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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, also called UNC Chapel Hill, UNC, North Carolina or Carolina, is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. It was chartered in 1789 and began enrolling students in 1795, which makes it one of the oldest public universities in the United States. The National Science Foundation ranked it ninth among American universities for research and development expenditures in 2023, at 1.5 billion dollars. In 1951 a court ordered the university to admit its first Black students to the schools of law and medicine.

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is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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"established": 1789
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Wikipedia)
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    is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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    is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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he was the Excellence Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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