← All programs
Duke University
Durham, NC · DNP
Overview
3-year DNP in Durham, NC with 83 credits and estimated tuition of $186,750 at $2,250/credit (2025-26). 100% employment for Class of 2025; 10-year reaccreditation received October 2023.
Program founded
2014 (first cohort)
Credit hours
83
Weekly time commitment
54–64 hrs
Per-credit tuition
$2,250 (2025-26); $2,345 (2026-27)
Matriculation fee
$500 (one-time)
CRNA test prep fee
$500 (one-time, semester 2)
Applicants/year
~125 (doubled in 2023)
Employment (6 mo)
100% (Class of 2025)
Next accreditation review
April 2033
- 70%+ of student DNP projects are published.
- Minimum passing grade is 83%; grades are not rounded up.
- Housing provided for clinical rotations exceeding 1-hour drive.
- Advanced hemodynamic monitoring experience preferred alongside CCRN.
- One of three references must be from immediate supervisor.
Identity
- Location
- Durham, NC
- Degree
- DNP
Format
- Type
- Integrated
- Length
- 36 mo
- Online
- Hybrid
Cost
- Tuition
- $186,750
Requirements
- Min GPA
- 3.0
- Min Sci GPA
- 3.2
- GRE
- Not required
- CCRN
- Not required
- ICU
- 12 mo
- Shadowing
- Required
- Refs
- 3
Logistics
- Class
- Not published
- NursingCAS
- No
- Opens
- June 1
- Closes
- August 1
- Rolling
- No
- Interview
- Qualified applicants selected for interviews are notified on a rolling basis after initial application review and receive an email invitation to participate in an on-campus interview day; official decision notifications are typically released within 1-2 weeks of the interview.
Outcomes
- NCE pass
- 92%
- Attrition
- 7%
- Employment
- 100%
Accreditation
- Accreditation
- Continued
- Next review
- 10/1/2033
- Status detail
- Continued Accreditation
- Last review
- 10/11/2023
Prereqs
- Prereq detail
- Requires 'Satisfactory completion of graduate level research methods or graduate inferential statistics course(s), which may be taken after application submission.' Cumulative undergraduate GPA >= 3.0 on a 4.0 scale (or evidence of outstanding graduate academic achievement); minimum science GPA of 3.2 on a 4.0 scale. Bachelor's degree with an upper-division nursing major from an ACEN- or CCNE-accredited program required. GRE is no longer required. No specific credit-hour minimums, recency windows, or undergraduate science course substitutions are published.
Contact
- Contact
- Jessica Szydlowski
- jessica.szydlowski@duke.edu