College of Arts and Sciences

The heart of the academic experience and home to most of UNC—Chapel Hill's students, the College of Arts and Sciences is where all undergraduates begin their Carolina education. The current unit structure was created in 1935 with the merger of the College of Liberal Arts and the School of ...

North Carolina Botanical Garde

The UNC Board of Trustees first approved the use of university-owned land for a botanical garden in 1952. The original land was supplemented by private gifts, and the North Carolina Botanical Garden now manages more than 1,000 acres. The garden, overseen by the university's botany department, fi...

Granville Towers

Granville Towers opened in 1966 as an experiment in a new type of campus housing. The two high-rise buildings on Franklin Street, built on the site of the old Chapel Hill High School, would house more than 1,000 students in the country's first example of a private dorm. Granville Towers was buil...

Carolina blue

The university's distinctive school color originated only a few years after the university opened. Not long after the first students arrived, they organized two debating groups: the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies. The "Di" and "Phi" societies played a large role in campus ...