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Duke University

Basic Information

Type Private
Geographical Reach National
Location Durham, NC
Population 1,100,000
Map of the United States

Demographics

Total Undergraduates 6,417
Men / Women 46% / 54%
White 39%
Asian 17%
International 11%
Hispanic 10%
Black 7%
Mixed 5%
Native American 0%
From State 16%
From Region 12%

Academics

Undergraduate Degrees
Humanities & Social Sciences 35%
Life & Natural Sciences 14%
Computer Science 13%
Engineering 13%
Health Sciences 10%
Business & Economics 8%
Physical Sciences & Math 6%
Arts 1%
Education 1%

Financial

Tuition & Fees $73,740
Est. Cost of Attendance $96,597
10-Year ROI $308,000
ROI Percentile 98th

Retention & Graduation

Full-Time Retention 98%
4-Year Graduation Rate 87%
6-Year Graduation Rate 97%
Transfer-Out Rate 1%

Weather

Comfortable Days 115 (84%)
Sunshine Hours 2,680 (63%)
Days Without Precipitation 256 (70%)

Admissions

Uses Common App Yes
Acceptance Rate 5%
Yield (Unbound) 44%
Early Decision 1 Nov 1
Regular Decision Jan 3

Research

Research Level R1
Expenditure
Life & Natural Sciences $1,365M #7
Humanities & Social Sciences $57M #22
Engineering, Computing & Math $144M #44
Graduate Degrees
Engineering, Computing & Math 138 #36
Life & Natural Sciences 503 #39
Humanities & Social Sciences 400 #41

Honors College

Standardized Tests

Test Scores

Test Policy optional
Submitted Test Scores 75%
SAT Range 1520 – 1560
SAT Math Range 770 – 790
SAT RW Range 740 – 780
ACT Range 34 – 35

Earnings by Major Category

Each major category's degree-weighted estimated median 5-year earnings at this college, expressed as a z-score against the national degree-weighted distribution for that category. 0 is the national average. The shaded band between +1.28 and −1.28 marks the central 80% of the national distribution (10th–90th percentile).

Schools & Majors

Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
Pratt School of Engineering 272 65% / 35% 4% $137,212 96%
Biomedical Engineering 86 +3 56% / 44% 5% $115,268 97 95%
Civil Engineering 14 21% / 79% 0% $105,111 93
Electrical & Computer Engineering 92 +8 80% / 20% 4% $174,619 100 98%
Environmental Engineering 4 0% / 100% 0% $102,648 92
Interdisciplinary Engineering & Applied Science (IDEAS) 6 33% / 67% 17% $117,614 97
Mechanical Engineering 70 +5 71% / 29% 4% $125,085 98 94%
Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
School of Nursing 206 15% / 85% 0% $82,377 97%
Nursing 206 15% / 85% 0% $82,377 72 97%
Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
Trinity College of Arts and Sciences 1,650 46% / 54% 20% $112,334 94%
Computational Science 1 100% / 0% 0% $165,893 100
Computer Science 274 +147 61% / 39% 13% $201,846 100 99%
Computer Software and Media Applications $180,017 100
Mathematics and Computer Science 6 100% / 0% 33% $155,529 100
Chemistry 21 +3 62% / 38% 10% $43,135 2 95%
Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences 6 50% / 50% 0% $58,320 13
Mathematics 47 +35 81% / 19% 15% $131,658 99 93%
Physics 10 +9 70% / 30% 10% $95,767 87
Statistics 40 +20 52% / 48% 18% $121,776 98 95%
Anatomy 16 +4 44% / 56% 0% $86,703 79 93%
Biological and Physical Sciences 1 0% / 100% 0% $74,952 58
Biology 158 +13 35% / 65% 1% $70,605 46 95%
Biophysics 6 50% / 50% 17% $79,482 67
Environmental Studies 32 +12 34% / 66% 3% $78,003 64 97%
Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography 7 14% / 86% 0% $59,262 15
Natural Sciences 1 0% / 100% 0% $70,009 44
Neuroscience 87 +2 26% / 74% 7% $73,810 55 83%
Economics 149 +24 62% / 38% 11% $171,986 100 95%
Economics 19 +4 58% / 42% 0% $171,986 100 95%
African Studies 5 +1 40% / 60% 0% $68,986 41
Anthropology 12 +2 17% / 83% 8% $62,485 22 89%
Area Studies 29 41% / 59% 0% $69,433 42
Behavioral Sciences 1 0% / 100% 0% $72,134 50
Classical Languages 1 +1 100% / 0% 0% $80,715 69
Cognitive Science 2 50% / 50% 0% $71,539 49
English 19 +10 21% / 79% 0% $78,024 64 92%
Ethnic and Cultural Studies $65,932 32
Foreign Languages 2 +7 50% / 50% 50% $94,560 86 93%
French +7 $81,133 70
General Literature 6 +5 67% / 33% 0% $77,488 63
German +5 $82,848 73
History 11 +5 27% / 73% 0% $85,818 77 91%
History 1 100% / 0% 0% $85,818 77 91%
Interdisciplinary Studies 12 42% / 58% 8% $83,610 74
Interdisciplinary Studies 259 44% / 56% 91% $82,793 73
Italian 1 +2 100% / 0% 100% $69,708 43 100%
Linguistics 4 +3 0% / 100% 0% $94,560 86 93%
Philosophy 6 +4 50% / 50% 50% $68,190 39
Political Science 74 +25 57% / 43% 7% $101,627 91 97%
Psychology 113 +16 18% / 82% 4% $57,071 11 91%
Public Policy Studies 142 +20 41% / 59% 3% $113,034 96 95%
Religion/Religious Studies 2 +3 50% / 50% 0% $48,244 3 94%
Romance Languages +1 $80,760 69
Russian 1 +1 100% / 0% 0% $81,068 70
Sociology 28 +3 39% / 61% 0% $75,020 58 88%
Spanish +7 $83,045 73
Women's Studies 4 0% / 100% 0% $62,007 21
International and Comparative Education 13 +8 31% / 69% 0% $66,024 32 83%
Art History, Criticism and Conservation 5 +3 20% / 80% 0% $54,063 7
Dance $43,441 2
Music +3 $48,958 3
Theater 2 +6 0% / 100% 0% $42,955 2
Visual and Performing Arts 11 +2 36% / 64% 0% $47,055 3
Visual and Performing Arts 3 +3 33% / 67% 0% $43,730 2

