East Carolina University (ECU) is the fastest-growing university in the sixteen-campus University of North Carolina system. ECU is the largest producer of teachers, nurses, allied health practitioners, and hospitality management professionals who work in North Carolina.

East Carolina's distance education programs are top ranked throughout the nation. East Carolina leads the University of North Carolina system in distance learning enrollment:

* GetEducated.com ranked ECU's online MBA and computer science degree programs first nationally
* ECU's online education degree program was ranked third
* ECU's online MBA, computer science, and education degree programs were deemed Best Buys

The Brody School of Medicine at ECU is ranked sixth in the nation in primary care by U.S. News and World Report. The medical school is also listed seventh nationally in the rural medicine specialty, and ninth nationally in the family medicine specialty by the magazine.

For nearly a century, East Carolina University has served the people of North Carolina and the nation. From modest beginnings as a teacher training school, ECU has grown to become an emerging, national research university with an enrollment approaching 26,000 students.

In 1907, East Carolina was founded to alleviate the desperate shortage of teachers in the eastern part of the state. Our College of Education continues to supply the nation with some of its best educators, and now it has been joined by programs of high distinction in health care, business, and the fine and performing arts. The university is no longer a small school, but an engine of economic development and a source of discovery.

Today, East Carolina is a member institution of the University of North Carolina, and offers 104 bachelors degree programs, 74 masters degree programs, four specialist degree programs, one first-professional MD program, and 17 doctoral programs in our professional colleges and schools, the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, and the Brody School of Medicine.

With a mission of teaching, research, and service, East Carolina University is a dynamic institution connecting people and ideas, finding solutions to problems, and seeking the challenges of the future.

ECU is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees. In addition, individual disciplines at East Carolina - including business, education, and health care - are accredited by and have membership in more that 150 organizations.

The main campus of East Carolina University is located on 520 acres in a residential area of Greenville, North Carolina, and features more than 4.7 million square feet of academic, research, and residential space. ECU also is home to the 205-acre Health Sciences Campus (which includes the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University) and the 650-acre West Research Campus, as well as three academic libraries.

Greenville is a growing city of about 60,000 that is a business, cultural, educational, and medical hub in eastern North Carolina. From ECU, it is less than a two-hour drive to both the state capital of Raleigh to the west and Atlantic Coast beaches to the east. Greenville is about 265 miles south of our nation's capital, Washington, D.C.

Greenville is the county seat of Pitt County, which has a relatively mild climate and experiences all four seasons each year. The average summer temperature is 84 degrees Fahrenheit while the average winter temperature is 44 degrees Fahrenheit.