NC State University continues to climb in the US News rankings, ACC ranks #1

The good news just keeps coming for NC State University.

Almost a month ago, Money Magazine ranked NC State as the #1 college in North Carolina when it came to value.

Now, US News & World Report has moved NC State up to #80 on their national “Top Colleges & Universities” list. Among public institutions, State was moved up to 32.

#NCState continues to climb in the @usnews rankings: https://t.co/kldz6WCdwa #ThinkAndDo pic.twitter.com/MGG41mYRUS

— NC State University (@NCState) September 11, 2018

Leading the way was the NC State engineering department, followed by the Poole College of Mangement. Here is a blurb from the release:

The Poole College of Management continued to climb up the list of undergraduate business programs, moving up four spots to No. 87 in the nation. Poole’s undergraduate accounting program also made the list this year, ranking 54th.

Undergraduate engineering moved up two spots to 32nd place. Industrial engineering jumped two spots to 12th place and biological and agricultural engineering ticked up one spot to join the top 10 undergraduate programs in the nation.(NC State)

Meanwhile, the ACC as a whole showed great numbers in this same report.

For the 12th consecutive year, the Atlantic Coast Conference leads the way among Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) conferences in the “Best Colleges” rankings released by U.S. News & World Report. (ACC)

ACC schools combined for a 54.7 average rank and it’s the only FBS conference to have 6 members in the top 35.

While NC State is moving up, they have a way to go to catch the schools in the Top-40. Duke is #8, Notre Dame is #18, Virginia is #25, Wake is #27, UNC is #30 and Georgia Tech is #35 and Boston College rounds it out at #38.