Duke in India Fact Sheet

Fact Sheet
October 2008

Duke University is one of the top 10 universities in the United States. Famous for its beautiful campus in Durham, North Carolina, in the eastern United States, Duke awards baccalaureate, master’s, doctorate and professional degrees. Admission to its programs is extremely competitive.

  • Students: Duke enrolled some 6,200 undergraduate students and about 6,700 graduate students in the 2007-08 school year. Of these, 338 graduate/professional students and 45 undergraduate students were born in India, the second-largest number of foreign-born students at Duke.

  • Faculty: In 2007-08, Duke employed 1,659 tenured or tenure-track faculty members and another 1,071 professors of the practice, research professors, lecturers, clinical professors and medical associates.

  • Employees: The university and health system employ a combined 31,439 people.

Duke and India

  • Fuqua School of Business
    _ In September, Fuqua announced an     innovative expansion plan that will establish a network of campuses around the world to conduct research and deliver programs, including in New Delhi._ In 2006, Duke Corporate Education formed a collaborative arrangement with the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) to develop and deliver custom corporate education programs. Indian clients include CitiFinancial India, Genpact, Oil India Limited and Aditya Birla Group.

  • Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University

- Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Higher Colleges of Technology of the United Arab Emirates and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) of New Dehli, India, to explore the creation of a new international Master of Environmental Management (MEM) degree program.

  • The Duke Center for International Development (DCID)
     _ DCID designs and delivers customized educational and training programs for government agencies in India. DCID has a three-year contract with the Government of India, Department of Personnel and Training, to provide eight weeks of training per year for up to 150 mid-career officers from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). _ DCID also has a three-year contract with the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Department of Appointment and Personnel, to provide training and workshops for groups of up to 40 mid-career Provincial Civil Service officers twice each year.

  • Talent Identification Program (TIP)
    _ In May 2008, Duke TIP offered a three-week residential pilot program in India on the campus of IIM-Ahmedabad for academically gifted Indian students. Thirty-four 8th standard students from 13 schools and four cities (Ahmedabad, New Delhi, Hyderabad and Bangalore) attended the program, taking a course in either Java for Video Games or Engineering Problem Solving. Both economically advantaged and disadvantaged students attended the program. Future plans include offering a TIP in India program at IIM-Ahmedabad again next May and in New Delhi.

  • Students and Faculty
     _ Duke’s Department of Asian and African Languages and Literature (AALL) and the Office of Study Abroad regularly offer summer programs in India that introduce students to two vital aspects of contemporary Indian society: the power of modern media and the uses of traditional expressive culture to advance rights and opportunities for women._ India is one of many locations around the world where Duke undergraduate students volunteered this past summer as part of DukeEngage, a new service-learning program. In Delhi, the students worked with Sahara House, a non-profit organization whose mission is to empower marginalized populations throughout India, including those who suffer from substance use, HIV/AIDS and poverty. In Hyderabad , DukeEngage volunteers helped local students in grades five through seven with communicative English and basic reading skills, basic science experiments in schools and other activities.

_ Groups such as Duke Diya bring together students and others regularly to celebrate Indian culture through dance performances, concerts and other events.
_ The student group Association for India’s Development (AID) supports grassroots groups in India in an effort to improve conditions in areas such as poverty, education, illiteracy, natural resources and health.

_ Anirudh Krishna of the Duke Center for International Development leads a team of scholars from several institutions who are studying poverty in India and other countries.

_ Purnima Shah, an assistant professor of the practice of dance at Duke, plans to work on a film about the Garba dance in western India, which is losing many of its traditional elements.

  • Alumni

The Duke Club of India, currently based in Mumbai, represents alumni from all parts of the university, along with parents and other friends of Duke.