North Carolina State University

North Carolina State University, also known as NC State or NCSU, is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States, founded on 7 March 1887 by the North Carolina General Assembly as an agricultural and mechanical college.北卡罗来纳州立大学又称 NC State 或 NCSU，是美国北卡罗来纳州罗利的一所公立赠地研究型大学，1887 年 3 月 7 日由北卡罗来纳州议会作为农工学院创立。

It is the largest university in the Carolinas, a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina system, offers degrees in more than a hundred fields of study, and is classified among R1 Doctoral Universities with very high research activity.该校是卡罗来纳两州规模最大的大学，属北卡罗来纳大学系统的成员机构，提供逾百个学科领域的学位，并被列为 R1 级博士大学（极高研究活跃度）。

Its red-brick Main Campus is anchored by the Memorial Belltower, its mixed-use Centennial Campus places university laboratories alongside government and corporate partners, its Wolfpack teams are founding members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, and nearly 40,000 students are enrolled.该校红砖主校区以纪念钟塔为核心，混合用途的百年校区把大学实验室与政府及企业伙伴并置，其 Wolfpack 运动队是大西洋海岸联盟的创始成员，在校学生接近 40,000 人。

History

• The North Carolina General Assembly founded the institution on 7 March 1887 as a land-grant college under the name North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, shortened in everyday use to North Carolina A&M.北卡罗来纳州议会于 1887 年 3 月 7 日依照赠地学院法案创建该校，法定名为北卡罗来纳农业与机械艺术学院，日常简称为 North Carolina A&M。

• As a land-grant college it was charged with providing a liberal and practical education while focusing on military tactics, agriculture and the mechanical arts without excluding classical studies, objectives the university has maintained and built upon since.作为赠地学院，其使命是在不限弃古典学科的前提下侧重军事战术、农业与机械艺术，提供兼具博雅与实用性的教育，这一目标沿用并不断被拓展至今。

• In the segregated system of the time the college was open only to white students, a restriction that shaped its first half-century.在当时实行种族隔离的体制下，学院仅向白人学生开放，这一限制塑造了该校前半个世纪的面貌。

• North Carolina A&M opened its doors to students in 1889, after which enrollment fluctuated while its mandate expanded.North Carolina A&M 于 1889 年正式开学，此后学生数目几经波动，办学职责却持续扩展。

• In 1917 the college changed its name to North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering, in ordinary speech North Carolina State.1917 年学院更名为北卡罗来纳农业与工程州立学院，通常简称北卡罗来纳州立学院。

• During the Great Depression the North Carolina state government under Governor O. Max Gardner administratively combined the University of North Carolina, the Woman's College, now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and NC State.大萧条时期，在州长 O. Max Gardner 主持下，北卡罗来纳州政府把北卡罗来纳大学、女子学院（今北卡罗来纳大学格林斯伯勒分校）与 NC State 行政合并。

• That conglomeration became the University of North Carolina in 1931, giving NC State its place in a consolidated state system.这一联合体于 1931 年成为北卡罗来纳大学，确立了 NC State 在州内统一高教体系中的位置。

• Blake R. Van Leer joined as dean in 1937 and started the graduate program for engineering among numerous other programs.Blake R. Van Leer 于 1937 年出任院长，创办了工程研究生教育在内的众多项目。

• In 1942 Van Leer successfully encouraged NC State's first women to pursue an engineering degree, with four to five women enrolling, and the text records that the first women graduated in 1941.1942 年 Van Leer 成功推动 NC State 首批女性攻读工程学位，入学者为四至五人，文献记载首批女生于 1941 年毕业。

• After the Second World War the G.I. Bill enabled thousands of veterans to attend college and enrollment shot past the 5,000 mark in 1947.二战后《退伍军人权利法案》让数千名退伍军人得以入学，注册人数在 1947 年突破 5,000 人大关。

• New academic units followed, including the School of Architecture and Landscape Design in 1947, renamed the School of Design in 1948, the School of Education in 1948, and the School of Forestry in 1950.随后新设多个教学单位：1947 年的建筑与景观设计学院（1948 年改名为设计学院）、1948 年的教育学院以及 1950 年的林学院。

• In the summer of 1956, following the 1954 US Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated public education was unconstitutional, the college enrolled its first African-American undergraduates, Ed Carson, Manuel Crockett, Irwin Holmes and Walter Holmes.1954 年美国最高法院在布朗诉教育委员会案中裁定公立学校种族隔离违宪，1956 年夏该学院录取首批非裔本科生 Ed Carson、Manuel Crockett、Irwin Holmes 与 Walter Holmes。

• In 1962 State College officials wished to change the institution's name to North Carolina State University, but consolidated university administrators approved a change to the University of North Carolina at Raleigh, frustrating students and alumni who protested with letter-writing campaigns.1962 年州立学院当局希望改名为北卡罗来纳州立大学，但大学合并管理机构批准改用北卡罗来纳大学罗利分校之名，令学生与校友不满并以写信运动表示抗议。

• In 1963 State College officially became North Carolina State of the University of North Carolina, a name that drew continued objection from students, faculty and alumni.1963 年州立学院正式更名为北卡罗来纳大学之北卡罗来纳州立学院，学生、教师与校友对这一名称持续反对。

