About Us

Profile of the Department of Housing & Residential Education

• A member of UNC-Chapel Hill Student Affairs
• Housing Population: 8,000+ residents (Undergraduate, Graduate, and Family Housing)
• Residence Halls: 32 halls
• Apartments: 2 communities (1 graduate, 1 undergraduate)
• Professional Staff: 50 full-time employees
• Student Staff: Over 400 student employees
• Annual Revenue: $52M 

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• The Nation’s first state university, founded in 1793
• The University offers 78 bachelor’s, 112 master’s, 68 doctorate and seven professional degree programs through 14 schools and the College of Arts and Sciences.
• More than 29,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students learn from a faculty of 3,600.
• Carolina’s 317,000 alumni live in all 50 states and more than 150 countries.
• Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine ranked Carolina the #1 Best Combination of Top-Flight Academics and Affordable Costs in American public higher education for the 16th time.
• UNC was ranked the 5th best public university in the country in the U.S. News & World Report 2017 "Best Colleges" guidebook.This is 16th consecutive year UNC has made this list.
• #1 among major U.S. universities in the percentage of African-American students in the first-year class, according to The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, for six of the previous nine years
• Diverse student population - Admitted first-year students hail from all 100 North Carolina counties, 41 states, the District of Columbia and 19 other countries
• The Carolina Covenant provides a debt-free education to qualified low-income students from North Carolina and beyond, is a national model for making a college degree possible for qualified low-income students. To date, more than 1,500 UNC students have benefited from the program.