Master’s Admissions

Take on Tomorrow’s Challenges

The world moves fast. Our engineering master’s programs move even faster. With an eye on emerging trends and industry needs, our flexible degree programs equip and inspire engineers who shape the future. Accelerate your career at Duke.

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Specialties That Will Shape the Future

With a Duke master’s degree, you’ll launch into the world with the know-how and sense of purpose you need to create innovative solutions to serious challenges faced by real people.

Student Outcomes
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Artificial Intelligence

for Product Innovation

Biomedical Engineering or Biology Medical Bioligcal Concept

Biomedical Engineering
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Civil Engineering
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Climate & Sustainability Engineering

Computational Mechanics

& Scientific Computing

Cyber security and protection of private information and data concept. Locks on blue integrated circuit. Firewall from hacker attack.

Cybersecurity
The concept of the human brain. The right creative hemisphere versus the left logical hemisphere. Education, science and medical abstract background.

Design & Technology Innovation
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Electrical & Computer Engineering
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Engineering Management
Sustainable mindset engineer plans a city project Eco friendly urban design, carbon neutral buildings, renewable energy, ESG principles, and climate resilience for a sustainable vision. Generative AI

Environmental Engineering
Businessman analyze and visualize complex information on a virtual screen using AI to process data. Big data technology and data science.Data flow.Digital neural network.artificial intelligence

Financial Technology
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Game Design, Development & Innovation
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Materials Science
Metalworking CNC milling machine, metal processing technology, lot of burning chips and sparks.Hi-technology machining concept.Industrial exhibition of machine tools.

Mechanical Engineering

Medical Technology Design
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Photonics & Optical Sciences

Risk Engineering
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Materials Science & Engineering

Via the University Program in Materials Science & Engineering

Master’s Admissions Team

Contact us at pratt_masters@duke.edu.

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Master of Science, Master of Engineering or Master of Engineering Management?

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The Data

943

Master’s students

17,000+

Duke Engineering alumni

#13

Most Innovative Schools

U.S. News & World Report

Top 10

Graduate Engineering Program Popular with Women

U.S. News & World Report

46

Patents issued to faculty in FY22

$100M

In new research awards won in FY22

↓48%

Lower cost of living in Durham vs. San Jose, Calif.

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Pres. Vincent Price poses for a photo with first-years after the Convocation for New Undergraduate Students at Duke Chapel.

Diversity Makes Better Engineers

An optimist sees the glass as half full. A pessimist? Half empty. An engineer sees a glass that’s twice as big as it needs to be. Point is, engineers see things differently. Duke engineers see things very differently. Why use glass at all? Can we create a more efficient material? Ooh, should we include a water quality sensor? Here, we value different backgrounds and ways of thinking—because new approaches generate new solutions.

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion
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Bright Horizons EdAssist Partnership

We’re proud to partner with Bright Horizons EdAssist Solutions. Eligible students who use this benefit:

  • Pay no application fee, and
  • Receive a scholarship

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Durham and Beyond

Location. Location. Location.

At the north vertex of North Carolina’s famed Research Triangle, the city of Durham is essential to the Duke Engineering experience. Among our neighbors are hundreds of startups and standard bearers across industries both private and public, quickly growing and evolving the city’s communities and skyline.

It doesn’t take an advanced degree to see why Durham is the #3 best place to live in America according to U.S. News and World Report, but come get one here anyway.

Discover Durham
The Durham Sign at American Tobacco Campus was created by Liberty Arts and Cricket Forge and erected in April of 2019 as a tribute to the strength and resilience of the Durham community. Photo by Discover Durham
The Durham Sign at American Tobacco Campus was created by Liberty Arts and Cricket Forge and erected in April of 2019 as a tribute to the strength and resilience of the Durham community.
The Lucky Strike smokestack and water tower rise impressively over the American Tobacco Campus (ATC). More of the downtown skyline is visible on the horizon.
The downtown Durham skyline during an heavily clouded sunset. Durham Centre, the NC Mutual Life building, and the Durham Marriott are visible on the horizon.
The renovated Chesterfield Building welcomes residents and visitors alike to Durham with a retro sign.
Community members came together during a 16-week period to create this mural as part of the Durham Civil Rights History project.
DPAC’s 2018-19 season included Broadway hits such as Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, and Cats.
UHill Walls at sunset. UHill Walls is a dense, walkable art experience with over 40,000 square feet of murals on 15 contiguous acres in Durham, North Carolina. 40 murals from local, national and international artists comprise one of the largest consolidated collections of murals in the Southeastern US. The public art experience is a keystone of University Hill, a mixed-use redevelopment of an abandoned strip center with award winning food, drink, wellness and residential living. Photo by Discover Durham
UHill Walls at sunset. UHill Walls is a dense, walkable art experience with over 40,000 square feet of murals on 15 contiguous acres in Durham, North Carolina. 40 murals from local, national and international artists comprise one of the largest consolidated collections of murals in the Southeastern US. The public art experience is a keystone of University Hill, a mixed-use redevelopment of an abandoned strip center with award winning food, drink, wellness and residential living.
A crowd gathers to enjoy an evening of live music during the Playlist outdoor summer concert series at Durham Central Park
Chirba Chirba Dumpling Truck: Food truck serving chinese style dumplings and pan Asian fare. Photographed at the Labor Day food truck rodeo at Durham Central Park.
M Sushi: industrial-chic space turning out traditional Japanese seafood, plus sushi options, based on Omakase
Holi Festival is the festival of colors celebrated in India to usher in the spring and celebrate the end of winter. Viceroy Durham hosted its third annual Holi celebration on the lawn at Durham Central Park right in the heart of in downtown Durham
Durham Station Transportation Center is the transportation hub at the heart of the City of Durham that provides multiple alternatives to automobile traffic, an essential component needed to support more densely populated urban areas. The project, made possible by a combination of city, state, and federal funding, ensures more efficient transportation via GoDurham bus service throughout the Triangle.
The dinosaur statue outside of the Museum of Life + Sciences on the Ellerbee Creek Trail makes a lasting impression on visitors.
UHill Walls at sunset. UHill Walls is a dense, walkable art experience with over 40,000 square feet of murals on 15 contiguous acres in Durham, North Carolina. 40 murals from local, national and international artists comprise one of the largest consolidated collections of murals in the Southeastern US. The public art experience is a keystone of University Hill, a mixed-use redevelopment of an abandoned strip center with award winning food, drink, wellness and residential living.
Dame’s “Almost” World Famous Chicken & Waffles offers combos of waffles & buttermilk fried chicken in a casual setting with a jazz theme.
A traditional German breakfast of schnitzel at Guglhupf. Guglhupf is an innovative bakery, cafe and biergarten serving contemporary cuisine with southern German roots, emphasizing local and seasonal ingredients.
Photo by Discover Durham. Durham Bulls Athletic Park (DBAP) is a 10,000-seat ballpark in Durham, North Carolina that is home to the Durham Bulls, the Triple-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball. It is also home to the Duke Blue Devils and North Carolina Central Eagles college baseball teams.
Durham Bulls Athletic Park (DBAP) is a 10,000-seat ballpark in Durham, North Carolina that is home to the Durham Bulls, the Triple-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball. It is also home to the Duke Blue Devils and North Carolina Central Eagles college baseball teams.
Long a symbol of Durham, a bronze statue of a Bull, named Major, stands in CCB plaza in the heart of downtown, and serves as a great photo op. Photo by Discover Durham
Long a symbol of Durham, a bronze statue of a Bull, named Major, stands in CCB plaza in the heart of downtown, and serves as a great photo op.

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