Fuqua School of Business
school of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, U.S.
The Duke University Fuqua School of Business (pronounced ) is the business school of Duke University, a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. It enrolls more than 1,800 students in degree-seeking programs. Duke Executive Education also offers non-degree business education and professional development programs.
History
Formed in 1969, the Graduate School of Business Administration enrolled its first class of 20 students in 1970. In 1974, Thomas F. Keller, a 1953 Duke graduate, became the graduate school's new dean. In three years, Keller's capital campaign raised $24 million, $10 million of which came from businessman and philanthropist J. B. Fuqua. The graduate school's name was then changed to the Fuqua School of Business.
J. B. Fuqua was raised by his grandparents on a tobacco farm in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Fuqua began his relationship with Duke University when he borrowed books by mail from the Duke library. J. B. Fuqua's cumulative giving to Duke was nearly $40 million at the time of his death on April 5, 2006.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2568866. VIAF identifies the subject as 139380778. The Library of Congress control number is n86124158. Authority coordinates are 35.999, -78.947. 2 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1969, 1970, 1974 and 1953.
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