• After two additional years of protest the name was changed to the current official name, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, though by longstanding convention the at Raleigh portion is omitted even in diplomas and school officials have discouraged its use.再经两年抗议后改为现行法定名北卡罗来纳州立大学罗利分校，但依长期惯例，毕业证书等正式文件均省略“罗利分校”字样，校方亦不鼓励使用该后缀。

• In 1966 single-year enrollment reached 10,000, and in the 1970s enrollment surpassed 19,000 while the School of Humanities and Social Sciences was added.1966 年单年注册人数达 10,000，20 世纪 70 年代突破 19,000，并增设人文与社会科学学院。

• Celebrating its centennial in 1987, NC State reorganised its internal structure by renaming all its schools to colleges, the School of Engineering becoming the College of Engineering, and in the same year gained 700 acres of land developed as Centennial Campus.1987 年百年校庆之际，NC State 重整内部建制，把原先各校一律升格改称为学院，工程学院即在此列，同年获得 700 英亩土地用以建设百年校区。

• Since then the university has invested more than $620 million in facilities and infrastructure at the new campus, with 62 acres of space constructed and sixty-one private and government agency partners located there.此后该校在百年校区投入超过 6.2 亿美元用于设施与基础设施建设，建成空间 62 英亩，61 家私营机构与政府部门伙伴入驻。

• Current institutional scale is almost 8,000 employees, nearly 38,000 students, a 1.495 billion annual budget and a2.2 billion endowment, making it the largest university in the state.该校现有雇员近 8,000 人、学生约 38,000 人、年度预算 14.95 亿美元、捐赠基金 22 亿美元，是北卡罗来纳州规模最大的大学。

• In 2009 NCSU cancelled a planned appearance by the Dalai Lama to speak on its Raleigh campus, citing concerns about a Chinese backlash and a shortage of time and resources.2009 年 NC State 取消了达赖喇嘛赴罗利校园演讲的安排，理由是担忧中国方面的反弹以及时间与资源不足。

• The NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center in D.H. Hill Library maintains a website devoted to university history entitled Historical State, and in October 2023 polychlorinated biphenyl was detected in Poe Hall, which the university closed the following month.图书馆特藏研究中心设于 D.H. Hill 图书馆内，建有名为 Historical State 的校史网站，2023 年 10 月 Poe 楼检出多氯联苯，校方次月将其关闭。

• The student-led Campus Community Alliance for Environmental Justice was formed to petition the college to test for environmental contaminants in all campus buildings and increase transparency surrounding Poe Hall.由学生主导的校园社区环境正义联盟因此成立，请愿要求对全部校园建筑检测环境污染物并提高 Poe 楼事项的透明度。

Academics

• NC State is one of 17 institutions constituting the University of North Carolina system, each campus largely independent but subject to the policies of the system board of governors, whose 32 voting members are elected by the North Carolina General Assembly for four-year terms under President Peter Hans.NC State 是北卡罗来纳大学系统 17 所成员机构之一，各校区高度自主但须遵从系统董事会政策，董事会 32 名投票成员由州议会选举、任期四年，系统主席为 Peter Hans。

• The university's board of trustees has thirteen members and sets all policy, eight elected by the system board of governors, four appointed by the governor of North Carolina, with the student body president serving as a voting member.本校董事会由 13 名成员组成并制定全部政策，其中 8 名由大学系统董事会选出、4 名由州长任命，学生会主席亦为投票成员。

• The UNC system board also elects the chancellor of NC State, currently Kevin Howell, who heads the eleven academic colleges administered by the trustees.大学系统董事会还选举 NC State 校长，现任为 Kevin Howell，由他主持董事会所辖的 11 个本科学院。

• Each college grants its own degrees except the First Year College, which lets incoming freshmen experience several disciplines before selecting a major, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is the only college offering associate degrees, and the College of Veterinary Medicine grants no undergraduate degrees.除面向新生、允许其在数学科目间体验后再选专业的一年级学院外，各学院均自行授予学位，农业与生命科学学院是唯一提供副学士学位的学院，兽医学院则不授本科学位。

• In total the eleven colleges administer 66 departments, among them Food Science, Civil Engineering, Genetics and Accounting.11 个学院共辖 66 个学系，其中包括食品科学、土木工程、遗传学与会计学等系。

• NC State offers nine associate degree programs in agriculture, bachelor's degrees in 102 areas of study, master's degrees in 108 areas and doctorates in 60 areas, and is known for agriculture, engineering, textiles and design.该校设 9 个农业类副学士项目，本科覆盖 102 个专业领域，硕士 108 个、博士 60 个，以农业、工程、纺织与设计见长。

• Its academic divisions as listed for the 2018 to 2019 school year are the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the College of Design, the College of Education, the College of Engineering, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the College of Natural Resources, the Poole College of Management, the College of Sciences, the Wilson College of Textiles, the College of Veterinary Medicine, the Graduate School and University College.以 2018 至 2019 学年计，其教学单位包括农业与生命科学学院、设计学院、教育学院、工程学院、人文与社会科学学院、自然资源学院、普尔管理学院、理学院、威尔逊纺织学院、兽医学院、研究生院与大学学院。

• Considered a more selective university, NC State accepts about half of undergraduate applicants, the class of 2019 drawing 21,104 applications, 10,584 acceptances at 50 percent, and 4,210 enrolments.该校本科录取率约为半数，属较具选择性的大学，2019 届共收到 21,104 份申请、录取 10,584 人（50%）、实际入学 4,210 人。

