Duke first opened in 1838 as Brown's Schoolhouse, a private subscription school founded in
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Duke University currently owns 256 buildings on 8,693 acres (35.18 km ) of land, which includes the 7,044 acres (28.51 km ) Duke Forest. The campus is divided into four main areas: West, East, and Central ca… See more

Duke University has 12 schools and institutes, three of which host undergraduate programs: Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Pratt School of Engineering, and Duke Kunshan University.
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Admission to Duke is defined by U.S. News & World Report as "most selective." Duke received nearly 50,000 applications for the Class of 2025, with an overall acceptance rate of 6.2%. The yield rate (the percentage of accepte… See more

Duke's student body consists of 6,789 undergraduates and 9,991 graduate and professional students (as of fall 2021). The median family income of Duke students is $186,700, with 56% of students coming from the to… See more

Teams for then Trinity College were known originally as the Trinity Eleven, the Blue and White or the Methodists. William H. Lander, as editor-in-chief, and Mike Bradshaw, as managing editor, of the Trinity Chro… See more