f All About UNC Asheville Nationally ranked Forbes magazine ranks UNC Asheville the 2nd highest “Best Buy” college in North Carolina (surpassed only by UNC Chapel Hill) and 21st in the nation. U.S. News and World Report lists UNC Asheville as 7th in the nation among public liberal arts colleges.
Princeton Review lists UNC Asheville in the
By the Numbers
top 75 public “Best Value Colleges” and “The Best 377 Colleges,” with distinctions as a “Top Green College” and “Top College Town.”
Average Weighted GPA:
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance ranks UNC
Half of incoming freshmen were in the top of their high-school graduating classes
Asheville as one of the nation’s 100 best values in public colleges, and the 6th lowest in average debt among graduates.
Our students represent counties of N.C., and states, plus Washington, D.C
Average SAT:
1194
(up from 1174 in 2011)
4.09 20%
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