• Members of the class of 2019 averaged SAT verbal, math and writing scores of 610, 640 and 587, a two-part total of 1250, enrolled students averaged a high school GPA of 3.44, and 1,677 or 40 percent ranked in the top 10 percent of their classes, including 130 valedictorians and 102 salutatorians.2019 届录取者 SAT 语文、数学、写作平均分为 610、640、587，两部分合计 1250，入学者高中绩点均值 3.44，其中 1,677 人即 40% 位列年级前 10%，含 130 名最优等生与 102 名次优等生。

• Transfer admission is equally competitive, with 4,165 applicants in fall 2015 and 1,470 admitted at 35 percent, because candidates must choose a preferred college of study and satisfy both university and college requirements.转学录取同样竞争激烈，2015 年秋 4,165 人申请、1,470 人获录（35%），申请者须指定意向学院并同时满足大学与该学院的两重要求。

• The Graduate School reviews all postgraduate applications, admitting 3,460 of 14,394 applicants at 24 percent for fall 2015, of whom 2,982, or 80.3 percent, enrolled.研究生院统管研究生申请，2015 年秋从 14,394 名申请者中录取 3,460 人（24%），其中 2,982 人即 80.3% 注册入学。

• The Master of Science in Analytics awarded by the Institute for Advanced Analytics is the university's most selective graduate program, accepting about one in eight applicants, and its data-analytics master's was the first in the United States, launched in 2007 as a multidisciplinary initiative.高等分析研究所授予的分析学硕士是全校录取最严格的研究生项目，约八分之一申请者获录，其数据分析硕士为美国首创，2007 年作为跨学科项目开设。

• NC State University Libraries ranked 30th out of 120 North American research libraries held 4.4 million volumes, over 50,000 print and electronic serial subscriptions, more than 20,000 video and film holdings and over 40,000 digital images by 2011, with an annual budget above $40 million.NC State 大学图书馆在 120 所北美研究型图书馆中列第 30，截至 2011 年藏书 440 万册、纸本与电子连续出版物订阅逾 50,000 种、影像馆藏逾 20,000 件、数字图像逾 40,000 幅，年度预算超过 4,000 万美元。

• The system comprises five libraries, two main and three branch, the nine-storey D. H. Hill Jr. Library of over 119,000 square feet on Main Campus and the James B. Hunt Jr. Library of over 221,000 square feet on Centennial Campus, opened in January 2013, and membership in the Triangle Research Libraries Network gives interlibrary loan with Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina Central University.全系统含两座主馆与三座分馆：主校区九层、逾 119,000 平方英尺的 D. H. Hill Jr. 图书馆，以及 2013 年 1 月启用、逾 221,000 平方英尺的百年校区 James B. Hunt Jr. 图书馆，三角研究图书馆网络成员身份使其可与杜克大学、北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校及北卡罗来纳中央大学互借。

• Notable scholarships include the Park Scholarship Program, named for Roy H. Park of the class of 1931 and established in 1996 after a Park Foundation donation, selecting 35 to 40 first-year students yearly on scholarship, leadership, service and character and covering tuition, room, board, books and personal expenses for up to eight semesters.著名奖学金项目包括以 1931 届校友 Roy H. Park 命名的帕克奖学金计划，1996 年凭帕克基金会捐款设立，每年按学业、领导力、服务与品行挑选 35 至 40 名新生，资助学费、食宿、书籍及个人开支，最长八个学期。

• The Caldwell Fellows Program was created by the NC State Alumni Association to honor the legacy of former Chancellor John T. Caldwell, while the Goodnight Scholars Program and Goodnight Transfer Scholars Program, established in 2008 by Dr James Goodnight and Mrs Ann Goodnight of the SAS Institute, award 100 traditional and 60 transfer students $24,000 per academic year.考德威尔研究员计划由校友总会为纪念前校长 John T. Caldwell 而设，2008 年由 SAS 公司 James Goodnight 博士与 Ann Goodnight 夫人创办的古德奈特奖学金及转学生奖学金，向 100 名应届与 60 名转学生每年提供 24,000 美元。

• Other awards are the Centennial Scholarship to the Wilson College of Textiles, introduced by the North Carolina Textile Foundation in 1999 for the college's centennial celebration and paying about 80 percent of expenses plus a $7,500 enrichment fund, and the Oaks Leadership Scholarship, created by faculty members Jackie Bruce and Katherine McKee after a shared diversity and inclusion training experience.其他奖项包括北卡罗来纳纺织基金会 1999 年配合威尔逊纺织学院百年院庆设立的百年奖学金，约支付八成费用并附 7,500 美元研修金，以及教师 Jackie Bruce 与 Katherine McKee 在一次多元包容培训后共同设立的橡树领导力奖学金。

• The Entrepreneurship Initiative was formed in July 2008 in response to the Chancellor's call to develop an educated and entrepreneurial workforce, and the Young and Teen Writers' Workshop, a summer creative writing program founded in 1986 and directed since 2015 by William K. Lawrence, is one of the oldest and most affordable such programs in the nation.创业计划于 2008 年 7 月响应校长培养兼具学养与创业精神劳动力的号召而成立，青少年作家工坊创办于 1986 年、2015 年起由 William K. Lawrence 主持，是全国历史最久、收费最低的暑期创意写作项目之一。

