Wake Forest University is a private, coeducational university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, founded in 1834. The university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina, the state capital. The Reynolda Campus, the university's main campus, is located north of downtown Winston-Salem, after the university moved there in 1956. The Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
campus is located nearby. The University also occupies lab space at the
Bowman Gray Technical Center, at the downtown Piedmont Research Park,
and at the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials. The
University's Babcock Graduate School of Management maintains a presence on the main campus in Winston-Salem and in Charlotte, North Carolina.
In the 2013 U.S. News America's Best Colleges report, Wake Forest
ranked 13th for "Best Undergraduate Teaching" and 27th overall among
national universities.
In the 2009 BusinessWeek Undergraduate Business Schools Rankings, the Calloway School of Business and Accountancy was ranked 14th overall, and #1 in terms of Academic Quality.