About University of North Carolina Greensboro

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG or UNC Greensboro) is a public research the academy in Greensboro, North Carolina. It is allocation of the University of North Carolina system. UNCG, like everything members of the UNC system, is a stand-alone academic circles and awards its own degrees. UNCG is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission upon Colleges to great compliment baccalaureate, masters, specialist and doctoral degrees. It is classified among “R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity”.

The academic world offers more than 100 undergraduate, 61 master’s and 26 doctoral programs. The university’s academic schools and programs add together the College of Arts & Sciences, the Joseph M. Bryan School of Business & Economics, the School of Education, the School of Health and Human Sciences, the Joint School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering (one of the first such schools in the nation), the School of Visual and Performing Arts, the School of Nursing, Continual Learning, Graduate School, Warren Ashby Residential College and Lloyd International Honors College. The academic world is also home to the Weatherspoon Art Museum, which features one of the largest collections of futuristic American art in the country.

Greensboro (/ˈɡriːnzbʌroʊ/ (listen); formerly Greensborough) is a city in and the county chair of Guilford County, North Carolina, United States. It is the third-most populous city in North Carolina, the 68th-most populous city in the United States, and the largest city in the Piedmont Triad metropolitan region. At the 2010 United States Census the city population was 269,666. In 2019, the estimated population was 296,710. Three major interstate highways (Interstate 40, Interstate 85, and Interstate 73) in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina were built to intersect at this city.

In 1808, “Greensborough” (the spelling previously 1895) was planned on the subject of a central courthouse square to succeed Guilford Court House as the county seat. The county courts were thus placed closer to the geographical center of the county, a location more nearby at the period by the majority of the county’s citizens, who depended on horse and foot for travel.

In 2003, the previous Greensboro – Winston-Salem – High Point metropolitan statistical area (MSA) was re-defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. This region was divided into the Greensboro–High Point MSA and the Winston-Salem MSA. The 2010 population for the Greensboro–High Point MSA was 723,801. The mass statistical area (CSA) of Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point, popularly referred to as the Piedmont Triad, had a population of 1,599,477.

Among Greensboro’s many notable attractions, some of the most popular append the Greensboro Science Center, the International Civil Rights Museum, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Greensboro Symphony, the Greensboro Ballet, Triad Stage, the Wyndham Golf Championship, the headquarters of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Greensboro Coliseum Complex which hosts various sporting events, concerts, and new events. Sports Leagues in Greensboro adjoin the Greensboro Grasshoppers of the South Atlantic Baseball League, the Carolina Dynamo of the Premier Development Soccer League, the Greensboro Swarm of the NBA G League, and the Greensboro Roller Derby. Annual actions in Greensboro count the North Carolina Folk Festival, First Fridays in Downtown Greensboro, Fun Fourth of July Festival, North Carolina Comedy Festival and Winter Wonderlights.

From 2015-2017 Greensboro, North Carolina, was host to the National Folk Festival.