Campus

• Main Campus has three sub-campuses, the oldest North Campus with most academic departments, the Central Campus of residence halls, cafeterias and gymnasiums, and South Campus holding Greek Court, the McKimmon Conference and Training Center and park-and-ride areas, with North and Central separated by the North Carolina Railroad and Central and South by Western Boulevard.主校区分三部分：历史最久的北校区集中多数学系，中校区以宿舍、食堂与体育馆为主，南校区有希腊社区、麦克蒙会议培训中心与停车换乘区，北与中校区被北卡罗来纳铁路隔开，中与南校区隔着 Western 大道。

• Architecturally Main Campus is known for distinctive red brick buildings, brick statues dot the landscape, most sidewalks are brick, and the University Plaza known as the Brickyard carries white brick mosaics of the athletics logo and other patterns.主校区以独特的红砖建筑著称，草坪上散布砖砌雕塑，人行道多为砖铺，被称为 Brickyard 的大学广场更以砖镶嵌出运动标志与各式图案。

• The Memorial Belltower in the northeast corner of North Campus, a granite tower completed in 1937 standing 115 feet (35 m) tall, was built as a monument to alumni killed in the First World War, appears in the Chancellor's Seal, and is lit in red after athletic victories and certain academic achievements.位于北校区东北角的纪念钟塔为花岗岩塔，1937 年落成，高 115 英尺（35 米），初为纪念一战阵亡校友而建，现列入校长印章，每逢体育赛事获胜或某些学术成就便夜间亮红灯。

• The Court of North Carolina west of the Belltower is surrounded by the 1911 Building, the humanities colleges in Tompkins, Caldwell and Winston Halls, the College of Education in Poe Hall, Page Hall housing College of Engineering offices, and Leazar Hall, former home of the Computer Science Teaching Labs, and it once held 100 trees, one for each North Carolina county, until Hurricane Fran in 1996 destroyed many, including a tree some 12 feet in diameter.钟塔西侧的北卡罗来纳庭院被 1911 年大楼、设于 Tompkins 楼、Caldwell 楼与 Winston 楼的人文学院、位于 Poe 楼的教育学院、容纳工程学院办公机构的 Page 楼以及曾是计算机科学教学实验室的 Leazar 楼环绕，庭内原植 100 株树象征全州各县，1996 年弗朗飓风毁去多株，包括直径约 12 英尺的古树。

• The Free Expression Tunnel, one of three pedestrian tunnels under the railroad tracks, is the site of sanctioned graffiti where anyone may paint, and in 2008 racist and threatening graffiti aimed at then President-elect Barack Obama prompted a United States Secret Service investigation and a student Unity Rally.言论自由隧道是铁路下方三条人行通道之一，属获准涂鸦的场所，任何人均可作画，2008 年隧道内出现针对时任候任总统 Barack Obama 的种族主义威胁涂鸦，招致美国特勤局调查并引发学生团结集会。

• The 1,334-acre mixed-use Centennial Campus lies 1 mile south of the Memorial Tower, housing university, corporate and government research alongside classrooms and non-student residences, with the Wilson College of Textiles based there since 1991 and the College of Engineering beginning to relocate in 2002.占地 1,334 英亩的混合用途百年校区位于纪念塔以南 1 英里，集大学、企业与政府研究以及教室与非学生宿舍于一体，威尔逊纺织学院自 1991 年起驻此，工程学院自 2002 年开始迁人。

• Six of the nine engineering departments occupy three buildings around the Engineering Oval, next to the Golden LEAF Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center, while the offices of ABB, LexisNexis and the National Weather Service and the Centennial Campus Magnet Middle School are also on the campus.工程学院九个学系中六个坐落工程椭圆区三栋楼，毗邻金色叶生物制造培训与教育中心，ABB、LexisNexis 与国家气象局办公室以及百年校区磁铁初中亦在同地。

• Centennial Biomedical Campus, 2.5 miles west of the Memorial Tower, covers 180 acres with 20 buildings including the 100,000-square-foot CVM Research Building for genomic sciences, vaccine development, cancer immunotherapy, zoonotic diseases and diseases of the lung, respiratory tract, skin and digestive system, plus the Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research, the Veterinary Teaching Hospital and the working Teaching Animal Unit, with the 110,000-square-foot Randall B. Terry Jr. Companion Animal Veterinary Medical Center completed in 2011 doubling the hospital's size.百年生物医学校区在纪念塔以西 2.5 英里，180 英亩上有 20 栋建筑，其中 100,000 平方英尺的兽医学院研究大楼从事基因组科学、疫苗研发、肿瘤免疫治疗、人畜共患新发传染病及呼吸、皮肤与消化系统疾病研究，另有比较医学与转化研究中心、兽医教学医院与作为实体农场的教学动物单元，2011 年竣工、面积 110,000 平方英尺的 Randall B. Terry Jr. 伴侣动物兽医中心使医院规模倍增。

• NC State is one of eight universities at the North Carolina Research Campus, a 340-acre biotechnology hub in Kannapolis, where it operates the Plants for Human Health Institute under director Mary Ann Lila with about 11 faculty and 70 staff as of February 2024, the programme having begun in Kannapolis in 2007 as the Fruit and Vegetable Science Institute and been renamed when the hub was officially dedicated on 20 October 2008.NC State 是进驻坎纳波利斯 340 英亩生物技术园区北卡罗来纳研究园区的八所大学之一，在此运营植物与人类健康研究所，截至 2024 年 2 月由 Mary Ann Lila 任所长、约 11 名教师与 70 名职员，该项目 2007 年以果蔬科学研究所之名起步，2008 年 10 月 20 日园区正式启用时更名。

