Fact Sheet

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BACK-TO-SCHOOL FACT SHEET

Enrollment

Final fall enrollment figures for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will not be available until early September. Below are final enrollment figures from fall 2006 as a point of reference.

Undergraduate: 17,124
Graduate: 8,254
Professional: 2,339
Total students: 27,717

Estimated fall 2007 freshmen class breakdown

Admitted freshmen hail from 99 N.C. counties, 49 states, the District of Columbia and 49 other countries.
Number applied: 20,064
Number admitted: 6,990; 34.8 percent of those who applied
Number expected to enroll: 3,879; 55.5 percent of those admitted
Average SAT score: 1302

Percentages of those reporting rank in graduating class

• 10th or higher: 40.6 percent
• First: 6.5 percent
• In top 10 percent: 76.4 percent
• In top 20 percent: 92.2 percent

Percentages

• With grade-point averages of 4.0 or higher: 87.3 percent of those reporting GPAs
• From North Carolina: 82 percent
• From out of state: 18 percent
• African American: 11.2 percent
• Asian American: 8 percent
• American Indians, Alaska Natives: .9 percent
• Caucasian: 69.1 percent
• Hawaiian, Pacific Islander: 0.1 percent
• Hispanics: 5.7 percent
• Other: 2.6 percent
• Not reported: 2.4 percent

Annual undergraduate expenses for students taking 12 hours or more per semester

• In-state tuition: $3,705
• Out-of-state tuition: $19,353
• Annual required fees: $1,635
• Room (on-campus): $4,830
• Board (on-campus): $2,866
• Estimated books and supplies: $1,000

Housing and Residential Education

Carolina will house over 8,600 students on campus in 32 residence halls and three apartment communities.

Carmichael Residence Hall on Stadium Drive will close this year for a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system upgrade.

Morrison Residence Hall on Manning Drive reopens after a two-year, $29.7 million renovation and will house 856 students. Improvements included installation of the first solar hot-water system on campus and a new HVAC system, an electrical upgrade, remodeling bathrooms and making the entire hall wheelchair-accessible. The top three of 10 floors were converted to three-room suites with shared living rooms. For more information, visit http://www.fpc.unc.edu/CIP/Projects.asp?Project=111.

I-40 repaving

Students and families traveling to campus this weekend (Aug. 18-19) should be aware of the repaving of 10.4 miles of I-40 in Durham and Orange counties near Chapel Hill. The N.C. Department of Transportation expects to keep all lanes open during the daytime and at least one lane open overnight.

The department shares updates and detour routes on 1680 A.M. radio, by phone at 511, on CB radio channel 19 and on the Web at http://www.ncdot.org/projects/i40repaving/.

Campus roads

Move-in
Student move in is currently underway. Due to the high volume of traffic expected for move in over the weekend, the following traffic patterns will be in place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday (Aug. 18) and Sunday (Aug 19) as students move into residence halls across campus:

• Raleigh Street will be one-way going south from Cameron Avenue to South Road, with no access via South Road.

• Battle Lane from Boundary to Franklin streets will be open only to Senlac and Hooper street residents and be one-way going north.

• The northwest section of Skipper Bowles Drive, across from Ridge Road, will be one-way northbound to Manning Drive, with no access to Bowles from Manning at that point.

FallFest
South Road from Country Club Road to Raleigh Street will close to traffic from 5 p.m. Sunday (Aug. 19) to 5 a.m. Monday (Aug. 20) for FallFest, UNC’s annual, alcohol-free event welcoming students to campus. Parking will be reserved beginning at 4 p.m. in the School of Government deck, House Undergraduate Library lot, Frank Porter Graham Student Union lot at Raleigh and South and on South and Carmichael Drive.

Fall 2007
Construction is expected to cause the following changes this fall:

• The Swain Visitors’ Lot near the Ackland Art Museum has approximately 70 parking spaces blocked in for work on the Arts Commons. Limited visitor parking should still be available after 5 p.m. weekdays and after 3 p.m. weekends.

• Manning Drive is reduced to two lanes of traffic, one lane each way, for construction of a steam line at Ridge Road and Manning Drive. Pedestrian access will alternate between the north and south sides of Manning. Pedestrians are urged to obey sidewalk closure signs and marked detours. Drivers are asked to observe extreme caution and use other east-west routes when possible.

• East Drive from Manning Drive to Mason Farm Road, beside the patient and visitor parking deck for UNC Hospitals – the Dogwood Parking Deck – will close to through traffic overnight on weekends through Aug. 26. Access to hospital parking decks will be maintained at all times. The through-traffic closures, from approximately 7 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday to 5:30 a.m. the following mornings, are for construction of a pedestrian bridge across East Drive from the Dogwood deck to a physicians’ office building.

 
Updates
Construction will affect traffic at various campus locations all year. The UNC Department of Public Safety provides up-to-date traffic and parking information on its Web site, http://www.dps.unc.edu/dps/, under “breaking news.” Related link:
http://constructionwatch.unc.edu/.

Academic Calendar

News Services contacts: LJ Toler, (919) 962-8589; News Services staff, (919) 962-2091