Funding Opportunities at Emory University

Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia.Founded in 1836 as "Emory College" by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory,Emory is the second-oldest private institution of higher education in Georgia(after Mercer University, founded in 1833).

Emory University has nine academic divisions: Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Oxford College, Goizueta Business School, Laney Graduate School, School of Law, School of Medicine, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Rollins School of Public Health, and the Candler School of Theology.Emory University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Peking University in Beijing, China jointly administer the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering.The university operates the Confucius Institute in Atlanta in partnership with Nanjing University.Emory has a growing faculty research partnership with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).Emory University students come from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, five territories of the United States, and over 100 foreign countries.

Emory University has the 17th-largest endowment among U.S. colleges and universities.The university is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity"and is cited for high scientific performance and citation impact in the CWTS Leiden Ranking.The National Science Foundation ranked the university 36th among academic institutions in the United States for research and development (R&D) expenditures.In 1995 Emory University was elected to the Association of American Universities, an association of the 66 leading research universities in the United States and Canada.