A coeducational residential public university within the University of North Carolina system. 6,500 students from the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America.
Student body is evenly divided between men and women.
Eleven residence buildings - five for men, four for women, one for graduate students, and one for married and graduate students. Special accomodations include an honors residence hall and freshman emphasis complex. Freshmen are required to live on campus. Hunter Library, the largest in Western North Carolina, contains 496,970 books and bound periodicals and more than one million units of microform. Interlibrary loan and computer databases offer unlimited resources.