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Winston-Salem State University

University · Winston-Salem, NC

Winston-Salem State University is a historically Black university located in North Carolina that offers undergraduate and graduate programs across areas including arts and entertainment, business, communications, education, health sciences, and STEM. The university serves approximately 5,000 students on a 117-acre campus and is ranked as the #1 HBCU in North Carolina and #1 in the UNC system for job placement.

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About Piedmont Triad

High Point hosts the High Point Market twice a year, the largest furniture trade show in the world -- the physical center of the American furniture industry, still, even after most actual manufacturing moved overseas. Winston-Salem built its economy on R.J. Reynolds Tobacco (now Reynolds American), and has spent two decades rebuilding around Wake Forest University and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's biotech and life-sciences research instead. Greensboro anchors the region's logistics and advanced manufacturing, including a growing aviation-parts and vehicle-assembly base. Ten counties make up the real combined statistical area -- Guilford, Forsyth, Randolph, Rockingham, Davidson, Davie, Stokes, Surry, Yadkin, and Alamance (Burlington) -- a real, connected regional economy that neither Charlotte nor the Research Triangle edition actually covers.

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Total firms 8

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Furniture Market

Tobacco Legacy

Advanced Manufacturing