北卡罗来纳理工大学

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北卡罗来纳农业技术州立大学(也被称为北卡罗来纳农工州立大学，北卡罗来纳农工大学，n.c.a&t，或简称A&T)是一所公立，历史上黑人土地赠与研究型大学，位于北卡罗来纳州格林斯博罗。它是北卡罗莱纳大学系统的组成机构。1891年3月9日，由北卡罗莱纳大会成立，是为有色人种设立的农业与机械学院，这是根据1890年莫里尔法案建立的第二所学院，也是北卡罗莱纳州为有色人种设立的第一所学院。最初，这所学院开设农业、英语、园艺和数学课程。1967年，该学院被北卡罗莱纳州大会指定为一所地区性大学，并更名为北卡罗莱纳州农业和技术州立大学。北卡罗来纳农工大学有12754名学生，是美国历史上最大的黑人大学，自2014年以来一直保持这一地位。据《美国新闻与世界报道》(U.S. News & World Report)报道，密歇根大学在全美历史上的黑人学院和大学中排名第六，在公立黑人学院和大学中排名第一。该大学的工程学位课程也得到了广泛认可。该大学的工程学院一直在全国授予非裔美国人本科学位的数量上排名第一，并且是拥有硕士和博士学位的非裔美国工程师的领先生产商。同样，它的农业和环境科学学院培养的农业专业的非裔美国毕业生比全国任何一个大学都多。该大学也是美国黑人运动学本科生、景观建筑师和新闻/大众传播专业毕业生的主要生产者。 The university offers 54 undergraduate, 29 master's, and nine doctoral degrees through its eight colleges, one school and one joint school; the university awards more than 1,900 degrees annually, and has an alumni base around 55,000 in numbers. The main campus encompasses over 600 acres (2.4 km2) in area, additionally, the university operates a 492 acres (1.99 km2) working farm, and two research parks totaling a combined 150 acres (0.61 km2). The university is classified as a high activity research university by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The university ranks third in sponsored funding among University of North Carolina system institutions, As of 2019, the university conducts over $64.3 million in academic and scientific research annually, and operates 20 research centers and institutes on campus. The university's designation as a land grant institution reflects its broad range of research with ongoing projects funded by agencies such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Defense, National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation.The school's students, alumni and sports teams are known as "Aggies". The university's varsity athletic teams, are members of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference in all sports. In 2018, the football team won its fourth MEAC title in five years and won the Air Force Reserve Celebration Bowl for the third time in four years. During the 2017–18 school year, N.C. A&T Athletics won MEAC titles in football, women's basketball, bowling, men's indoor track and field, women's indoor track and field and men's outdoor track and field.