Emory University

Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States.  

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. In 1915 the college relocated to metropolitan Atlanta and was rechartered as Emory University.

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, and the Candler School of Theology.

Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have a strong research partnership and jointly administer the Emory-Georgia Tech Predictive Health Institute and the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Program with Peking University in Beijing, China.  

Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology's combined annual research expenditures exceed $1.25 billion.

Emory University is 16th among the list of colleges and universities in the United States by endowment,5th among universities in the United States regarding licensing revenue per dollars spent on research, and 21st in U.S. News & World Report's 2015 National Universities Rankings.

 The university also ranks as one of the top universities in the world. 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.