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Duke University
- January 22, 2011
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The primary aim of Duke University is to provide quality education to its students at graduate and undergraduate level.
Keeping this view in mind the university was founded by James Buchanan Duke in 1924 offering a memorial to his father Washington Duke.
Dukes were famous for manufacturing tobacco products. They have always been interested in establishing a Trinity College.
The trinity college established by local Methodist was shifted to Durham in 1892, when the Duke family became its benefactor. Ever since the Duke Endowment, the Trinity College expanded and became the Duke University.
It wasn’t just a physical expansion of buildings but also an academic expansion. The original campus at Durham is now the east campus rebuilt in Georgian architecture.
Initially the east campus was for women until 1972 when there was a merger of both women and men undergraduates. After all these changes, Duke continues to maintain its affiliation with United Methodist Church.
Students can get enrolled in undergraduate and other degree programs in the following schools of Duke University.
Schools
• Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
• Divinity School
• Fuqua School of Business
• The Graduate School
• School of Law
• School of Medicine
• Nicholas School of the Environment
• School of Nursing
• Pratt School of Engineering
• Sanford School of Public Policy
Institutes:
• Duke Institute for Brain Sciences
• Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
• Kenan Institute for Ethics
• Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy
• Duke Global Health Institute
• John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
• Social Science Research Institute
• Interdisciplinary Studies
Campus:
Here at Duke University, students are given advocacy, support and advice pertaining to their career and the future professional life. In its various programs and services the university offers community living and a broad social and civic understanding of cultures.
At Duke University, a student affair examining body exists that is responsible for monitoring the services delivered to its students. The aim here is to bring different cultures together for creating a broader cultural experience for every student who is part of Duke.
Main Programs:
The Duke University offers degree programs for undergraduates as well as for professionals.
• Art, Art History and Visual Studies
• Biochemistry
• Biology
• Biomedical Engineering
• Business Administration
• Cell Biology
• Chemistry
• Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Classical Studies
• Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
• Computer Science
• Cultural Anthropology
• Earth and Ocean Sciences
• Ecology
• Economics
• Electrical and Computer Engineering
• English
• Environment
• Environmental Policy
• Evolutionary Anthropology
• Genetics and Genomics
• German Studies
• History
• Immunology
• Literature
• Marine Science and Conservation
• Mathematics
• Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
• Medical Physics
• Molecular Cancer Biology
• Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
• Music
• Neurobiology
• Nursing
• Pathology
• Pharmacology
• Philosophy
• Physics
• Political Science
• Psychology and Neuroscience
• Public Policy Studies
• Religion
• Romance Studies
• Sociology
• Statistical Science
Fee Structure
For undergraduate students from arts, science and engineering the annual tuition fee amounts to $40,575.
This fee is exclusive of the other expenses at Duke like those for books, supplies and room & board. The university is also committed in offering financial aid to students.
Around 50 percent of undergraduate students at Duke University are given some form of financial aid.
