Duke University
2080 Duke University Road Durham, North Carolina 27708 United States of America
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Institution Overview
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- About the Institution
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Duke describes itself as a leading institution for education, research, and patient care, with strong undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs and a major emphasis on interdisciplinary scholarship.
- Institution Type
Private research university
- Establishment Year
- Founded: 1924.
- Educational Focus
- Liberal education, graduate and professional study, and research across a wide range of disciplines.
- Strong interdisciplinary and research-intensive orientation.
- Education, research, and patient care are explicitly central to Duke’s institutional identity
- Accreditations
- Institutional accreditation: Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC).
- Duke is accredited by SACSCOC to award baccalaureate, master’s, doctorate, and professional degrees
- Rankings
- QS World University Rankings 2026: #62 globally.
- Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2026: #28 globally.
- Highlights
- Duke is one of the world’s top research institutions
- Student Affairs supports over 16,000 students.
- Duke has hundreds of student organizations.
- Duke Libraries hold more than 8 million volumes in their collections.