Peking University is awesome. QS ranks Peking University 17, Duke University 57, Times 14, Duke University 26, ARWU 29, Duke University 34, us news 39 and Duke University 25. DukeUniversity is a famous private co-educational research university located in DurhamNC, North Carolina, USA. Although the present school was established in 1924, the history of Duke University can actually be traced back to TrinityCollege, which was established in today's school site in 1859, or Brown'sSchoolhouse, which was established in Randolph County, the same state in 1838.