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School data & stats
Outcomes
Cost
Community
Overview
Fayetteville State University is a historically Black public university in North Carolina, founded in 1867 and now part of the UNC System, serving a student body that includes a substantial number of military-affiliated students connected to the neighboring Army post at Fort Bragg (Fort Liberty).
Academics
Nursing, criminal justice, business, and education are the school's established professional programs, structured to serve working adults and military-connected students as much as traditional-age undergraduates, including flexible scheduling in several majors.
Campus & student life
The campus sits in Fayetteville, a city whose identity is shaped heavily by the nearby military presence, and that shows up directly in student demographics — veterans, active-duty service members, and military family members are a visible and significant part of campus life, not a small side population.
Getting in
Admission is accessible and mission-driven, with the university explicitly positioning itself around social mobility and affordability for first-generation and military-connected students.
After graduation
Fayetteville State has one of the stronger records among HBCUs for affordability-adjusted social mobility outcomes, and criminal justice and nursing graduates in particular find steady placement with regional employers and the military-adjacent job market.
Worth knowing
The military connection is not incidental — active-duty, veteran, and military-family students make up a real, distinctive share of the student body, and programs are often structured with that population's scheduling needs in mind.
Admissions
Deadlines (2026–27 cycle)
Applying
uncfsu.edu ↗High school coursework
Required4 units of English · 4 units of Mathematics (Algebra I & II, Geometry, one unit beyond Algebra II) · 3 units of Science (including one lab course) · 2 units of Social Studies (including U.S. History) · 2 units of additional academic electives (English, math, science, social studies, world languages, or computer science)
Recommended2 sequential units of a World Language
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