Where Starting College Also Means Learning a New Language

Imagine traveling to a foreign country more than 7,600 miles away from home and not speaking a lick of the language. 

Emberleigh Pauley-Brown doesn’t have to imagine it, she’s doing it this fall. A graduate of North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham, Pauley-Brown said she heard of Duke Kunshan University (DKU) in Kunshan, China, during a college fair at her high school.

“I honestly applied on a whim,” she says. But as she learned more about DKU and the hands-on