• The 8-acre J. C. Raulston Arboretum, operated by NC State just south of West Campus, is open daily without charge, and in March 2008 the university launched a University Sustainability Office committed to cutting annual energy use per square foot by at least 4 percent over ten years and exceeding the Executive Order 156 goal of diverting 40 percent of solid waste from landfill, earning a B-plus on the College Sustainability Report Card 2011.校办 8 英亩的 J. C. Raulston 树木园位于西校区以南，每日免费开放，2008 年 3 月大学设立可持续发展办公室，承诺十年内把单位面积年能耗降低至少 4%，并超过行政命令 156 号所定固体废物 40% 填埋分流目标，在 2011 年大学可持续发展报告卡获 B+ 评级。

Reputation

• North Carolina State University ranks 320th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.北卡罗来纳州立大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 320。

• In the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it falls in the 301 to 325 band, and in the U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026 to 2027 it stands at 268th.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中该校处于 301 至 325 区间，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中列第 268。

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, NC State is placed in the 201 to 300 band.在由上海交通大学编制的 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，NC State 位于 201 至 300 区间。

• Domestically, U.S. News and World Report for 2025 ranked NC State tied for 58th among all national universities and tied for 26th among public universities in the United States, tied at 34th for best college for veterans and 60th for best value.在国内排名中，《美国新闻与世界报道》2025 年把 NC State 列为全国大学并列第 58、美国公立大学并列第 26，退伍军人最佳大学并列第 34、最具价值大学第 60。

• Its College of Engineering was tied for 24th by U.S. News and World Report with many programs in the national top 30, the nuclear engineering program being ranked 3rd in the country in 2020 behind only the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, and the biological and agricultural engineering programs ranked 4th nationally.工程学院在《美国新闻与世界报道》中并列第 24，多个专业进全国前 30，其中核工程专业 2020 年列全美第 3，仅次于麻省理工学院与密歇根大学安娜堡分校，生物与农业工程列全国第 4。

• Further engineering rankings in 2019 placed manufacturing and industrial engineering 13th, materials science 15th, civil engineering 20th, environmental engineering tied at 21st, chemical engineering tied for 22nd, computer engineering 28th and biomedical engineering 28th, while the 2019 Academic Ranking of World Universities set NC State's electrical engineering 9th internationally and chemical engineering 20th.2019 年其他工程学科排名为制造与工业工程第 13、材料科学第 15、土木工程第 20、环境工程并列第 21、化学工程并列第 22、计算机工程第 28、生物医学工程第 28，同年软科排名将其电气工程列世界第 9、化学工程列世界第 20。

• NC State hosts the only college dedicated to textiles in the country, the Wilson College of Textiles, a partner of the National Council of Textile Organizations and widely regarded as one of the world's best textiles programs, the textile engineering program ranked 1st nationally by College Factual in 2020, the fashion and apparel design program ranked 8th in the country and 30th in the world by Business of Fashion in 2017, and fashion and textile management ranked 11th by Fashion Schools in 2018.该校设有全美唯一独立建制的纺织学院即威尔逊纺织学院，为国家纺织组织理事会伙伴，被公认是世界一流纺织专业，其纺织工程 2020 年被 College Factual 列全国第 1，2017 年被《时尚商业评论》评为时装与服装设计全国第 8、世界第 30，2018 年被 Fashion Schools 评为时装与纺织管理全国第 11。

• Agriculture, natural resources and design show similar strength, the College of Veterinary Medicine ranked 4th nationally in 2020 by U.S. News and World Report, 25th internationally by the NTU Ranking and 36th by the Academic Ranking of World Universities, the College of Design ranked 25th by College Factual in 2020, the graphic design program ranked 4th in the country and best among public universities by Animation Career Review in 2018, the Department of Statistics ranked 11th (tied) by U.S. News in 2022, the College of Education tied for 45th, the Poole College of Management tied for 52nd, and the entrepreneurship program ranked 10th internationally among undergraduates by The Princeton Review in 2020.农林、资源与设计学科同样突出：兽医学院 2020 年被《美国新闻与世界报道》列全国第 4、被科技大学排名列世界第 25、被软科列世界第 36，设计学院 2020 年被 College Factual 列第 25，平面设计 2018 年被动画职业评论列全国第 4 并为公立大学之冠，统计系 2022 年被 US News 并列第 11，教育学院并列第 45，普尔管理学院并列第 52，创业本科项目 2020 年被普林斯顿评论列世界第 10。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 186,840 research works attracting 12,892,375 citations, in fiscal year 2019 it received 95 awards worth $29,381,782 from the National Institutes of Health, in fiscal year 2017 the National Science Foundation ranked it 45th in total research expenditure, and in 2014 to 2015 it became one of only 54 US institutions to earn the Innovation and Economic Prosperity University designation of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, with Kiplinger's Personal Finance placing it 9th among best value public colleges in 2018.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校已产出 186,840 项研究成果、累计被引 12,892,375 次，2019 财年从美国国立卫生研究院获得 95 项资助计 29,381,782 美元，2017 财年研究总支出被美国国家科学基金会列第 45，2014 至 2015 年获美国公立与赠地大学协会“创新与经济繁荣大学”认定、为全国仅 54 所之一，2018 年还被凯辛格个人理财列为最具价值公立大学第 9。

