The University of North Carolina at Charlotte is one of the sixteen campuses that comprise The University of North Carolina. UNC Charlotte aspires to be North Carolina's most energetic and responsive public university. It strives to provide quality undergraduate, graduate, and continuing personal and professional educational opportunities in the liberal arts, sciences, and selected professions. To that end, the uptown site opened in January 1995 to increase educational access to approximately 50,000 people who work in or live near uptown Charlotte. UNC Charlotte Uptown is helping potential students overcome the time and distance barriers to educational opportunities.

At the beginning of January, 1999, UNC Charlotte Uptown moved to 220 North Tryon Street , in the building that for years was the home of Montaldos. This historic property was renovated and provides a superb setting for the new UNC Charlotte Uptown and for the Mint Museum of Craft + Design that occupies the first two floors. UNC Charlotte Uptown occupies the entire third floor. Several classrooms are equipped for wireless internet access and computing, and we have a state of the art video conferencing conference room.

Students working on their MBA are able to complete the entire MBA curriculum at the uptown site. We continue to offer many of the classes in both the Masters of Health Administration and Masters of Accountancy programs.