Intellectual Community

Creating a culture of curiosity is at the heart of how we learn at Duke. Whether through structured living-learning communities in our QuadEx program or informal student-faculty interactions, Duke believes our lives are enriched by connecting to and learning from one another.

FOCUS Program

Enables first-semester Duke students to be exposed to ideas from the vantage point of different disciplines across the Humanities, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences

Focus Program

Program II

Enables students to examine and explore an area of scholarship by designing their own unique program of study

Program II

IDEAS Program at Pratt Engineering

Uses approved or student-proposed curricula to create specialized Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) degrees

IDEAS Program at Pratt Engineering

QuadEx Residential Program

Duke's new residential living and learning program

QuadEx

FLUNCH

Offers students the opportunity to connect outside the classroom with faculty over a shared meal

FLUNCH

Nationally Competitive Scholarships

The other half of the OUSF office, Nationally Competitive Scholarships helps students find opportunities beyond Duke's campus.

Nationally Competitive Scholarships

Celine Wang, A.B. Duke Class of 2025

"Part of what makes me so excited about QuadEx and inspired me to run for Craven Co-President is that it's a new structure that we can shape from the ground up; we aren't constricted by how things were previously done, and students get the chance to form our own traditions and residence lives. It's setting the baseline for long-lasting community culture within quads at Duke, and I can't wait to be a part of that."