Duke University was founded in 1838, located in Durham, North Carolina, USA.
It is a private comprehensive research university, a university in the southern United States and one of the best universities in the United States. Duke University is a member of the Global Alliance for Advanced Research in Universities and the association of american universities.
The original name of the school was Trinity College. 1924, James Duke, an American southern tobacco tycoon, established the Duke Endowment Fund and renamed it Duke University. By June, 20021,the size of Duke University Endowment Foundation was $6543.8+0.27 billion.
Duke University is recognized as one of the top universities in the world today. Many disciplines, including biological sciences, statistics, humanities, public policy, psychology, computer science, political science and engineering, rank among the top ten in the United States, among which business schools, law schools and medical schools rank among the top ten in the United States.
According to the ranking of the best full-time MBA program published by Bloomberg Businessweek in 20 14, Fuka Business School of Duke University surpassed Harvard Business School and Booth Business School of University of Chicago, ranking first in the United States.
In 20 14, Reuters published the list of "highly cited" researchers in the world (top 1%), and Duke University ranked fourth in the world. On February, 2065438 165438, Professor ingrid Dobes of our school won the "World Outstanding Female Scientist Award" in 20 19.