Is Duke any better?
LOL...
The student population at Duke is the cream of the crop, while UNC is a public university. Two totally different environments.
Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is a Duke Grad. So was Richard Nixon. Duke tends to be old money with higher academic requirements.
Having been a professor for many years at both public and private universities, I can say that the public universities have students as good as the best at the private universities, just that the public have a more diverse spectrum of abilities.
I have many friends and family members at both Duke and UNC faculties. UNC is far more liberal.