Emory University

* * *

City:  | Atlanta, Georgia
Type:  | Private
Sports:  | baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, volleyball[1]
Colors:  | blue, gold
Mascot:  | Swoop (Eagles)
Degrees:  | Associate, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctoral[2]
Endowment:  | $5.4 billion[3]
Website:  | http://www.emory.edu/

Emory University is a prestigious private university founded in 1836 and now located in Atlanta, Georgia. The school is named after John Emory, a Methodist pastor who inspired by his broad vision for an American education that would mold character as well as mind.[4]

Emory made the transition from a regional Methodist college to a major national research university after 1980 thanks to a combination of external trends and circumstances and internal decisions and strategies. The growth of Atlanta's population and wealth helped end a legacy of poverty and lack of research scientists that had hindered the development of research and graduate programs in Southern universities. The Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Corporation and its owners provided endowments throughout the 20th century that provided significant financial support to the university, although a $105 million Candler bequest in 1979 got the most attention. In addition to the advantage of a key benefactor, Emory had a succession of university presidents committed to making it one of the nation's leading research facilities. Finally, a policy of moderate expansion and careful fiscal management sustained it through an uneven course from the 1950s through the 1990s - although it did not achieve national research status until the late 1980s and 1990s.[5]

## See also[edit]

* Yun Chi-ho
* Han Wan-sang

## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ http://www.go.emory.edu/
2. ↑ College Search - Emory University - At a Glance (English). College Board. Retrieved on May 29, 2010.
3. ↑ 2011 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments. Retrieved on November 20, 2012.
4. ↑ A Brief history (English). Emory University.
5. ↑ Nancy Diamond, "Catching Up: The Advance of Emory University since World War II." History of Higher Education Annual (1999) 19: 149-183. 0737-2698

v • d • e

United States Universities

Alabama • American • Arizona • Arizona St. • Arkansas • Ave Maria • Ball St. • Baylor • Berkeley • Bob Jones • Boston • Brandeis • Brigham Young • Brown • Bucknell • California • Cal Maritime • California St. • Carnegie Mellon • Chicago • Cincinnati • Clemson • Colorado • Columbia • Connecticut • Cornell • Delaware • DePaul • Duke • East Carolina • Emory • Florida • Florida St. • Fordham • George Mason • George Washington • Georgetown • Georgia • Georgia Tech • Harvard • Houston • Howard • Humboldt St. •Illinois • Indiana • Iowa • Iowa St. • James Madison • Johns Hopkins • Kansas • Kansas St. • Kentucky • Liberty • Louisiana Baptist • Louisiana St. • Louisiana Tech • Louisville • Loyola Chicago • Marquette • Marshall • Mary Washington • Maryland • Massachusetts • Memphis • Miami • Michigan • Michigan St. • Middle Tennessee St. • Minnesota • Mississippi • Missouri • MIT • New Hampshire • New York • Notre Dame • N. Carolina • N. Carolina St. • N. Illinois • Northeastern • Northwestern • Ohio St. • Oklahoma • Oklahoma St. • Oregon • Oregon St. • Patriot Bible • Pennsylvania • Penn St. • Pensacola Christian • Pepperdine • Pitt • Princeton • Purdue • Quinnipiac • Rhode Island • Rice • Rochester • Rutgers • S. California • S. Carolina • S. Florida • Southern Methodist • Stanford • Stevens IT • Syracuse • Temple • Tennessee • Texas • Texas A & M • Texas Tech • Tulane • Utah • Vanderbilt • Vermont • Villanova • Virginia • Virginia Commonwealth • Virginia Tech • Wake Forest • Washington • Washington St. • W. Virginia • Wisconsin-Madison • Xavier • Yale