University Profile
Emory University is one of the world’s leading centers for discovery and learning and empowers the active, passionate pursuit of learning for a better world.
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ommitted to courageous leadership in teaching, research, scholarship, health care, and social action, Emory University is recognized as one of the world’s great institutions of higher learning. It combines nine undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools with the largest health care system and sponsored research base of any university in Georgia.
Emory’s campus in the suburban Atlanta neighborhood of Druid Hills is home to the undergraduate Emory College of Arts and Sciences, as well as undergraduate programs in business and nursing. Also here are graduate and professional programs in law, business, nursing, theology, medicine, public health, and graduate studies, as well as Emory University Hospital and associated medical clinics and institutes. And for more than 60 years, Emory Continuing Education has served as the university’s noncredit division, with more than 10,000 student enrollments each year from the community and beyond. Twenty percent of Emory undergraduates choose to begin their education at Oxford College, Emory’s historic 1836 campus, 38 miles east of Atlanta. Oxford offers these students a smallcampus, liberal-arts-intensive education for the first two years of their Emory undergraduate degree. Originally planned by Beaux-Arts architect Henry Hornbostel, the Druid Hills campus features historic buildings clad in pink and gray Georgia marble, as well as contemporary LEED-certified residence and academic halls. Emory’s campus is also home to a public park and more than 130 acres of protected forest.
Today Emory has its base in Atlanta, the business hub of the Southeast and an exciting global city—home to 14 Fortune 500 companies (third-highest in the nation) and organizations such as The Carter Center, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Cancer Society, and CARE. The city connects Emory to opportunities for wider networking, jobs, research, service, and learning. A population of more than five million makes the metro area rich with a mix of diverse cultures, entertainment, and the arts. The university reaches beyond Atlanta with programs for migrant farmworkers in rural Georgia, AIDS education in sub-Saharan Africa, smoking-prevention efforts in China, and Journeys of Reconciliation to international sites of conflict. Our faculty—passionate about their teaching and research— draw students deeply into the discovery process, encouraging them to ask difficult questions and seek creative solutions for the needs of our community and world. Emory students go on to choice graduate and professional schools and find meaningful jobs. The university has more than 7,000 undergraduates. Every state and more than 100 countries are represented in the student body. Emory is numbered among the top 20 national universities by US News & World Report and is ranked 80th among the top 200 universities by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. More than 6,000 students are enrolled in Emory’s graduate and professional schools.
Athletics
Emory fields 18 varsity sports under the auspices of NCAA Division III, whose members award no athletic scholarships or preferential treatment for student-athletes. Emory has one of the top all-around athletic programs in Division III, based on cumulative results in the NACDA Directors’ Cup standings since fall 2000 and, in the past decade, has had the second most student-athletes receive NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships.
Arts Reputation
Emory is rated 14th in the country as a “best value” among private universities in 2013–2014 Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. Goizueta Business School’s full-time MBA program ranks 22nd, and the BBA program is 7th in the ranking of undergraduate business programs compiled by Bloomberg BusinessWeek. US News & World Report ranks the Rollins School of Public Health 6th, the School of Medicine 22nd among research-oriented medical schools, the School of Law 23rd, and the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing 21st.
Arts at Emory brings together 200,000 students, faculty, guest artists, and visitors each year in a spirit of collaboration and discovery. Cultural offerings include music, theater, and dance performances; art exhibitions; poetry readings; literary events; master classes; lectures; artist residencies; and film screenings. The Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts celebrates and nurtures the arts and other innovative endeavors though grants, programming, and workshops.
Students
Emory’s student body is the most ethnically and religiously diverse of any of the top 20 national research universities. Emory houses a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest and most prestigious academic honor society. Emory students have received Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright, Goldwater, Rotary, Rockefeller, Mellon, and USA Today scholarships as well as National Science Foundation Fellowships.
Faculty and Staff
Emory is the third-largest private employer in metro Atlanta with 27,937 employees, including 4,053 faculty. Two of Emory’s key strategic plan goals focus on strengthening faculty distinction— which includes ensuring optimal career trajectories, tenure and promotion practices, and the continued recruitment and retention of excellent faculty at all ranks—and becoming the workplace of choice for staff.
Alumni
The Emory Alumni Association represents more than 121,000 alumni living in all 50 states and more than 150 nations. Emory alumni include Pulitzer Prize winners; MacArthur fellows; Rhodes Scholars; bishops of the United Methodist Church and other denominational clergy; leaders at every level of business, education, and medicine; and a variety of other professions.
Libraries
Holdings of the Emory University Libraries total 3.7 million volumes and thousands of electronic information resources, including more than 56,000 e-journal titles. Emory’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) offers rich collections in areas such as the Irish literary revival; 20th-century American, British, and Irish poetry; and African American literature, history, and culture. MARBL houses the papers of Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Salman Rushdie, and Alice Walker, as well as the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, a collection of more than 75,000 volumes of English-language poetry.
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Global Perspective
Believing international experience is an integral part of education, Emory sends roughly 50 percent of its undergraduates to study abroad in intensive learning experiences that include language immersion and fieldwork in developing countries, research in labs around the world, and exposure to global business. On campus, Emory is home to more than 3,500 international students and scholars, and students and faculty in Emory’s graduate school and professional schools in the fields of public health, nursing, medicine, theology, law, and business engage in international research and teaching. The university’s Halle Institute for Global Learning offers programs on campus and abroad that strengthen faculty distinction, prepare engaged scholars, and cultivate involvement with local, national, and international communities.
Financial Profile
Emory’s operating budget is $4.3 billion, and the value of its endowment and trust funds was $5.8 billion as of August 31, 2013. Emory received $507.1 million in external sponsored research funding in 2013, and according to a recent study commissioned by the university, spends more than $2.5 billion in Atlanta each year for a total estimated impact of $5.1 billion on the state’s economy.
Woodruff Health Sciences Center
The center is focused on missions of teaching, research, patient care, and public service and includes the following components: Emory University School of Medicine, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Rollins School of Public Health, Winship Cancer Institute, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, and Emory Healthcare— the most comprehensive health system in Georgia. It has some 5.7 million patient visits per year and provides more than $72 million in charity care annually.