College students are back in the Triangle. UNC-Chapel Hill begins classes this week and the class of 2020 is settling in at Duke.
from 30 percent last year to 26 percent this year, and the number of North Carolinians offered admission rose seven percent.
Duke received more than , the second highest number of applicants the school has ever received. Among those in the incoming class, , according to university officials.
NC Central also had a busy year in the admissions office鈥� in applications for the incoming class.
Meanwhile, NC State's Class of 2020 in the school鈥檚 history to have students from all 50 states and all 100 counties in North Carolina.
NC Central and NC State have already resumed classes for the year.
