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Wake County, established on March 12, 1771, has a population of 1,072,203 and a total employment of 553,542 (51.6%). The county seat is Raleigh, which is also the state capital and home of NC State University’s main campus.<\/span><\/p>\n

The county’s two biggest employers, the Wake County Public School System and NC State, are both in education, while healthcare providers Wake Medical and Rex Hospital rank third and fourth, respectively. SAS Institute, an NC State spinoff company co-founded by former professor Jim Goodnight, ranks fifth with nearly 14,000 employees and is one of the largest privately held software companies in the world.<\/p>\n

The county\u2019s most profitable agricultural product remains tobacco, while the largest farm product by acreage is soybeans. By total number, the largest livestock produced is cattle and calves.<\/span><\/p>\n

The county’s largest manufacturer is Cisco Systems Inc., which is the second largest division of the multinational company and the county’s seventh largest employer overall with about 3,400 employees. It manufactures and sells networking hardware, telecommunications\u00a0 equipment and other high-technology services and products.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With more than 35,000 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students, NC State is the second largest of the eight post-secondary schools located in the county, trailing only educational partner Wake Technical Community College, a two-year school that offers associate degrees to its 74,000 students. Wake Tech is one of 10 community colleges participating in the Community College Collaboration (C3) program<\/a>, a dual-admission program offering alternative pathways for students who have proven academic success who are seeking to enroll at NC State.<\/p>\n

The other higher education schools are William Peace University, Meredith College, Campbell University’s Adrian Wiggins School of Law, Saint Augustine’s College, Shaw University and the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.<\/p>\n

The Wake County Public School System ranks as the 15th largest public school district in the country and consists of 27 high schools, 33 middle schools, 104 elementary schools and eight specialized schools. There are also nine accredited charter schools and 31 private schools.<\/p>\n

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