Recognition
UNCG is consistently ranked among the best academic institutions in terms of value, academics, and student performance.
- According to the 2012 US News & Report, UNCG is classified as a Tier 1 University with an overall National University rank of #189 among public colleges and universities in the United States.
- The Princeton Review ranked UNCG #2 in its list of "Best Values" in public universities in the nation. It also places UNCG in the "Best in the Southeast" category and ranks UNCG among the nation's top colleges in "The Best 373 Colleges."
- UNCG is recognized in Forbes 2010 America's Best Colleges, a student-perspective ranking
- Kiplinger's ranks UNCG as one of the 100 best values among public, 4-year schools in the United States. Six other North Carolina institutions made the list—Appalachian State, East Carolina, NC State, UNC-Asheville, UNC-Chapel Hill, and UNC-Wilmington.
- The UNCG School of Nursing has received one of the top national honors by the National League of Nursing, which has listed the school as a Center of Excellence in Nursing Education.
- UNCG's Counselor Education program is ranked by U.S. News & World Report-The Department of Counseling and Educational Development as fourth (nationally) among counseling programs in the magazine’s 2010. The program – the only specialty education program in the state to be ranked – has been consistently been ranked in the top five.
- The School of Education is 56th in the country for 2010. In previous years, UNCG has been ranked in the top 50.
- The Public Affairs graduate program is currently ranked 104 in the 2012 national universities' rankings.
- UNCG was named as having the best public university chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in the country for the year 2006. It is also the home institution of North Carolina Poet Laureate emeritus Fred Chappell.
- The University's endowment is ranked third among North Carolina's public institutions of higher learning (behind UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State University) and 275th nationally.
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