Wall Street Journal-Times Higher Education In 2022, the top ten universities in the United States were Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University, Stanford University, Duke University, Brown University (tied for fifth place), Princeton University, California Institute of Technology (tied for seventh place), Cornell University and Northwestern University.

Duke University is a research-oriented comprehensive university co-founded by Duke University of the United States (which has been rated as one of the top ten universities in the United States by the authoritative organization U.S. News for many years) and Wuhan University of China (a "double-class" university in China /985 University/21KLOC-0/University) in Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province. It is also the only Sino-foreign cooperative university founded in China by the top ten American universities.

Among the top ten universities in the United States, Duke University is the only university in China that has established a Sino-foreign cooperative university, providing world-class undergraduate education with unique Duke quality for students from China and other countries.