Student life

• Athletic teams are nicknamed the Wolfpack, a name unofficially adopted in 1921 after an unsigned letter to the NC State Alumni News, following earlier labels such as the Aggies, the Techs and the Red Terrors, and most women's teams carry the Wolfpack name except women's basketball, which competes as the Wolfpack Women.校队昵称为 Wolfpack，此名 1921 年经一封致 NC State 校友新闻的匿名信而未获官方地采用，此前曾用 Aggies、Techs 与 Red Terrors 等称呼，多数女队沿用 Wolfpack 之名，惟女篮以 Wolfpack Women 名义参赛。

• Since the 1960s the Wolfpack has been represented at events by the mascots Mr. and Mrs. Wuf, while in print the Strutting Wolf is used under the name Tuffy, and the primary athletics logo is a red block S inscribed with N and C, in use since 1890, made the sole logo for all teams in 2000 and modernised to its current design in 2006.自 20 世纪 60 年代起，吉祥物 Wuf 夫妇出席各赛事，印刷品上则使用名为 Tuffy 的阔步狼，主标志为嵌有 N 与 C 的红色方块 S，自 1890 年沿用，2000 年成为全部校队唯一标志，2006 年改为现设计。

• NC State competes at National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I level, with Football Bowl Subdivision for football, primarily in the Atlantic Coast Conference since the 1953 to 1954 season, and it was a founding member both of the Southern Conference and of the Atlantic Coast Conference, one of four teams on Tobacco Road.该校参加美国大学体育协会一级联赛，橄榄球属碗赛分区，自 1953 至 1954 赛季起主要参加大西洋海岸联盟，它同时是南校际体育联盟与大西洋海岸联盟的创始成员，也是烟草之路四队之一。

• Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, football, golf, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field and wrestling, women's sports add gymnastics, softball and volleyball, and NC State has won ten national championships, four NCAA titles, two AIAW titles and four under other sanctioning bodies, with the rivalry against the North Carolina Tar Heels its biggest.男子项目有棒球、篮球、啦啦队、越野、橄榄球、高尔夫、足球、游泳跳水、网球、田径与摔跤，女子项目另有体操、垒球与排球，该校共获十项全国冠军，含 4 个 NCAA 冠军、2 个 AIAW 冠军及其他机构 4 项，与北卡罗来纳焦油脚的对抗是最大宿怨。

• Facilities sit mainly on a property 3.4 miles northwest of the Memorial Bell Tower holding both Carter-Finley Stadium and the Lenovo Center, bordered to the north by the North Carolina State Fair and used for tailgating, while on campus Reynolds Coliseum hosts ROTC services and women's basketball, volleyball and gymnastics plus men's wrestling.体育设施多位于纪念钟塔西北 3.4 英里的地块，卡特大卫芬利体育场与联想中心皆在此，北邻北卡罗来纳州博览会并用于赛前聚会，校内雷诺兹体育馆则承担后备军官训练事务及女篮、女排、女子体操与男子摔跤。

• Thirty-five percent of full-time undergraduates live on campus in one of nineteen residence halls, first-year students being required to do so, and the halls host themed villages such as Honors Village in the Quad, Global Village in Alexander Hall, Engineering Village in Sullivan, Impact Leadership Village in Bowen Hall, WISE in Lee Hall, Arts Village in Turlington Hall, First Year Commons in Owen and Tucker Hall and Black Male Initiative in Avent Ferry, each hall electing a council and all sending representatives to the Inter-Residence Council.35% 的全日制本科生住在校内 19 栋宿舍之一，一年级学生必须住宿，宿舍设有荣誉村、全球村、工程村、影响领导力村、WISE、艺术村、一年级公共区与黑人男性成长计划等主题社区，每栋宿舍选举委员会并派代表参加住宿生活联席会。

• NC State Student Government, founded in 1921, is the official voice of the student body, involved in policy-making, adjudication, programming, advocacy and community service, and it distributes part of its fee income to registered student organisations through a process known as appropriations managed with Student Involvement.成立于 1921 年的 NC State 学生会是学生群体的官方代表，参与政策制定、裁定、活动策划、权益倡导与社区服务，并通过与学生事务部门对接的拨款程序把部分收费转拨给已注册的学生社团。

• Technician has been the student-run newspaper since 1920, published Monday through Friday in session with a circulation of about 20,000 and funded by advertising and a student media fee, the Nubian Message, the African American student newspaper, first appeared in 1992 after protests over the Technician's alleged racial bias and is published biweekly, and the Agromeck yearbook, the oldest student publication, celebrated its centennial with its 2002 edition and prints nearly 1,000 copies yearly.《Technician》自 1920 年起为学生自办报纸，学期内周一至周五出版、发行量约 20,000 份，经费来自广告与学生媒体费，非裔学生报纸《Nubian Message》因学生抗议该报涉嫌种族偏向于 1992 年首刊、现为双周刊，最古老的学生刊物《Agromeck》年鉴以 2002 年版纪念创刊百年、每年印制约 1,000 册。

• Student media also include the radio station WKNC, broadcasting at 25,000 watts across Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, carrying the call letters since 1958 after WVWP and voted best college radio station of the Triangle by the Independent Weekly in 2010, and the literary and arts magazine Windhover, first published in 1964, discontinued between 1970 and 1973 and now appearing each spring.学生媒体另有电台 WKNC，发射功率 25,000 瓦、覆盖罗利、达勒姆与教堂山，1958 年由 WVWP 改为现名，2010 年被《独立周报》读者评为三角区最佳校园电台，文艺刊物《Windhover》1964 年创刊、1970 至 1973 年停刊、现每年春季出版。

