Interesting facts about duke university

100 interesting facts about duke university that are unreal

1) The school was originally founded as a medical college, but later became an academic institution in the 19th century. It is now known for its research into various fields of science and technology.

2) Duke University has a total enrollment of over 26,000 students. The average age of all incoming freshmen is 21 years old.

3) The most popular majors for students at Duke are: Biological and Biomedical Sciences; Economics; Engineering; Life Sciences; Math and Computer Sciences; and Physical Sciences.

4) Duke is a co-educational institution. The school's official slogan is "Duke: Where 21st Century Develops Into Here."

5) Duke has an acceptance rate of only 6% for applicants.

6) Duke has an "early action" policy. This means that students can apply to the university before they even graduate from their high school. The university will accept these applications and hold an admission decision by the end of the student's senior year in high school.

7) Duke students can choose between a self-contained apartment and a university residence. The university residences have their own private dining facilities, chefs, and butlers.

8) Duke University has a big athletic program. The school fields teams in 19 different sports and has won 21 national championships.

9) Duke medical students perform more than 300 different procedures each year.

10) Duke has a big research program. The school spends over $85-million a year on research.

11) Duke has a library that holds nearly five-million volumes.

12) Duke has six graduate schools: law, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing and two schools of engineering.

13) Duke has at least one student from every U.S. state and more than 70 foreign countries.

14) Duke students have founded at least 18 companies, including: 3Com, Advil, American Express, Ariel Motor Company, Hewlett-Packard, MCI, Procter & Gamble, West Pharmaceutical Services and Zantac.

15) Duke has three big-name schools that rival those of Ivy League schools: Wharton, Fuqua and Nicholas.

16) Duke offers a discount for students from Georgia.

17) Duke has its own hospital, Duke University Hospital, which is the largest private hospital in North Carolina.

18) Duke has more than 8,000 students, 7,000 undergraduate students and 1,000 graduate students.

19) Duke competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision.

20) The Duke Blue Devils football team has won three National Championships (1932, '34 and '82).

21) Duke's men's lacrosse team has won five national championships (1971, '75, '77, '78, '82), the most of any sport at the university.

22) The men's basketball team has made it to the NCAA Final Four five times (1974, '77, '79, '81 and '85). The women's team has been there once (2003).

23) The Duke Women's Rugby Club has won more than 40 national championships.

24) Duke's men's baseball team has made it to the NCAA Division One Tournament four times (1991, '93, '98 and '01).

25) Duke has many " traditions " that are very unique. The most famous of all is the " Krzyzomyr " ritual that is performed before every Duke home game.

26) Every Duke student is required to take classes in etiquette.

27) The best "tradition" of all is the "Pep Rally." Before every home football game, students gather in the student union and rally around the team with cheers, chants and songs.

28) Other traditions: Run Z Academy March, P.A.T.S. (Duke's version of Thelass League), "Crazy Blazer" games and the "Bloody Shirt" game.

29) During basketball and football games, the student section is known as "The Cameron Crazies."

30) If a "Crazy" fan ventures onto the court during a basketball or football game, he is immediately thrown out of the arena.

31) If the team you're rooting for makes a good shot, you can perform the "dab" by raising your arm and turning your forearm toward your mouth while moving your arm in a circular motion. This signifies that you "just twerked" (don't Judge) during the shot.

32) "Crazies" can be found on most sporting events at Duke.

33) It is Duke's goal to become the top party school in the nation by 2017.

34) The university has an "Anti- homophobia, anti-racism and anti-any- kind-of-prejudice" policy.

35) Duke has a nationally recognized gay-friendly program called "Check it Out!," which provides sexual health education for all students.

36) In 2002, the Duke Women's Rugby team invited their male counterparts to play them on the field at half time during a lacrosse game.

37) It is against school policy to possess or use electrical/literal "knockers" (LED flashlights that double as a hammer) during the night.

38) It is also against school policy to possess "glow sticks" (strips of plastic that double as a flashlight).

39) If you take a shot at a "Hot Shot," he has to take one as well. The "Hot Shot" is the man dressed in red (Run Z Academy).

40) The "R-Zone" is where all the restaurants, bars and coffee shops are located on campus.

41) "Zoned" refers to the hours in which these businesses are open. These are restricted to certain times during the week and day.

42) "Run" is short for "radius." It is the area you can walk around on campus. There is a 1 mile radius around campus where you can walk and everything is "zoned."

