From a Modest Beginning Emerged the East Carolina University

Ewhile in the manner that Carolina University began its life as a teacher coaching school, It was founded in 1907 to alleviate the deficit of teachers at that time.

From its diffident beginning has emerged a citizen research university where 23.000 students are enrolled.

The East Carolina University now supplies its state with some of the best educators and its programs are of high distinction in health care and the fine performing arts.

Today the East Carolina offers 106 bachelors degree programs, 71 masters degree programs and four specialist degree programs.

It also offers one first professional MD program and sixteen doctoral programs in its professional colleges and schools, the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences and the Brody college of Medicine.

The mission of East Carolina University is 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.

Graduate programs are offered in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, the Schools of Allied Health Sciences, Medicine, and Nursing, and the Colleges of Business, culture, Fine Arts and Communication, Health and Human Performance, Human Ecology, and Technology and Computer Science.

Graduates of the College of Education have been recognized as Teachers of the Year at local, state, and national levels and gap discipline programming in the College of Education has grown by 30 percent for four consecutive years.

The Brody School of Medicine at ECU is ranked fifth in the nation in rural medicine by U.S. News & World Report and East Carolina prepares more nursing and allied health professionals in North Carolina than any other university in the state.

Surgeons at ECU train physicians from environing the world to perform robotic cardiac mitral valve repair procedures.

East Carolina’s perceptible and performing arts programs are among the largest and most prestigious on the East Coast. The College of Fine Arts and Communication hosts hundreds of public performances and gatherings every year through its professional concert series and the School of Theatre and frolic offers multiple productions of plays, musical theatre, and frolic concerts throughout the year in McGinnis Theatre.

For more information about the East Carolina University please visit http://www.ecu.edu/

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