My son absolutely loves NC State. It's so very different from South Shore MA small town living ... I've really enjoyed visiting too - Division 1 Football and Baseball games are really fun. They also have a ton of dining options for students and their own cows from which they make their own ice cream! Lots of cool Raleigh spots to check out too - like Mitch's Tavern from Bull Durham. read more

North Carolina State University - Colleges & Universities Near Me - Raleigh, North Carolina

I was looking for the NC dating website. Should have gone to "North Carolina Date" or "North Carolina Mate" instead. I have an ex-girlfriend who works here and a sort of current girlfriend who goes here, so I'm intrinsically connected to this University. I last hung out on campus just a few weeks ago and it is as friendly and warm as always. Carolina girls always are, and the boys are pretty cool too. One of the coolest things about it is that it's close - walkably so - to Raleigh, but also close to Cary and Morrisville and Chapel Hill and Durham, all of which have some real food gems in them. So as long as you have a car you can eat really well at this college. And not too expensively either. Did I mention how much I like the girls here. read more

Cannot get a hold of Sullivan Hall despite going through five different phone operators. Bad service. Decent engineers. But bad service.

Gluten Free options are "optional" to provide for NCSU dining hall managers. Our biggest gripe with NCSU, is that they promised us "for sure" when we were selecting colleges to go to that their dining halls had gluten free meal options. The reality is that most of the time they fail to keep gluten free options stocked and available. Celiac disease is no joke, any bit of injestion of gluten can cause a severe autoimmune response resulting in days of abdominal pain and vomiting. This semester spring 2024 in particular you go into the dining hall, there's no gluten free buns, no corn chips or corn flour bread, all the chicken is breaded, no GF pastas, so there's nothing to eat. So instead you gotta go get something at a nearby restaurant (like jersey mike's with gf bread), which sucks because we paid for a meal plan at an expensive university that essentially goes unused and then on top we have to pay for nearby restaurants almost daily just to get a meal they promised would be provided for with the meal plan. read more

I love the environment at NC state no matter where I order from at the student union or going to a basketball game, or a play the staff and students are always amazing, the entire campus is very inviting and the people are helpful when you need to find something. It makes me want add some more college debt so I can get the full campus experience...ok maybe that's extreme lol but I truly love every visit to the campus. read more

Resisting the urge to "claim this business", I'm doing the next best thing and reviewing it. An entire university. A few caveats before I begin: 1. I'm a part-time student here. 2. I have worked in the corporate world for well over a decade now, and my expectations (as both a tax-payer and as a paying customer) might be a bit different than a more conventional student. Universities are odd places. We (the buying public) will go on a long harangue about bad service at a gas station or a grocery store (where we're spending two digit sums of money), but we'll be corralled like sheep, treated like swine on the way to slaughter and otherwise bullied around by university administration when we're spending tens of thousands of dollars on our education. Perhaps predictably, my first beef with NCSU starts with the administration. Here's my message to them: "I'm paying your salary." Yes, you heard me. I'm your customer and I expect to be treated better than I usually am. You have a job because of taxpayers and students like me, and you owe us better.Pretend that you're happy to help us instead of treating us like some sort of necessary evil. Based on my experience, this cuts across administration. From admissions to health services to records to whatever other pedantic administrivia I've had to deal with, the customer service level dwindles around the one star level. And it's too bad, really, because North Carolina State University is a fine institution. My coursework has spanned several colleges including CHASS (humanities and social sciences), the College of Engineering, the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and the First-Year College. Experiences will inherently be different, but I have been consistently impressed with the quality of the professors, and the willingness that they have to work with me. Something that the humanities college does particularly well is its advising services. I have had three different advisors in my time at NCSU, and all of them have really gone above and beyond to help me. This is especially important to me as a "non-traditional" student, since my needs are different than those of a more conventional student. I tend to agree with Dr. John Riddle that Harrelson Hall (the big round building near the brickyard) is an architectural monstrosity, and the campus in general has many 1940's to 1970's buildings that would represent no great loss if they were bulldozed. Still, the campus serves its 30,000 odd students well, and is conveniently located in West Raleigh. The library is excellent, and while I still think that Perkins Library at Duke University is superior, I usually end up there more because I want a change of scenery than for any rational logical or academic reason. The Centennial Campus is an excellent addition to NCSU, and I think it will only continue to make this university a world-class institution. It took me some time to warm up to this school (especially after being given the bum-rush by so much of the university's administration), and I'm particularly proud to thumb my nose at the school's absurdly parochial admissions officer who told me that I probably wasn't "cut out" to attend NCSU after presenting my less-than-stellar academic credentials from 20 years ago (I'm now a junior and holding a 3.95 GPA). Despite, and in spite of the school's lackluster administration, I can recommend North Carolina State University as an excellent research-grade institution. So how can I possibly attribute a single star rating to such a multidimensional institution? School administration gets one star. Academic advisors (an equally critical part of the student experience) gets seven out of five stars. The faculty get five stars. The campus gets three stars (there are some pretty buildings on campus, after all). The guy who stands in one of the grassy knolls and reads the bible aloud on Sundays gets four stars for brevity and projection of voice. That averages out to four stars. And that's my story and I'm sticking to it! read more

