[monksy]

I think that's pretty awesome. I went to Elon, and the only time that we heard about the A&T CS program is the time that I participated in an ACM programming competition. We heard more about the Duke program than anything else. (Research related). I knew a little about the UNC Chapel Hill program because I had a connection with Fred Brooks.

[malandrew]

In terms of CS, it's NCSU that regularly produces the most accomplishments of the NC higher education universities, but it doesn't have the same national standing because the humanities departments at NCSU are a complete joke. What Duke and UNC-CH do well is that all their departments are generally considered rigorous and that increases their standing in the rankings.