UNC Research Facts and Rankings
Research at UNC has quadrupled over the past 15 years, firmly establishing Carolina as one of America’s top-ranked research universities.
150 faculty at UNC are members of the National Academies & prestigious learned societies
// UNC Research, 2018
2 Nobel Laureates
// Royal Swedish Academy of Science
21st most cited university in the world
// CWUR, 2018-19
// UNC RAMSeS, 2018
$586 million in multi-investigator projects
$467 million in multi-department projects
$330 million in multi-school projects
Nearly 1,250 postdoctoral fellows
// UNC Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, 2018
13th in the nation for the number of postdoctoral fellows in science and health
// Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering, 2016
17th in the US for federally funded biological and biomedical sciences research
// HERD Survey, 2017
The National Institutes of Health is UNC’s largest federal funder, awarding more than $432M in 2018 for more than 800 projects
// UNC RAMSeS, 2018
1st in the nation for federally funded social and behavioral science research and development
// COSSA, 2018
3rd among the nation’s Schools of Public Health for NIH funding
// NIH RePORTER, 2018
19th in the US for privately sponsored clinical trials
// HERD Survey, 2017
$33 million in annual clinical trials research
// HERD Survey, 2017
$57 million in annual R&D from private industry sponsors
// UNC RAMSeS, 2018
// HERD Survey, 2017