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There are not any major stereotypes that I have heard of, although I tend to hear that students at State are only engineers or agriculture majors. There is little mention of other majors. This is partially accurate, although not completely true. North Carolina State University is mostly composed of engineering and agriculture majors, but also offers a wide variety of majors.

NCSU is perceived as an agricultural school or engineering school.

rednecks

A lot of interested student are turned off when they realize how large the campus is and think it would be impossible for them to find anything. Also, as a large agriculture school, outsiders seem to think we're all just a bunch of country hicks with no diversity on our campus.

Stereotypes? there like 30,000 people here, we've got just about every kind of person you can imagine. Some examples: our computer and engineering buildings can be fun to watch as classes change because all you see are middle-easterners coming out (like 80{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of them). But, overal NCSU has a very diverse group of students, I can't even begin to think about listing any specific stereotypes besides maybe a little hint of southern influence overall.

They are rednecks, foreigners, or not as smart as UNC-Chapel Hills students.

It's been often said that NCSU students hate Carolina with a passion.

That we are all agriculture students and hicks.

They call us "cow college" and they think all students are rednecks who couldn't get into UNC. They say our campus is ugly and all brick. They say we have no rival, that UNC doesn't care about us. They say our male/female ratio is 60/40 and worse.

One of the main stereotypes is that NCSU that it is a "hick" school. Yes there are good agricutural programs at State and you have farmer boys but there are all sorts of people at State. You can find somewhere to fit in with no problem.

Some people call us a farm college since we've got an agriculture school and some 2 year degree programs that have... something to do with farming. Also, people say that there's no women or bad looking women around campus, since we're such an engineering-heavy school.

country, low class, no style

Hicks, farmers, homo-phobes

Country

Some people would probably stereotype NCSU students as being "red-necks" with big trucks and confederate flags on their cars.

that we are not an accepting school

that they are rednecks

We have a stereotype as being extremely southern and conservative. We also have a stereotype as not being as good academically and athletically as neighboring schools.

I've heard people from UNC say that State is just a bunch of rednecks. Haha, I mean, we do have a big agricultural program here, but there is definitely a greatly diverse presence here at NC State.

Farmers, lots of guys, bad greek life, huge school