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NC State Jenkins MBA
North Carolina State University · Raleigh, North Carolina · Public
“The Research Triangle's engineering-flavored MBA.”
Reviewed by David Krug · July 2026
Data anchored to the 2026 U.S. News table, Poets&Quants reporting, and school-published class profiles
72.4
GoodBP Score
$78,000Tuition, total
640Avg. GMAT
Acceptance rate
85%Placed at 3 months
$112,000Median base salary
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NC State’s Institute for Advanced Analytics launched the modern analytics master’s back in 2007, and Jenkins’ MBA rides the same technical reputation into the Research Triangle’s employer base — SAS up the road, Apple and Google’s expanding campuses, the biotech belt. Duke and UNC take the prestige hires; Jenkins takes the technical ones at half the price.
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