Today, ECU is the fourth–largest university in North Carolina with 21,589 undergraduate and 5,797 graduate students, including the 308 medicine and 52 dental students. The university did not remain independent for long on July 1, 1972, it was incorporated into the University of North Carolina System, the successor to the Consolidated University. Moore, who opposed the creation of a university system separate from the Consolidated University of North Carolina, ECC was made a regional university effective July 1, 1967, and assumed its present name, East Carolina University. A change of name to East Carolina College in 1951 reflected this expanded mission.
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Progress toward full college status was made in 1948 with the designation of the Bachelor of Arts as a liberal arts degree, and the Bachelor of Science as a teaching degree.
A master's degree program was authorized in 1929 the first such degree granted by the college was in 1933. In 1920, ECTTS became a four–year institution and renamed East Carolina Teachers College its first bachelor's degrees were awarded the following year in education. Although its purpose was to train "young white men and women", there were no male graduates until 1932. The chairman of its original Board of Trustees, Thomas Jordan Jarvis, a former Governor of North Carolina now known as the "Father of ECU", participated in groundbreaking ceremonies for the first buildings on July 2, 1908, in Greenville, North Carolina, and ECTTS opened its doors on October 5, 1909. Public Laws of North Carolina, 1907, Chapter 820 titled An Act to Stimulate High School Instruction in the Public Schools of the State and Teacher Training is the official law chartering East Carolina Teachers Training School (ECTTS) on March 8, 1907, by the North Carolina General Assembly. Main article: History of East Carolina University There are over 400 registered clubs on campus including fraternities and sororities. There are eleven social sororities, 16 social fraternities, four historically black sororities, five historically black fraternities, one Native American fraternity, and one Native American sorority. ECU is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". The College of Nursing, College of Allied Health Sciences, The Brody School of Medicine, and School of Dental Medicine are located on the health science campus. All of the non-health sciences majors are located on the main campus.
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The nine undergraduate colleges, graduate school, and four professional schools are located on these four properties. ECU also operates the Coastal Studies Institute. The university's academic facilities are located on six properties: Main Campus, Health Sciences Campus, West Research Campus, the Field Station for Coastal Studies in New Holland, North Carolina, the Millennial Research Innovation Campus in Greenville's warehouse district and an overseas campus in Certaldo Alto, Italy. It is the fourth largest university in North Carolina.įounded on March 8, 1907, as a teacher training school, East Carolina has grown from its original 43 acres (17 ha) to almost 1,600 acres (647 ha) today. East Carolina University ( ECU) is a public research university in Greenville, North Carolina.