Duke University
Duke University
2138 Campus Drive, Box 90586
Durham, NC 27708
Official telephone: (919) 684-8111
Fax number: (919) 684-3200
Website:
www.duke.edu/
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| Screen last updated on: September 2006 |
| Year established: |
1838 |
| Type of school: |
university, private (nonprofit) |
| Programs: |
4-year undergraduate |
| Religious affiliation: |
yes |
| Campus enrollment: |
14,075 students |
| Coeducational information: |
coeducational institution, became coeducational in 1896 |
| Location description: |
in or near a large town (pop. 25,000-75,000) |
| Application fee: |
$75 |
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| Street address: |
Duke University
2138 Campus Drive, Box 90586
Durham, NC 27708 |
| Mailing address: |
Duke University
2138 Campus Drive, Box 90586
Durham, NC 27708 |
| Main telephone numbers: |
919 684-8111
919 684-3200 (fax) |
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| Main homepage: |
www.duke.edu/ |
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| SAT number: |
5156 |
| ACT number: |
3088 |
| FAFSA number: |
002920 |
| FICE number: |
2920 |
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| CAMPUS SUMMARY |
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Duke University's roots trace back to a one-room log building in 1838. The university became Duke in 1924, when tobacco magnate James B Duke endowed tiny Trinity College, a Methodist-affiliated school in Durham, North Carolina, to honor his father. The founding indenture of Duke University directed the members of the university to develop our resources, increase our wisdom, and promote human happiness.
The campus is widely held to be one of the most striking college campuses in the nation and was designed by Julian Abele, an African-American architect of the Philadelphia firm of Horace Trumbauer.
Duke stretches over 9,350 green and forested acres and features red-brick Georgian and contemporary glass-and-chrome architecture, as well as inspiring, neo-gothic stone buildings. |
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| UNIQUE/SPECIAL PROGRAMS |
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Duke undergraduates enroll in either Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, where they can earn a BA or a BS degree in more than 35 major programs or a self-designed curriculum, called Program II, or the Pratt School of Engineering. If they choose the latter, they may pursue a BS Biomedical, Civil, or Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. The school emphasizes study in the liberal arts and sciences as well as professional study. Engineering students take about 55 percent of their classes in Trinity College.
Many first-year students take advantage of the opportunity to learn in small groups through the FOCUS program and first-year seminars. FOCUS students zero in on interdisciplinary issues such as The Arts in Contemporary Society or Health Care and Society. FOCUS students generally live together in dorms also mixed with non-FOCUS students and study under top professors in classes capped at 17 students each.
During their undergraduate years, more than 40 percent of Duke's undergraduates choose to study abroad in one of more than 200 programs.
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