Rankings

• #1 best public college in North Carolina (Money)
• Top 1% of universities worldwide (Center for World University Rankings)
• #4 veterinary medicine program nationally (U.S. News & World Report)
• #6 best value among public universities nationally (U.S. News & World Report)
• #6 nationally in online graduate computer and IT programs (U.S. News & World Report)
• #7 best value for out-of-state students among public universities (Kiplinger’s)
• #8 in MBA programs with the best return on investment (Poets & Quants)
• #8 online graduate engineering program nationally (U.S. News & World Report)
• #9 best value for in-state students among public universities (Kiplinger’s)
• #9 online MBA nationally (Princeton Review)
• #11 in undergraduate entrepreneurship nationally (Princeton Review and Entrepreneur)
• #12 graduate engineering program among public universities (U.S. News & World Report)
• #16 graduate statistics program nationally (U.S. News & World Report)

Awards and Honors

Rodolphe Barrangou, Todd R. Klaenhammer Distinguished Scholar in Probiotics Research and professor of food, bioprocessing and nutrition sciences, was elected into the National Academy of Engineering.

The National Science Foundation presented its prestigious Early Career Award to nine NC State researchers in fields spanning biomedical engineering; chemistry; educational psychology; electrical and computer engineering; mathematics; mechanical and aerospace engineering; plant and microbial biology; and sustainability science and engineering.

NC State ranks No. 3 in producing Fulbright Scholars among national research universities. The Fulbright Scholar Program honored NC State researchers with eight scholar awards.

Twenty-three of our faculty are members of the National Academies.

Federico Scurti, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, won a Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his inventions of devices that detect and prevent failure of high-temperature superconductors in transportation systems

The National Science Foundation awarded its prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship to 14 NC State students. The fellowship program recognizes outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees.

All four of NC State’s nominees for a Goldwater Scholarship — presented to outstanding undergraduates preparing for careers as mathematicians, scientists and engineers — won the prestigious award: materials science and engineering major Neil Baugh, statistics major Rachel Chen, genetics and computer science double major Nikhil Milind and physics and computer science double major Ana Sofia Uzsoy.

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