创办时间：1838年
所在城市：美国北卡罗莱纳州达勒姆市
学校性质：私立综合类研究型大学
学生人数：17,400+（本科生6500+，研究生10,900+）
师生比：1:7
优势学科：医学、经济学、法学、生物学、护理学、金融学、统计学、心理学
Duke History 杜克大学校史
Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College. Trinity traced its roots to 1838 in nearby Randolph County when local Methodist and Quaker communities opened Union Institute. The school, then named Trinity College, moved to Durham in 1892, where Benjamin Newton Duke served as a primary benefactor and link with the Duke family until his death in 1929. In December 1924, the provisions of indenture by Benjamin’s brother, James B. Duke, created the family philanthropic foundation, The Duke Endowment, which provided for the expansion of Trinity College into Duke University.
杜克大学由詹姆斯·布坎南·杜克于1924年为纪念其父华盛顿·杜克而创立。杜克家族来自达勒姆市，凭借烟草产品制造建立全球金融帝国，并开发卡罗来纳地区的电力产业，长期关注三一学院发展。该学院可追溯至1838年邻近的兰道夫县——当地卫理公会与贵格会社群联合创办的协和学院。这所于1892年迁至达勒姆并更名为三一学院的学府，始终以本杰明·牛顿·杜克为主要资助者及与杜克家族的纽带，直至其1929年逝世。1924年12月，本杰明之弟詹姆斯·B·杜克通过契约条款设立家族慈善基金会"杜克捐赠基金"，推动三一学院扩建为杜克大学。
As a result of the Duke gift, Trinity underwent both physical and academic expansion. The original Durham campus became known as East Campus when it was rebuilt in stately Georgian architecture. West Campus, Gothic in style and dominated by the soaring 210-foot tower of Duke Chapel, opened in 1930. East Campus served as home of the Woman’s College of Duke University until 1972, when the men’s and women’s undergraduate colleges merged. Both men and women undergraduates now enroll in either the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences or the Pratt School of Engineering. In 1995, East Campus became the home for all first-year students.
得益于杜克家族的捐赠，三一学院经历了硬件与学术的双重扩张。原达勒姆校区以庄严的乔治亚式建筑重建后称东校区；1930年开放的西校区则以哥特式风格为主轴，高耸的杜克教堂钟塔达210英尺。东校区在1972年前一直作为杜克大学女子学院本部，此后本科男女学院合并。如今所有本科生均就读于三一文理学院或普拉特工程学院。1995年起，东校区成为全体大一新生生活学习之地。
Duke maintains a historic affiliation with the United Methodist Church.
杜克大学与美国联合卫理公会始终保持历史渊源。