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Joe's avatar

I'm not going to fact check Duke's own claims, but it's hard to think of the incentive they would have to lie about this. Here is one of the top results, a website *they publish*, called "Duke Facts". One of the facts is that they have 9,009 graduate students. The reason your number is so low is that you're obviously leaving out the humanities, social sciences, and most of the physical sciences. Not too complicated. https://facts.duke.edu/

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Mike Cranny's avatar

I used their web site. It could well be 9,000, so my point is incorrect.

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Joe's avatar

Well, thanks for being willing to update your priors. It's rare to find that. I should noted that technically it is "grad and professional students", just to be scrupulous, but when I got my PhD not so long ago, "grad student" generally included professionals unless otherwise specified. But the number of "grad students proper" (people getting PhDs) at Duke is very likely still in the several thousands, so even conservatively, it's an infection rate around one percent, much lower than undergrads. That said, I have no good answer to this puzzle.

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