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
In response to requests regarding concealed-weapons permits, professionals in the Triangle are discussing the role of doctors in gun policy.
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In response to requests regarding concealed-weapons permits, professionals in the Triangle are discussing the role of doctors in gun policy.
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Seeing tents pitched on Duke University’s campus is not uncommon — but this time students aren’t sleeping outside for basketball tickets.
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In 2006, a man walked into a sexually transmitted disease clinic in Lilongwe, Malawi, in search of treatment. Now, seven years, dozens of blood samples and scores of medical tests later, his unique case is still being studied in search of a scientific discovery he never could have imagined.
Read More »Duke University’s decision to include coverage of sexual reassignment surgery in its student health insurance plan starting next year might prompt UNC-system schools to offer the same.
Read More »It’s 5:15 p.m. on a Monday, and Veronica Martinez, an exchange student from Ecuador, sits quietly in the corner of the Student Union.
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Though it lacks the size and popularity of other sports teams, the Carolina Fishing Club shares the same fierce rivalry with its Durham counterpart.
Read More »UNC and Duke University students came together this weekend to discuss what many consider to be another major rivalry: that between the United States and China.
Read More »Students looking to sell their Duke tickets to the highest bidder before Saturday’s game might get more than they bargained for.
Read More »North Carolina is taking its first steps to improve elementary education as part of a national push to better teach children at younger ages.
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There are few venues comparable to Cameron Indoor Stadium. And today at 9 p.m., it will be filled to capacity with more than 9,000 fans who want to see nothing short of a dismantling of the Tar Heels.
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Ian Williams wrote a 1990 column for The Daily Tar Heel entitled “Why I Hate Duke.” It remains one of the DTH’s most popular stories. In 2007, Williams wrote a follow-up column, “Why I Still Hate Duke.”
Read More »Duke University’s project to build a campus in Kunshan, China, is facing more setbacks.
Read More »The new joint biomedical engineering program for undergraduates at UNC and N.C. State University will help combine the strengths of both schools, leading to more diverse opportunities for students.
Read More »A recent Duke University fraternity party has provoked angry responses from Asian and Asian-American students and faculty at Duke and UNC.
Read More »UNC students will no longer be able to travel to Durham for free. The Robertson bus, which runs between this University’s campus and Duke’s campus, will now cost $2.50 starting next semester.
Read More »While Chapel Hill experienced no more than high winds and a drop in temperature when Hurricane Sandy hit land Monday, students at universities across the state and the Northeast are still waiting for normal campus life to return.
Read More »Duke University recently joined the lineup of higher education institutions boosting their presence in the nation’s capitol. The nation’s colleges and universities have steadily been increasing their spending in Washington, D.C., for more than a decade.
Read More »CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — They weren’t even supposed to be in the title game. No, they were supposed to lose Friday, cut their losses and head back to Chapel Hill.
Read More »Although UNC and Duke might be intense rivals on the basketball court, the student governments from both schools have been collaborating.
Read More »Due to a technical glitch with the online ticket lottery notification system, all students who entered the lottery, including those who won tickets, received an email saying they would not receive tickets, said Caitlin Goforth, president of the Carolina Athletic Association.
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