Duke University

Duke University is a private university in Durham, North Carolina.

Academics

The university has two schools for undergraduates: Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and the Pratt School of Engineering.

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Trinity College of Arts and Sciences - Pratt School of Engineering

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Duke University also has several graduate and professional schools: the Pratt School of Engineering, the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing, the Fuqua School of Business, the School of Law, the Divinity School, and the Graduate School.

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Pratt School of Engineering - Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences - The School of Medicine - The School of Nursing - Fuqua School of Business - The School of Law - The Divinity School - The Graduate School

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Some applicants to Duke are selected for the Robertson Scholarship program, which offers a tuition-free education at Duke as well as one semester at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The highest merit award that the University offers to exceptionally talented students is the Angier B. Duke Scholarship, which is given in honor of James B. Duke's son Angier, who was killed in a boating accident, and also includes free tuition and a summer session at Oxford in England. The B. N. Duke Scholars program is a scholarship program geared towards top high school students in North and South Carolina. The University Scholars program, endowed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, provides full scholarships to "exceptionally talented" undergraduates, graduate, and professional students. The program is characterized by its interdisplinary nature. A new program, Baldwin Scholars, aims to promote the development of female leaders.

Related Topics:
Robertson Scholarship - Tuition - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Oxford - England - B. N. Duke Scholars program - North - South Carolina - Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - Baldwin Scholars

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Duke University's Talent Identification Program, or TIP, is for seventh- through tenth-graders who have scored well on the SAT or ACT. Participants can take a variety of summer classes while living on Duke's East or West campuses, or on the campuses at other participating schools. The TIP program also enables rising seniors to attend classes at Duke's "Pre-college" summer session.

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Talent Identification Program - SAT - ACT

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Duke's special academic facilities: art museum, language labs, Duke Forest, primate center, phytotron, free electron laser, nuclear magnetic resonance machine, nuclear lab, marine lab, and center for engineering, medicine, and applied sciences. Duke is also a leading participant in the National Lambda Rail Network.

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Academic - Primate - Phytotron - Free electron laser - Nuclear magnetic resonance machine - Nuclear - Engineering - Medicine - Applied sciences - National Lambda Rail Network

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Undergraduate

Duke offers 36 arts and sciences majors in addition to 5 engineering majors, and 46 additional majors have been approved under Program II. Program II allows students to design their own interdisciplinary major. Sixteen certificate programs are also available. Students may pursue a combination of a total of three majors/minors/certificates, with at least one but not more than two majors (e.g. one major, two certificates; two majors, one minor; just a major; one major, one minor, and one certificate).

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Arts - Sciences - Majors - Engineering

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The following is a list of majors:

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The following is a list of minors. The sponsoring department is listed in parentheses where necessary for the sake of clarity:

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The following is a list of certificates. By completing a certificate program, students are able to supplement their undergraduate education with a course of study that affords a distinctive, usually interdisciplinary, approach to a subject not available in any single academic unit:

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Trinity College of Arts and Sciences operates under the recently revised Curriculum 2000. It ensures that students are exposed to a variety of "areas of knowledge" and "modes of inquiry." The curriculum aims to have students develop critical faculties and judgment; learn how to access, synthesize, and communicate knowledge effectively; acquire perspective on current and historical events; conduct research and solve problems; and develop tenacity and capacity for hard and sustained work.

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Freshmen can elect to participate in the FOCUS Program, which involves the interdisciplinary exploration of a specific topic, such as Arts in Contemporary Society, Athens in the Golden Age, and Changing Faces of Russia: Redefining Boundaries.

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FOCUS Program - Arts - Contemporary - Society - Athens - Golden Age - Russia

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Social life

Duke's undergraduate students are a very active social group. The nearby bars on Durham's Ninth Street are a popular outlet for students. However, the primary social scene at Duke occurs within the "Duke Bubble" in the form of a strong Greek life. About 1 in 3 males, and 1 out of 2 females, are members of a Greek organization. Although the on campus "keg parties" have been ended by the administration, Greeks have found other, usually off-campus alternatives to provide students their necessary dose of "partying".

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There are 400 student clubs and organizations. These include numerous student government, special interest, and service organizations. The Chronicle is Duke's independent undergraduate daily newspaper. It has been continuously published since 1905 and its editors are responsible for coining the term "Blue Devil" as the school's mascot. Duke Diya is the South Asian student association. It is known for enacting the school's largest annual student-run production, the cultural show entitled Awaaz, and also runs a variety of community service, cultural, political, and social events throughout the school year.

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Student government - Special interest - Service organizations - The Chronicle - Newspaper - 1905 - Blue Devil - Duke Diya

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Athletics, particularly men's basketball, is a significant component of Duke's social life. Duke's students have been recognized as some of the most creative, original, and abrasive fans in all of collegiate athletics. Students show their support of the men's basketball team by "tenting" for home games against key division rivals, especially UNC. Because tickets to all varsity sports are free to students, setting up a line of tents weeks in advance of big games has evolved as the only sure way of being admitted. The total number of participating tents is often capped at 100, though interest is such that it could exceed that number if space permitted. Tenting involves setting up and inhabiting a tent in front of Cameron Indoor Stadium with several other people just before the beginning of the spring term. There are different categories of tenting based on the length of time and number of people that must be in the tent at any one time. At night, Krzyzewskiville, or K-Ville for short, which is the grass by Cameron that serves as the tenting area, often turns into the scene of a party or occasional concert. The men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, known as Coach K to avoid mispronunciation, has also been known to occasionally buy pizza for the inhabitants of K-Ville.

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UNC - Cameron Indoor Stadium - Krzyzewskiville - Mike Krzyzewski

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