Rooms and apartments are also available off campus. There is an excellent local bus service. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has a student body of approximately 23,000. An average of 275 to 350 Ph.D. degrees and 1,150 master's degrees are awarded each year. In 1998-99, there were 53 doctoral candidates in the Curriculum.
Most graduates continue their training as postdoctoral associates.
Recent graduates secured postdoctoral positions at UCSF, MIT, Cold Spring Harbor Labs, Duke University, the University of Pennsylvania, the National Cancer Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, and the University of Zurich. Following postdoctoral training, recent graduates obtained faculty positions at the University of Washington in Seattle, Rutgers University, and Harvard University. Other graduates are employed at SmithKline Beecham and Glaxo-Wellcome. Location Chapel Hill, a university community of approximately 62,000 people, is located about 175 miles from the Atlantic Coast and from the Appalachian Mountains. Duke University, North Carolina State University, and the Research Triangle Park are all within a 30-minute drive of Chapel Hill.