Emory University, founded in 1836, is a first-class private research university in the United States and is known as South Harvard. Located in the world famous city of Atlanta, the huge capital of the board of directors of Coca-Cola, an international business consortium, has laid a relatively strong academic strength for Emory University. There are 2429 professors (99% have the highest degree in this field), 7656 undergraduates and 6580 postgraduates. The ratio of students to professors is 8: 1. Students come from 50 states in the United States and 107 countries around the world, with an admission rate of 24%.

In the ranking of American universities in the past 20 years, Emory University ranks among the top 20 universities in the United States. In the annual university evaluation made by US News and World Report in 2006-20 13, Emory University ranked 18 in the comprehensive ranking of famous research universities in the United States, with undergraduate business schools ranking in the top four and public health schools ranking in the top five. In addition, it ranks in the top 30 in almost all fields in the United States. Graduate schools of business, medicine and law also rank among the top 20 in the United States.