Duke Kunshan University is a Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run university with independent legal personality approved by the people of China and the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). He is a member of Chinese-foreign Cooperative University Alliance and China Global Health University Alliance (CCUGH).

20 10 1, Duke University signed a cooperation agreement with Kunshan Municipal People's Government to establish Duke University in Kunshan; 201111October, Duke University cooperated with Wuhan University to establish Duke University in Kunshan.

On August 2012 17, the Ministry of Education officially approved the application for the establishment of Kunshan Duke University (to be established), and on February 0/9, Kunshan Duke University was officially unveiled in Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province. On September 2013 17, the Ministry of Education officially approved the cooperation between Wuhan University and Duke University in the United States to establish Duke University in Kunshan.

According to the data of official website in May 2023, the school campus covers an area of 1.200 mu. As of April, 2023, the school offered 14 undergraduate majors; Undergraduate students 1360, including 426 international students and 247 graduate students. As of 202 1 and 10, the school has more than 800 teaching and administrative staff.

On September 2013/7, the Ministry of Education officially approved Wuhan University to cooperate with Duke University in the United States to set up Duke University in Kunshan, and approved its postgraduate program to start enrolling students. 20 13 10, global health research center was established; In February 65438, the legal person registration of Duke University in Kunshan was completed.

20 14 1 month, the advisory committee of Duke University in Kunshan was established; In July, the first master of management graduate students officially started school; In August, the first batch of master of management, master of science in global health and master of science in medical physics enrolled. 1 1 In June, 2006, Wuda-Duke Research Institute was established.

20 16, 1 month, the master of environmental policy project was established; In March, it became the first university campus in China to pass the overall park project certification of American Green Energy and Environmental Design Pioneer Award (LEED); In May, the Environmental Research Center was officially listed.

On June 5438+065438+ 10, the Sino-US Regional Ozone Cooperation Research Center was established in cooperation with the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government, and the Joint Laboratory for Quantitative Analysis of Environmental Policy was established in cooperation with the Ministry of Environmental Protection. In February, 65438, a four-year liberal arts undergraduate degree program was established.