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Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of DeKalb County, Georgia, United States.[15] The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by the Methodist Episcopal Church and was named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory.[16] In 1915, the college relocated to metropolitan Atlanta and was rechartered as Emory University. The university is the second-oldest private institution of higher education in Georgia and among the fifty oldest private universities in the United States.[17]
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Motto | Cor prudentis possidebit scientiam (Latin) |
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Motto in English | The wise heart seeks knowledge |
Type | Private |
Established | 1836[1] |
Affiliation | United Methodist Church[2][3] |
Endowment | $6.402 billion (2016)[4] |
President | Claire E. Sterk[5] |
Students | 14,913 (Fall 2016)[6] |
Undergraduates | 7,591 (Fall 2016)[6] |
Postgraduates | 7,103 (Fall 2016)[6] |
Location | , , U.S. 33°47′28″N 84°19′24″W |
Campus | Suburban 631 acres (2.6 km²) |
Newspaper | The Emory Wheel[7] |
Colors | Blue [8] |
Nickname | Eagles |
Affiliations | |
Website | www |
Emory University has nine academic divisions:
- Emory College of Arts and Sciences
- Oxford College
- Goizueta Business School
- Laney Graduate School
- School of Law
- School of Medicine
- Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
- Rollins School of Public Health
- Candler School of Theology.[18]
Emory University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Peking University in Beijing, China jointly administer the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering.[19][20] The university operates the Confucius Institute in Atlanta in partnership with Nanjing University.[21][22] Emory has a growing faculty research partnership with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).[23][24][25] Emory University students come from all 50 states, 6 territories of the United States, and over 100 foreign countries.[26]
Emory Healthcare is the largest healthcare system in the state of Georgia[27] and comprises seven major hospitals, including the internationally renowned Emory University Hospital and Emory University Hospital Midtown.[28] The university operates the Winship Cancer Institute, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, and many disease and vaccine research centers.[29][30][31] Emory University is the leading coordinator of both the NIAID's Malaria Host-Pathogen Interaction Center (MaHPIC)[32] and the U.S. Health Department's National Ebola Training and Education Center.[33] The university is one of four institutions involved in the NIAID's Tuberculosis Research Units Program.[34] The International Association of National Public Health Institutes is headquartered at the university[35] and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Cancer Society are national affiliate institutions located adjacent to the campus.[36] The university is partnered with the Carter Center.[37]
Emory University is 16th among the list of colleges and universities in the United States by endowment,[38] 21st among universities in the world by endowment,[39] and 20th in U.S. News & World Report's 2017 National Universities Rankings.[40] Emory University has a Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education status of R1: "highest research activity" and is cited for high scientific performance and citation impact in the CWTS Leiden Ranking.[41] The National Science Foundation ranked the university 36th among academic institutions in the United States for research and development (R&D) expenditures.[42] Emory University research is funded primarily by federal government agencies, namely the National Institutes of Health (NIH).[43] In 1995 Emory University was elected to the Association of American Universities, an association of the 62 leading research universities in the United States & Canada.[9]