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Duke University

Private research university in Durham, North Carolina

Duke University is a private institution that was founded in 1838. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 6,717 (fall 2020), and the setting is Suburban. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Duke University's ranking in the 2022 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, #9. Its tuition and fees are $60,489.

Durham, North Carolina, which surrounds Duke's campus, offers a variety of activities including shopping, dining and entertainment. Its "Bull City" nickname comes from the Blackwell Tobacco Company's Bull Durham Tobacco. Students at Duke are required to live on campus for their first three years, and freshmen live together on the East Campus. The Duke Blue Devils maintain a fierce rivalry with the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill Tar Heels and are best known for their outstanding men's basketball program, which is one of the top five most wins all-time college basketball programs in the country. Approximately 30 percent of the student body is affiliated with Greek life, which encompasses almost 40 fraternities and sororities.

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Details last updated 04-Feb-2019

People at Duke University

William Evans

Adjunct Professor of Geriatrics in Department of Medicine at Duke University

Thomas Povsic

Professor of Medicine/Cardiology at Duke University

Charles Gersbach

Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University

Thomas Ribar

Biorepository and Precision Pathology Lab Manager at Duke University

Alastair Khodabukus

Research Scientist at Duke University

Roberto Cabeza

Author and Professor at Duke University

Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup

Research Fellow in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Institute in Boston

Sonia Grego

Associate Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University and Co-Founder at Coprata Inc

Cindy Chen

PhD student in the BIOS lab at Duke University

Adam Wax

Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University

Ryan McNabb

Senior Research Associate at Duke University Medical Center

Maxwell Elliott

PhD student at Duke University

Tony Jun Huang

William Bevan Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University.

Nenad Bursac

Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University

Christopher Woods

Professor of Medicine and Pathology at Duke University.

Mark Draelos

General Surgery Resident at Duke University Health System

Amanda Randles

Alfred Winborne Mordecai and Victoria Stover Mordecai Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University.

Miguel Nicolelis

Professor of Neurobiology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Biomedical Engineering at Duke University.

Feichen Yang

Materials Scientist, Duke University

Ben Wiley

Professor of Chemistry, Duke University

Duke University News

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