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Emory University

Basic Information

Type Private
Geographical Reach National
Location Atlanta, GA
Population 4,000,000
Map of the United States

Demographics

Total Undergraduates 7,275
Men / Women 43% / 57%
White 34%
Asian 19%
International 16%
Black 13%
Hispanic 8%
Mixed 3%
Native American 0%
From State 15%
From Region 10%

Academics

Undergraduate Degrees
Business & Economics 28%
Humanities & Social Sciences 25%
Life & Natural Sciences 20%
Health Sciences 11%
Physical Sciences & Math 8%
Computer Science 5%
Arts 3%

Financial

Tuition & Fees $67,080
Est. Cost of Attendance $83,622
10-Year ROI $266,000
ROI Percentile 95th

Retention & Graduation

Full-Time Retention 96%
4-Year Graduation Rate 81%
6-Year Graduation Rate 91%
Transfer-Out Rate 0%

Weather

Comfortable Days 115 (84%)
Sunshine Hours 2,640 (57%)
Days Without Precipitation 244 (45%)

Admissions

Uses Common App Yes
Acceptance Rate 12%
Yield (Unbound) 9%
Early Decision 1 Nov 1
Regular Decision Jan 1
Early Decision 2 Jan 15

Research

Research Level R1
Expenditure
Life & Natural Sciences $1,154M #15
Engineering, Computing & Math $44M #123
Humanities & Social Sciences $10M #129
Graduate Degrees
Humanities & Social Sciences 405 #39
Life & Natural Sciences 362 #67
Engineering, Computing & Math 54 #96

Honors College

Standardized Tests

Test Scores

Test Policy optional
Submitted Test Scores 68%
SAT Range 1480 – 1530
SAT Math Range 740 – 790
SAT RW Range 720 – 760
ACT Range 33 – 35

Earnings by Major Category

Each major category's degree-weighted estimated median 5-year earnings at this college, expressed as a z-score against the national degree-weighted distribution for that category. 0 is the national average. The shaded band between +1.28 and −1.28 marks the central 80% of the national distribution (10th–90th percentile).

Schools & Majors

Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
Emory College of Arts and Sciences 1,374 39% / 61% 15% $77,655 91%
Computer Science 73 +28 73% / 27% 27% $166,603 100 94%
Data Science 11 +2 73% / 27% 45% $117,220 98
Mathematics and Computer Science 9 56% / 44% 22% $105,926 95
Applied Mathematics and Statistics 13 +4 46% / 54% 46% $81,787 76 94%
Astronomy 3 +1 67% / 33% 33% $82,869 78
Chemistry 91 +18 45% / 55% 18% $64,937 39 86%
Mathematics 10 +3 70% / 30% 30% $92,810 87
Mathematics and Statistics 22 +3 73% / 27% 50% $91,577 86 100%
Physical Sciences 10 30% / 70% 10% $83,185 78
Physics 17 +4 65% / 35% 12% $83,747 79
Biology 202 +14 37% / 63% 13% $67,087 45 90%
Biophysics 4 75% / 25% 25% $72,781 60
Environmental Sciences 32 +6 38% / 62% 12% $73,608 62 87%
Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology 170 +2 32% / 68% 6% $66,695 44 87%
Human Health 54 +15 17% / 83% 6% $81,404 76 86%
Economics 66 +68 56% / 44% 30% $104,633 94 93%
Economics and Mathematics 7 57% / 43% 57% $112,851 97
African American Studies +7 $76,641 68
African Studies 1 +1 0% / 100% 0% $83,027 78 88%
American Studies +1 $80,958 75
Anthropology 60 +9 27% / 73% 2% $69,305 51 89%
Chinese 1 0% / 100% 0% $68,542 49
Chinese Studies +4 $80,423 74
Classical and Ancient Studies +3 $74,331 63
Classics 1 100% / 0% 0% $71,623 57
Cognitive Science 8 +1 12% / 88% 12% $69,464 52
Comparative Literature 3 +2 33% / 67% 33% $55,567 14 84%
East Asian Studies 2 +5 0% / 100% 100% $83,027 78 88%
English 18 +14 28% / 72% 6% $62,306 31 100%
English and Creative Writing 26 +6 19% / 81% 15% $53,363 10 94%
French Studies 5 +4 40% / 60% 0% $73,682 62 90%
History 18 +8 56% / 44% 28% $60,217 25 92%
Interdisciplinary Studies 9 +1 44% / 56% 11% $90,043 85 94%
Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture and Society 3 +3 67% / 33% 0% $88,225 84 91%
International Studies 18 +9 28% / 72% 0% $80,251 74 86%
Japanese Language 1 +4 0% / 100% 0% $68,530 49
Japanese Studies +2 $80,738 75
Jewish Studies 2 0% / 100% 0% $80,807 75 91%
Latin American and Caribbean Studies 1 +1 0% / 100% 0% $83,027 78 88%
Linguistics 9 +11 22% / 78% 11% $55,567 14 84%
Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies 1 +2 0% / 100% 0% $83,027 78 88%
Philosophy 35 +20 29% / 71% 11% $74,078 63
Political Science 58 +22 52% / 48% 5% $64,001 36 93%
Psychology 107 +39 21% / 79% 12% $67,538 46 94%
Quantitative Sciences 85 +50 52% / 48% 31% $91,577 86 100%
Religion 2 +5 50% / 50% 0% $80,807 75 91%
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies 2 100% / 0% 0% $83,027 78 88%
Sociology 26 +27 23% / 77% 12% $65,354 40 94%
Spanish 3 +17 33% / 67% 0% $73,682 62 90%
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 5 +9 20% / 80% 0% $57,570 18 100%
Physical Education 8 25% / 75% 12% $81,404 76 86%
Art History 8 +6 12% / 88% 38% $51,183 7
Dance and Movement Studies 2 +9 50% / 50% 0% $44,587 3
Film and Media 38 +13 26% / 74% 16% $51,416 8
Music 6 +18 50% / 50% 0% $48,474 5 95%
Playwriting 2 50% / 50% 0% $44,274 3
Theater Studies 6 +6 0% / 100% 0% $44,158 3
Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
Goizueta Business School 500 58% / 42% 23% $117,555 95%
Accounting 4 75% / 25% 0% $109,433 96
Business Administration 429 56% / 44% 23% $116,453 98
Business Analytics 12 50% / 50% 33% $113,714 97
General Business 55 67% / 33% 22% $127,583 99 95%
Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing 160 12% / 88% 2% $88,808 98%
Medical Imaging 8 12% / 88% 0% $84,516 80 97%
Nursing 152 12% / 88% 3% $89,034 84 98%

