The Class of 2010 by the Numbers
Class is most racially diverse in university history
Duke's Class of 2010 is the most racially diverse class in school history.
Of the 1,687 first-year students, 42 percent are students of color. About one-quarter of Duke's first-year students are Asian (21 percent last year), 9.4 percent are African American (9 percent last year), 6.9 percent are Latino (6.4 percent last year) and 0.3 percent are Native Americans (0.6 percent last year).
Among the first-year class, 1,378, or nearly 82 percent, enrolled in the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences; the remaining 309 students enrolled in the Pratt School of Engineering. There are slightly more men (852) than women (834) in the first-year class.
Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag said the increase in the diversity of the student body reflects the university's increasing appeal to students from a variety of geographic, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.
"Duke is a welcoming, richly diverse place where people are encouraged to learn from one another and, in the process, to challenge some of their preconceived ideas," Guttentag said.
"In spite of some of the challenges Duke faced this spring, it's clear already that members of the Class of 2010 are exceptional, both in their intellectual and personal qualities," he added.
Duke's newest undergraduate students come from 46 states and 41 countries. The state producing the highest number of new first-year students is North Carolina (13.8 percent), followed by Florida (9 percent), New York (8.2 percent), California (6.6 percent), Texas (5.9 percent) and Virginia (5.2 percent).