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Duke University
Duke University traces its roots to a small 1838 institution before being transformed in 1924 through a massive endowment from tobacco and energy industrialist James Buchanan Duke, who required the school be renamed in honor of his father as a condition of the gift — a founding donation large enough to fund the university's rapid expansion into a national research institution. The university's Gothic-style West Campus, centered on Duke Chapel's 210-foot bell tower, was built almost entirely during the 1920s and '30s using Duke's tobacco fortune, giving the campus an architectural uniformity and grandeur unusual for a university founded so much more recently than its Ivy League peers. Duke's men's basketball program, under longtime coach Mike Krzyzewski, won five national championships and became one of the most recognizable brands in college sports, and the "Cameron Crazies" student section at Cameron Indoor Stadium is frequently cited as one of the most intense home-court atmospheres in all of college athletics. The university's medical center and its Fuqua School of Business have each built strong national reputations, and Duke's combination of elite academics, major-program athletics, and a relatively young institutional history compared to its Ivy League-caliber peers has made it one of the fastest institutional rises in the history of American higher education.
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Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University, founded in 1834, relocated its entire campus from the small town of Wake Forest to Winston-Salem in 1956, funded by a major gift from the Reynolds tobacco family — a move that let the university build a new, unified Georgian-style campus and grow into a nationally ranked research university. The university's motto, "Pro Humanitate," reflects an institutional emphasis on service and applied ethics that's woven into Wake Forest's curriculum, and the school's relatively small size for a national research university, around 5,500 undergraduates, lets it maintain smaller class sizes than most peer institutions of similar research standing. Wake Forest's School of Business and its law school have both built strong regional and national reputations, and the university's basketball program, which produced NBA stars like Tim Duncan and Chris Paul, has given the school a national athletic profile that punches above its academic-institution size. The university's combination of research-university resources and a genuinely small liberal-arts-scale undergraduate experience — sometimes described as offering "small college, big university" advantages simultaneously — has made Wake Forest a consistent draw for students who want research funding and name recognition without the scale of a massive public flagship.
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