Emory University was established in 1836 as a small Methodist college in Georgia, in a town named Oxford after the reputable English university.

Emory was transformed into its present incarnation in the historic Druid Hills neighborhood of Atlanta in 1915 after Asa Candler, founder of The Coca-Cola Company, donated land and funds for a new campus. Emory University is renowned for its liberal arts college, professional schools and one of the leading healthcare systems in America’s southeast.

Academics

There are over 3,700 academics in four undergraduate and seven graduate schools, covering business, law, medicine, nursing, public health and theology, with one of the most substantial theology libraries in the US. There are regarding 46 acres or 35 football fields of scientific research space on the 600-acre campus, and the university generates across $500 million in research award funds. Emory University provides a five-year dual degree program in engineering, in alliances with the Georgia Institute of Technology.  Emory University also provides a dual master’s degree in social work with the University of Georgia.

Library system

Emory University is a member of the relation of Research Libraries.  The Emory University library system contains over 3.9 million print and electronic volumes and 83,000-plus electronic journals.  Emory University libraries contain the Robert W. Woodruff Library, Woodruff Health Science Center Library, Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library, James S. Guy Chemistry Library, Pitts Theology Library, Goizueta Business Library, Marian K. Heilbrun Music & Media Library, and the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). MARBL, contains rare materials relating to literature, African American history and culture, and Southern and Georgia history.  Celebrity sections of the MARBL group contain a rare first edition of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, and also work by Flannery O’Connor, Alice Walker, Langston Hughes, W.B. Yeats, and Seamus Heaney

Research

As per The Chronicle of Higher Education, the university is 5th among universities in the United States with licensing revenue per dollars spent on investigation.  The university is the 4th greatest contributor in the nation to the discovery of new drugs and vaccines among public- department investigation institutions.  The Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, ranked Emory 6th although universities in the United States and Canada for global health contributions and research.  Emory University conducts the nation in the number of students with Kirschstein-National Research Service Award pre-doctoral fellowships from the National Institutes of Health.

Campus

The Emory University main campus, established in the early twentieth century, include more than 600 grounds in Atlanta’s historic suburb of Druid Hills.  The university campus is heavily forested with pine, maples, oak, and magnolias, and Peavine Creek, a branch of the Peachtree Creek, runs through the campus. The Arbor Day established named Emory a Tree Campus USA school in 2015.  Many of the university’s buildings are designed with multi-hued granite and Spanish Saltillo tile. The university has one of the largest inventories by square footage of direction in Energy and Environmental Design-certified building space among campuses in the United States.  In 2015, The Best Colleges, a Seattle-based educational ranking service, named Emory one of the top ten “Most Amazing College Campuses.”

Contact Details

 Address: 201 Dowman Dr, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States

Acceptance rate: 23.6% (2015)

Mascot: Dooley

President: James W. Wagner

Endowment: 6.684 billion USD (2015)

Colors: Blue, Gold