43) The university is planning on having an electric vehicle charging station installed on campus.

44) Since 2007, the university has been ranked in the top 20 "Green Power" (energy efficient) college or university by the EPA.

45) The university is planning on constructing a new $40 million ecologically friendly research center.

46) The "Duke Visual Arts Complex" includes the Robert H.MM.M. Kousper Art Gallery and the Earl M. calorie Art Gallery.

47) The university has a "Duke Dairy" which is a system of tunnels that goes under part of campus. The tunnels were originally built in the 1930s as a bomb shelter.

48) There are "Peach Trees" on campus that are older than the university itself.

49) In 1914, the university's first football team won three games and lost three.

50) Duke's first intercollegiate baseball game took place on February 20, 1915 against Wake Forest. The game ended in a 0-0 tie.

51) Duke has had more Heisman trophy winners (2) than any other university.

52) The university's mascot is "the Blue Devil."

53) There eight "academically distinct" undergraduate colleges at the university: Trinity, Duke, Pratt, Medicine, Fuqua, Sanford, Mason and Shepherds.

54) The college of medicine's shield is an allusion to the teams of doctors who saved lives during the French Revolution.

55) Trinity College was the first college of higher education in the state.

56) The Trinity College Campusspeech rallies are among the most famous in the nation.

57) The Trinity College library holds the largest private collegiate library in the nation.

58) The "Trinity College Marching Band" is probably the best-known college band in the nation.

59) The student newspaper of Trinity is called the "Trib."

60) The university motto is "Durius In Periculo Ut Omnia Virtute Conservas," which means, "Difficult Yet Graceful in the Face of All Adversity."

61) Trinity College has an annual fishing tournament.

62) In 1980, the university's Blue Devil mascot was selected as the NCAA's "Famous Sports Mascot of the Year."

63) The Trinity College Hillel is the only Hillel in the state of North Carolina.

64) Duke is the only private university in the nation that has a rail line.

65) Duke has at least one Rhodes, two Marshall, two Eisenhower and three MacArthur Scholars.

66) The "Duke University Confidential" is the nation's most selective college newspaper.

67) The Blue Devil mascot was originally inspired during World War I by a Blue Cross Advertising Campaign.

68) Trinity College was the first college anywhere to have an endowment fund.

69) Trinity was also the first college in the nation to have a student-run radio station.

70) Trinity's Cable House is the western-most building on campus.

71) Trinity College is one of three colleges in the nation that has a chapter of the "secret" "sorority" "Zeta Tau Alpha."

72) Trinity College has its own "mini-hospital," which is used for first aid and the like for students and often runs short of supplies.

73) Duke's "main" hospital, which is used by all students, also has a burn unit.

74) Trinity College has a student-run television station, TKR.

75) Shepherds College is the only women's college on campus.

76) Trinity College is the only college that has its own library (the Trinity Library).

77) Trinity's campus is in an old tobacco warehouse.

78) Duke's campus is the only one in the state to be on a hillslope.

79) Trinity's campus is the nation's largest university-owned park.

80) Trinity's campus is the only one in the nation with its own private golf course.

81) All of the trees on campus are less than one hundred years old.

82) Duke's campus is the only one in the state with a public golf course.

83) Trinity's campus has more than its share of "halls of residence."

84) Trinity University was the first school in the state to have an honor code.

85) Shepherds College was the first co-ed college in the state.

86) Duke's campus is the only one in the state that has a "Little Red School House."

87) Trinity's campus has a statue of Martin Luther King, Jr.

88) Trinity's campus has an equestrian statue of a Confederate general.

89) Trinity University was the first school in the state to have a student government.

90) Trinity's campus has a statue of Thomas Jefferson.

91) Trinity University was the first school in the nation to have a student-run police department.

92) Trinity's campus has statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.

93) Duke's campus was the first in the state to have electricity.

94) Trinity's campus was the first in the state to have an airport.

95) Trinity University was the first school in the nation to have a student-run police academy.

96) Duke's campus has one of the oldest trees on campus, a live oak that is more than three hundred years old.

97) Trinity's campus has a statue of William Wallace.

98) Trinity University's campus is on the site of the oldest Baptist Church in Texas.

99) Trinity University's campus is on the site of the oldest Catholic Church in Texas.

100) Trinity's campus is a "walker's paradise" with more than two hundred brick paths throughout the campus.

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