East Carolina University

East Carolina University is a public research university in Greenville, North Carolina, and the fourth largest university in the state. It was founded on 8 March 1907 as a teacher training school and has grown from 43 acres to almost 1,600 acres, with academic facilities on six properties including a health sciences campus and an overseas campus in Certaldo Alto, Italy. It has nine undergraduate colleges, a graduate school and four professional schools, and it is classified among the R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity. In the crime atlas it is known through the Department of Criminal Justice, where criminologist Jonathan Sorensen is a professor and studies the death penalty in the United States.