Trinity College of Arts & Sciences - Duke Undergraduate Admissions

Trinity College

An Education Designed for Exploration

With over 50 million ways to navigate the curriculum, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences fosters student creativity and curiosity in the classroom. Trinity students embrace our flexible liberal arts curriculum by blurring, crossing, and mixing traditional academic boundaries—all with the support of faculty, advisors, and their peers.

Combining access to world-class faculty, engaged learning opportunities, and a broad and deep liberal arts curriculum, Trinity delivers one of the best undergraduate educational experiences in the world.

Gary Bennett, Ph.D.

Dean of Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Trinity at a Glance

AN EDUCATION DESIGNED FOR EXPLORATION

80% of Duke undergraduates are enrolled in the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. Trinity offers 48 majors, 50 minors, 23 certificates and an option for students to design their own major. Students can combine up to three academic pathways and they do not have to be related. With a flexible liberal arts curriculum, students explore diverse disciplines and create new ways of combining them together.

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Courses

5000+

undergraduate classes offered each semester

Certificates

23

certificates that connect ideas across disciplines

Multiple Pathways

83%

of students double major, minor, or get a certificate

Interdisciplinary

18

FOCUS clusters

House Courses

22

student-instructed “house courses” offered

Institutes and Centers

26

Trinity-sponsored institutes and centers

FOCUS

ACADEMIC ADVENTURES FOR THE INTELLECTUAL

The Focus Program (FOCUS) introduces first-semester students to interdisciplinary learning and intellectual engagement both in and out of the classroom. Faculty and students work together to apply multiple disciplinary perspectives on a common theme or topic within a cluster –and first-semester students in each cluster live in the same residence hall. Weekly seminars, dinners, field trips, and service projects are in store as students explore clusters like Cognitive Neuroscience and the Law, Genetics and Genomic Studies, and Knowledge in the Service of Society.

Learn More about FOCUS

large group of students gathered around fountain in new york city — Ethics, Leadership & Global Citizenship students in New York City.

professor sitting behind computer explaining something with his hands in a classroom while students listen — FOCUS class meets in Perkins Library.

first year duke students examining old Da Vinci publications — The Focus Program offers extraordinary opportunities to first-year, first-semester students.