North Carolina contains eleven schools that offer business writing programs. North Carolina State University at Raleigh, the highest-ranking business writing school in NC, has a total student population of 33,819 and is the 70th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 11 business writing schools in North Carolina, only 5 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Warren Wilson College comes out as the most expensive ($24,057/yr), with North Carolina A & T State University as the lowest recorded at only $5,860/yr.
Business Writing students from North Carolina schools who go on to become business writers, legal writing professors, copy editors, copywriters, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 43,390 people working as writers and authors alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $64,560. Also, Public relations specialists make on average $59,370 per year and there are about 242,670 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the North Carolina alone, there are 4,640 employed public relations specialists earning an average yearly salary of $50,380. Writers and authors in this state earn $52,650/yr and there are 780 employed.
Also, within the business writing schools in North Carolina, the average student population is 3,455 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 15 to 1. Aside from business writing, there are 6640 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 3,218 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $2,155, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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