Durham, North Carolina, USA - East Campus Duke Universtiy, statue - c.1960s

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• Picture / Image:  East Campus, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
• Publisher:  North Carolina News Co. Inc.
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Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892.^[6] In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James B. Duke established The Duke Endowment, at which time the institution changed its name to honor his deceased father, Washington Duke.

Duke ranked 17th in the world in the 2013 Times Higher Education World University Rankings,^[7] and 23rd in the world in the 2013 QS World University Rankings.^[8] In a study by The New York Times, its graduates were among the most valued in the world by employers.^[9] In the US, Duke tied the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania for 7th place in the 2014 U.S. News & World Report ""Best National Universities Rankings"".^[10] Forbes magazine ranked Duke 7th in the world on its list of 'power factories' in 2012.^[11] 40 Duke graduates have gone on to win prestigious Rhodes Scholarships to Oxford. 25 Duke graduates have gone on to receive Marshall Scholarships (Duke has had 10 winners in the past 8 years). Duke is also affiliated with 25 Churchill Scholars.

The university's athletic teams, known as the Blue Devils, have won 13 team national championships in the Atlantic Coast Conference.^[12][13] The men's basketball team has won four National Championships (fifth place all time), while attending 15 Final Fours (third place overall) and 10 Championship games (tied for second).^[14]

Duke started in 1838 as Brown's Schoolhouse, a private subscription school founded in Randolph County in the present-day town of Trinity.^[15] Organized by the Union Institute Society, a group of Methodists and Quakers, Brown's Schoolhouse became the Union Institute Academy in 1841 when North Carolina issued a charter. The academy was renamed Normal College in 1851 and then Trinity College in 1859 because of support from the Methodist Church.^[15] In 1892 Trinity moved to Durham, largely due to generosity from Julian S. Carr and Washington Duke, powerful and respected Methodists who had grown wealthy through the tobacco and electrical industries.^[6] Carr donated land in 1892 for the original Durham campus, which is now known as East Campus. At the same time, Washington Duke gave the school $85,000 for an initial endowment and construction costs—later augmenting his generosity with three separate $100,000 contributions in 1896, 1899, and 1900—with the stipulation that the college ""open its doors to women, placing them on an equal footing with men.""^[16]

In 1924 Washington Duke's son, James B. Duke, established The Duke Endowment with a $40 million trust fund. Income from the fund was to be distributed to hospitals, orphanages, the Methodist Church, and four colleges (including Trinity College). William Preston Few, the president of Trinity at the time, insisted that the institution be renamed Duke University to honor the family's generosity and to distinguish it from the myriad of other colleges and universities carrying the ""Trinity"" name. At first, James B. Duke thought the name change would come off as self-serving, but eventually he accepted Few's proposal as a memorial to his father.^[6] Money from the endowment allowed the University to grow quickly. Duke's original campus, East Campus, was rebuilt from 1925 to 1927 with Georgian-style buildings. By 1930, the majority of the Collegiate Gothic-style buildings on the campus one mile (1.6 km) west were completed, and construction on West Campus culminated with the completion of Duke Chapel in 1935.^[17]

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