<p>An impressive showing internationally. <a href="http://www.unc.edu/campus-updates/top_universities%5B/url%5D">http://www.unc.edu/campus-updates/top_universities</a></p>
<p>I saw this the other day - good showing by UNC, but these rankings are really arbitrary - and there was a new methodology used for the first time by this particular ranking.</p>
<p>This new ranking is good (better). It’s less arbitrary and subjective than the previous methodology or US News. Read the new criteria; it’s an interesting, different approach.</p>
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I can agree with that</p>
<p>It’s really weird to see Dartmouth that low. :/</p>
<p>This might not be quite as good as it appears. Here’s the Times’s description of UNC:</p>
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<p>I wonder how well UNC Chapel Hill considered by itself would do?</p>
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<p>Well, the numbers they’re citing there are referring just to UNC. But I know what you’re saying.</p>
<p>It seems keepittoyourself is saying that the description refers to the entire UNC university system and not just UNC Chapel Hill itself. Therefore, the accolades are shared.</p>
<p>Those are UNC Chapel Hill’s numbers. The UNC system consists of 17 campuses. 222,322 students. 13,564 faculty members.</p>
<p>EDIT: Ah cloying has already said it.</p>
<p>Good point! I wonder whether the other data is similarly muddled?</p>
<p>must have been someone in London writing the UNC backgrounder — I believe William & Mary, founded in 1693, is the oldest public university.</p>
<p>^Actually, there’s 3 schools that can claim that title. William & Mary is older than both Georgia & UNC, but it did not become a public school until after the Civil War. UNC opened its doors to students first, but Georgia got their charter before UNC.</p>
<p>W&M shouldn’t count. They started out private, and actually didn’t start taking funds from Virginia until 1906. Georgia didn’t even select a site for their school until the 1800s and did not accept its first students until 1801. As the only public institution to confer degrees in the 18th century, UNC is clearly the oldest public university in the US. :D</p>
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<p>William and Mary doesn’t count. It was founded as a private school.</p>
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that’s what I’ve always said about it :)</p>
<p>Thanks for that excellent information re. the US’s oldest public.</p>
<p>This is a ranking of universities, not undergrad. So a Dartmouth or Brown isn’t going to do well as they don’t even have grad schools - honestly its weird to see them that high. UNC undergrad and grad are pretty much ranked equal overall - around 22-30.</p>
<p>Dartmouth does have grad programs.</p>
<p>[Programs</a> and Courses](<a href=“http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gradstdy/programs/]Programs”>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gradstdy/programs/)</p>
<p>They do but there are very very few people in the programs, often just a handful.</p>