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Academics

Your college degree is a major investment. And you need a university that prepares you for whatever comes next. 

This is Your Launchpad

At NC State, our students work with world-class faculty and learn by doing. Students gain solid experience in their field of choice. They tackle problems alongside top faculty and researchers. And they see serious returns after they graduate.

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Major Opportunities

From Accounting to Zoology, every one of our 100+ majors offers opportunities for hands-on, experiential learning that paves the way to success.

Not sure where to start? Our University Catalog is designed to help you discover that best-fit degree program that aligns with your unique interests.

Where We Shine

We offer majors that support our state’s key industries, such as natural resources and textiles.

Agriculture and
Life Sciences

We stay true to our roots while innovating in some of the nation’s fastest-growing fields.

STEM

We’re a powerhouse among national universities for science, technology, engineering and math.

Business and
Humanities

From entrepreneurship to linguistics, our offerings are as broad as your interests.

$67k+ Average Starting Salary for Undergraduates

More than half of NC State undergraduates have a job lined up before graduation.

Study Differently

Here, learning doesn’t just happen in lecture halls. It happens at museums, dig sites, county fairs, futuristic fabric labs and everywhere in between.

Get your hands dirty — and take classes you can’t find anywhere else. See what’s waiting to be explored:

  • The Science of Studying Dinosaurs
  • Introduction to Adventure Education
  • Beginning Bagpiping
  • The Business of Art and Design
  • Introduction to Entrepreneurship
  • Sustainable Materials for Green Housing
  • Earth From Space
  • North Carolina Forests
  • Predictive Analysis for Business
  • An Introduction to the Honey Bee and Beekeeping

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Academic colleges representing all major fields

15:1

Student-to-faculty ratio

36

Students per class on average

Graduate students work in the Pulp and paper lab; in the department of Forest Biomaterials (CNR). The students are working in the Sustainable and Alternative Fibers Initiative. The Sustainable and Alternative Fibers Initiative (SAFI) is the major global university-industry partnership effort focused on researching, developing, and utilizing alternative fibers to manufacture a myriad of sustainable products. Photo by Marc Hall

Meet Our Faculty

Our faculty care about what they do, and their enthusiasm is infectious. When our graduates leave campus, they take those big, bold ideas with them.

Cathrine Hoyo

Cathrine Hoyo, a Goodnight Innovation Distinguished Chair, is an NC State epidemiologist leading a wide-ranging study to learn how environmental contaminants affect liver health in various populations. A $50,000 grant from the Center for Human Health and Environment and the UNC Center of Environmental Health Susceptibility has catapulted her research, paving a way to discovering new, life-changing findings in her field.

Cathrine Hoyo

Rodolphe Barrangou

Rodolphe Barrangou, Todd R. Klaenhammer Distinguished Professor in the Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences at NC State, has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Barrangou is the editor-in-chief of The CRISPR Journal, a peer-reviewed publication that brings together researchers and practitioners in a wide range of disciplines.

Rodolphe Barrangou

Eduardo C. Corral

Assistant professor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences’ Master of fine Arts program, Eduardo C. Corral believes his setting at a traditional land-grant university is the perfect place for a poet to teach and learn, surrounded by NC State’s traditional disciplines of agriculture and technology. Corral’s curiosity through poetry has been recognized for its insightfulness with the prestigious Lannan Literary Award and Fellowship.

Eduardo C. Corral