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Did You Know?

  • An October 2006 initiative partners UNC Asheville with Chapel Hill-based Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) to produce weather data and computer models that will help the region respond to floods and other environmental disasters.
  • The most popular majors, according to enrollment figures, are: Psychology, Management, Literature, Environmental Studies, Art.
  • 32 Fulbright Scholars since 1973 have studied and traveled on all continents, most recently Scarlett Lopez Freeman who completed a 2005 independent study of Ethiopan women and their contributions to society. Laura Friederich ’07 (Chemistry), earned a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship, and Kristen Erhard ’07 (Art), who received a Rotary International Cultural Scholarship.
  • UNC Asheville fields 14 Division I NCAA intercollegiate sports for men and women and competes in the Big South Conference.
  • A new stormwater wetland, funded by a $70,000 Clean Water Management Trust Fund grant, will treat runoff from campus roads, parking lots and athletics fields before discharge into the French Broad River.
  • UNC Asheville earned a N.C. State Energy Office Award in spring 2006 for having the lowest per-square-foot energy consumption of any public university in the western half of the state.

Rankings and Recognitions

  • One of the Top Five Public Liberal Arts Colleges in “America’s Best Colleges,” U.S. News & World Report, 2006.
  • “Programs to Look for” as highlighted in U.S. News & World Report: Undergraduate Research and first-year experience as part of the Integrative Liberal Studies Freshman Colloquium.
  • “America’s Best Value Colleges” in The Princeton Review, 2006–07.
  • “Best Buy” in The Fiske Guide to Colleges, 2007, one of 17 public colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada.
  • Selected in Barron’s ninth edition of Best Buys in College Education.
  • All degree programs in the Managementand Accountancy Department are accredited by the AACSB International—Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The department earned high ratings in curriculum, degree requirements, student resources, technology, faculty performance, testing mechanisms, and the department’s mission and objectives.