Rankings

Academics

Future Ambulance Chasers Top Law School Feeders
Have You Been in an Accident?

Prestige

Grandma Eyebrow Raisers Easy Brags for the Prestigious-Conscious
Moving to a Warmer Climate

My Tribe

Call Your Mother! Most Jewish
I'm Jewish, You're Jewish, Everyone's Jewish

Computer Science

Explaining That HTML is Not a Programming Language Computer Science (A&S)
Wait, We Have a CS Major?

Physical Sciences & Math

Breaking Bad Chemistry
Pre-Med Darwinian Thunderdome
No Words Allowed Pure Mathematics
Sigma Grindset

Life & Natural Sciences

Pre-Med Reject Waiting Room Biology
The Double Helix
Doomsday Prepping with Data Environmental Science
Field Station
Memorizing 206 Bones Human Biology
The Cadaver Club
Lord of the Petri Dish Microbiology & Immunology
Sterile Technique Survivors
Staring at a Gel Electrophoresis Until Our Eyes Bleed Molecular Biology & Genomics
Pipette Pros
Action Potentials Neuroscience
Pre-Meds in Disguise

Health Sciences

Future Heroes (With 12-Hour Shifts) Nursing
Florence Nightingale's Heirs
Legal Drug Dealers Pharmacy
Dosage Masters
Saving Lives One Spreadsheet At a Time Public Health
Epidemiology Elite

Business & Economics

PowerPoint Presentation Power Rankings Business Administration
Suit & Tie on a Tuesday Pre-Professionals
Pivot Tables & Missing Pallets Business Analytics
Supply Chain Bottlenecks
It's Basic Supply and Demand, Bro Economics
I Actually Wanted to do Finance
Wolf of Wall Street Prep Finance
Midtown Manhattan Waiting Room
Tik-Tok Generation Marketing
The Creatives

Humanities & Social Sciences

I Think, Therefore I Major Cognitive Science
The Applied Cyborgs
Much Ado About Nothing English, Literature & Writing
Well-Versed
Model UN Generation Government & Politics
Caucus Crew
Hindsight is 20/20 (And So is My Salary) History & Archaeology
Footnote Masters
I'll Figure Out the Career Later Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary
Dabbler Deluxe
The "Why Are We Here?" Support Group Philosophy & Ethics
Late Night Debaters
I Want To Understand Myself Psychology
The Manipulation Majors
Arguing with God for a Grade Religion
The Faithful Scholars
Everything is a Construct Sociology & Anthropology
The Collective