Emory University

Emory University
City:	Atlanta, Georgia
Type:	Private
Sports:	baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, volleyball
Colors:	blue, gold
Mascot:	Swoop (Eagles)
Degrees:	Associate, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctoral
Endowment:	$5.4 billion
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.

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.