Facts and Rankings, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
As the nation's first state university, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been a leader in higher education for over two hundred years. Carolina is also a research university with faculty members actively pursuing research, scholarship, and creative endeavors that transform their teaching and promote discoveries and new technologies that fuel our state's economy. The high caliber and diversity of the university's research activities help to attract and retain our outstanding faculty members and students.
In fiscal year 2003, Carolina received a record $537 million in contracts and grants awarded for research, teaching and public service, a 10.5% increase over the previous year. Department of Health and Human Services funding grew 13% to $308 million (up from $272 million) in fiscal year 2003. In the most recent (fiscal year 2002) national rankings available from National Institutes of Health (NIH), Carolina ranked thirteenth nationally in overall funding from NIH. At seventeenth in the latest rankings of overall federal academic science and engineering obligations, Carolina is the top public university in the South. A recent report of leading research universities designated Carolina as one of only four public universities that met all the criteria the authors used to evaluate the quality of research institutions.
Chapel Hill is responsible for approximately 57% of all sponsored funding that comes to the entire 16-campus University of North Carolina system. In fiscal year 2001, Carolina received 91% ($264.7 million) of the total amount awarded to all UNC system campuses by NIH ($290.9 million). The state of North Carolina ranks seventh nationally in statewide funding from NIH.
Carolina researchers continued to move their technologies into the marketplace during the past year. Here's a look at some technology stats for fiscal year 2003:
- 86 invention disclosures filed
- 87 patent applications filed
- 30 new U.S. patents issued to the university
- 54 inventions licensed
- $1,083,504 in license revenue