You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duke University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Best Value Humanities Schools in North Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k list. Durham, North Carolina is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s humanities degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
Duke also took the #1 spot in our “Best Humanities Schools in North Carolina” ranking. It costs about $-927 for North Carolina Humanities students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Duke University. The negative number means the student will receive more financial aid on average than it costs to attend the school.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.