Wake Forest is ranked by several national publications as one of the nation's best private universities, and was recently chosen by U.S. News and World Report as the best of the South's regional colleges and universities. The university is located in Winston-Salem , North Carolina, a historic city with a cultural and intellectual life remarkable for its size of 145,000. The Graduate School is noted for its balance of teaching and research, and offers courses of study leading to the Master of Arts, Master of Arts in Education, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Wake Forest University includes the undergraduate College, which enrolls 3,700 students, along with the undergraduate School of Business and Accountancy, the Law School, the Babcock School of Management, and the Bowman Gray School of Medicine. The university's general and research collections are centered in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library on the Reynolda Campus, with a medical research library on the Hawthorne Campus.
Departmental collections are in the graduate departments.
These libraries collectively house more than one million volumes and feature an excellent rare book collection and special resources in such areas as Southern history and modern literature. The electronic catalog system supports remote literature searches. Students whose disciplines require materials and resources to supplement those on campus have access within 100 miles to the Research Triangle Park near Raleigh and its three associated universities. Students and faculty at Wake Forest employ the video conference facilities for collaboration with colleagues at other institutions within the state. Winston-Salem is a congenial and stimulating place which supports the arts.