Location: Durham, N.C.
Type: four-year, public
Year founded: 1910
Total enrollment (fall 2014): 8,155
Undergraduate enrollment: 6,369
Undergraduate applicants (fall 2011): 6,369
Acceptance rate: 61 percent
Graduation rate (after four years, 2010): 14.8 percent
Sports nickname: Eagles
In-state undergraduate tuition and fees (2014-15): $3,450.57
Website: www.nccu.edu
Democratic United States Senate candidate Cheri Beasley visited the N.C. Central University's campus on Tuesday to deliver a speech at the university's student center.
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Students at NCCU remember the death of DeAndre Ballard a year later.
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Former NCCU vice chancellor for administration and finance, Benjamin Durant, alleges he was wrongfully terminated by NCCU Chancellor Johnson Akinleye, who was responsible for the misappropriation of state funds.
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Rising senior at North Carolina Central University Bettylenah Njaramba will be sworn as the president of The University of North Carolina Association of Student Governments this Friday. The organization represents all 17 UNC-system campuses. Njaramba plans to make the organization's motives more transparent, increase student's voices in impacting policy and better the lines of communication between its board of governors and campuses.
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The new president of the UNC-system student body president, elected Wednesday, is Bettylenah Njaramba, a junior at N.C. Central University. Drugs were found in an ECU fraternity house Tuesday after a long investigation. UNC-system President Margaret Spellings spoke about education reform and investment at the Reagan Institute’s Summit on Education in Washington. "I think people are exhausted with education reform or feel like it's not possible to close the achievement gap," Spellings said. "So I think the boulder is drifting back down the hill because of a lack of urgency around the imperative of closing the achievement gap."
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The UNC-system Board of Governors approved increases in tuition and fees for certain undergraduates at some UNC-system campuses. See if this applies to you!
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Minority students, older students and former military students from NCCU that have contributed for years will now see increased opportunities as official members of TUNL.
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N.C. Central University's School of Law is under threat of losing its accreditation after examination by the American Bar Association.
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Although a December study by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education ranked North Carolina as best in the nation for campus free speech, debate continues over the controversial free speech policy adopted by the UNC Board of Governors on Dec. 15.
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American Historically Black Colleges and Universities contribute $14.8 billion to the U.S. economy, according to a new study.
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The controversy over the fate of the UNC Center for Civil Rights' ability to litigate dominated the UNC Board of Governors’ agenda in the past few meetings, but the university system managed to stay busy this summer.
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Between Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ comments and an executive order issued Feb. 28, historically black colleges and universities are in the national spotlight.
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The exhibit “Soft Diplomacy: Quilting Cultural Diplomacy in Liberia” will be on display at Western Carolina University’s Fine Art Museum through May 5.
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Sixteen students from UNC-Pembroke lent a helping hand to three families in South Carolina who were affected by the early October flooding.
Read More »Laverne Cox to speak at NCCU Laverne Cox, an Emmy-nominated transgender actress and the first trans woman of color to play a leading role on mainstream television, will give a speech at N.C.
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