing field while practicing in the under-served Eastern North Carolina.[60] There are three departments within this school: Department of Undergraduate Nursing Science Junior Division, Department of Undergraduate Nursing Science Senior Division, and the Department of Graduate Nursing Science.[61] On October 12, 2007, the University of North Carolina Board of Governors permitted the re–designation of the School of Nursing to the College of Nursing.[62] The National League for Nursing named the college a Center of Excellence.[63] The college produces more nurses than any other school in the Mid-Atlantic region.[64]