North Carolina State University

>North Carolina State University, the University of Pittsburgh (joined 2013), Syracuse University (joined 2013), the University of Virginia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (joined 2004), and

North Carolina State University at Raleigh is the other major research institution in the state system; its sites include a 79,000-acre (32,000-hectare) research forest. The school, with an enrollment of more than 36,000, emphasizes engineering, sciences, and technology. It also operates colleges of natural resources…

…Chapel Hill, its campuses include North Carolina State University (1887) at Raleigh; the North Carolina School of the Arts (1963) at Winston-Salem, which was the first state-supported residential school for the performing arts; and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (1891) at Greensboro, one of the largest historically black…

…centre and the site of North Carolina State University (1887; part of the University of North Carolina system), Shaw University (1865), and Meredith (1891), St. Augustine’s (1896), and Peace (1857) colleges. The city is part of North Carolina’s Research Triangle, a three-county area of cultural, scientific, and educational activities that…