Facts and Rankings
At the Poole College of Management, 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. Take a quick glimpse at the highlights across Poole.
Essential Facts
- 4,400+ undergraduate and graduate students
- 35,000+ alumni
- Nearly 100 full-time faculty members engaged in purposeful research that generates knowledge and drives economic development
- Bachelor’s degrees in accounting, business administration, economics
- Master’s degrees in accounting, business administration, economics and management
- Doctoral degree in economics
- 15+ concentrations across academic programs, ranging from finance and supply chain management to entrepreneurship and marketing
- Eight 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
Jenkins MBA Ranked No. 1 in Diversity
Bloomberg Businessweek, 2022
Mission
The Poole College of Management at NC State University actively engages with industry and academia to create an innovative and collaborative intellectual environment that fosters learning, scholarship and service. We focus on developing and supporting leaders with an entrepreneurial mindset and analytical problem solving capabilities to positively impact our data-rich, dynamic, global economy.
No. 1 in the Southeast and No. 15 Nationally for Entrepreneurship
NC State has been ranked as a top school for undergraduate and graduate entrepreneurship for four years in a row. (The Princeton Review, 2022)
Rankings
Undergraduate Programs
- #17 best undergraduate business analytics programs –– US News & World Report, 2023
- #84 best undergraduate business schools –– Poets & Quants, 2021
- #91 best undergraduate business programs rankings – US News & World Report, 2018
- #9 best undergraduate accounting program in the south – Public Accounting Report, 2019
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Jenkins MBA
- #1 in diversity among U.S. business schools –– Bloomberg Businessweek, 2021
- #1 in online interaction among online MBA programs –– Financial Times, 2018
- #9 best online business analytics MBA programs –– US News and World Report, 2022
- #9 best online MBA programs for veterans — US News & World Report, 2018
- #10 among supply chain graduate programs in the U.S. –– Gartner, 2020
- #11 among online MBA programs –– Poets & Quants, 2021
- #15 among online MBA programs — The Princeton Review, 2023
- #16 online MBA program in the world — U.S. News & World Report, 2021
- #36 among full-time MBA programs in the world –– The Economist, 2021
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Jenkins Master of Accounting (MAC)
- #3 best online master of accounting program –– University HQ, 2023
- #4 best school for a master’s in accounting –– Grad Reports, 2020
- #7 best online master’s in accounting –– Academic Influence, 2021
- #8 best online master’s in accounting –– Online Master’s Degrees, 2023
- #11 best master’s in accounting degrees for 2020 –– Great Business Schools, 2020
- Top 20 master of accounting program –– Public Accounting Report, 2017 (among business schools with 24+ accounting faculty)
- #34 master of accounting program – Public Accounting Report, 2019
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Graduate Economics Programs
- #55 best graduate economics programs – US News & World Report, 2021
- #17 best master of economics program – The Financial Engineer/TFE Times, 2017
