Editing Duke University (section)

== Administration and organization ==
{| class="toccolours" style="float:right; margin-left:1em; font-size:90%; line-height:1.4em; width:280px"
! colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | School founding
|-
| '''School''' ||style="text-align: center;" | '''Year founded'''
|-
| [[Trinity College of Arts and Sciences]] ||style="text-align: center;" | 1838
|-
| [[Duke University School of Law]] ||style="text-align: center;" | 1868
|-
| [[Graduate School of Duke University]] ||style="text-align: center;" | 1926
|-
| [[Duke Divinity School]] ||style="text-align: center;" | 1926
|-
| [[Duke University School of Medicine]] ||style="text-align: center;" | 1930
|-
| [[Duke University School of Nursing]] ||style="text-align: center;" | 1931
|-
| [[Nicholas School of the Environment]] ||style="text-align: center;" | 1938
|-
| [[Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School of Engineering|Pratt School of Engineering]] ||style="text-align: center;" | 1939
|-
| [[Fuqua School of Business]] ||style="text-align: center;" | 1969
|-
| [[Sanford School of Public Policy]] ||style="text-align: center;" | 1971
|-
| [[Duke-NUS Medical School]] ||style="text-align: center;" | 2007
|-
| [[Duke Kunshan University]] ||style="text-align: center;" | 2013
|}
Duke University has 12 schools and institutes, three of which host undergraduate programs: [[Trinity College of Arts and Sciences]], [[Pratt School of Engineering]], and [[Duke Kunshan University]].<ref name="Quick Facts about Duke">{{cite web|url=https://duke.edu/about/duke_at_glance.pdf|title=Duke at a Glance|publisher=Duke University's Office of News & Communications|access-date=January 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202073153/https://duke.edu/about/duke_at_glance.pdf|archive-date=February 2, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://undergrad.dukekunshan.edu.cn|title=Undergraduate Degree – Duke Kunshan University|publisher=Duke Kunshan University|language=en-US|access-date=November 19, 2018|archive-date=November 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181123071601/http://undergrad.dukekunshan.edu.cn/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The university has "historical, formal, ongoing, and symbolic ties" with the [[United Methodist Church]], but is a [[nonsectarian]] and independent institution.<ref name="DU & UMC">{{cite web|url=http://archives.umc.org/interior.asp?ptid=2&mid=5585 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120701131654/http://archives.umc.org/interior.asp?ptid=2&mid=5585 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 1, 2012 |title=United Methodist schools score high in rankings |publisher=[[The United Methodist Church]] |access-date=June 30, 2007}}</ref><ref name="William Joseph Whalen – Hospitals & Universities">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sw9ILcqw2hsC&q=methodist&pg=PA162|title=Separated brethren: a review of Protestant, Anglican, Eastern Orthodox & other religions in the United States|publisher=[[Our Sunday Visitor]]|year=2002|isbn=978-1-931709-05-7|quote=Among Protestant denominations, Methodists take first place in hospitals and colleges. Some of their one hundred colleges and universities have all but severed ties with the denominations, but others remain definitely Methodist: Syracuse, Boston, Emory, Duke, Drew, Denver, and Southern Methodist. The church operates three hundred sixty schools and institutions overseas.}}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref><ref name="IAMSCU">{{cite web|url=http://public.gbhem.org/iamscu/search_results.asp?act=search_gen&search_txt=Duke+University&type=schools&submit=GO |title=Duke University |publisher=[[International Association of Methodist-related Schools, Colleges, and Universities]] (IAMSCU) |access-date=June 30, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071006100555/http://public.gbhem.org/iamscu/search_results.asp?act=search_gen&search_txt=DUKE%2BUNIVERSITY&type=schools&submit=GO |archive-date=October 6, 2007 }}</ref><ref name="Duke University's Relation to the Methodist Church 2">{{cite web|url=http://library.duke.edu/uarchives/history/duke-umchh-basic.html |title=Duke University's Relation to the Methodist Church: the basics |quote=Duke University has historical, formal, on-going, and symbolic ties with Methodism, but is an independent and non-sectarian institution. |publisher=Duke University |year=2002 |access-date=March 27, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612020402/http://library.duke.edu/uarchives/history/duke-umchh-basic.html |archive-date=June 12, 2010}}</ref>

Duke's [[financial endowment|endowment]] had a market value of $11.9 billion in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2024.<ref name="endowment" /> The university's special academic facilities include an [[Nasher Museum of Art|art museum]], several language labs, Duke Forest, Duke Herbarium,<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Kolenovsky |first1=Zoe |last2=Cranford |first2=Claire |date=February 27, 2024 |title=Faculty allege decision to close Duke Herbarium motivated by departmental competition, 'limited resources' |url=https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024/02/duke-university-herbarium-faculty-decision-close-departmental-competition-biology-resources-allege-phytotron |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=The Chronicle |language=en-US}}</ref> a [[Duke Lemur Center|lemur center]], a [[phytotron]], a free-electron laser, a [[nuclear magnetic resonance]] machine, a nuclear lab, and a [[Duke University Marine Laboratory|marine lab]]. Duke is a leading participant in the [[Lambda rail network|National Lambda Rail Network]] and runs a program for gifted children known as the [[Talent Identification Program]].<ref>[http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/news/04/features/0630.nlr.html "UCAR joins National Lambda Rail"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307124330/http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/news/04/features/0630.nlr.html |date=March 7, 2012}}. ''SCD News.'' Retrieved June 12, 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.tip.duke.edu/node/372 Duke Tip Academy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523072930/http://www.tip.duke.edu/node/372 |date=May 23, 2011}}. ''Duke TIP.'' Retrieved July 4, 2011.</ref>