Duke Kunshan University

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Duke Kunshan University is a Sino-American partnership of Duke University (Durham, North Carolina, United States) and Wuhan University (Wuhan, Hubei, China) to create a liberal arts and research university offering academic programs for students from China and throughout the world. Students will have the opportunity to study and live in both Kunshan, China and Durham, United States.

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Administration and organization

Duke Kunshan University is governed by an independent Board of Trustees.

Liu Jing Nan, the Chancellor of Duke Kunshan University, is the former president of Wuhan University and a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.  Denis Simon, Executive Vice Chancellor, is an expert on U.S.-China bilateral science and technology relations and a member of the U.S. Experts Group within the U.S.-China Innovation Dialogue. Haiyan Gao, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Duke Kunshan University, is also the Henry Newson professor of physics at Duke University.

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Academics

Duke Kunshan University offers an Undergraduate Global Learning Semester program and Master's programs in Medical Physics, Global Health, Environmental Policy and Management Studies.

The university signed legally binding agreements with Education Ministry of China that guaranteed academic freedom on campus.

In August 2018, Duke Kunshan is scheduled to launch its four-year bachelor's degree program based in the liberal-arts-and-science tradition. The undergraduate academic program initially offers 8 majors: Material Science/Physics; Political Economy/Political Science; Environmental Science/Chemistry; Environment Science-Public Policy; Global China Studies/History; Global Health/Public Policy; Global Health Biology; Applied Math and Computation/Math. Additional majors are under development, including humanities majors that integrate history, philosophy, literature, and the arts, as well as social science majors integrating economics, sociology, anthropology, and psychology. By the time the inaugural class declares majors in 2020, there will be around 20 majors.

In 2017, Duke Kunshan University selected PeopleSoft's Campus Solutions to manage its student records and transactions and Oracle Student Cloud to support student recruitment, enrollment and engagement.

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Campus

Duke Kunshan is located in a 200-acre campus in Kunshan, Jiangsu province, China. The City of Kunshan is located in close proximity to both Shanghai and Suzhou, two of the largest metropolitan areas in China.

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Research centers

• Global Health Research Center
• Environmental Research Center

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Conferences

• International meteorite conference, Meteorite China - Duke Kunshan university hosted China's first-ever international meteorite conference on 15 September 2017. Over 80 scientists from China, the U.S., the U.K., Australia, and Russia met at the three-day event. Enthusiasts and meteorite collectors also participated in the conference.

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See also

• Duke University
• Wuhan University

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References

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External links

• Official website (in English)
• Official website (in Chinese)

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