The University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP), also known as UNC Pembroke, is a public, co-educational, historically American Indian liberal arts university in the town of Pembroke in Robeson County, North Carolina, United States.
UNC Pembroke is a master's level degree-granting university and one of 17 schools that constitute the University of North Carolina system.
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