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Experience the sights and sounds of Duke University’s 2024 Commencement Celebration! Almost 7,000 undergraduates, graduate and professional school students graduated. Watch Video on YouTube. Jerry Seinfeld | Duke's 2024 Commencement Address. Class of 2024 Reflections | Duke's 100th Graduating Class.
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892.
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We strive to identify and enroll students who demonstrate intellectual strengths, a love of learning, a sense of imagination and open-mindedness, and a commitment to their communities; we seek students who make things better and treat others well.
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Duke University offers 53 majors, 52 minors and 23 certificates. With the ability to create combinations of the three, you have 437,989 unique academic combinations available.
Duke's graduate programs are designed so that students work closely with top experts in their fields. | See our 1,300+ graduate faculty
History. Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College.
