Fact Book and Benchmarks
By The Numbers
603
Professional
students
113
Graduate
students
128
Faculty
$75.5M
In annual
expenditures
$39M
In external research grants
$103.1M
In endowment
$8.8M
In private funds raised annually
231
Total active, issued patents
(US and foreign)
48
Formed start-ups
as of 02/24/2020
Rankings
No. 1
School of Pharmacy as ranked by U.S. News & World Report
No. 2
Among schools and colleges of pharmacy in total external research funding
No. 2
Among schools and colleges of pharmacy in NIH research funding
No. 3
Best Global Universities in Pharmacology and Toxicology ranked by U.S. News & World Report in 2019
No. 4
Best in Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences ranked by 2020 ShanghaiRanking Global Rankings
as of September 2020
Growth and Impact
Total Number of Faculty
110%
2019: 128
2003: 61
Total Pharm.D. Enrollment
19%
2019: 603
2003: 505
Total Ph.D. and M.S. Enrollment
61%
2019: 113
2003: 70
Total Number of Staff (administrative & research)
222%
2018: 158
2003: 49
Total External Research Grant Funding
765%
2018: $37,011,727
2003: $4,278,656
NIH Research Grant Funding (part of external research funds)
628%
2018: $28,503,143
2003: $3,913,665
U.S. News & World Report Rank
6 spots
2018: No. 1
2003: No. 7
Salary Recovery Dollars
306%
2018: $2,465,787
2004: $606,860
Space (Chapel Hill campus)
92%
2018: 315,083 square feet
2003: 164,507 square feet
as of 10/25/2019