Financial Aid Awards for financial assistance to graduate students are based on academic merit. Special awards, including Duke Endowment Fellowships, are available for minority students. Financial aid for students who demonstrate need is available in the form of loans and through the Federal Work-Study Program. Plentiful off-campus housing is available at various rates. Student Group Of a total University enrollment of 13,704 in 1998-99, there were 2,237 students registered in the Graduate School.
Graduate students come from most of the fifty states and from more than seventy countries.
Location Duke is located in Durham, a city of nearly 200,000 in a metropolitan area of approximately 1 million people midway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Appalachian Mountains. Outdoor recreation is possible all year, and the cultural life of the community is well developed in all of the arts. The University is situated on wooded hills that constitute part of the 7,700-acre Duke Forest. These two institutions, along with Duke, constitute the points of the well-known Research Triangle Park of North Carolina, the site of the laboratories and research facilities of many government agencies and major pharmaceutical, medical, chemical, and computer corporations. In addition to the programs in the Graduate School proper, other graduate programs at Duke are offered in the schools of business, divinity, environment, law, medicine, and nursing.