• Traditions include Service NC State, a welcome service event sponsored by the Center for Student Leadership, Ethics and Public Service, and a Homecoming week run entirely by students through the Alumni Association Student Ambassador Program at the end of October, with a kickoff, the Pack Howl pep rally and concert, a parade down Hillsborough Street, Wear Red-Get Fed, a campus-wide Spirit Competition and the Leader of the Pack contest, with performers including Lonestar, Ludacris, Chris Daughtry, Cartel, Guster and The Avett Brothers.校内有由学生领导力、伦理与公共服务中心主办的迎新服务日活动，以及 10 月末由校友协会学生大使项目全程主办的返校周，含启动仪式、Pack Howl 热身大会与演唱会、Hillsborough 街游行、穿红进餐、全校精神竞赛与领袖评选，演出者包括 Lonestar、Ludacris、Chris Daughtry、Cartel、Guster 与 The Avett Brothers。

• Shack-A-Thon, a Habitat for Humanity fundraiser since 1991, sees student organisations build shacks on the Brickyard to live and study in for a week, raising money for a house through Habitat for Humanity of Wake County and taking over 46,000 in 2014, while the Krispy Kreme Challenge started by Park Scholars sends runners from the Memorial Bell Tower to a shop 2.5 miles away, changed from 2 miles in 2012, to eat twelve glazed doughnuts and return within one hour, 8,000 runners raising200,000 in 2014 toward the NC Children's Hospital and a cumulative $2.1 million by 2023.自 1991 年起为仁人家园募捐的搭建马拉松由学生社团在砖场搭棚居住学习一周，为韦克县仁人家园房屋筹款，2014 年筹得逾 46,000 美元，由帕克学者发起的甜甜圈挑战赛则要求跑者自纪念钟塔出发（2012 年由 2 英里改为 2.5 英里）跑到甜甜圈店吃下十二个糖霜圈并于一小时内折返，2014 年 8,000 名跑者向北卡罗来纳儿童医院募得 200,000 美元，至 2023 年累计捐款 210 万美元。

Notable people

• NC State has 156,297 living alumni, 61 percent of them in North Carolina, with 100 alumni clubs in the state and active clubs in another 42 states, their contributions spanning government, military, science, space exploration, academia, business, arts and athletics.该校在世校友 156,297 人，其中 61% 居于北卡罗来纳州，本州有 100 个校友分会，另有 42 个州设有活跃分会，其成就遍及政府、军队、科学、航天、学术、商业、艺术与体育。

• Figures of the founding and consolidating era include Governor O. Max Gardner, who merged the state universities in the Depression, dean Blake R. Van Leer, who from 1937 built the engineering graduate program, and Chancellor John T. Caldwell, whose legacy the alumni association honors through the Caldwell Fellows Program.创建与合并时期的关键人物包括在大萧条中合并州内大学的州长 O. Max Gardner、1937 年起创建工程研究生教育的院长 Blake R. Van Leer，以及由校友总会以考德威尔研究员计划纪念的前校长 John T. Caldwell。

• Roy H. Park of the class of 1931 made the donation through the Park Foundation that established the Park Scholarship in 1996, and James B. Hunt Jr., a four-term governor of North Carolina, lends his name to the James B. Hunt Jr. Library on Centennial Campus opened in January 2013.1931 届校友 Roy H. Park 经由帕克基金会捐款促成 1996 年帕克奖学金设立，曾四度出任北卡罗来纳州州长的 James B. Hunt Jr. 则以其名命名 2013 年 1 月启用的百年校区图书馆。

• NASA astronaut Christina Koch, the first woman to travel around the Moon, earned two bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering and physics and a master's in electrical engineering at NC State and, as a crew member of the 2026 Artemis II lunar flyby mission, took the photograph Earthset.美国国家航空航天局宇航员 Christina Koch 是首位环绕月球飞行的女性，在 NC State 取得电气工程与物理两个学士学位及电气工程硕士，作为 2026 年阿尔忒弥斯二号绕月任务乘组成员拍下《地落》照片。

• Katharine Stinson, a student of Blake R. Van Leer, became the Federal Aviation Administration's first female engineer, computer scientist Khalia Braswell earned her bachelor's degree in computer science at NC State and founded INTech, and Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, elected chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, represented that body when it shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.Van Leer 的学生 Katharine Stinson 成为美国联邦航空管理局首位女性工程师，计算机科学家 Khalia Braswell 在此获计算机科学学士并创办 INTech，当选政府间气候变化专门委员会主席的 Rajendra Kumar Pachauri 代表该组织与阿尔·戈尔共同分享 2007 年诺贝尔和平奖。

• In politics alumni include John Edwards, former United States senator and two-time presidential candidate, James B. Hunt Jr., four-term governor of North Carolina, Nida Allam, the first Muslim woman elected to a North Carolina government office, Robert Gibbs, former White House press secretary, and Abdurrahim El-Keib, interim prime minister of Libya from 24 November 2011 to 14 November 2012.政界校友包括前联邦参议员两度竞选总统的 John Edwards、四度当选北卡罗来纳州州长的 James B. Hunt Jr.、首位当选本州公职的穆斯林女性 Nida Allam、前白宫新闻秘书 Robert Gibbs，以及 2011 年 11 月 24 日至 2012 年 11 月 14 日出任利比亚临时总理的 Abdurrahim El-Keib。

