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Wingate, founded in 1896, is a church-affiliated university. Undergraduate programs are offered through the Cannon College of Arts and Sciences and the Schools of Business and Economics, Education, and Graduate Studies. Its 370-acre campus is located in Wingate, 25 miles southeast of Charlotte.

Winston-Salem State, founded in 1892, is a public, comprehensive university. Its 94-acre campus is located in Winston-Salem.

Winthrop is a public university. Founded in 1886 as a teacher training school for women, it adopted coeducation in 1974. Programs are offered through the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business Administration, Education, and Visual and Performing Arts. Its 418-acre campus is located in Rock Hill, 20 miles south of Charlotte, N.C.

North Carolina State, founded in 1887, is a public, comprehensive university. Programs are offered through the Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Education and Psychology, Engineering, Forest Resources, Humanities and Social Science, Management, Physical and Mathematical Science, Textiles, and Veterinary Medicine, and the School of Design. Its 1,600-acre campus is located in Raleigh.

UNC at Asheville, founded in 1927, is a public, liberal arts institution. Its 265-acre campus is located in Asheville, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina.

Sacred Heart University, founded in 1963, is a church-affiliated university. It is the third largest Catholic university in New England and the first New England Catholic college to institute a Student Mobile Computing Program. This requires entering first-year students to have a personal computer. Sacred Heart sponsors the largest NCAA Division I program in the country, with 29 men's and women's varsity teams. Its 56-acre campus is located in Fairfield, two miles west of Bridgeport.

Mannes College, founded in 1916, is the music conservatory of The New School. Its campus is located in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, founded in 1789, is a public, comprehensive institution. The nation's first state university, UNC-Chapel Hill has earned a worldwide reputation for vital teaching, cutting-edge research and distinguished public service. Chartered in 1789, the cornerstone of Carolina's first building, Old East, was laid in 1793 and opened to students in 1795. Carolina was the only public university to award degrees to students in the 18th century. Among the most comprehensive universities in the U.S., UNC-Chapel Hill belongs to the select group of research campuses forming the Association of American Universities. Programs are offered through the College of Arts and Sciences, the Kenan-Flagler Business School, the Division of Continuing Education, the Graduate School, and the Schools of Dentistry, Education, Information and Library Science, Journalism and Mass Communication, Law, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health, and Social Work. A 2,800-member faculty teaches more than 24,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students in more than 100 fields leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees, as well as professional degrees in dentistry, medicine, pharmacy and law. Five health affairs schools, which, with the UNC Health Care System, comprise one of the most complete academic medical centers in the nation, are thoroughly integrated with prestigious liberal arts, basic sciences and high-technology academic programs. The university's outstanding athletic program is a national model. Its 729-acre campus is located in Chapel Hill, eight miles northeast of Durham, and includes the two oldest state university buildings.

UNC Greensboro is a public, comprehensive university. Founded in 1891 as a women's college, it adopted coeducation when it joined the state system in 1963. Its 190-acre campus is located 1-1/2 miles from downtown Greensboro.