I'm sure it comes out of their tuition.
Like breathesgelatin said, Chapel Hill requires you to purchase a laptop computer. They give you a discount but it was an IBM Thinkpad and it didn't take me very long to discover that it was a piece of crap. I hated that computer and I was so happy to get rid of it and get a new one. It was such a waste of money... I used it in my Chemistry lab for something totally useless, but otherwise I did not carry it to any of my classes or move it out of my dorm when I didn't have to. An iPod would have been much better
