Facts and Rankings

Essential Facts
- Nearly 4,200 total students
- 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
- Six major initiatives fostering research, learning and corporate engagement: Supply Chain Resource Cooperative, Enterprise Risk Management Initiative, Business Analytics Initiative, Business Sustainability Collaborative, Entrepreneurship Clinic and Entrepreneurship Collaborative
- Hundreds of mutually beneficial relationships with corporate partners
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.
Rankings
Undergraduate Programs
- #47 Best Undergraduate Business Schools – Bloomberg Businessweek, 2016
- #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 online interaction among online MBA programs –– Financial Times, 2018
- #8 in MBA programs with the best ROI –– Poets & Quants, 2018
- #10 among supply chain graduate programs in the U.S. –– Gartner, 2020
- #11 among online MBA programs –– Poets & Quants, 2021
- #12 among online MBA programs — The Princeton Review, 2021
- #21 among entrepreneurship graduate programs –– Princeton Review, 2020
- #9 best online MBA programs for veterans — US News & World Report, 2018
- #47 among full-time MBA programs nationwide –– Bloomberg Businessweek, 2018
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Jenkins Master of Accounting (MAC)
- #4 –– Best Schools for a Master’s in Accounting
- #11 –– 25 Best Master’s in Accounting Degrees for 2020
- Top 20 –– Master of Accounting Programs –– Public Accounting Report, 2017 (among business schools with 24+ accounting faculty)
- #34 –– Master of Accounting Programs – Public Accounting Report, 2019
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Graduate Economics Programs
- #55 Best Graduate Economics Programs – US News & World Report, 2017
- #17 Best Master of Economics Program – The Financial Engineer/TFE Times, 2017