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Emory University

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Atlanta, United States
=98th in World University Rankings 2025
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About Emory University

Basic information and contact details for Emory University

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Emory University is renowned for its liberal arts college, professional schools and one of the leading healthcare systems in America’s southeast.

It was founded in 1836 as a small Methodist college in Georgia, in a town named Oxford after the prestigious English university.

Emory was transformed into its present incarnation in the historic Druid Hills neighbourhood of Atlanta in 1915 after Asa Candler, founder of The Coca-Cola Company, donated land and funds for a new campus.

There are over 3,700 academics in four undergraduate and seven graduate schools, including business, law, medicine, nursing, public health and theology, with one of the most extensive theology libraries in the US.

There are about 46 acres or 35 football fields of scientific research space on the 600-acre campus, and the university generates over $500 million in research award funds.

Half of the campus is designated as protected green space, some of which is used by the university’s eighteen varsity sports teams.

Emory Healthcare, the largest healthcare system in Georgia, allows students to observe real-world applications for their learning. It makes the university a top destination for medical students, with only one in 50 applicants accepted to the School of Medicine.

There are five secret societies, the oldest being DVS, founded in 1902 in Georgia, which admits seven seniors each year.

Emory counts former President Jimmy Carter, His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, CNN chief medical correspondent Dr Sanjay Gupta and the US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey within its faculty, and numerous famous alumni from the worlds of business, education, entertainment, media, politics and health.

Its alumni includes six Pulitzer Prize winners, a vice president of the United States, a Supreme Court justice, an astronaut, and golf’s only Grand Slam winner.

The spirit of Emory is said to be safeguarded by a lab skeleton of unknown origin named Dooley. Each spring, in a tradition originating in 1899, a week is celebrated in his honour, in which students are secretly selected to don the Dooley cloak and turn up unexpectedly around campus.

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World University Rankings 2025
20406080100
Overall 66.3
Teaching 53.9
Research Environment 46.2
Research Quality 95.3
Industry 83.6
International Outlook 67.4
60626466201620172018201920202021202220232024202559.76260.763.66463.765.165.366.166.3

Breakdown via year: Overall

Ranking positions 2016 to 2025
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Key Student Statistics

A breakdown of student statistics at Emory University

gender ratio
Student gender ratio
61 F : 39 M (1)
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International student percentage
19% (1)
student per staff
Students per staff
4.2 (1)
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Student total
13718 (1)

Based on data collected for the (1) World University Rankings 2025

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Subjects Taught at Emory University

See below for a range of subjects taught at Emory University

Physical Sciences201–250th

  • Chemistry
  • Geology, Environmental, Earth and Marine Sciences
  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Mathematics and Statistics

Social Sciences126–150th

  • Sociology
  • Politics and International Studies
  • Communication and Media Studies

Life Sciences=68th

  • Biological Sciences

Clinical and Health43rd

  • Medicine and Dentistry
  • Other Health

Law151–175th

  • Law

Business and Economics201–250th

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Business and Management
  • Accounting and Finance

Arts and Humanities101–125th

  • Languages, Literature and Linguistics
  • History, Philosophy and Theology
  • Art, Performing Art and Design

Psychology101–125th

  • Psychology