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

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.