You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duke University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in North Carolina for Family Practice Nursing for a Doctorate list. Duke University is a fairly large school located in Durham, North Carolina that handed out 4 doctorate’s family practice nursing degrees in 2020-2021.
Duke did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Family Practice Nurse/Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list.Of the 16,172 students enrolled at Duke, 36 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 9 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $18,387. To help with additional expenses, 8 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Duke University]](/colleges/duke-university/student-life/veterans/)