Location: Durham, N.C.
Type: 4-year, Private
Year founded: 1839
Total enrollment (fall 2014): 14,850
Undergraduate enrollment: 6,646
Undergraduate applicants (class of 2018): 31,523
Acceptance rate: 12.4 percent
Graduation rate (after four years, fall 2013): 87 percent
Undergraduate tuition and fees (2014-2015): $47,243
Sports nickname: Blue Devils
Website: www.duke.edu
Duke University is joining more than a hundred universities nationwide to be investigated for mishandling sexual assault cases on campus, according to a Title IX complaint made public this month.
Read More »Duke University is joining more than a hundred universities nationwide to be investigated for mishandling sexual assault cases on campus, according to a Title IX complaint made public this month.
Read More »UNC has found itself at the heart of another lawsuit, this one alleging a violation of federal antitrust laws.
Read More »The North Carolina and Duke women’s tennis teams played host to 17 teams at the Kitty Harrison Invitational in Chapel Hill and Durham over the weekend.
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There was a different Marquise Williams on Kenan Stadium’s field Saturday afternoon against Duke.
Read More »Defendants in a lawsuit accusing Duke and UNC of an antitrust violation have fired back against allegations made this summer.
Read More »UNC and Duke are hosting the annual N.C. Latin American Film Festival for Hispanic Heritage month. This year’s film festival, which will last until Oct. 4, is called "Baseball — Dreams — Vanished Rebellions" and focuses on Venezuela.
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Duke University freshmen aren’t reading this year’s summer reading book, “Fun Home,” and it’s not because it’s optional.
Read More »DURHAM — It’s been nearly two weeks since the shooting of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill rocked universities and Muslim communities, and on Saturday, Duke University’s Muslim Students Association came together to push the conversation forward.
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This was an old-fashioned, impossible-to-script, picture-perfect basketball showdown in its purest form: two teams that despise each other. Hundreds of screaming, raucous, eccentric students painted from head to toe, looking for their six-and-a-half week stay in freezing tents to culminate with jubilation. A moment of silence for the passing of a North Carolina coaching legend, that rivalry aside, brought together all of Cameron Indoor Stadium in touching silence Wednesday night.
Read More »Chapel Hill's Ackland Art Museum and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University are Twitter-feuding over tonight's UNC-Duke men's basketball game.
Read More »When it comes to commuting, UNC students beat Duke students easily.
Read More »After Duke canceled its scheduled call to prayer Friday, discussions of University resources for UNC Muslims students were brought to the surface.
Read More »When Duke University first announced a call to prayer from its chapel’s bell tower, it was intended to bring together Muslims and non-Muslims after recent terrorist attacks in Paris — instead, the move sparked widespread controversy and prompted Duke to cancel the event. Franklin Graham, a prominent evangelical Christian, wrote a Facebook post demanding that donors withhold donations from Duke until the policy was reversed.
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DURHAM — They didn’t come to watch Marquise Williams fumble the ball three times in a row in one quarter’s time — twice in the red zone.
Read More »Duke University’s computer science department is investigating potential widespread cheating in a course known as Computer Science 201.
Read More »Zoboo otherwise known as Jovian, a well-known and well-loved lemur who started in the show “Zoboomafoo” died Nov.
Read More »After serving 27 years of a life sentence, Andrew Chandler Jr.’s fate might rest in the hands of Theresa Newman, Duke University law professor, and her team, which recently began to reexamine the controversial 1987 sexual abuse case.
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Ideally, people would think about the opportunity cost of making a purchase, but Duke economics professor and best-selling author Dan Ariely knows people typically only think about the pain associated with spending money.
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As of July 1, popular economics lecturer Jeremy Petranka has moved from UNC to Duke, but he won't be spending all his time in Durham.
Read More »UNC and Duke University differ by more than a shade of blue — especially in the difference between public and private tuition costs.
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