Emory University

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Emory University
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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]

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  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