North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is one of America’s highly-respected land-grant universities, focused on interdisciplinary research, creative scholarship, exemplary undergraduate and graduate instruction, and community service and engagement. N.C. A&T State University is one of the seventeen institutions of The University of North Carolina System and is a Land-Grant and "High Research Activity" institution committed to fulfilling its fundamental purposes through exemplary undergraduate and graduate instruction, scholarly and creative research, and effective public service. The University enrolls approximately over 13,450 students and employs approximately over 2,300 faculty and staff.
We are proud. Our history is rich with achievement and tradition. Our university is a place where the dynamic and visionary challenge the status quo. We share a vision of preeminence; using our minds, our research and our passion, we engage the community and create positive, lasting global change. We are better than yesterday but never as good as tomorrow. Because our excellence has no boundaries—and because that’s what AGGIES DO!
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
As an inclusive campus environment, we hold fast to the idea that students, faculty, and staff can maintain a culture of mutual respect that promotes cross-cultural understanding. As a university, we recognize and accept each individual and seek to foster their unique abilities through learning, research, scholarship, and support while ensuring their ability to be successful. More importantly, N.C. A&T State University is a community that appreciates and values individual differences, promotes campus-wide and global initiatives, and cultivates a culture of mutual respect and understanding.
Our focus on equity promotes systems, actions, or policies/procedures to ensure employees and students have access to respect, fairness, and justice.
Lastly, as a land-grant institution with a strong focus on research, we work to be vigilant to ensure your sense of Belonging is strengthened through relationships at the university that support valuing and embracing the authenticity of self and others, being included, appreciation of accomplishments, feeling secure, and overall fulfillment for students and employees.
Equal Employment Opportunity
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University administers all aspects of education and employment in accordance with federal and State equal employment opportunity laws. This policy covers all University programs and activities and all conditions of employment, including the following: recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, disciplinary actions and terminations, opportunities to serve on committees and decision-making bodies, and participation in social and recreational programs.
Equal Opportunity and Non-Discrimination Administrative Policy
Jeanne Clery Act
Higher Education Opportunity Act: Fire Incident Reporting Requirements
The Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA, Public Law 110-315) became law in August 2008, requiring all United States academic institutions to produce an annual fire safety report outlining fire safety practices, standards, and all fire-related on-campus housing statistics. The 2022 Annual Security Report includes the Annual Fire Safety Report. The fire safety section of the report contains statistical information about fires on in-campus housing for the previous three calendar years. The report can be viewed and printed using the link above or by contacting the N.C. A&T State University Police Department.
Annual Security & Fire Safety Report