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Emory University
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Emory University
Emory University
is a
private
research university
in
metropolitan Atlanta
, located in the
Druid Hills
section of
unincorporated
DeKalb County
,
Georgia
,
United States
. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in
Oxford, Georgia
by the
Methodist Episcopal Church
and was named in honor of
Methodist
bishop
John Emory
. In 1915, the college relocated to metropolitan Atlanta and was rechartered as Emory University. The university is the second-oldest
private
institution of
higher education
in
Georgia
and among the fifty oldest private universities in the
United States
.
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