Duke Kunshan University
昆山杜克大学 | |||||||
| Type | Joint-venture university | ||||||
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| Established | 2013 | ||||||
Parent institution | Duke University Wuhan University | ||||||
| Chancellor | Liu Yaolin | ||||||
| Executive Vice Chancellor | John Quelch | ||||||
| Students | 1,713 (Fall 2023) | ||||||
| Undergraduates | 1,447 | ||||||
| Postgraduates | 227 | ||||||
| Location | Kunshan, Jiangsu, China | ||||||
| Campus | Suburban/Urban, 200 acres (0.81 km2) | ||||||
| Affiliations | AALAU | ||||||
| Mascot | Trailblazers (Duke blue Deer) | ||||||
| Website | dukekunshan | ||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 昆山杜克大学 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 崑山杜克大學 | ||||||
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Duke Kunshan University (DKU; 昆山杜克大学) is a university in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China. It was established in 2013 by a joint venture between Duke University and Wuhan University. The university is an independent legal entity. Upon graduation, undergraduate students receive degrees from both Duke University and Duke Kunshan University, and are considered alumni of both institutions.
Duke Kunshan offers a four-year, fully residential undergraduate program, along with two masters programs in conjunction with Duke University. Its undergraduate program features an experimental curriculum in which students choose from a set of interdiciplinary majors and tracks across three academic divisions towards the end of sophomore year. The university has 2,080 enrolled students as of Spring 2026, consisting of 1,530 domestic students and 550 international students. The inaugural undergraduate class of 2022 consisted of 234 students entering in 2018, but the class size has been consistently expanded and class of 2029 has about 600 students. The most recent acceptance rate of the university was 5%.