Duke University Request Information

This overview covers the essential stats on Duke University, including its rankings, majors, diversity, and more. All you need to do to learn more about a stat is click on its tile, and you’ll be taken to another page that analyzes that data more closely. Also, you can use the links below to scroll to any section of this page.

How Well Is Duke University Ranked?

2023 Rankings

College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.

Duke University was awarded 3,188 badges in the 2023 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is environmental control technology.

Overall Quality

Duke landed the #3 spot in College Factual's 2023 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,241 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This puts it in the top 1% of all schools in the nation! This is an improvement over the previous year, when Duke held the #9 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.

Duke is also ranked #1 out of 93 schools in North Carolina.

See all of the rankings for Duke University.

How Much Money Do Duke Graduates Make?

Yearly salaries vary depending on what you major in, but on average, bachelor's degree recipients from Duke make around $93,115 per year during the early years of their employment. This is good news for future Duke graduates since it is 119% more than the average college graduate's salary of $42,485 per year.