Founded March 7, 1887, by the North Carolina General Assembly under the provisions of the federal Land-Grant Act of 1882, the University has marked more than a century of service to the state and the nation. Sharing the distinctive character of land-grant universities nationwide, NCSU has broad academic offerings, national and international linkages, and large-scale public-service, extension, and research activities.
The University is organized into ten colleges and schools, the Graduate School, and the Division of Undergraduate Studies. The colleges are Agriculture and Life Sciences, Education and Psychology, Engineering, Forest Resources, Humanities and Social Sciences, Management, Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Textiles, and Veterinary Medicine. These colleges and schools offer baccalaureate degrees in eighty-nine fields, master's degrees in eighty fields, and doctoral degrees in fifty-one fields. Together with more than thirty research centers and institutes, these colleges and schools also support a broad spectrum of research endeavors in technological and applied disciplines as well as in the arts and sciences.
