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Emory University
Emory University, founded in 1836 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, transformed into a major research university largely through a series of massive gifts from the Woodruff family, whose fortune came from Coca-Cola — the company's Atlanta headquarters and the university's close historical ties to it remain a defining part of Emory's institutional identity. The university's proximity to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, headquartered directly across the street from campus, gives Emory's public health and infectious disease researchers an unusually close working relationship with the country's leading public health agency, one that intensified visibly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Emory's Goizueta Business School and its medical school have each built strong national reputations, and the university's Rollins School of Public Health is consistently ranked among the very best in the country, reflecting Emory's broader institutional strength in health sciences and biomedical research. The university's wooded, hilly Atlanta campus and its research budget, funded substantially by continued Woodruff family and Coca-Cola-linked philanthropy, have let Emory build a private research university profile that punches well above its relatively modest undergraduate enrollment of around 7,000 students.
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Morehouse College
Morehouse College, founded in 1867 just two years after the end of the Civil War to educate formerly enslaved Black men, is the only historically Black college in the country exclusively dedicated to educating men, and its most famous alumnus, Martin Luther King Jr., graduated in 1948 before going on to lead the civil rights movement. The college's "Morehouse Man" ethos, an institutional emphasis on leadership, professionalism, and social responsibility instilled across the curriculum and campus culture, has produced a long list of prominent alumni in politics, entertainment, and civil rights activism, including filmmaker Spike Lee and numerous elected officials. As part of the Atlanta University Center consortium alongside Spelman College, Clark Atlanta University, and Morehouse School of Medicine, Morehouse students can cross-register for courses and participate in shared social and academic life across the four institutions, giving the small college access to a much larger combined community. Morehouse's role as one of the most prominent producers of Black male doctoral candidates and professionals in the country, combined with its direct historical connection to the civil rights movement through King and other prominent alumni, has made it one of the most nationally recognized HBCUs in the United States.
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