Coordinates: 35°47′08″N 78°40′18″W / 35.785548°N 78.67157°W / 35.785548; -78.67157
| North Carolina State University | |
|---|---|
| Established | March 7, 1887 |
| Type | Land-grant university Sea-grant university Space-grant university Public |
| Endowment | $617.6 million |
| Chancellor | William Randolph "Randy" Woodson |
| Academic staff | 2,068 |
| Admin. staff | 5,554 |
| Students | 34,767 |
| Undergraduates | 25,176 |
| Postgraduates | 9,591 |
| Location | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States |
| Campus | Urban 2,110 acres (8.5 km2) |
| Former names | North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts and North Carolina State College |
| Nobel Laureates | 1"Alumnus Shares 2007 Nobel Peace Prize". 2008 NC State University. NC State University. http://www.ncsu.edu/featured-stories/intl-connections/oct-2007/nobel-prize/. Retrieved Aug 18, 2012. |
| Colors | Red and white |
| Athletics | NCAA Division I FBS 24 varsity sports |
| Nickname | Wolfpack |
| Website | www.ncsu.edu |
North Carolina State University at Raleigh (NCSU) is a public, coeducational, research university located in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Commonly known as NC State, the university is part of the University of North Carolina system and is a land, sea, and space grant institution. The university forms one of the corners of the Research Triangle together with Duke University in Durham and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The North Carolina General Assembly founded the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, now NC State, on March 7, 1887, as a land-grant college. Today, NC State has an enrollment of more than 34,000 students, making it the largest university in North Carolina. NC State has historical strengths in agriculture, life sciences, design, engineering and textiles and now offers 106 bachelor's degrees. The graduate school offers 104 master's degrees, 61 doctoral degrees, and a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.
Read more about North Carolina State University: History, Athletics, Student Life, Alumni
Famous quotes containing the words north, carolina, state and/or university:
“So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else available. Western civilization not only provides a bit of life, a pinch of liberty and the occasional pursuance of happiness, it’s also the only thing that’s ever tried to. Our civilization is the first in history to show even the slightest concern for average, undistinguished, none-too-commendable people like us.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)
“The great problem of American life [is] the riddle of authority: the difficulty of finding a way, within a liberal and individualistic social order, of living in harmonious and consecrated submission to something larger than oneself.... A yearning for self-transcendence and submission to authority [is] as deeply rooted as the lure of individual liberation.”
—Wilfred M. McClay, educator, author. The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America, p. 4, University of North Carolina Press (1994)
“Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the state of victimization. When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts. After all, one reckons, “they” don’t want me, “they” accept their own mediocrity and refuse my best, “they” don’t deserve me.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)
“Like dreaming, reading performs the prodigious task of carrying us off to other worlds. But reading is not dreaming because books, unlike dreams, are subject to our will: they envelop us in alternative realities only because we give them explicit permission to do so. Books are the dreams we would most like to have, and, like dreams, they have the power to change consciousness, turning sadness to laughter and anxious introspection to the relaxed contemplation of some other time and place.”
—Victor Null, South African educator, psychologist. Lost in a Book: The Psychology of Reading for Pleasure, introduction, Yale University Press (1988)