Science Fair Project Encyclopedia University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is the eleventh-oldest
institution of higher education and the oldest public university
in the United States. It is known to many as Carolina or simply
UNC. It is consistently ranked among the top tier of American
Universities in academics. Carolina has developed an excellent
reputation in many academic fields, and also has a successful
and very popular basketball program, which most recently won the
2005 NCAA Tournament. |Motto: Lux Libertas (Light Liberty)|
|Location||Chapel Hill, North Carolina| |Enrollment||15,961
undergraduate 10,011 graduate and professional|
|Endowment||Approximately 1 Billion U.S. Dollars.| |Campus
size||729 acres (3 km²)| |Sports teams||Tar Heels| 7.1 Presiding
Professors of the University of North Carolina UNC’s sprawling
and well forested campus is dominated by its two central quads –
large yards where it is easy to f