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Pursue your passions At Carolina
Explore your interests
Updated on Aug. 27, 2025
The Tar Heel experience goes beyond lecture halls and schoolwork. We believe exploring your passions is a key component of a complete education. In Chapel Hill, you don't have to go far to find a student group that's right for you. Whether you're interested in the arts, politics, sports, volunteering, technology, the outdoors or anything in between, there's a great opportunity awaiting you.
Learn more about student organizations and clubs at Carolina and how you can get involved in campus life.
- 900+student organizations
- 75%of students in at least one student organization
- 92service groups
Of service to others
How to serve was their first Carolina lesson
Arriving the week before classes started, 16 new Tar Heels volunteered on and around campus through the Service-Learning Initiative.
Alternative spring break teams help in Helene recovery
APPLES Service-Learning students traveled to the mountains and Charlotte to work on rebuilding and other projects.
Communiversity builds bonds with area youth
Through the program, Tar Heel volunteers help K-8 students in Chapel Hill and Carrboro with after-school activities.
VALOR serves veterans statewide
Free legal services are one way the law school’s Veterans Advocacy Legal Organization builds community.
SafeWalkers make nights more secure
The student-run organization helps Tar Heels get where they need to go safely during late hours.
Trash Force picks up after campus
What started as an extra credit opportunity grew into a club who has fun keeping Carolina clean.
Club Sports
BoUNC calls Tar Heels to the crease
Open to all students, Carolina’s cricket team aspires to enter its first national tournament.
Pickleball is on the rise at Carolina
Whether playing for fun or championships, Tar Heels build friendships and community through club pickleball.
Tar Heel Hockey turns 50
The rapidly growing Carolina club hockey program will move into a more competitive division next season.
Pleiades are a flying disc dynasty
The Carolina women's team has become a national power, winning several championships in the sport known as "ultimate Frisbee."
Club volleyball team serves it up
Playing a sport they love helps these Tar Heel women relieve stress and make new friends.
Get moving
Free dance lessons lead to fancy footwork
Lesley Gonzalez found her rhythm with Carolina’s Ballroom Dance team.
Tar Heels fly with art
Open to all, Aerial Arts at Carolina is a club built on creativity and exercise.
Student-run club brings dancers together
Modernextension Dance Company gives Tar Heels a place to improvise and choreograph.
Learning the ropes
Carolina Jump Rope is making their fellow Tar Heels rethink what it means to jump rope. The team performs dazzling spins and flips at campus events and even competes against other universities and jump rope clubs from around the country.
The nation's first student group
The topics discussed by Carolina’s Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies may have changed over the past two centuries, but students today are still carrying on many of the debate and literary groups’ traditions.
Click here to read how DiPhi recently celebrated 230 years of dialogue and debate.
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Fostering creativity
Make award-winning movies with these students
The Carolina Film Association prepares Tar Heels for the joys and practicalities of cinematic production.
Explore UNC-Chapel Hill’s lively a cappella scene
Tar Heels explain why singing is central to their Carolina experience.
Carolina Thrift gives clothes new life
The student-run group resells used clothing in front of the Bell Tower each year during move-in week.
Student-Made UNC crafts entrepreneurs
The platform’s student managers work hard behind the scenes to help Tar Heel makers market their creations.
Kenan Theatre Company opens doors to drama
As part of the dramatic art department, the company offers undergraduates a way to explore a career in theater.
Finding their spotlight
Student group Ebony Readers/Onyx Theater gives students a platform to perform poetry while finding their voices on campus.