Dean's Message
At Duke, the Graduate School serves as the intellectual and academic core of the university -- the place where we strive to achieve the fullest realization of the institution's two fundamental missions:
- to educate the next generation of teachers, scholars, researchers and professional leaders and
- to develop the fields of knowledge and research within which these leaders will work.
Duke's Graduate School is also uniquely positioned as the natural catalyst for progressive change and innovation across the institution. Over fifty graduate programs actively contribute and draw from every other unit of the university -- from the undergraduate programs in Trinity College and in Engineering, to the professional Schools of Business, Divinity, the Environment and Earth Sciences, Law and Medicine.
Duke presents, therefore, a special academic opportunity: by maintaining a moderate size while engaging faculty, students, and facilities across the boundaries of traditional disciplines, this university is much greater than the sum of its parts. Duke's spirited and integrated intellectual climate in the past decade has attracted a broad new group of distinguished national and international scholars and scientists to join an already prestigious assembly of well-known faculty.
You will find Duke University to be an institution in its prime -- vigorous, vocal, and worthy of the acclaim it has already earned in the global community of scholarship and research. To introduce you to the Duke University Graduate School, then, is to acquaint you with a group of people who are dedicated to the pursuit of excellence.
Jo Rae Wright, Dean
The Graduate School
Duke University
For additional information on Dean Wright, please visit her faculty profile.