UNC-Chapel Hill academic fraud scandal by the numbers

Published: December 19, 2012 

A look at the numbers behind the UNC-Chapel Hill academic fraud scandal:

54: number of African studies lecture-style classes that never met from mid-2007 to mid-2011 686: total enrollments in the 54 classes

64: percentage of enrollments by athletes

4: percentage that athletes make up of undergraduate student body

40: number of classes that had a majority of athlete enrollments

39: percentage of enrollments by football players

3: percentage of enrollments by basketball players

23: number of enrollments by men’s basketball players from mid-2007 to mid-2009

0: number of enrollments by men’s basketball players afterward, when a new academic counselor took over the team

1,433: independent study enrollments in African studies from fall 2001 to summer 2006

327: independent study enrollments in African studies from fall 2006 to summer 2011

39: independent study enrollments by men’s basketball players from fall 2001 to summer 2006

1: independent study enrollments by men’s basketball players from fall 2006 to summer 2011

5: number of investigations into the scandal$78 million:most recent year’s expenses for UNC-CH athletic department.

$16.9 million: most recent year’s profit from UNC’s basketball team

$10.9 million: most recent year’s profit from UNC’s football team

2: rank in basketball team value according to Forbes Magazine (Football is unranked.)

1: rank in ESPN’s assessment of top 50 college basketball programs, based on wins, championships and lack of NCAA sanctions

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