Duke University is a private research university located in Durham,
North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the
present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892.
In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B. Duke established The Duke
Endowment, at which time the institution changed its name to honor his
deceased father, Washington Duke.
Duke is organized into two undergraduate and ten graduate and
professional schools. The university's research expenditures topped $657
million in 2009, placing it amongst the largest ten in the nation. In
its 2012 edition, U.S. News & World Report ranked the university's
undergraduate program 10th among national universities, while ranking
the medical, law, public policy, nursing, and business graduate programs
among the top 12 in the United States (form Wikipedia). |
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