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
Last year, there was no clear winner in Jose Hernandez and Henrique Cunha’s rivalry. The North Carolina and Duke juniors, their respective teams’ top players, played three times in 2011. Hernandez won once and lost once, and the final match went unfinished. Each player’s record against the other was 1-1-1.
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Last year, there was no clear winner in Jose Hernandez and Henrique Cunha’s rivalry. The North Carolina and Duke juniors, their respective teams’ top players, played three times in 2011. Hernandez won once and lost once, and the final match went unfinished. Each player’s record against the other was 1-1-1.
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Win or die. That’s how North Carolina senior Thomas Ferguson characterized the UNC wrestling team’s mindset before its meet against Duke on Monday night at Carmichael Arena.
Read More »The largest-ever individual financial aid donation received by Duke University will promote diversity and access for prospective students in both the U.S. and abroad, administrators say.
Read More »A partnership between Duke University and the city of Kunshan, China might provide more educational opportunities for Chinese students, but some faculty have questioned the feasibility of the proposal.
Read More »In its second year, the Kenan-Biddle Partnership has seen a significant drop in interest.
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Three years after former Student Body President Eve Carson’s murder exposed cracks in the N.C. probation system and prompted a total overhaul, practices are still changing. Reforms to be implemented Dec. 1 and Jan. 1 will make it harder to revoke probation, will require that all felons are supervised upon prison release and will reroute offenders from prison to probation.
Read More »The presence of Adderall on college campuses has led some administrators to call into question the ethics behind the unauthorized use of the drug.
Read More »As Chapel Hill prepares to limit the number of ghouls and goblins roaming Franklin Street this Halloween, other campuses are expecting large crowds of revelers both on and off campus.
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The North Carolina women’s soccer team isn’t a fan of the “underdog” tag. That much became clear in the opening minutes of Thursday night’s game against No. 4 Duke. Early on, the No. 10 Tar Heels entrenched themselves in the attacking third of Fetzer Field, routinely visiting the end line with three earned crosses in the first three minutes.
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Kealia Ohai knows it only takes one chance to put a ball in the goal and steal a win in a tied game. And after No. 4 Duke squandered away four open net chances throughout the game, she wasn’t going to let the Blue Devils have the last shot.
Read More »Thousands of students applied for the White House Internship program this fall, and of the nearly 150 students selected, four were from North Carolina.
Read More »This summer, a book brought two campuses together. UNC and Duke University chose Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Eating Animals” as the joint 2011 summer reading novel.
Read More »Duke’s men’s golf team made the game look easy at last weekend’s Rod Myers Intercollegiate, as they finished the event as the only team under par.
Read More »When people think of Japan, three local professors are hoping they will also think of the Triangle.
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Although the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not much closer to a solution after years of peace talks and false starts, UNC students are finding ways to become engaged in the debate.
Read More »Universities nationwide are urging members of Congress to reach an agreement on federal deficit reduction without imposing further cuts on higher education.
Read More »Clinical trials might be a cancer patient’s last chance to get better. But some former patients of Duke University Health System claim trials administered to them were flawed, and maybe even harmful.
Read More »With the Kenan-Biddle Partnership gearing up for a second year, former grant recipients said the relationship between UNC and Duke University is stronger after the inaugural effort.
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The Ackland Art Museum is home to the sarcophagus in which William Hayes Ackland, the original benefactor of the museum, is entombed.
Read More »“Eating Animals,” the non-fiction work by Jonathan Safran Foer, is the first ever shared summer reading selection for freshmen at Duke University and UNC.
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