UNC Pembroke appeared in four categories in the U.S. News & World Report 2022 Best Colleges rankings.
UNCP was ranked No.65 among Regional Universities in the South—climbing 10 spots each of the last two years. UNCP also ranked as a top performer for Social Mobility (18th), Top Public Schools–Regional Universities in the South (30th), and Best Undergraduate Nursing (221st).
In its 37th year, the U.S. News & World Report latest edition assesses 1,466 U.S. bachelor's degree-granting institutions on 17 measures of academic quality to determine each school's overall score and, by extension, its overall rank.
The report uses multiple measures to capture the various dimensions of academic quality at each college. They fall into nine broad areas: graduation and retention, graduation rate performance, graduate indebtedness, social mobility, faculty resources, expert opinion, financial resources, student excellence and alumni giving.
Social mobility measures how well schools graduated students who receive federal Pell Grants, given to students from households whose family incomes are less than $50,000 annually.