Pack Points of Pride
Athletic Highlights
· NC State was the first ACC institution to integrate athletics (1956).
· From 2010 to 2012, NC State's athletic program jumped 52 spots in the Director's Cup, from 89 to 57. It was the largest two-year improvement by an ACC school in the history of the Director's Cup (NC State got as high as 34 in 2013). The NC State Athletic Department secured a No. 26 national finish in the 2018-19 Learfield Sports Directors' Cup standings. Wolfpack teams across the department earned a total of 794 points in the final standings.
· NC State tied for first in the Atlantic Coast Conference by winning four team league titles during the 2018-19 campaign: women's cross country, men's swimming & diving, women's swimming & diving and wrestling. Three NC State programs advanced to the Sweet 16 of their respective NCAA Tournaments during the 2018-19 academic year: women's soccer, women's basketball and women's tennis.
· NC State boasts the highest number of ACC Postgraduate Scholarship awards among all ACC Universities.
· NC State athletes and coaches are well represented in the National Halls of Fame for many sports:
- Seven members of the College Football Hall of Fame (players Jack McDowall, Roman Gabriel, John Richter, Jim Donnan, Dennis Byrd and Torry Holt and coaches Buck Shaw and Lou Holtz).
- Three Naismith Memorial Hall of Famers (David Thompson, Everett Case, Kay Yow)
- One US Soccer Hall of Famer (Tab Ramos)
- One member of the ITA Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame (John Sadri)
- One member of the College Golf Coaches Hall of Fame (Richard Sykes)
University Highlights
·NC State is one of the nation's preeminent research institutions, attracting top faculty and students from around the world and globally recognized for creating economic, societal and intellectual prosperity.
· With over 35,000 students, NC State educates more North Carolinians than any other university.
· NC State and its alumni provide $7.3 billion in annual economic impact for the state.
· U.S. News & World Report ranks NC State as one of the top five public university values in the country, and as a top-20 "up-and-comer," recognizing its rising national profile. The Princeton Review and Washington Monthly also rate NC State among the top 5 best public university values.
· NC State provides students the top return on investment among N.C. public universities according to PayScale.com. PayScale also ranks NC State first among N.C. public universities in average graduate mid-career salary.
· NC State's Centennial Campus is the premier university research campus in the country, where industry and government partners work alongside faculty, staff and students in state-of-the-art facilities.
· NC State is home to Hunt Library, a world-class research library with more than one million volumes managed by a robotic book retrieval system. The library includes a computer gaming lab, visualization lab, ultra-HD media production facilities and more than 100 technology-rich collaborative spaces.
· NC State's College of Textiles produces more than half of the textile graduates in the country each year. Its College of Veterinary Medicine is ranked third in the nation and its College of Engineering is the fourth largest engineering undergraduate program in the U.S.
NC State University Points of Pride
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