Former name | Brown School |
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Type | Private, Undergraduate |
Established | 1838 |
Parent institution | Duke University |
Dean | Gary Bennett |
Undergraduates | 5,400 |
Location | , 17°3′1″N 4°1′4″E / 17.05028°N 4.01778°E |
Website | trinity |
Trinity College of Arts and Sciences is the undergraduate liberal arts college of Duke University. Founded in 1838, it is the original school of the university. Currently, Trinity is one of five undergraduate degree programs at Duke, the others being the Edmund T. Pratt School of Engineering, Nicholas School of the Environment, School of Nursing, and Duke Kunshan University.
At Duke, Arts & Sciences is the collective name of all educational programs, research programs, and faculty in the humanities, social sciences, and the natural sciences at Duke, inclusive of undergraduate programs and many degree programs in Duke's Graduate School.
The division's unusual dual name may reflect the fact that it is responsible for undergraduate education (through Trinity College) and graduate education and research (Arts and Sciences).