The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (UNC Chapel Hill), a private research university with an undergraduate enrollment of 19,897 students, plays a total of 26 NCAA sports, 12 of them for men and 14 for women. In the 2021/2022 season, UNC Chapel Hill had a total of 762 NCAA athletes comprising 4% of the total student body.

UNC Chapel Hill is highly likely to have recruited many of the athletes on its NCAA sports teams through the Division 1 athlete recruitment process, enabling these recruited athletes to leapfrog the normal admissions process. It is our best estimate based on team profiles that 50% to 75% of their teams comprise of recruited athletes while the remaining athletes are “walk-on” athletes who were admitted to UNC Chapel Hill on merits unrelated to sports.

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Here’s the list of sports played at UNC Chapel Hill by gender together with their team sizes.

All data compiled from University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill athletic website.