Duke University in North Carolina
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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. In 1924,
tobacco and electric power industrialist
James Buchanan Duke established
The Duke Endowment and the institution changed its name to honor his deceased father,
Washington Duke .
The campus spans over 8,600 acres (3,500 hectares) on three contiguous sub-campuses in Durham, and a marine lab in Beaufort . The West Campus —designed largely by architect Julian Abele —incorporates Gothic architecture with the 210-foot (64-meter) Duke Chapel at the campus’ center and highest point of elevation, is adjacent to the Medical Center . East Campus , 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) away, home to all first-years, contains Georgian -style architecture.
James Buchanan Duke statue by Charles Keck with chapel in the background © Charles Keck
The university administers two concurrent schools in Asia,
Duke–NUS Medical School in
Singapore (established in 2005) and
Duke Kunshan University in
Kunshan, China (established in 2013).
Duke’s
undergraduate admissions are among the most selective in the United States, with an overall acceptance rate of 5.1% for the class of 2028. Duke spends more than $1 billion per year on research, making it one of the ten largest research universities in the United States., 15
Nobel laureates and 3
Turing Award winners have been affiliated with the university. Duke alumni also include 50
Rhodes Scholars . Duke is the
alma mater of one
president of the United States (
Richard Nixon ) and 14 living billionaires.
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