Be aware of this university. After trying for a week to get my money back after canceling a course, I have yet to receive my money and no one from the school is contacting me to provide feedback. The school also charged me twice for the same course. Again, think twice before attending any course associated with this university. read more

Pretty hot school ngl kinda like it, hit me up in Alexander if anyone who actually lives here reads this

I came to NC State because it promised to support Student Veterans and seemed to be a great place to build my future in Engineering. That said, it has been dissappointing at every turn. The "Veteran's Affairs" office is not connected to the VA and is nothing more than a glorified financial aid office. Do not count on any support from the university. Do not accept enrollment and waste any GI Bill money at NC State if you are required to complete coursework in a "Non Degree Status." This means they take your money and offer you absolutely no support services. My recommendation for former military members is to look elsewhere. NC State is not your only option and you will certainly find a more supportive scholastic environment without too much effort. read more

Take your money and take literally days to reject your grad app after taking months to prepare, sending you a canned letter with no explanation as to why or what needs improved. The dean who sends out the letters does not even know why you were rejected, they just know they made 75.00 off another sucker. Save your money and apply somewhere where you will at least get some consideration. read more

It's a great college for people who are interested in math, engineering, etc.

Absolute nightmare of an experience with this school (NCSU). I transferred into NCSU with a perfect 4.0 GPA from a different university and ended up with just barely a 3.0 after 3 semesters due to most, if not all of the classes there being designed in a way to purposefully make students fail the course no matter how much effort is put in just so they can "keep up the rigor of the school" as I've heard a professor say before. This is outlined by statistics that show most students failing classes at above the 200 and 300 level. Now, not only can I not change my major here into anything else due to every single major here requiring at least a 3.5 GPA and that is in any department, I also cannot transfer to a good university anymore due to this school ruining my GPA. They try claiming that their "grade exclusion" system is helpful, yet they themselves know every student going there uses up their grade exclusion as fast they get into the university and then when you transfer to a different university, those "grade exclusions" don't even matter because they look at them anyway. The system setup to change your major at NCSU is horrible, you have to wait 3 to 4 months for each "cycle" and ALSO be enrolled into the school, meaning, if you have taken most of all the classes that you would need already for your major and close to graduating, you have to take classes that won't even count towards your major and hope that in 3 to 4 months, someone higher up decides that you are good enough to change into their major, which the only determining factor being your GPA, that has to be AT LEAST a 3.5 for ANY major in the school to even be considered no matter your excellent past grade history in other classes at NCSU. You can have an outstanding cumulative GPA at NCSU for three, four semesters, but if you mess up for one semester and end up with bad grades, guess what, your GPA is under 3.0 now even after grade exclusions and there is little to no chance of you being able to change your major into anything, meaning all the time and money you spent at NCSU is worthless because you can't even graduate from there anymore. And once you mess up your GPA here, you can get all A's from this point and it won't matter, because the way that cumulative GPA works here, is that you can only raise your GPA by 0.1 to 0.2 at best if you end up with all A's the next semester, which won't happen anyway, you will get B's AT BEST if you are lucky, meaning you will stay at the ruined GPA that you have from just one semester, which is what determines if you can change your major or graduate from the school. The counselors can't help with anything, all they do is help you take the right courses for your major, which is intuitive anyway, so that you can graduate as fast as possible, only to realize that the average person going to NCSU graduates in six to eight years due to having to retake courses, changing majors and other inconvenient and deplorable practices that are in place just to make you fail courses no matter how much work you put into them. And then they charge your extra tuition fees when you have more credits than you are "supposed to have". Claiming that this system is in place to "speed up" the graduation process even though they know most of the delay in graduation has nothing to do with the student as the student wants to graduate as fast as possible anyway but delays happen and they blame this rule on the state, claiming that they have nothing to do with it. Overall, I would not suggest any sane student to go here unless you wish to lose your sanity, dignity, hope and any amount of success in terms of GPA that you have gathered from a different school. read more