Atlanta, GA 30322, Top 100 Universities in USA 2014 – Rank – 89, Emory University In Georgia

Emory University

201 Dowman Dr, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States

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 a small group ofMethodists and was named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory. A land-grant by Asa Candler in 1915, then president of The Coca-Cola Company, allowed the small college to move to metropolitan Atlanta and become rechartered as Emory University. The university’s mission statement is “to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity.”^[4]

The university has nearly 3,000 faculty members; awards and honors recognizing Emory faculty include the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, National Humanities Medal, Guggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright Fellowship, and membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.^[5] Emory is ranked 20th among national universities in U.S. News & World Report ‘s 2014 rankings.^[6]

The 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 theCandler School of Theology.^[7]

The university has more than two million square feet of building space certified by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program and has a commitment to having three-quarters of the food served on campus come from local or sustainable sources by 2015.^[8] Additionally, the university has one of the largest inventories by square footage of LEED-certified building space among campuses in America.

Reputation and rankings

U.S. News and World Report, in its 2014 rankings of the best colleges and universities in the United States, placed Emory 20th in the national university rankings.^[6] The same publication has ranked Emory as high as 9th in the past.^[46]

The 2013-14 Times Higher Education World University Rankingsplace Emory 80th in the world.^[47]

Emory received “best value” rankings from Kiplinger’s Personal Finance (2013-2014) and The Princeton Review (2014).^[48]Bloomberg Businessweek ranks Emory’s Goizueta Business School BBA at No. 9 (2014).^[48]

Many of the graduate schools of Emory University are ranked highly by U.S. News & World Report: Rollins School of Public Health at No. 6 (2012); the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at No. 21 (2012); the Goizueta Business School’s full-time MBA at No. 20 (2015); the School of Law at No. 19 (2015); the School of Medicine at No. 24 for research and No. 48 for primary care (2015); the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (with Georgia Tech) program at No. 2 (2015).^[48]

According to U.S. News, on August 12, 2012, “Emory University acknowledged today that it had intentionally supplied incorrect ranking data, including average SAT scores, ACT scores, and high school class standing of incoming freshmen, to U.S. News from 2000 through 2011.” “The school also misreported the same data on other surveys, including to the U.S. Department of Education and many other publishers, such as College Board andPeterson’s.”^[49] U.S. News concluded, “Our preliminary calculations show that the misreported data would not have changed the school’s ranking in the past two years and would likely have had a small to negligible effect in the several years prior. We will continue to review the matter.”^[49] U.S. News has ranked Emory as high as 9th in the national university rankings in the past, prior to the period where Emory had intentionally provided incorrect ranking data.^[46] Forbes in 2013 removed Emory from their listings for a two year period as penalty for the school’s dishonesty.