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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, chartered in 1789, is the oldest public university in the United States to admit and graduate students, having held classes continuously since 1795, a claim to seniority among American public universities that no other institution can match. UNC's basketball program, one of the most successful in NCAA history with multiple national championships under coaches Dean Smith and Roy Williams, has built a rivalry with Duke, located just eight miles away, that's widely regarded as one of the most intense in all of American sports. The university's Kenan-Flagler Business School and its journalism and public health programs each rank among the best in the country at any public university, and UNC's research funding and faculty recruiting have kept it competitive with far more expensive private research universities despite its public in-state tuition structure. UNC's Chapel Hill campus, centered on a historic quad anchored by the Old Well, a small domed structure that's become the university's most recognizable symbol, gives the school a strong sense of place that's remained a fixture of student life and campus tradition across more than two centuries of continuous operation.
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North Carolina State University
North Carolina State University, founded in 1887 as a land-grant college focused on agriculture and mechanical arts, has grown into one of the largest and most respected public engineering universities in the Southeast, anchoring the technology and research corridor that includes Research Triangle Park alongside Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill. NC State's College of Engineering is one of the largest in the country by enrollment, and the university's close partnerships with Research Triangle Park's technology and biotech employers give students direct pipelines into internships and jobs at companies clustered in one of the country's most concentrated research and technology corridors. The university's College of Textiles, one of the oldest and most respected textile science programs in the world, reflects NC State's historical roots in North Carolina's textile manufacturing economy, and the program has evolved to specialize in advanced materials and nonwoven textiles used across the medical and industrial sectors today. NC State's combination of a large, comprehensive public research university's scale with a specific historical strength in engineering, agriculture, and applied sciences has made it the preferred choice for in-state students specifically seeking a technical or applied-sciences education within North Carolina's public university system.
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