Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University (Wake Forest) is a leading private research university in the American South, founded in 1834 and located in Windsor, North Carolina (Winston-Salem). Wake Forest has one of the nation's most prestigious master's programs in accounting and one of the nation's leading business schools in terms of teaching quality. It is ranked 23rd in the 2024 USNEWS Rankings of Comprehensive Universities in the United States, alongside Carnegie Mellon University, UCLA, University of Southern California, and University of Virginia.