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Schools
The secretary of the North Carolina State Board of Education is the North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction. However, the Board, instead of the superintendent, retains the greater part of the legitimate power for framing public education policies. The chairman of the board also turned into the "chief executive officer" for the school system of the state in 2009.
The state is home to 115 public school systems and each one of them is supervised by a local school board. There may be one or more school systems in a county. The biggest school systems in North Carolina are as follows:
- Wake County Public School System
- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
- Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools
- Guilford County Schools
- Cumberland County Schools
Public Colleges
In 1795, the state introduced the first public university in the US-the University of North Carolina. The university is presently known as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After a period of over 200 years, the University of NC System now consists of 17 public universities.
The University of NC system also underpins many famous African-American colleges and universities, such as the North Carolina Central University, North Carolina A&T State University, Elizabeth City State University, Winston-Salem State University, and Fayetteville State University. Accompanied by public universities, there are 58 public community colleges under the community college system.
Private Colleges
The state of NC also houses several famous private colleges and universities, which include the following:
- Wake Forest University
- Duke University
- Davidson College
- Elon University
- Salem College, the oldest girls' school in the South
- Guilford College, the oldest coeducational institution for higher studies in the South
- John Wesley College, the first undergraduate theological learning institution in NC
- Shaw University, the oldest traditionally black university or college in the South
- High Point University
Given below is a list of private and public liberal arts colleges in NC:
- Belmont Abbey College
- Barton College
- Brevard College
- Bennett College
- Davidson College
- Catawba College
- Lenoir-Rhyne University
- Guilford College
- Meredith College
- Mars Hill College
- Mount Olive College
- Montreat College
- Peace College
- North Carolina Wesleyan College
- University of North Carolina at Asheville
- Salem College
- Warren Wilson College
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