Whois & Analysis for emory.edu

Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of 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.

The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education is a framework for classifying colleges and universities in the United States.

The framework primarily serves educational and research purposes, where it is often important to identify groups of roughly comparable institutions.

The classification includes all accredited, degree-granting colleges and universities in the United States that are represented in the National Center for Education Statistics Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS).

A university ("a whole", "a corporation") is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which grants academic degrees in various academic disciplines.

Universities typically provide undergraduate education and postgraduate education.

Atlanta is the capital of and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia, with an estimated 2015 population of 463,878.

Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5,710,795 people and the ninth largest metropolitan area in the United States.

Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County, and a small portion of the city extends eastward into DeKalb County.

Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human culture.

In the Middle Ages, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the time.

Today, the humanities are more frequently contrasted with natural, and sometimes social, sciences as well as professional training.