Rankings

Academics

Future Patagonia Vest Owners Top Investment Banking Feeders
Settling for Evercore
Future Ambulance Chasers Top Law School Feeders
Future SCOTUS Clerks
Future Adjunct Professors Top PhD Feeders
TA Before You Can Say "Publish or Perish"

Prestige

Grandma Eyebrow Raisers Easy Brags for the Prestigious-Conscious
Moving to a Warmer Climate

My Tribe

Call Your Mother! Most Jewish
Significant Community

Engineering

Pre-Med Hidding in Plain Sight Biomedical Engineering
The Pioneers
Playing House Civil Engineering
The Deep Bench
Resistance Is Futile Computer Engineering
O(1) Touch Grass (Theoretically Computable)
Resistance Is Not Futile Electrical Engineering
Ohm My God
Hugging Trees with Calculus Environmental Engineering
Pollution Police
Is It a Solid? Is It a Liquid? Yes. Materials Engineering
Solid State
WD-40 & Duct Tape Mechanical Engineering & Robotics
Whiteboard-preferred

Computer Science

Explaining That HTML is Not a Programming Language Computer Science (A&S)
LeetCode Grinders
import pandas as pd Data Science
The Prestige Pivoters

Physical Sciences & Math

Quants, Proofs & p < 0.05 Applied Mathematics & Statistics
Wall Street's Favorite Feeder Schools
Breaking Bad Chemistry
Pre-Med Darwinian Thunderdome
Rocks and Whales Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
Sedimentary Scholars
The "I Understand Interstellar" Elite Physics & Astronomy
Biophysics, Soft Matter, and Interdisciplinary Physics
No Words Allowed Pure Mathematics
Equation Elegance

Life & Natural Sciences

Pre-Med Reject Waiting Room Biology
Lab Gods
Photosynthesis Fan Club Ecology & Plant Biology
Botanical Brigade
Doomsday Prepping with Data Environmental Science
Climate Warriors
Memorizing 206 Bones Human Biology
The Cadaver Club
Lord of the Petri Dish Microbiology & Immunology
Pathogen Punishers
Staring at a Gel Electrophoresis Until Our Eyes Bleed Molecular Biology & Genomics
Sequencing Squad
Action Potentials Neuroscience
Rat Maze Architects
Farmers, Cowboys, and Tree Huggers Plant & Agricultural Systems
Harvest Season

Health Sciences

Future Heroes (With 12-Hour Shifts) Nursing
Florence Nightingale's Heirs
Legal Drug Dealers Pharmacy
Dosage Masters

Business & Economics

PowerPoint Presentation Power Rankings Business Administration
We Don't Actually Offer Undergrad Business
Pivot Tables & Missing Pallets Business Analytics
Dashboard Dictators
It's Basic Supply and Demand, Bro Economics
Math Masochists & Stata Sorcerers
Move Fast, Break Tuition Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Startup Scene
Wolf of Wall Street Prep Finance
Wait, I Majored in Econ?
Tik-Tok Generation Marketing
Getting There

Humanities & Social Sciences

I Think, Therefore I Major Cognitive Science
The Academic Anarchists
Much Ado About Nothing English, Literature & Writing
Ink & Quill
Saving the Planet, One Policy at a Time Environmental Policy & Sustainability
Climate Cabinet
Smashing the Patriarchy 101 Gender Studies
Discourse Disruptors
Model UN Generation Government & Politics
Policy Wonks
Hindsight is 20/20 (And So is My Salary) History & Archaeology
Primary Source Hunters
Passport Stamp Collectors International Relations
Foreign Service Bound
Future Lawyers (and Their Future Anxiety) Law
Mock Trial Champs
I'll Figure Out the Career Later Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary
Major Mashup
The "Why Are We Here?" Support Group Philosophy & Ethics
Late Night Debaters
Feelings, But With Error Bars Research & Experimental Psychology
The Power-Analysis Cartel
I Want To Understand Myself Psychology
Uncommitted Generalists
Decolonizing the Curriculum Regional & Ethnic Studies
Cultural Cartographers
Arguing with God for a Grade Religion
The Faithful Scholars
Everything is a Construct Sociology & Anthropology
The Deconstructors

Education

Surviving PTA Karens General Education
Classroom Ready

Arts

Lights, Camera, Tuition Film
Indie Darlings