Office of Institutional Research and Assessment

National Rankings

 

Carolina’s Most Recent Rankings in Major Publications: The University’s News Services office maintains an up-to-date summary of areas in which Carolina is ranked as among the nation’s best in terms of programs or other institutional attributes. This summary can be accessed through the following link: http://www.unc.edu/news/compendium.shtml#rankings

 

U.S. News & World Report

The following links provide analyses of Carolina’s rankings in the “Best Colleges” edition over several years in comparison with its top peers – UCLA, Berkeley, Michigan, and Virginia.

• Five-Year Trends in Overall Rankings of Carolina and Its Top Public Peer Institutions (PDF)
• Ten-Year Trends in the Rankings of Carolina and Its Top Public Peer Institutions, by Item (PDF)
• Rankings on Faculty Resources (PDF)
• Rankings on Class Size (PDF)

Additional ranking information for Carolina can be found through the following links:

• U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges” (undergraduate institutions)
• U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Programs”

The Top American Research Universities (Lombardi, Capaldi, & Abbey)

The Center for Measuring University Performance publishes an annual report ranking institutions on each of the following nine measures:  Total Research, Federal Research, Endowment Assets, Annual Giving, National Academy Members, Faculty Awards, Doctorates Granted, Postdoctoral Appointees, and SAT/ACT range.   Carolina is one of only four institutions that have consistently ranked in the top 25 public institutions on all nine measures.

• Complete 2008 version of The Top American Research Universities (PDF)
• Analysis of Carolina’s 2008 performance in The Top American Research Universities (PDF), a brief report prepared in 2009 by the Office of Institutional Research & Assessment.