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Jul 7, 2025

NC State Ranks as a Top 10 Best Value

NC State has made another impressive showing in Princeton Review’s annual rankings of the nation’s best colleges.  Princeton Review ranked NC State in the top 10 on two different best value lists. Among public schools that provide the best value for students with no demonstrated financial need, NC State jumped eight spots since last year’s ranking, from No.…
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Apr 8, 2025

COE Ranked Top-15 Public Program by U.S. News for 10th Year Running

The College of Engineering at North Carolina State University is one of the top 15 public engineering programs in the country for the 10th straight year, according to the latest rankings of graduate programs by U.S. News & World Report.
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Aug 15, 2024

New rankings place NC State among national leaders in science research output

New rankings place NC State among the nation’s top universities in research output in science fields. The recently released Leiden Ranking, produced by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands, ranks universities by articles published in scientific journals. The bibliographic database Web of Science is the primary source of the…
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Jun 20, 2024

Biological and Agricultural Engineering programs continue to shine in rankings

The graduate program in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering has ranked No. 3 in the nation according to the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings.
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Feb 8, 2024

College’s distance education programs honored by U.S. News and World Report

The distance education programs offered by the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University have been recognized by U.S. News and World Report as some of the best in the nation, according to new data released by the publication for 2024.
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Sep 21, 2023

University, College continue to improve in U.S. News undergraduate rankings

In the 2024 ratings released this week, NC State moved up on the main Best National Universities list, ranking 60th in the nation, an increase of 12 spots over 2022. Among public institutions, the university remains in the top 30 nationally, moving up one place to 28th.
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Apr 25, 2023

College of Engineering advances in U.S. News graduate rankings

The 2023-24 rankings, released on April 25, show NC State’s College of Engineering ranked as the 25th-best graduate engineering program in the United States, and 12th among public institutions. That’s up from 26th and 13th in the previous rankings, released in spring 2022.
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Jan 24, 2023

College of Engineering’s distance master’s program ranks among nation’s best

NC State Engineering Online, the College of Engineering’s graduate distance education program, has again been recognized as being among the top such programs by new rankings released by U.S. News and World Report for 2023.
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Sep 12, 2022

Engineering among NC State University advances in U.S. News rankings

NC State joins the ranks of the top 30 public universities in the nation, gaining ground in measures of value, reputation and student success.