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Hi all, Are there others applying to UNC? Does anyone know of any specifics, like how many people they're taking in European (French and German) history this year, or if their funding situation has improved since last year? It's by far my top choice and I'm so anxious!

Thanks, everyone. I've also been warned that it's pretty hard to get in, so I'll definitely polish up my German (but I'm already fluent in French and spent four months in Munich studying).

Hi all, first timer here. I'm currently enrolled in an MA program on the West coast, and plan to apply for history PhD programs for next year. I'm planning on studying French-Swiss relations, with a side of Germany, and a lot of my professors from here keep telling me to apply to UNC. I checked out their faculty, and it definitely seems like a perfect fit. I know that their department is ranked fairly highly, but it worries me that there are no UNC history PhD holders at any of the departments in my neck of the woods. I would expect that for a program that's ranked as highly as UNC is, they would have a lot more people spread out across the whole country, and not just specific regions. I most likely will want to come back to the West coast after my PhD to be close to my family, so I'm worried that if I go to UNC I'm gonna have a really hard time getting a tenured position over here. This is all, of course, very generalized, and I'm trying to simplify things for the sake of clarity and expediency, but I'm sure you know what I'm asking. Has anyone on this board had experience with UNC PhD's working outside of the south-east region? I know there are a few individual examples of "he's there or she's here," but I guess I'm just looking for someone to reassure me. I keep getting a mixed response from non-professors around here whenever I mention UNC, so I don't know how confident I should be about their reputation. Thanks.