The University’s student headcount for the Spring 2025 semester is 2,801, an increase of 1.9 percent compared to Spring 2024 and an increase of 4.7 percent from Spring 2023. Of that total, 2,594 are continuing and returning degree-seeking students,120 are new degree-seeking students, and 87 are non-degree seeking.

Enrollment has rebounded at North Carolina's three state universities in the mountainous western part of the state that was slammed by Hurricane Helene last fall. Appalachian State University, the University of North Carolina Asheville and Western Carolina University are all showing enrollment increases compared to last

Months after Hurricane Helene disrupted the academic year for thousands of students and their families, spring enrollment is up at the UNC System’s three mountain universities.

North Carolina football coach Bill Belichick offered to buy pizza for North Carolina fraternities ahead of the rivalry basketball game vs Duke:

Residents of Asheville and the rest of western North Carolina are still recovering from catastrophic flooding in September.

Two North Carolina-based university health systems have announced an agreement to construct the state’s first standalone children’s hospital.

Locals are showing their concerns through a petition and a Facebook group about UNC Asheville's intentions with a forest the university owns.

Emergency funding from the N.C. General Assembly allowed the universities to fix damaged infrastructure, boost financial aid, and cover spring tuition for all students at UNC Asheville.

Afar's cofounders spent three days on the ground in the North Carolina mountain town and came back with a reminder of the positive impact travel dollars can have.

The large jet parts facility in Western North Carolina could get larger — though its presence hasn’t been without controversy. Raytheon, now named RTX Corp., is the parent company of Pratt & Whitney.

A bill filed this week in the North Carolina House is seeking to ensure all students take American history or American government courses before graduating from community colleges, University of North Carolina schools,

Donald Trump’s Justice Department cited an archaic statute in a legal filing Wednesday, arguing that the president’s executive order ending constitutionally guaranteed birthright citizenship should be totally kosher, since the children of Native Americans weren’t historically considered citizens, either.