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, 2017

2 Nobel Laureates
// Royal Swedish Academy of Science, 2017

15th most cited university in the world
// CWUR, 2017

// UNC RAMSeS, 2017

$596 million in multi-investigator projects

$472 million in multi-department projects

$349 million in multi-school projects

Nearly 1,250 postdoctoral fellows
// UNC Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, 2017

17th in the nation for the number of postdoctoral fellows in science, engineering, and health
//  Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering, 2015

16th in the US for federally funded biological and biomedical sciences research
// HERD Survey, 2016

The National Institutes of Health is UNC’s largest federal funder, awarding more than $412M in 2017 for nearly 800 projects
// UNC RAMSeS, 2017

1st in the nation for federally funded social and behavioral science research and development
// COSSA, 2017

3rd among the nation’s Schools of Public Health for NIH funding
// NIH RePORTER, 2016

16th in the US for privately sponsored clinical trials
// HERD Survey, 2016

$31 million in annual clinical trials research
// HERD Survey, 2016

$62 million in annual R&D from private industry sponsors
// UNC RAMSeS, 2017