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Duke, UNC, NC State, Davidson top new list of best colleges in North Carolina

It's crunch time for lots of high school seniors as they fill out college applications to beat the Nov. 1 deadline for early decisions and other deadlines in the next couple of months.

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Sarah Lindenfeld Hall
, Go Ask Mom editor

It's crunch time for lots of high school seniors as they fill out college applications to beat the Nov. 1 deadline for early decisions and other deadlines in the next couple of months.

To help with some of those decisions, WalletHub today released its 2020 Best College & University Rankings. To create the list, WalletHub, according to a press release, compared more than 1,000 higher-education institutions in the United States based on 33 key measures grouped into seven categories, such as student selectivity, cost and financing and career outcomes. Here's how N.C. colleges fared.

Top 10 Colleges & Universities in North Carolina

1. Duke University
2. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
3. North Carolina State University-Raleigh
4. Davidson College
5. Salem College
6. Western Carolina University
7. Appalachian State University
8. Queens University of Charlotte
9. University of Mount Olive

10. Meredith College

Across all colleges and universities, Duke, UNC and NC State did well. Overall, Duke came in at No. 7 and UNC was No. 10 and also the top public school in WalletHub's ranking.

Duke, UNC and NC State also placed in the top 10 of some of the individual categories.

  • Duke came in first for admission rate, student-faculty ratio, gender and racial diversity, graduation rate and post-attendance median salary.
  • Carolina took third place for admission rate, graduation rate and post-attendance median salary.
  • And NC State came in fifth for graduation rate and fourth for post-attendance median salary.
The full report is on WalletHub's website.

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