unitid 199193 · Raleigh, NC · public 4-year · city (large)
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Public university in Raleigh, North Carolina, US
- founded
- 1887
- enrollment 2023
- 40,544
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- ncsu.edu
North Carolina State University is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Founded in 1887 by the North Carolina General Assembly as an agricultural and mechanical college, it is the largest university in the Carolinas and a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina system. wikipedia rev 1359850270 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years
The record
admission rate
42%
7th pctl among public 4-years
undergraduates
27,371
93rd pctl among public 4-years
Pell share
20%
undergrads on Pell grants
15th pctl among public 4-years
completion
85%
finish within 150% time
96th pctl among public 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$26,425
72nd pctl among public 4-years
avg net price / yr
$17,303
after aid, aided students
80th pctl among public 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$68,758
after entry, Title IV students
89th pctl among public 4-years
median grad debt
$20,121
56th pctl among public 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $6,382 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k18%
- 30-48k14%
- 48-75k17%
- 75-110k20%
- 110k+32%
- Median family income
- $64,900
- First-generation students
- 19%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $8,799
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 3.4× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 918 | $81,060 | $20,000 |
| Biology, General. | 436 | $68,124 | $21,500 |
| Computer Science. | 391 | — | — |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 337 | — | — |
| Psychology, General. | 296 | $53,870 | $22,373 |
| Computer Science. | 287 | $111,385 | $21,073 |
| Mechanical Engineering. | 250 | $91,136 | $24,250 |
| Animal Sciences. | 233 | $52,790 | $22,689 |
| Communication and Media Studies. | 197 | $55,642 | $22,324 |
| Textile Sciences and Engineering. | 192 | $71,193 | $24,725 |
| Political Science and Government. | 177 | $64,316 | $23,457 |
| Computer Engineering. | 176 | — | — |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 4,116 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (1,261) · basketball player (512) · university teacher (200) · American football player (172) · statistician (83) · politician (82) · baseball player (65) · mathematician (63)
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Christina Koch
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Zach Galifianakis
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John Edwards
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Charlotte Flair
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Rajendra K. Pachauri
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Joan Benoit Samuelson
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Hesham Qandil
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Abdurrahim El-Keib
27 wikis · Public domain
Spud Webb
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Russell Wilson
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Pablo Mastroeni
24 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka
23 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0 us
Cullen Jones
23 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
David Thompson
23 wikis · Public domain
Lara Trump
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
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- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1359850270), CC BY-SA 4.0.