Emory University

Emory University maintained its 18th place ranking for the fourth year in a row among 249 national universities in this year’s U.S. News & World Report annual college quality rankings. “We continue to progress on many fronts toward our long-term goals as a university, and we are glad to be recognized as one of the nation’s top teaching and research institutions,” says Howard O. Hunter, interim provost. Emory’s rankings on the survey’s components included: 4 out of 5 in academic reputation, 20th in student selectivity, sixth in faculty resources, 13th in overall financial resources, 23rd in graduation and retention, and 19th in alumni giving. On the faculty resources rank (20 percent of the final score)—an indicator that is mainly derived from faculty compensation and average class size—Emory remained at sixth place, a higher score in this area than Yale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford and many other universities. Faculty and Administrative Leaders Emory has been fortunate in its strong and devoted leadership, both faculty and administrative. Here you will find information about some who have helped bring the University to its place in academia today. Jimmy Carter (1979H), University Distinguished Professor Richard David Ellmann (1979H), First Robert W. Woodruff Professor Evangeline Papageorge (1929G, 1937M), First Woman Faculty member Claude Sitton, Pulitzer Prize Winner Desmond Tutu (1988H), Visiting Robert W. Woodruff Professor Ha Jin – Chinese-American writer, formerly a Professor of English at Emory; winner of the National Book Award, PEN/Faulkner Award, Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, Pulitzer Prize finalist

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