Duke University
Duke University admitted 5.7% of applicants. Students who submitted scores typically had 1500–1570 on the SAT. Its average net price after aid was $23,706 a year. Within six years, 96% of first-time, full-time students graduated.
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Admissions
- Admission rate
- 5.7%
- SAT/ACT scores
- Considered if submitted
- SAT middle 50%
- 1500–1570
- ACT middle 50%
- 34–35
Cost
- Cost of attendance, before aid
- $90,696 a year
- Average net price after aid
- $23,706 a year
- Net price for families earning under $30,000
- $6,652 a year
- Tuition and fees
- $72,795 a year
Outcomes
- Graduation rate (within 6 years)
- 96%
- Students who return for a second year
- 98%
- Median earnings 10 years after starting
- $113,937 a year
- Median debt at graduation
- $13,000
Students
- Undergraduates
- 6,442
- Undergraduates with a Pell Grant
- 19%
- Student-faculty ratio
- 5 to 1
- Campus setting
- City
Most common fields of study
Share of the degrees the college awarded, by field.
- Multi/interdisciplinary studies
- 17%
- Engineering
- 15%
- Social sciences
- 14%
- Biological and biomedical sciences
- 12%
- Computer and information sciences
- 11%
Colleges with similar selectivity
Closest by admission rate and SAT scores.
- Vanderbilt University TN · 5.9% admitted
- Dartmouth College NH · 5.4% admitted
- University of Pennsylvania PA · 5.4% admitted
- Brown University RI · 5.4% admitted
- Johns Hopkins University MD · 6.4% admitted
- Princeton University NJ · 4.6% admitted
More colleges in North Carolina
- North Carolina State University at Raleigh NC · 42% admitted
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte NC · 80% admitted
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC · 15% admitted
- East Carolina University NC · 89% admitted
- Appalachian State University NC · 90% admitted
- University of North Carolina Wilmington NC · 64% admitted
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro NC · 89% admitted
- North Carolina A & T State University NC · 50% admitted
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Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, most recent institution-level data (October 2026 release). Admission figures are reported by the college; check its website for current requirements.