Ranked #106 in the 2013 US News University rankings http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges

Fell 5 spaces from last year, now the lowest ranked school in the ACC. 4 years ago was ranked #85.

9/12/2012 1:04:25 PM

What's the methodology for the rankings?

9/12/2012 2:04:31 PM

^
http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2012/09/11/how-us-news-calculates-its-best-colleges-rankings

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/14/110214fa_fact_gladwell

[Edited on September 12, 2012 at 2:22 PM. Reason : asdf]

9/12/2012 2:17:31 PM

Contribution to ranking score:
22.5% Survey data of high-level university staff and high school counselors about their personal opinions on which schools are best.
20% Freshman retention rate
20% Composite index of class size, faculty pay, faculty education credentials, student/faculty ratio, fulltime/part-time faculty ratio
15% Selectivity index - SAT/ACT score, Acceptance rate, %tile class rank of admitted students
10% Per-student academic spending
7.5% Graduation rate corrected for student quality and per student spending
5% Alumni giving rate

9/12/2012 5:23:15 PM

Chapel Hill was #30

9/12/2012 7:18:46 PM

Duke is #8.

9/12/2012 8:29:57 PM

But the engineering major of NC State is ranked #31 still, while UNC is #82.

[Edited on September 12, 2012 at 8:38 PM. Reason : add another note]

9/12/2012 8:37:16 PM

^see, CHASS is weighing us down. Time to shed that dead weight and force people into real majors or to their homeland a few miles west.

9/13/2012 8:34:06 AM

Yes. NC State is poor in CHASS but EB I and II really remind me of Silicone Valley.

9/13/2012 8:51:12 AM

We should follow Duke to put a chapel on campus to enhance the humanities atmosphere.

9/13/2012 8:53:01 AM

Nah, we don't need a chapel on campus. Though a Hooters would do.

9/13/2012 9:02:02 AM

LOL That will make the ranking even lower.

9/13/2012 9:19:11 AM

The problem is the Acceptance rate is too high. NCSU accepts over half the students that apply (52%).

CHASS majors are people who couldn't get into Chapel Hill..

[Edited on September 13, 2012 at 11:33 AM. Reason : ]

9/13/2012 11:31:48 AM

Yes, they send out a lot of admissions.

9/13/2012 11:56:02 AM

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"now the lowest ranked school in the ACC."

man that's rough.

9/13/2012 5:58:13 PM

well, NC State does hate their students, so there is that

9/13/2012 6:29:25 PM

but it is #1 in my heart.

9/13/2012 7:30:13 PM

You need to face the reality.

9/13/2012 9:46:20 PM

All I care about is that we always seem well respected within the industry I work in. /shrug

9/17/2012 9:18:21 PM

You are going to fall behind at NCSU because you aren't going to build as many contacts with people who are going places, but all of that can be overcome by your own talent and hard work.

9/18/2012 12:53:22 AM

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"But the engineering major of NC State is ranked #31 still, while UNC is #82. "

Since when does UNC have an engineering program??

9/18/2012 8:44:24 AM

http://admissions.unc.edu/Academics/Majors/Individual_Majors/Applied_Sciences_and_Engineering.html

pretty sure their BME is linked with State though.

9/18/2012 1:46:04 PM

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"20% Freshman retention rate"

WTF why is this considered a good thing? UNC has had a problem with grade inflation for a long time and it HELPS their ranking. That is fucked up.

9/20/2012 10:16:07 PM

No one gives a shit about ranking unless they are trying to become a professor. They care about jobs. NC State has the biggest Engineering Career fair in the state. I'll take that over some high ranking in a shitty survey any day.

9/23/2012 12:08:35 AM

^

9/24/2012 5:53:42 PM

That's just something people at the dumb school say.

9/24/2012 9:41:08 PM

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"NC State has the biggest Engineering Career fair in the state."

This is happening next week FYI. Tues and Wed from 9:30-4

Open to the public.. I will be there Wed if I can get the time off from my current job

9/25/2012 11:45:07 AM

everyone is just going to tell you to apply online

9/25/2012 12:08:38 PM

Exactly

9/25/2012 12:27:11 PM

[old thread but just reading it over]

^^ true, but as an engineer who gets sent to State to speak and recruit on behalf of my company some, I can definitely say that we utilize the face to face time and paper resumes as well. You still always have to apply online because of the way jobs are posted and tracked and government regulations and all that (it helps a big company keep their records for reporting and in general helps keep records of everything job related within the company. It would be a mess having to deal with thousands of paper resumes if that was the ONLY way we handled recruiting).

I typically take notes on resumes while speaking to candidates and they actually are used and good ones passed on to department managers. You just have to also apply online if you are actually interested in a position.

[Edited on April 6, 2013 at 9:12 PM. Reason : ]

4/6/2013 9:11:46 PM

Quote :

""NC State has the biggest Engineering Career fair in the state.""

Try biggest engineering career fair on the east coast. I heard it from LMV himself last week. You're not calling our Dean of Engineering a liar are you?

but seriously its not difficult at all to get an internship through the career fair. Entry level jobs are even possible with a good resume and a little bit of effort.

4/11/2013 7:26:47 PM

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"All I care about is that we always seem well respected within the industry I work in. /shrug"

QFT! When I started working at my current job and people asked where I graduated, I had a number of people say "NC State? They have a pretty tough senior design program for their aerospace students, right?"

4/12/2013 9:32:48 AM