Academics
At Duke, students and faculty don’t stick to their major lanes; they merge them.
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We’re here to help guide you through all the academic possibilities Duke can offer. If you know what you are looking for, our search platform can get you there.
What to Study
Duke is a haven for intellectual curiosity that offers opportunities to grow and diverge from well-trodden paths. See where our focus on collaboration can take students and faculty.
Select a Path to Begin Your Journey
Are you an undergraduate looking for the support and guidance to begin the next intellectual stage of your life?
Are you considering a master’s that can broaden your understanding while giving you experience in the real world?
Are you ready to do the work, invest the time, become a true leader in your field and earn your doctorate?
Duke University offers 53 majors, 52 minors, 23 certificates and hundreds more graduate and professional programs. You have can combine any number of these to create your unique academic experience.
Merge Disciplines and Discover New Fields
Duke University inspires a vibrant, evolving culture of interdisciplinary studies that remains in step with the most compelling intellectual puzzles and societal problems.
Bass Connections establishes Duke as a global leader in experiential learning and supercharged community-engaged research across campus.
Institutes, Initiatives and Centers are crucial incubators of innovations in research, teaching and community engagement.
It’s Your Degree
Accept the challenge of designing your own individualized program of study – on what most excites you intellectually.
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Program II is an individualized degree program for students to examine and explore an area of scholarship by designing and fulfilling their own program of study. Program II serves students whose intellectual interests cross departmental boundaries or who perceive areas of learning in different clusters than majors.
Amazing and Unexpected Outcomes
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3D Humanities
Digital humanities scholar Victoria Szabo has created some of the latest digital arts and history projects at Duke, providing students new ways to learn.
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Hidden Works, Revealed
Project Vox highlights work by marginalized voices in philosophy through the efforts of philosophers, artists, historians, anthropologists and data scientists.
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Academic Collaborations Across the World
In one project, anthropologists around the world teamed up with medical students and communities to track infectious diseases.
Where to Study
Duke is home to 10 schools – or more accurately, 9 schools and 1 college. Each has its own character with significant opportunity for collaboration. For the undergrad, graduate or professional student; before college or after; in Durham and around the world, opportunities abound.
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
With 35 departments and programs across three academic divisions, Trinity offers a robust and engaging liberal arts education in a world-class research environment. The school fosters collaboration across disciplines and provides students with exceptional access to research opportunities.
Duke Divinity School
The spiritual center of a great research university, Duke Divinity School is the embodiment of Duke University’s motto: Eruditio et Religio—Knowledge and Faith. Grounded in Christian Scripture and theology, we cultivate innovative approaches to ministry in its many forms.
Duke Kunshan University
Duke Kunshan is a world-class liberal arts university based in Kunshan, China, that offers a range of high quality, innovative academic programs for students from around the world.
Duke-NUS (National University Singapore)
As Singapore’s only graduate-entry medical school, Duke-NUS was borne from a pioneering partnership between Duke University and the National University of Singapore (NUS). We are dedicated to nurturing clinical innovators and leaders equipped to navigate the complex landscape of global healthcare. Our cutting-edge curriculum, world-class faculty, and state-of-the-art research facilities are meticulously designed to cultivate a culture of innovation, excellence, and compassion.
Fuqua School of Business
Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business attracts and nurtures a new kind of leader who has the power to bring out the strength in others and move teams forward toward a common purpose.
Duke Graduate School
The Duke University Graduate School offers master’s and doctoral degrees in more than 80 departments and programs of study, as well as certificate programs; dual, joint, and 4+1 degrees; and graduate programs at Duke Kunshan.
Duke Law
At Duke Law School, we’re committed to launching your legal career with the skills, connections, and experience you need not just to practice law, but to be a leader in the profession.
Nicholas School of the Environment
We understand that your calling is not just about the pursuit of a job—it is about making a positive impact in the world. Global perspectives prepare graduates of the Nicholas School for an interconnected world, and helps them move into fields that are not only marketable, but essential.
