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Duke Virtual Tour Even if you can't be here, you can experience Duke’s beautiful gothic architecture for yourself. Launch the virtual tour below to explore campus.
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892.
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We strive to identify and enroll students who demonstrate intellectual strengths, a love of learning, a sense of imagination and open-mindedness, and a commitment to their communities; we seek students who make things better and treat others well.
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Hosted by a Duke admissions officer, information sessions introduce you to Duke University. Learn about our academic choices, signature programs, and community experience. 45 minutes; Live; Year-round; Registration Required
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Duke University offers 53 majors, 52 minors and 23 certificates. With the ability to create combinations of the three, you have 437,989 unique academic combinations available.
Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College.
80% of Duke undergraduates are enrolled in the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. Trinity offers 48 majors, 50 minors, 23 certificates and an option for students to design their own major. Students can combine up to three academic pathways and they do not have to be related.
