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About Chowan: Overview

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Campus Overview
Location: historic Murfreesboro in northeastern North Carolina, a short drive from the Outer Banks and Virginia Beach!

Academic Programs: 63 academic programs to prepare you for the working world!

Financial Assistance Available: Chowan is affordable! More than 95 percent of first-year students receive financial assistance.

Student/Faculty Ratio: 15:1, Chowan students are known by names and not by numbers!

Students: approximately 1000 undergraduates of diverse backgrounds from across the US and around the world!

Faculty: expert professors, no student-teacher assistants!

Campus: 300 park-like acres including Lake Vann, "Squirrel Park," and the original 1851 McDowell Columns building, with several buildings on campus covered by our wireless network! Click here to view Chowan's campus map.

Activities: social and sports events, concerts, plays, dances, and movies, plus more than 45 student clubs and organizations to help build your resume!

Athletics: The CU Hawks play in NCAA D-II and National Christian College Athletic Association competition, so Hawks sports are fun to play and fun to watch!

Intramurals: a more than a dozen fun and exciting activities to choose from, plus the Jenkins Center, our new wellness facility, also offers aerobics and a well-equipped weight room to strengthen mind, body and soul!

Technology: Campus-wide fiber-optic network and "Blackboard" communication system, computer labs, multimedia "Smart" classrooms, hardware and software discounts and support, high-speed Internet access to always keep you connected!

Mission: To provide a caring environment characterized by Christian values and intellectual freedom in which students can gain the knowledge, skills, creativity, and ethical values they need to flourish in a rapidly changing, culturally diverse global society.

History: A Christian educational institution founded in 1848 by Baptist families and named to honor the Native American Algonquin Chowanook tribe, "people of the south", giving Chowan a long and distinguished tradition of faith and education in Northeastern NC.

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Accreditations
Chowan University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award the associate and baccalaureate degree. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097 or call 404-679-4500 for questions about the accreditation of Chowan University.

In addition several departmental programs are accredited by the appropriate state or national agencies. The Education program is accredited by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).

The Music program is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM). The University is authorized by the immigration authorities of the United States for the training of foreign students.

Chowan University is approved by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for the Certification of Eligibility of Chapter 30 and Chapter 35 coverage of the GI Bill benefits for all military services, including the National Guard.