unitid 198419 · Durham, NC · private nonprofit 4-year · city (large)
Duke University
Private university in Durham, North Carolina, U.S.
- founded
- 1838
- enrollment 2023
- 20,664
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- duke.edu
- motto
- “Eruditio et Religio”
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city 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. wikipedia rev 1363878631 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within private nonprofit 4-years
The record
admission rate
6%
1st pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
undergraduates
6,442
94th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
Pell share
14%
undergrads on Pell grants
9th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
completion
97%
finish within 150% time
98th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$87,072
98th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
avg net price / yr
$29,612
after aid, aided students
80th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$97,800
after entry, Title IV students
97th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median grad debt
$13,000
6th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $735 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of private nonprofit 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k18%
- 30-48k11%
- 48-75k15%
- 75-110knot reported
- 110k+not reported
- Median family income
- $61,560
- First-generation students
- 13%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $68,758
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 7.5× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 999 | — | — |
| Computer Science. | 410 | $201,846 | $13,500 |
| Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other. | 281 | — | — |
| Engineering-Related Fields. | 266 | $150,672 | — |
| Law. | 238 | — | — |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 229 | $217,198 | — |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. | 224 | $82,377 | $29,000 |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. | 208 | $119,197 | — |
| Economics. | 199 | $171,986 | $13,437 |
| Natural Resources Conservation and Research. | 188 | $91,491 | — |
| Biology, General. | 169 | $70,605 | $12,500 |
| Public Policy Analysis. | 144 | $113,034 | $10,500 |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 5,852 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (2,138) · university teacher (524) · basketball player (489) · politician (211) · lawyer (205) · writer (161) · historian (108) · American football player (102)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Charles Hard Townes Physics 1964
- Robert Coleman Richardson Physics 1996
- Robert Lefkowitz Chemistry 2012
- Brian Kobilka Chemistry 2012
- Gregg L. Semenza Medicine 2019
- William G. Kaelin Medicine 2019
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Richard Nixon
189 wikis · Public domain
Ron Paul
85 wikis · Public domain
Melinda Gates
85 wikis · GODL-India
Charles Hard Townes
84 wikis · Public domain
Tim Cook
80 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Robert Coleman Richardson
66 wikis · Public domain
Robert Lefkowitz
61 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Brian Kobilka
60 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Rand Paul
56 wikis · Public domain
Kyrie Irving
54 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Gregg L. Semenza
54 wikis · CC BY 2.0
William G. Kaelin
53 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
William Styron
52 wikis · Public domain
Ricardo Lagos
51 wikis · CC BY 3.0 cl
Sylvia A. Earle
46 wikis · CC BY 3.0
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
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- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1363878631), CC BY-SA 4.0.