60.7% of matchups won
428 matchups
Elo 1503
tracked 2025/05/26 → 2026/09/28
mission: Education, research, community service · Higher education, research · universities
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing63%
picked as helping wellbeing
334 matchups
52%
picked as hurting wellbeing
94 matchups
On balance people see it as helping.
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2025-08-29Related
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Known for
- $11.9 billion endowment
- 17 NCAA championships
- Duke-NUS Medical School
- Global research funding
- Highly selective admissions
Based on 428 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/09/28. Full rankings ·
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