Duke University

Duke University

Duke University is a non-governmental research university situated  in Durham, North Carolina of the United States of America. Methodists and Quakers were the founder of  Duke University  in the year 1838 at  the present-day town of Trinity , in the year 1892 the school was  moved to Durham. In the year 1924,The Duke Endowment  was established  by tobacco and electric power industrialist James B. Duke , at that time the name of the  institution  was changed  to respect his recently dead father, Washington Duke.

The university's campus is spread  over 8,600 acres  on three neighboring  campuses in Beaufort where there is  a marine lab as well as  in  Durham.  The main campus of Duke  was designed largely by architect Julian Abele including  Gothic architecture  Duke Chapel which is  210-foot in area at the highest point of elevation and campus' center. The first-year-occupied East Campus having Georgian-style architecture, at the same time the main Gothic-style West Campus is 2.4 km  away and is next to to the Medical Center.

In the year 2009, the School of Medicine got 5,166 applications and approved approximately 4% of them, while the average  MCAT and  GPA  scores for  approved students from 2002 to 2009 were   34 and 3.74, respectively.The School of Law approved  approximately 13% from  its applicants for the Class of the year 2014, while registering  students had a median LSAT of 170 and median GPA of 3.75 .

Duke 's  professional and  graduate schools comprise the Graduate School,  the Nicholas School of the Environment,the Pratt School of , the School of Medicine, the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, the Fuqua Engineering School of Business, the School of Nursing,  the School of Law,  the Sanford School of Public Policy and the Divinity School.

Duke University provides 46  sciences and arts majors, four engineering majors, Program II and 49 Minors (comprising two in engineering) , that makes  students to design their own combination of major in   sciences and arts, and IDEAS, that makes   students to design their own engineering major.24 certificate programs also are  accessible.Students  follows a major, and can   follow a combination of a total of up to three comprising minors, 2nd major and a certificates . The Trinity College of Arts and Sciences  register  Eighty-five percent of undergraduates , while the remaining are in the Pratt School of Engineering.