Duke University

Duke University is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1838. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 6,646, its ambience is suburban, and the campus admeasurement is 8,709 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Duke University's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Universities, 8. Its charge and fees are $47,488 (2014-15).

Durham, North Carolina, which surrounds Duke's campus, offers a array of activities including shopping, dining and entertainment. Its "Bull City" appellation comes from the Blackwell Tobacco Company's Bull Durham Tobacco. Acceptance at Duke are appropriate to reside on campus for their aboriginal three years, and freshmen reside calm on the East Campus. The Duke Blue Devils advance a angry animosity with the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill Tar Heels and are best accepted for their outstanding men's basketball program, one of the top 5 winningest academy basketball programs in the country. About 30 percent of the apprentice physique is affiliated with Greek life, which encompasses added than 30 fraternities and sororities.

Duke University is disconnected into 10 schools and colleges, abounding of which serve both undergraduate and alum students. Its alum programs cover the awful ranked Fuqua School of Business, Pratt School of Engineering, School of Law, School of Medicine, Sanford School of Public Policy and School of Nursing. Duke aswell offers alum programs through its well-respected Divinity School and Nicholas School of the Environment. Duke's a lot of admired undergraduate scholarship, the Robertson Scholars Program, provides about 18 acceptance from anniversary chic with a budgetary accolade and the befalling to abstraction for a division at UNC-Chapel Hill. Notable alumni cover Melinda Gates, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; NBA amateur Carlos Boozer; and above U.S. Congressman and three-time presidential applicant Ron Paul.