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Emory University

201 Dowman Dr, Atlanta, GA

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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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