Programs hosted in Charlotte
The Pearl is a 26-acre district and home to the second campus of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, select degree programs in the School of Business and the School of Professional Studies. This physical location will place our students and faculty in close proximity to experts and national leaders in their respective fields who will share this space, effectively establishing a corridor of collaboration and innovation extending to Wake Forest’s Innovation Quarter presence in Winston-Salem.
Charlotte’s energy and entrepreneurial spirit align perfectly with Wake Forest’s commitment to academic excellence and Pro Humanitate. By bringing world-class programs to Charlotte, we are investing in the city’s future, its people and the transformative power of education.
Michele Gillespie
Provost
No. 1
Wake Forest’s part-time MBA program, operating out of Charlotte and Winston-Salem, is ranked No. 1 in North Carolina and 19th Nationally.
THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION SELECTED WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY AS ONE OF THE FIRST REGIONAL INNOVATION ENGINES (NSF ENGINES), WHICH PROVIDES UP TO $160M TO PARTNER WITH EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS.
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY IS RECOGNIZED AS THE NATIONAL MODEL FOR LEADERSHIP AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AND HAS RECEIVED MORE THAN $43 MILLION FROM THE LILLY FOUNDATION TO HELP OTHER COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES REPLICATE WAKE FOREST’S SUCCESS.
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY’S ANDREW SABIN FAMILY CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY IS A NATIONAL LEADER IN ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP, BRINGING TOGETHER LEADING VOICES FROM GOVERNMENT, ACADEMIA, NGOS, AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO SHARE EMERGING SOLUTIONS TO THE URGENT ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES FACING OUR WORLD.
SINCE 2021, 7 WAKE FOREST FACULTY HAVE WON HIGHLY COMPETITIVE CAREER AWARDS, THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION’S MOST PRESTIGIOUS AWARD FOR YOUNG FACULTY INTENDED TO PROVIDE A FOUNDATION FOR A LIFETIME OF SCIENTIFIC LEADERSHIP THAT INTEGRATES RESEARCH AND EDUCATION.
98.9%
The Wake Forest University School of Law class of 2023 produced the highest ABA-Measured professional placement rate in the country.
A rapidly growing body of work
Wake Forest University is known for its interdisciplinary work to tackle real-world issues. Among our Provost-sponsored institutes and centers, our expert faculty are working together across department, school, and college boundaries to foster and support scholarly inquiry, research and creative activity. The groups build intellectual community to inspire new directions in teaching, engage in public service activities and actions and build community partnerships.
Wake Forest’s Centers and Institutes include:
- The Humanities Institute
- Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability
- Center for Functional Materials
- Wake the Arts Center
- Center for Literacy Education
- Center for Molecular Signaling
- Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials
- Center for Research on Abroad and International Student Engagement
- Translational Science Center
The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) is recognized as an international leader in translating scientific discovery into clinical therapies. Physicians and scientists at WFIRM were the first in the world to engineer laboratory-grown organs that were successfully implanted into humans. Today, this interdisciplinary team, which numbers about 400, is working to engineer more than 40 different replacement tissues and organs, and to develop healing cell therapies – all with the goal to cure, rather than merely treat, disease.
The institute, which is part of Wake Forest University School of Medicine, is driven by the urgent needs of patients. The institute is making a global difference in regenerative medicine through collaborations with over 400 entities and institutions worldwide; through its government, academic and industry partnerships; with its startup entities; and through major initiatives in breakthrough technologies, such as tissue engineering, cell therapies, diagnostics, drug discovery, biomanufacturing, nanotechnology, gene editing and 3D printing.
Wake Forest’s presence in Charlotte provides rich and impactful learning opportunities for students while enabling us to contribute the best of our University and our faculty in addressing key challenges in the community.
Charles Iacovou
Vice Provost of Charlotte Programs and Dean of the School of Professional Studies
Leading from a global stage
Wake Forest University is committed to the creation of new knowledge, inspiring collaboration among global thought leaders and by bridging the gaps between theory, practice and perspective to address the challenges of our times.