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Spelman College
Spelman College, founded in 1881 by two Massachusetts missionaries in the basement of an Atlanta church to educate formerly enslaved women and their daughters, has grown into the top-ranked historically Black college or university in the country, and it remains one of the very few surviving historically Black women's colleges in the United States. The college's science and STEM programs send a disproportionately high number of Black women on to complete doctoral degrees relative to virtually any other undergraduate institution in the country, a statistic Spelman actively tracks and promotes as central to its institutional mission of preparing Black women for leadership in fields where they remain significantly underrepresented. Spelman is part of the Atlanta University Center, the largest contiguous consortium of historically Black colleges in the world, giving students cross-registration access to nearby Morehouse College, Clark Atlanta University, and Morehouse School of Medicine — an academic and social ecosystem unique to Atlanta's HBCU cluster. The college's endowment, among the largest of any HBCU in the country, has funded significant recent campus expansion and scholarship growth, and Spelman's combination of academic rigor, a mission specifically centered on Black women's leadership development, and its integration into the broader Atlanta University Center has made it one of the most selective HBCUs in the nation.
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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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