UNC Research Facts and Rankings
Research at UNC has doubled over the past 12 years, firmly establishing Carolina as one of America’s top-ranked research universities.
More than 150 faculty at UNC are members of the National Academies & prestigious learned societies
// UNC Research, 2024
2 Nobel Laureates
// Royal Swedish Academy of Science
21st most cited university in the world
// CSIC Webmetrics, 2023
// UNC RAMSeS, 2024
63% in multi-investigator projects
51% in multi-department projects
35% in multi-school projects
More than 950 postdoctoral fellows
// UNC Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, 2024
23rd in the nation for the total number of postdoctoral fellows
// Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering, 2022
9th in the US for federally funded health sciences research
// HERD Survey, 2023
The National Institutes of Health is UNC’s largest federal funder, awarding more than $592M in 2024
// UNC RAMSeS, 2024
2nd in the nation for federally funded social and behavioral science research and development
// COSSA, 2023
4th among the nation’s Schools of Public Health for NIH funding
// BRIMR, 23
33rd in the US for privately sponsored clinical trials
// HERD Survey, 2023
$55 million in annual clinical trials research
// HERD Survey, 2023
$73 million in annual R&D from private industry sponsors
// UNC RAMSeS, 2024
// HERD Survey, 2024