This document reviews higher education activities in North Carolina including current enrollment, enrollment trends, undergraduate transfers, degrees conferred, faculty, library resources, extension activities, student costs, admissions, student financial aid, student housing, and financial statistics. Highlights indicate: (1) In fall 1973 a total of 150,261 fulltime and parttime students were enrolled in North Carolina colleges and universities; (2) The total 1973 enrollment increased by 1.5 percent over the 1972 figure; (3) More than 10,000 new undergraduate transfer students were enrolled; (4) The number of bachelor's degrees granted during the year ending June 30, 1973 increased by 6.3 percent; (5) In fall 1973 the number of fulltime faculty in public and private senior institutions was 8,585; (6) The number of bound volumes in libraries in fall 1973 was 5,554,403 in the public sector and 5,481,436 in the private sector; (7) Public and private senior institutions enrolled 64,413 persons in noncredit extension courses; (8) Tuition and required fees charges for the 1973-74 academic year for North Carolina students attending public senior institutions range from $368 to $601; (9) The mean Scholastic Aptitude Test score of entering freshmen in public senior institutions in fall 1973 was 451 on the verbal test and 486 on the mathematical test; (10) Financial aid for undergraduate students at all institutions varied greatly with average per recipient ranging from $77 to $4,500. (MJM)