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Study At NCCU

Classroom Environment
 
Students per Faculty 15 to 1
Undergraduate classes with fewer than 30 students 64%
Undergraduate classes with fewer than 50 students 95%
Full-Time Instructional Faculty
 
Total Faculty 409
% Women 50%
% from Minority Groups 3%
% with Highest Degree in Field 63%

Student Housing

92% of new freshmen live on campus

41% of all undergraduates live on campus

Campus Safety

The Campus Police Department coordinates campus safety and security. The Office of Safety and Security strives to protect the lives and property of all people on the campus; ensuring that students, faculty, staff and visitors can use all buildings and property peacefully and freely. It is the job of the department’s personnel to educate the University’s faculty, staff, and students about crime prevention methods and techniques for their well-being on campus. Officers are responsible for enforcing all laws, rules, regulations of North Carolina Central University. Officers may make arrests for any criminal offense committed in or on lands or buildings used or occupied by NCCU. NCCU Police Department has a chief executive and the designated Director holds the rank of Chief of Police. Three assistants aid the Chief in the day-to-day operation of the department: Operations Division Commander (Captain), Patrol Division Commander (Captain) and an Administrative Assistant (civilian) who is also the Traffic Manager.

Carnegie Classification of Institutional Characteristics

Basic Type

Master's Colleges and Universities (larger programs)

Size and Setting

Medium four-year, primarily residential

Enrollment Profile

High undergraduate

Undergraduate Profile

Full-time four-year, inclusive

Undergraduate Instructional Program

Balanced arts & sciences/professions, some graduate coexistence

Graduate Instructional Program

Postbaccalaureate comprehensive

NOTE: Institutional classifications based on the Carnegie 2005 edition.