North Carolina Wesleyan College

North Carolina Wesleyan College is a private Methodist liberal arts college in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Founded in 1956, the school offers a number of degree programs in the arts and sciences and selected professional disciplines.

North Carolina Wesleyan also offers evening courses at its main Rocky Mount campus, as well as satellite locations in Morrisville, Goldsboro, Greenville, North Carolina, Whiteville, North Carolina, Washington, North Carolina, and Wilmington, North Carolina.

In addition to a residential campus, North Carolina Wesleyan has developed a strong multi-campus adult degree program called ASPIRE with locations in Raleigh-Durham, Goldsboro, Greenville, Washington, Whiteville, and Wilmington in addition to the main campus in Rocky Mount.

 The Wesleyan community includes students from diverse religious, cultural, and racial backgrounds. About 600 traditional-age students (residential and commuter) in the Rocky Mount campus day programs. Another 800 students are enrolled in the evening college programs at sites in Rocky Mount, Morrisville, Goldsboro, and Wilmington.

The men's baseball program has two Division III National Championships in 1989 and again in 1999.

The college's football program was established in 2005.

The NCWC football team finished the 2007 regular season with an 8-2 mark, its best overall record in the program's short history. The Battling Bishops made it to the NCAA Division III Football tournament as the USA South champion, where they upset top-seed Washington & Jefferson in the first round 35-34. Not only was this Wesleyan's first post-season victory, but the first time the top seed lost to a number 8 seed since 1975.