2022 HBCU National Football Champion Celebration
Join us on campus to celebrate our football team — the 2022 HBCU National Champion Eagles — with a parade and pep rally at 10 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023!
North Carolina Central University
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Preparing for Success in a Global Marketplace
Grounded in a legacy of 112 years of excellence, NCCU offers top-ranked programs in disciplines including the sciences, law, business and education.
140th Commencement Exercises
Congratulations to NCCU’s Fall 2022 graduates, who received their degrees on Saturday, Dec. 10!
Amazon Career Choice
NCCU is the first historically Black college and university in North Carolina to be selected as an Amazon Career Choice partner. Amazon’s hourly employees will now have access to our award-winning undergraduate and graduate degree programs in more than 140 fields and disciplines, ranging from business administration to health sciences.
The Eagle Promise
The Eagle Promise is like no other: We confidently commit to your academic success and promise that you will be prepared in a one-of-a-kind environment that empowers you to champion your future.
Tour NCCU Virtually Today
Experience the sloping hills and verdant green of North Carolina Central University. Discover special places on campus—including our classrooms, laboratories, residence halls and more. Our virtual tour is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and can be accessed from the comfort of your home.
NCCU in the News
Science Magazine
A Person’s Race Influences Question Asking as Much as Their Stroke History
HBCU Gameday
North Carolina Central Finishes No. 17 in AFCA Poll
EdTech
Big Tech Investments Build Tomorrow’s Workforce at HBCUs
Life at Disney
HBCU Spotlight: Ida Muldrow, Costume Designer, Disney Live Entertainment
Andscape
North Carolina Central Wins Celebration Bowl, Spoils Jackson State’s Perfect Season
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College Focus: The House of North Carolina Central University
For more than a century, NC Central has prepared students to transform communities.
We made the commitment as the nation's first public liberal arts institution for African American students. We sustain it as a future-focused modern university.
Top-Ranked Programs and World-Class Faculty
As one of the nation’s preeminent community-engaged universities, we have produced leaders who are in touch with the world around them for more than 110 years. Students can discover NCCU’s competitive educational opportunities and graduate positioned for success in a number of industries.
Leading the Way
Johnson O. Akinleye, Ph.D., was elected as the 12th Chancellor of North Carolina Central University on June 26, 2017. Through his leadership, Dr. Akinleye has worked to expand the university’s academic partnerships, including new agreements with community colleges, and introduced to the campus a robust online distance-education program (NCCU Online), K–12 initiatives, and a security strategy to increase safety for campus constituents.
Soaring Eagles
Student Spotlight
Students received the Best Student News Brief and Best Student Feature Reporting awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas on Nov. 12, 2022.
Faculty Spotlight
Julie Horvath, Ph.D., research associate professor of biological and biomedical sciences, is studying rhesus macaque monkeys to learn how a myriad of factors affect human health.
Alumni Spotlight
Brandon McEachern, '05, founder and CEO of the famed Broccoli City Festival and Think Broccoli LLC, will address NCCU's fall 2022 graduates on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022.
NC Central News
NCCU is participating in the pilot NC Student Dialogue Ambassadors program to help students practice and build skills to find common ground for action on major public challenges.
Students received the Best Student News Brief and Best Student Feature Reporting awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas on Nov. 12, 2022.
NCCU will pay homage to influential Black activists and historians with free lectures and a film screening during Black History Month.
Upcoming Events
Feb
08
The Ciompi Quartet, Duke University's resident string quartet, will give a masterclass on composing and arranging for string instruments and string quartets.
Feb
15
In partnership with Pfizer’s Global Black Community (GBC) and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) team, North Carolina Central University (NCCU) is please
Feb
21
The North Carolina Central University Higher Education Administration Graduate Program and the School of Education invite you to the February 2023 Tuesdays T
Mar
02
Join the Department of Nursing for its annual Helen S Miller Lectureship!