• In business, alumni hold top positions at large companies, among them Jeff Williams chief operating officer of Apple Inc., James W. Owens of Caterpillar Inc., James Goodnight president and chief executive of SAS Institute, Hal Lawton president and chief executive of Tractor Supply, and Marshall Brain of HowStuffWorks.商界校友在大型企业任要职，包括苹果公司首席运营官 Jeff Williams、卡特彼勒公司的 James W. Owens、SAS 公司总裁兼首席执行官 James Goodnight、拖拉机供应公司总裁兼首席执行官 Hal Lawton 以及 HowStuffWorks 的 Marshall Brain。

• Over 60 alumni reached the rank of brigadier general, rear admiral or higher, General William C. Lee is often called the father of the United States Airborne, General Maxwell R. Thurman, a former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army, was the first four-star officer from NCSU, Hugh Shelton served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan McNeill commanded the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, Michelle D. Rose rose to general from the Virginia Army National Guard, and 1985 graduate Daryl Caudle was nominated as the 34th chief of Naval Operations.逾 60 名校友晋升准将或少将、海军准将或更高军衔，William C. Lee 上将被誉为美国空降兵之父，曾任美国陆军副参谋长的 Maxwell R. Thurman 是该校首位四星上将，Hugh Shelton 曾任参联会主席，Dan McNeill 上将指挥过驻阿富汗国际安全援助部队，Michelle D. Rose 从弗吉尼亚州陆军国民警卫队晋升上将，1985 届校友 Daryl Caudle 被提名为第 34 任海军作战部长。

• Alumni who led national academia include Albert Carnesale, chancellor of the University of California Los Angeles from 1997 to 2006 after a 23-year tenure at Harvard University, Bill Friday, president of the University of North Carolina system for 30 years, and William Brantley Aycock, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1957 to 1964, while Donald Bitzer, the father of plasma television and an Emmy Award winner, sat on the NC State faculty.执掌高等教育的校友包括在哈佛大学任职 23 年后于 1997 至 2006 年出任加州大学洛杉矶分校校长的 Albert Carnesale、执掌北卡罗来纳大学系统 30 年的 Bill Friday，以及 1957 至 1964 年任教堂山分校校长的 William Brantley Aycock，等离子电视之父、艾美奖得主 Donald Bitzer 则曾在 NC State 任教。

• In entertainment the list includes actor and comedian Zach Galifianakis, country singer and American Idol winner Scotty McCreery, musician John Tesh, who studied there before being expelled in his junior year, and the comedians and self-described Internetainers Rhett and Link, while Donald Bitzer's Emmy recognised his plasma display work.演艺界人物有演员兼喜剧人 Zach Galifianakis、乡村歌手兼美国偶像冠军 Scotty McCreery、在此就读至三年级被开除的音乐人 John Tesh 以及自封“网络艺人”的喜剧组合 Rhett 与 Link。

• In sport Bill Cowher coached 15 seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers including the Super Bowl XL championship team, over 130 alumni have played in the National Football League including Philip Rivers, Torry Holt, Roman Gabriel, Ted Brown, Dick Christy, Haywood Jeffires, Jim Ritcher, Dewayne Washington, Jerricho Cotchery and 2006 number one pick Mario Williams, current players include Bradley Chubb, Nyheim Hines, Garrett Bradbury, Jacoby Brissett and Russell Wilson, Willie Burden is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and Justine Lindsay the first transgender National Football League cheerleader is an alumna.体育界方面，Bill Cowher 执教匹兹堡钢人 15 个赛季并率队夺得第四十届超级碗，逾 130 名校友曾效力美国职业橄榄球大联盟，包括 Philip Rivers、Torry Holt、Roman Gabriel、Ted Brown、Dick Christy、Haywood Jeffires、Jim Ritcher、Dewayne Washington、Jerricho Cotchery 与 2006 年状元秀 Mario Williams，现役球员有 Bradley Chubb、Nyheim Hines、Garrett Bradbury、Jacoby Brissett 与 Russell Wilson，Willie Burden 入选加拿大橄榄球名人堂，首位跨性别联盟啦啦队员 Justine Lindsay 亦为女校友。

• Another 41 alumni have played in the National Basketball Association, among them Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame member David Thompson, Tom Gugliotta, Kenny Carr, Spud Webb, Cedric Simmons, Julius Hodge, J.J. Hickson, Josh Powell, T.J. Warren, Dennis Smith Jr. and Thurl Bailey, while former Wolfpack players Nate McMillan and Vinny Del Negro both played and coached in the league, and Patrick Bailey and Trea Turner are alumni in Major League Baseball.另有 41 名校友曾征战美国职业篮球联赛，含奈史密斯篮球名人堂成员 David Thompson、Tom Gugliotta、Kenny Carr、Spud Webb、Cedric Simmons、Julius Hodge、J.J. Hickson、Josh Powell、T.J. Warren、Dennis Smith Jr. 与 Thurl Bailey，前 Wolfpack 球员 Nate McMillan 与 Vinny Del Negro 皆在联盟既打球又执教，棒球大联盟的 Patrick Bailey 与 Trea Turner 亦是校友。