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WINSTON SALEM UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

Winston-Salem State University (WSSU), a historically black Not surprisingly, the “City of Arts and Innovation” is home to
university founded in 1892, is a distinguished public institution the nation’s rst state-supported residential arts school, The
o ering over 40 undergraduate degrees and 10 graduate University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA).
programs, both master’s and doctorate. WSSU is part of the Opened in 1965, UNCSA is a public visual, performing and
University of North Carolina system, with about 6,400 moving image arts conservatory with an international
undergraduate and graduate students. Rising enrollment has reputation for training talented students for professional
led to two major construction projects on the campus just careers in the arts. Enrollment is at an all-time high, with about
outside of downtown Winston-Salem: a new $24 million 1,300 students from high school through graduate levels, who
residence hall and a $53 million sciences building. come from throughout the U.S. and the world.
WSSU is recognized for its core strengths in education and Students must audition or interview for admission and are
health sciences and has grown to include innovative programs trained for careers through ve professional schools: Dance;
that meet the needs of a rapidly changing job market. The Design and Production; Drama; Filmmaking; and Music. The
University consistently ranks among the top public universities school o ers a Master of Music degree as well as a Master of
in the South, with award-winning programs like its motorsports Fine Arts in either Design and Production or Filmmaking.
management major, the only program of its kind in the nation Students study with resident master teachers who have had
o ered by a four-year university. It consistently ranks as the successful careers in the arts and who remain active in their
top University in the state for graduating African-American professions. With a primary focus on the performing arts,
students in the nursing, health sciences, and education elds UNCSA students present hundreds of public performances
and is recognized as one of the top Historically Black Colleges and screenings annually, not only in Winston-Salem but across
and Universities by U.S. News & World Report. WSSU is nationally the state, in major U.S. cities, and overseas.
recognized as a social mobility innovator for programs and Graduates of UNCSA have performed on Broadway, in the
services that take students from low income backgrounds American Ballet Theatre, the New York Philharmonic, and in
and graduate them into promising careers.
numerous TV shows and major lms. Its alumni have either
The WSSU “Rams” athletic teams hold numerous titles at both won, or been nominated for, all major awards in the
the conference (CIAA) and national levels in basketball, entertainment industry including Tony, Oscar, Emmy, and
football, baseball, wrestling, softball, track and eld, and golf. Grammy awards. UNCSA’s School of Drama is ranked among the
WSSU’s football, basketball and baseball programs have been top ve undergraduate theatre programs in the country and its
ranked in the top 25 of the NCAA’s Division II. School of Filmmaking is ranked 14th by The Hollywood Reporter.

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