Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke established The Duke Endowment and the institution changed its name to honor his deceased father, Washington Duke.
Duke’s campus spans over 8,600 acres (3,500 hectares) on three contiguous sub-campuses in Durham as well as a marine lab in Beaufort. The West Campus—designed largely by architect Julian Abele—incorporates Gothic architecture with the 210-foot (64 m) Duke Chapel at the center and extensive landscaping throughout. East Campus contains Georgian-style architecture while Central Campus features a mix of buildings including both newer structures such as Flowers Hall as well as historic ones such as Cameron Indoor Stadium.
The university administers two concurrent schools in Asia, one in Kunshan, China and the other in Singapore. Also affiliated with Duke are two international residential colleges: Cosmopolitan College at Peking Universityin Beijingand Pierson Collegeat Yale–NUS Collegein Singapore.