Emory University

Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated County, Georgia, United States.he 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 In 1915, the college relocated to metropolitan Atlanta and was rechartered a

s Emory University. The university is the second-oldest private institution of higher education in Georgia and among the fifty oldest private universities in the United States.

Emory University has nine academic divisions: Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Oxford College, Business School, Graduate School, School of Law, School of Medicine, Nell 

School of Nursing, Rollins School of Public Health, and the Candler School of Theology.

Emory has a growing faculty research partnership with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Emory University students come from all 50 states, 5 territories of the United States, and over 100 foreign countries.

Emory University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Peking University in Beijing, China jointly administer the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Engineering.The university operates the Confucius Institute in Atlanta in partnership with Nanjing University.

Emory Healthcare is the largest healthcare system in the state of Georgia and comprises seven major hospitals, including the internationally renowned Emory University Hospital and Emory University Hospital Midtown.The university 

operates Institute, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, and many disease and vaccine research university is one of four institutions involved in the Tuberculosis Research Units Program and is the leading coordinator of the U.S. Health Department's National Ebola Training and Education Center. 

The International Association of National Public Health Institutes is headquartered at the the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Cancer Society are national affiliate institutions located adjacent to the campus. The university is partnered with the Carter 

Emory University research is funded primarily by federal government agencies, namely the National Institutes of 1995 Emory University was elected to the Association of American Universities, an association of the 62 leading research universities in the United States & Canada

Emory University is 16th among the list of colleges and universities in the United States by among universities in the world by endowment,and 21st in U.S. News & World Report's 2016 National Universities Rankings.

Emory University has a Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education status of"very high research activity" and is cited for high scientific performance and citation impact in the Leiden Ranking. 

during the Second World War and served in the North African Campaign and Europe. To recognize Emory’s participation in the war effort, a ship was christened M.S. Emory Victory and served through World War II and in the Korean War.


On April 6, 1917 the United States entered the First World War. Emory University organized a medical unit, composed of medical school faculty and medical alumni, that would be known as Emory Unit, Base Hospital 

43. The unit served in , France from July 1918 to January 1919. The Emory Unit, Base Hospital 43 was 
In the , Emory University students, alumni, and faculty served in the Asia-Pacific War and European theater of World War II. Bobby during the Battle of Normandy.Dr. Alfred A. , a professor of surgery at Emory University School of Medicine, was a prisoner of war of the Empire of Japan between 1942 and 1945.


 His memoir "Barbed Wire Surgeon" is considered one of the finest accounts concerning allied prisoners under Japanese captivity and highlights the abuses of the war graduated from the Candler School of 



negotiated his release. Emory helped the nation prepare for war by participating in the Navy College Training Program and Army Specialized Training Program, programs designed to supplement the force of 


Theology in 1940 and is portrayed in John Hersey's able to organize the Hiroshima Maidens reconstructive surgery program based on the associations he made while studying in the United , a Japanese student at the Candler School of Theology, was placed under arrest temporarily until Dean Henry Burton 

commissioned officers in the United States Navy and United States Army. The Candler School of Theology trained men for military chaplaincy. During the war, university enrollment boasted two military students for 


every one civilian. Emory University alumni would go on to serve in the Korean War, Second Indochina War  Persian Gulf War, Yugoslav Wars, and the Global War on Terrorism.