Pratt School of Engineering
AI, quantum computing and robotics make headlines every day. Duke Engineering is behind more than its fair share of them, enabling science-fiction-like abilities through innovative hardware and materials.
Sanford School of Public Policy
The Sanford School prepares students for lives of leadership, civic engagement and public service.
Duke University School of Medicine
Duke’s medical school is mission driven: Education, research, patient care, and community partnership.
Duke University School of Nursing
Duke University School of Nursing prepares nurse leaders and innovators through transformative excellence in education, clinical practice, and nursing science.
Global Education
The Duke experience can take you beyond our home city. We offer travel and learning opportunities, no matter your discipline. We have affiliated schools at Duke Kunshan and Duke-NUS Medical School, and we welcome students from across the globe.
Where the Devil Will You Go?
Choose from 170 programs based in more than 40 countries.
Rooted in Our Region and Connected to the World
Duke University is addressing complex challenges through collaborations with partners across the globe.
The Duke International Student Center
Helping the entire Duke community become global-minded citizens.
Bridging East and West through an international education
Located outside Shanghai, DKU helps students develop a sense of social responsibility and global citizenship, as well as strong, transferrable intellectual, analytical and practical skills.
Educating Medical Professionals Across the Globe
Duke-NUS is Singapore’s first and only U.S.-style graduate medical school — a partnership between Duke University School of Medicine and the National University of Singapore (NUS).
Cross-Disciplinary Research
To advance human understanding, artists collaborate with engineers, historians work alongside data scientists, and philosophers engage with neuroscientists.
Research
Interdisciplinary Excellence
At Duke, research fuels innovation and impact, bringing together disciplines to tackle global challenges and spark breakthroughs in health, technology, and society.
Our Faculty
The bold thinking of our faculty is what makes Duke a world-class institution.
Duke’s commitment to faculty advancement and interdisciplinary collaboration helps foster innovative work that addresses some of our most critical issues while creating the next generation of entrepreneurs, creative thinkers and societal leaders.
– Alec Gallimore, Provost
Featured Faculty
Tsitsi Jaji
A poet and pianist, Tsitsi Jaji is examining the power and legacy of classical vocal music by Black composers.
Blake S. Wilson
Blake Wilson is a principal developer of the modern cochlear implant, a device that restores hearing for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Anthony Kelley
Duke music professor Anthony Kelley found an incomplete work by renowned pianist Mary Lou Williams in the Duke Archives and helped finish it.
Faculty Support
Our unwavering investment in faculty development — through robust mentoring, leadership training and innovative recruitment — creates an environment where educators thrive and inspire. Paired with exceptional students eager to engage and excel, this dynamic partnership is what makes Duke a truly outstanding community for learning, discovery and growth.
Be the Educator You Want to Be
We provide leadership, guidance and oversight of university-wide strategies and programs to support faculty throughout their career.
Moving Duke Forward
The Provost’s team is dedicated to advancing Duke University’s strategic efforts to address the great challenges of our day, define a new twenty-first-century model of the research university, foster a more inclusive and equitable campus and world, partner with purpose in service to our community, and advance humankind.
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Faculty Governance
The Academic Council and the Executive Committee which it elects are the chief instruments of faculty governance at Duke University, with each containing representatives from across the University and the School of Medicine.
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Intentional Support
The Black Think Tank at Duke University supports faculty and scholarship through community-building, collaboration, and cultural engagement.
Academic Support
Academic study at Duke can be challenging, but it doesn’t have to be complicated.
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Office of Undergraduate Education
OUE is where the student success journey begins. Whether assisting with exploring majors, expanding learning opportunities, encouraging life skills development or finding study groups, Office of Undergraduate Education (OUE) promotes a deeper understanding needed for critical thinking, problem solving and self-reliance.
Check it Out
See What’s Inside Duke’s Libraries
The 12 libraries across Duke are the foundation for the collaborative, engaged and exciting work students and faculty are tackling across every discipline.
Our mission is to advance teaching, learning, and research at Duke by providing critical expertise, deep and broad scholarly collections, inclusive programs and services, accessible technology, and inspiring spaces.
– Joseph Salem, University Librarian