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===Colleges and universities=== [[File:Duke Chapel, West Campus, Duke University, Durham, NC (48960162763).jpg|thumb|upright|[[Duke Chapel]] at [[Duke University]].]] [[File:NCCU020 NCCU Sign DiscoverDurham.jpg|thumb|North Carolina Central University]] [[Duke University]] has approximately 14,000 students, split evenly between graduates and undergraduates.<ref>{{cite web|title=Quick Facts About Duke|url=http://newsoffice.duke.edu/all-about-duke/quick-facts-about-duke|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316091357/http://newsoffice.duke.edu/all-about-duke/quick-facts-about-duke|archive-date=March 16, 2015|access-date=July 15, 2012|publisher=Newsoffice.duke.edu}}</ref> Duke's 8600-acre campus and Medical Center are located in western Durham, about {{convert|2|mi|km}} from downtown. Duke forms one of the three vertices of the [[Research Triangle]], along with the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] and [[North Carolina State University]]. [[North Carolina Central University]] is a public [[Historically black colleges and universities|historically black university]] located in southeastern Durham. The university was founded by [[James E. Shepard]] in 1910 as the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua to address the needs of the region's black population, and now grants baccalaureate, master's, professional and doctoral degrees. NCCU became a university in 1969 and joined the University of North Carolina System in 1972. [[Durham Technical Community College]] is a two-year public institution that grants associate degrees.
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