This week, Site Selection announced that North Carolina again ranks among the top five states in the U.S. for business. North Carolina ranked second in 2015, finishing behind Georgia.

It’s an improvement of one position for the state, which came in third in the 2014 rankings. North Carolina had previously been ranked first for four consecutive years.

North Carolina was also rated as the fourth-best state with regards to economic outlook in the U.S. according to the 2015 Edition of Rich State, Poor States: ALEC-Laffer State Economic Cooperative Index in April 2015, an improvement from 2014, when the state was ranked sixth. Site Selection reported in May 2015 that North Carolina ranked first in competitiveness, a jump from 17th in the previous year.

Forbes also recently ranked North Carolina among the nation’s best states for businesses and careers. The Tar Heel State came in ranked second, trailing only Utah on the list. North Carolina is the only state to appear in the top five rankings each year they’ve completed this ranking.

Site Selection compiles the list of business competitiveness based on the number of announced capital investment projects reflected in the Conway Projects Database, as well as several other measures of state attractiveness to businesses. To be counted, these capital projects must be from the private sector and meet one or more of these criteria: $1 million or more in investment, 20 or more new jobs, or 20,000 or more square feet of new construction.

Site Selection says half the overall ranking is based on a survey of corporate site selectors asked to rank their top 10 state business climates based on their experience of establishing or expanding facilities in them.