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Average enrolled GPA 4.49 (weighted, 2024-25, as published by the college).","Cost: about $11,655 a year on average with aid, $26,055 a year at full price for in-state students.","Median earnings ten years after entry: $72,200 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $675,380 ahead with aid, $617,780 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Computer Science ($137,047); Business Administration, Management and Operations ($135,874); Applied Mathematics ($119,839).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 3% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 33% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","Aid pledge published by the college for 2026-27: families earning under $80,000 pay no tuition; aid packages carry no loans for families under $62,400; the college meets full demonstrated need (NC residents; Tar Heel Guarantee, in-state only).","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 94, 365 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often Providence Day School (18.0 per class year, 18 over 1 class year, Class of 2026); Durham Academy (15.0 per class year, 75 over 5 class years, 2021\u20132025); Episcopal High School (5.0 per class year, 25 over 5 class years, Classes of 2022 through 2026). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill.","High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 8, 36 admissions between them \u2014 ranked by admissions per class year, most often Archbishop Mitty High School (7.0 per class year, 7 over 1 class year, Class of 2025); National Cathedral School (3.0 per class year, 9 over 3 class years, 2023-2025); St Andrews School Of Boca Raton Inc (3.0 per class year, 3 over 1 class year, Class of 2026). Admits are counted at each college, so this counts admissions, not students. These are a different set of documents from the matriculation lists above and the two are never added together; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill.json"],"caveats":["Admit rate, SAT/ACT bands and applicant counts are IPEDS (federal); admit rates by major are the college system's own reporting (UC Information Center; CSU Chancellor's Office).","UC admits to the campus, not the major, at most programs; a UC admit rate by major is a guide to selectivity, not a rule.","'transfer_only' majors at a CSU had no first-year row reported: freshmen enter as a pre-major and apply into the program later.","net_price_with_aid is the average for aid recipients; full_price is the cost of attendance. The federal $110K+ income bracket is never shown because it fits no family.","Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians; they travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college.","Payoff = ten years of median earnings minus four years of cost, in dollars.","SAT/ACT bands describe ENROLLED first-years who submitted that test, not the admitted pool and not the whole class; at a test-optional college check admissions.submit_share before reading a band as the class profile."],"control":"Public","cost":{"by_family_income":[{"band":"$0\u201330K","net_price":2004},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":3918},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":8538},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":16415}],"full_price":26055,"in_state_basis":true,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":11655,"npc_url":"https://npc.collegeboard.org/student/app/unc","tuition_in_state":8994,"tuition_out_of_state":41203},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":72200,"median_6yr_after_entry":57057},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":36,"note":"Counts are copied from each high school's own published, numbered list of college acceptances \u2014 where its graduates were ADMITTED, not where they enrolled. 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