26 Facts About Emory University

1. Emory University has over 13,200 faculty and staff members and over 133,000 living alumni.

2. Emory University has a partnership with Coca-Cola in which they pledged 3 million dollars over a 5-year period for "Service for Learning" which projects that Emory student volunteers participate to help preserve nature trails, create urban farms, as well as restore neighborhood parks.

3. Emory University has numerous club sports and a variety of recreational and competitive intramural teams.

4. Emory University Cares International Service Day brings together students, alumni and other community members to volunteer at a number of projects organized by Emory and its many partners around the city of Atlanta and in cities worldwide.

5. Emory University received the 2008 Presidential Award for General Community Service, which is the highest federal recognition given to higher education institutions for their commitment to community service, service-learning and civic engagement.

6. Emory University routinely hosts arts events in the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts that are open to the Emory and Atlanta communities.

7. In 2015, Emory University received a $15 million grant from the Wounded Warrior Project in order to establish the "Warrior Care Network" and develop innovative approaches to treat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury (TBI).

8. In 2015, Emory University received a three-year, $2.2 million grant from the CDC to prevent the spread of infectious diseases, including Ebola, in health-care facilities.

9. Emory University is a global leader in Ebola research and treatment.

10. In 2015, an Emory University-led research consortium received a five-year, 15 million dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health to research human immune responses to Varicella zoster virus and pneumococcal vaccination.

11. In 2015, Emory University was one of four institutions selected by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for its seven-year, multimillion-dollar Tuberculosis Research Units program, which aims to drive innovation in tuberculosis research and reduce the global burden of the disease.

12. In 2015, Emory University was made a member of the CDC's Prevention Epicenters Program, a research program in which CDC's Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion collaborates with academic investigators to conduct innovative infection control and prevention research.

13. Emory University has a strong partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

14. Emory University leads the nation in the number of students with Kirschstein-National Research Service Award pre-doctoral fellowships from the National Institutes of Health.

15. In 2015, Emory University received $572.4 million from external funding agencies.

16. Emory University is a member of the Association of Research Libraries.

17. Emory University offers a dual master's degree in social work with the University of Georgia.

18. Emory University offers a five-year dual degree program in engineering, in collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology.

19. Emory University offers highly selective honors programs for high-performing undergraduates in most areas of concentration.

20. Emory University helped the nation prepare for war by participating in the V-12 Navy College Training Program and Army Specialized Training Program, programs designed to supplement the force of commissioned officers in the United States Navy and United States Army.

21. Emory University organized a medical unit, composed of medical school faculty and medical alumni, that would be known as Emory Unit, Base Hospital 43.

22. Emory University has a Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education status of R1: "highest research activity" and is cited for high scientific performance and citation impact in the CWTS Leiden Ranking.

23. Emory University has the 16th largest endowment among the list of colleges and universities in the United States by endowment.

24. Emory University has a growing faculty research partnership with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

25. Emory University maintained a presence in Oxford that eventually became Oxford College, a residential liberal arts college for the first two years of the Emory baccalaureate degree.

26. Emory University is a private research university in the Druid Hills neighborhood of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, United States.