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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duke University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for African Studies for a Bachelor’s list. Duke is a fairly large school located in Durham, North Carolina that handed out 11 bachelors’s African studies degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Duke, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best African Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking.Among the 16,172 students enrolled at Duke University, 36 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 9 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $18,387. To help with additional expenses, 8 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Duke University]](/colleges/duke-university/student-life/veterans/)
