EMORY UNIVERSITY

private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Atlanta, Ga., U.S. It is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The university consists of Emory College (a liberal arts institution), Oxford College (a two-year college), the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Division of Allied Health Professions, and the schools of Law, Business, Theology, Public Health, Nursing, and Medicine. It offers a comprehensive range of undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree programs. Students can study abroad through exchange programs with St. Andrews University in Scotland, the Pushkin Institute in Moscow, and several other universities worldwide. Important research facilities associated with Emory include the Carter Presidential Center, Yerkes Primate Center, and Scarbough Cancer Center. Total enrollment exceeds 10,000. Emory College was chartered in 1836 by the Georgia Methodist Conference. It was then located in the town of Oxford, Ga. (now the site of the university's Oxford College). The college was closed during the American Civil War and did not reopen until 1866. The School of Medicine, which had its sources in the Atlanta Medical College (founded 1854) and Southern Medical College (founded 1878), became part of the university in 1915. Four years later Emory College moved to Atlanta and became a university, opened the business school, and began offering graduate-level courses. Doctoral degree programs began in 1946, and the university first admitted women in 1953.