This fall, UNC Charlotte welcomed to campus its largest-ever class of first-time school college students. Together with new highs for graduate and worldwide college students, and together with these transferring from different establishments, they pushed Charlotte’s whole enrollment to 30,298. With this achievement, second solely to the College’s record-breaking enrollment in fall 2021, UNC Charlotte’s undergraduate pupil enrollment continues because the second-highest for the UNC System’s 17-member establishments — and defies a development towards declining enrollments underway in a number of areas of the nation.
“College students are selecting UNC Charlotte for high-quality lecturers and analysis alternatives, the co-curricular and extracurricular choices out there to them — and far more,” mentioned Chancellor Sharon L. Gaber. “Charlotte is designated by U.S. Information & World Report as the very best metropolis in North Carolina for younger professionals and is ranked within the nation’s prime 10. By means of the College’s deep connections to Charlotte’s progressive tech, well being care and monetary industries in addition to its vibrant cultural scene, college students can envision themselves thriving right here throughout and after school. UNC Charlotte is really Charlotte’s nice college.”
First-12 months Class: Good and Various
The composition of the brand new first-year class — whose numbers attain 4,501 — displays Charlotte’s ascending educational excellence and the area’s rising variety. With their arrival, first-time school college students full a complete undergraduate inhabitants that identifies as 17% Black, 14.8% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. Greater than 9.7% of undergraduates establish as Asian American, a brand new excessive for Charlotte. Extra details about first-year Niners:
Academically Formidable
- Common weighted highschool GPA = 3.98, exceeding that of final 12 months’s class.
- Awarded greater than $1.8 million in scholarships (to first-year college students) for the tutorial 12 months, rising 40% over final 12 months as annual scholarships for all college students elevated to $7.1 million.
- 40% are pursuing science, know-how, engineering or math (STEM) majors.
- 175 college students had been admitted to the College Honors Program; a soar of 19.4% over final 12 months.
Culturally Various
- 39% establish as an underrepresented minority, up from 37% in 2022.
- 33% are first-generation school college students.
- 89% are North Carolinians — from 86 of the state’s counties, with 20% from Wake County and 15% from Mecklenburg County.
- 11% come from 37 different U.S. states and 31 different nations.
New Heights for Switch, Graduate and Worldwide College students
2023 New Scholar Convocation
New switch college students proceed to decide on Charlotte to finish their undergraduate levels. That is attributable partially to the College’s intentional and complete system of assist that’s designed to satisfy the distinctive wants of this inhabitants. Graduate applications proceed to draw new college students from the U.S. and throughout the globe attributable to energy of programming, significant analysis alternatives and related business partnerships. Right here’s how these teams form up:
Switch Success
- 2,348 college students – the very best within the UNC System – transferred to UNC Charlotte from different establishments, a 4.4% rise over final 12 months.
- 76 arrived by means of 49erNext — a rising co-admission program with six neighborhood school companions that provides a proactive strategy to educational advising. Ninety-three p.c of taking part college students had been admitted into their most popular main, with a median GPA of three.65. (Roughly 175 neighborhood school college students joined 49erNext this fall, confirming their pathway to Charlotte.)
- New switch college students come from 75 North Carolina counties, and 46 of the state’s 58 neighborhood schools.
Graduate Power
- Grasp’s diploma and doctoral applications attracted 2,551 new college students.
- Whole grasp’s diploma enrollment elevated by 5.2%, contributing to Charlotte’s largest grasp’s-level pupil inhabitants thus far.
- Whole worldwide graduate college students – enrolled in grasp’s and doctoral applications – rose by 26.2%.
- 207 new doctoral analysis college students symbolize a 19% rise over final 12 months, with a report whole of 1,140 doctoral college students enrolled.
- Graduate college students comprise 21% of Charlotte’s whole inhabitants, with applications in pc science, enterprise administration, information science and enterprise analytics, and social work main whole enrollment in grasp’s applications, and applications in computing and data methods, curriculum and instruction, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering main whole enrollment in Ph.D. applications.
International Campus
- 160 new first-year and switch worldwide college students — a 14% enhance — are from 57 totally different nations.
- The mixed variety of new and returning worldwide undergraduate and graduate college students — from a complete of 108 nations — is 20% larger this fall over final, making it this group’s largest thus far.
“It’s gratifying to welcome so many new, deserving college students to Niner Nation; we stay up for the nice issues they’ll obtain and contribute to our neighborhood,” mentioned Claire Kirby, affiliate provost for enrollment administration. “To see how UNC Charlotte college students mirror the cultural vibrancy of our campus neighborhood and that of our metropolis is very highly effective. They definitely possess the expertise, skill and need to remodel their lives and form the longer term at Charlotte.”
About UNC Charlotte
With enrollment of practically 30,300 college students, UNC Charlotte is North Carolina’s city analysis college. It leverages its location within the state’s largest metropolis to supply internationally aggressive applications of analysis and inventive exercise, exemplary undergraduate, graduate, {and professional} applications, and a centered set of neighborhood engagement initiatives. UNC Charlotte maintains a specific dedication to addressing the cultural, financial, instructional, environmental, well being, and social wants of the higher Charlotte area.
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