Ranking in N.C. For Net Cost & Social Mobility
U.S. News & World
Report’s Best Colleges 2025
Princeton Review’s
2023 Best Colleges
Best for Vets College,
2022 Military Times
Consistently winning national awards, UNCG is ranked N.C.’s most affordable public university, for net cost, by The New York Times. Throughout our outstanding 150+ areas of undergraduate study, rest assured your student will receive a rigorous, quality education at an affordable cost – and be ready to get to work upon graduation. Inside and outside the classroom, UNCG offers opportunities designed to satisfy your student’s intellectual curiosity in a diverse environment to help develop them to become who they are meant to be.
No matter which college program your student chooses, you can rest assured our high standards for quality, affordability, and practicality still count. Your student can team up on research with professors, maybe even present their findings at prestigious conferences, and get ahead for grad school or job opportunities. UNCG offers all students a chance to explore and become future leaders, with hands on learning in more than 150 degree programs.
Lloyd Honors College
Your student will be challenged with rigorous courses and discover a community where they can grow and develop along intercultural, intellectual, and leadership dimensions.
An invitation-only learning environment reserved for accomplished students that fosters critical thinking, global awareness, and strong preparation for professional and personal pursuits. The Honors College offers intensive small-group classes that delve deeply into thorny issues to generate solutions, dedicated on-campus Honors Residential Colleges, and an even deeper focus on student-driven research and hands-on service learning.
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
Take part in scholarship and creative inquiry as your student will work with faculty mentors in their ongoing research – or start and conduct their own research projects.
UNCG provides exceptional opportunities for your student to extend their learning with hands-on research across a range of subjects and research interests, helping them develop unique in-depth experience that complements their classroom learning and helps elevate their future potential. Plus, their undergraduate research may qualify them for special distinction on their transcripts and graduation regalia.
Spartan Leadership Challenge
Leadership begins with self-reflection. Your student will learn their personal leadership style with a series of Bronze, Silver, and Gold leadership challenges.
The Leadership Challenge program is an institution-wide commitment to offer all UNCG students leadership education, training, and development through curricular and co-curricular experiences. These experiences assist students in the development of their leadership skills and prepares them for a broad variety of pursuits.
LEARNING THAT GOES BEYOND THE CLASSROOM
Tenaciously committed to student success, UNCG faculty go above and beyond the norm to make sure our students are learning, achieving, and progressing toward their earned degree. Your student’s education goes beyond the classroom with 250 different student organizations on campus, study abroad experiences, service-learning and other hands-on learning opportunities. UNCG’s large welcome mat enables students to learn from one another while striving to achieve their educational goals. The Spartan family welcomes new students as they are, for who they are, and who they want to become.