Although student enrollment figures will not be final until September, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University projects a total of over 13,00 students, pushing it to its eighth consecutive year as America’s largest historically Black campus. The incoming class also promises to have the highest average GPA and SAT scores of any A&T entering class, the university said.
“With the university having just closed the 2021 fiscal year with records in fundraising ($93.8 million) and research contracts and grants ($78.2 million), North Carolina A&T is poised for perhaps the most impactful year in its 130-year history,” Chancellor Harold L. Martin Sr. said at a press conference to launch the fall term.
“As a land-grant university, a doctoral research institution, and a nationally recognized HBCU, A&T is moving into a new space in its three-part identity,…