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, 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.
- 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
Leaders in Analytics and Entrepreneurship
U.S. News & World Report ranks our business analytics programs among the top 20 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 NC and No. 21 nationally best undergraduate business analytics program — US News & World Report, 2024
- No. 1 in the Southeast and No. 15 nationally for undergraduate entrepreneurship (university-wide) –– The Princeton Review, 2022
- No. 20 best undergraduate accounting program among public universities — US News & World Report, 2024
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Jenkins MBA
- No. 1 in the Southeast and No. 15 nationally for graduate entrepreneurship (university-wide) –– The Princeton Review, 2022
- No. 4 full-time MBA in diversity among U.S. business schools — Bloomberg Businessweek, B-School Diversity Index, 2023-24
- No. 8 best online business analytics MBA program — US News and World Report, 2023
- No. 9 best online MBA programs for veterans — US News & World Report, 2018
- No. 10 among supply chain graduate programs in the U.S. — Gartner, 2020
- No. 10 in online MBA programs in the U.S. and Canada — QS World University Rankings, 2023
- No. 15 among online MBA programs — The Princeton Review, 2023
- No. 16 online MBA program in the world — U.S. News & World Report, 2021
- No. 20 among full-time business analytics programs worldwide — U.S. News & World Report, 2023
- No. 36 among full-time MBA programs in the world — The Economist, 2021
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Jenkins Master of Accounting (MAC)
- No. 3 best online master of accounting program — University HQ, 2023
- No. 4 best school for a master’s in accounting — Grad Reports, 2020
- No. 6 best online master’s in accounting programs, Fortune, 2023
- No. 7 best online master’s in accounting — Academic Influence, 2021
- No. 8 best online master’s in accounting — Online Master’s Degrees, 2023
- No. 11 best master’s in accounting degrees for 2020 — Great Business Schools, 2020
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Graduate Economics Programs
- No. 17 best master of economics program – The Financial Engineer/TFE Times, 2017
- No. 55 best graduate economics programs – US News & World Report, 2021
Full-Time Jenkins MBA Ranked No. 1 in Diversity
Bloomberg Businessweek (B-School Diversity Index), 2022