Duke University | Wikipedia audio article
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Duke University
00:02:10 1 History
00:02:19 1.1 Beginnings
00:05:47 1.2 Expansion and growth
00:07:55 1.3 Recent history
00:11:23 2 Campus
00:16:18 2.1 West, East, and Central Campuses
00:19:54 2.2 Duke Kunshan University Campus
00:20:48 2.3 Key places
00:23:47 3 Administration and organization
00:24:41 4 Academics
00:24:50 4.1 Admissions
00:26:42 4.2 Graduate profile
00:27:41 4.3 Undergraduate curriculum
00:29:27 4.4 Libraries and museums
00:30:31 4.5 Research
00:32:54 4.6 Reputation and rankings
00:33:03 4.6.1 Undergraduate rankings
00:37:16 4.6.2 Graduate school rankings
00:40:31 5 Student life
00:40:40 5.1 Student body
00:41:00 5.2 Residential life
00:43:36 5.3 Greek and social life
00:47:47 5.4 Activities
00:47:55 5.4.1 Student organizations
00:49:54 5.4.2 Civic engagement
00:52:19 5.4.3 Student media
00:53:22 6 Duke Alumni Association
00:54:00 7 iDuke Magazine/i
00:54:22 8 Athletics
00:56:20 8.1 Men's basketball
00:57:35 8.2 Football
01:00:11 8.3 Track and field
01:00:41 9 Notable people
01:01:29 9.1 Government
01:02:21 9.2 Academia and research
01:03:18 9.3 Journalism
01:04:04 9.4 Literature
01:05:16 9.5 Business
01:06:23 9.6 Athletics
01:07:43 10 See also
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Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke established The Duke Endowment and the institution changed its name to honor his deceased father, Washington Duke.
Duke's campus spans over 8,600 acres (3,500 hectares) on three contiguous campuses in Durham as well as a marine lab in Beaufort. The main campus—designed largely by architect Julian Abele—incorporates Gothic architecture with the 210-foot (64-meter) Duke Chapel at the campus' center and highest point of elevation. The first-year-populated East Campus contains Georgian-style architecture, while the main Gothic-style West Campus 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) away is adjacent to the Medical Center. The university runs two concurrent universities in Asia, Duke Kunshan University in Kunshan, China, and Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore.
Duke is ranked 8th in the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking and 22nd in the U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking. In 2017, Forbes lists Duke among the top ten universities to produce the most Forbes 400 billionaires. In a corporate study carried out by The New York Times, Duke's graduates were shown to be among the most sought-after and valued in the world, and Forbes magazine ranked Duke 7th in the world on its list of 'power factories'.As of 2018, 13 Nobel laureates and 3 Turing Award winners have been affiliated with the university. Further, Duke alumni include 40 Rhodes Scholars and 25 Churchill Scholars. The university has produced the 5th highest number of Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Goldwater, and Udall Scholars of any American university between 1986 and 2015. In 2018, the Wall Street Journal ranked Duke first (tied with Harvard and Yale) for graduate outcomes. As of 2018, Duke also holds a top-ten position in several national rankings.