Focus Quick Facts

• Focus is one of the top three reasons students come to Duke
• ONLY first semester, first year
• Rolling Admissions (Feb 1st-May 25th). Focus has 500+ students each fall.
• Students have the choice of 16 clusters from a variety of topics. All clusters are multidisciplinary and have a weekly half credit dinner seminar where all the students and faculty gather for group discussions, talks from faculty and guests, presentations from former students, or even trips around the local area.
• The Focus Program enrolls incoming first-year students in 2 of their 4 Fall courses in the spring semester prior to starting at Duke. This makes entry into Duke much less stressful and they already have access to faculty, their own cohort, and former Focus students from their cluster.
• Focus is an example of transformational education, where the boundaries of the classroom are fundamentally redefined.

For the graduating class of 2023:

31% of Focus students Graduated with Distinction by Honors thesis compared with 21% of all Trinity and Pratt graduates

14% of Focus students received post-graduation Merit Scholarship compared with 6% of all Trinity and Pratt Graduates