Facts and Rankings
At the Poole, we instill an entrepreneurial mindset in all our students and build analytical skills into every program, so graduates leave here ready to lead. We partner with academia and industry to create extraordinary experiences for our students and faculty.
Essential Facts
Take a quick glimpse at the highlights across Poole.
4,400+ Students
3,600+ undergraduate and 830+ graduate students
35,000+ Alumni
#PoolePack alumni live in NC and beyond
190+ Faculty and Staff
100+ full-time faculty and 90+ staff supporting our diverse student body
- Nearly 100 full-time faculty members engaged in purposeful research that generates knowledge and drives economic development
- Bachelor’s degrees in accounting, economics and business administration
- Master’s degrees in accounting, business administration, economics and management
- Doctoral degree in economics
- 15+ focus areas, including: Business analytics, entrepreneurship and innovation, enterprise risk management, finance, human resource management, information technology, marketing, operations and supply chain management.
- Graduate certificates
- Executive education through custom-designed solutions, workshops and open programs
- Major initiatives fostering research, learning and corporate engagement: Supply Chain Resource Cooperative, Enterprise Risk Management Initiative, Business Analytics Initiative and Business Sustainability Collaborative.
- Hundreds of mutually beneficial relationships with corporate partners
Leaders in Business Analytics and Entrepreneurship
U.S. News & World Report ranks our undergraduate and graduate business analytics programs among the top 25 nationwide, and Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine rank our entrepreneurship programs No. 1 in the southeast and No. 15 nationally.
Rankings
Undergraduate Programs
- No. 1 in North Carolina, No. 10 among U.S. public universities and No. 22 among all national universities for undergraduate business analytics programs — US News & World Report, 2025
- No. 4 in the Southeast for undergraduate entrepreneurship (university-wide) –– The Princeton Review, 2024
- No. 20 best undergraduate accounting program among U.S. public universities — US News & World Report, 2024
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Online Professional MBA
- No. 4 online MBA in employability and No. 18 globally — QS World University Rankings, 2024
- No. 7 online business analytics MBA program in the U.S. — US News and World Report, 2024
- No. 10 online MBA program in the U.S. and Canada — QS World University Rankings, 2023
- No. 11 online MBA program in the U.S. – The Princeton Review, 2024
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Full-Time MBA
- No. 4 full-time MBA in diversity among U.S. business schools — Bloomberg Businessweek, B-School Diversity Index, 2023-24
- No. 20 among full-time business analytics MBA programs worldwide — U.S. News & World Report, 2023
Master of Accounting (MAC)
- No. 3 best online master of accounting program in the U.S. — University HQ, 2024
- No. 6 best online master’s in accounting programs in the U.S. — Fortune, 2024
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No. 4
Online MBA
in Employability Globally
QS World University Rankings, 2024
