Overview
Named for the legendary leader of the Coca-Cola Company, Emory University’s Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) is an academic health sciences and service center focused on missions of teaching, research, health care, and public service.
Its components include schools of medicine, nursing, and public health; a primate research center; Winship Cancer Institute; and Emory Healthcare, the largest, most comprehensive health system in Georgia.
Many WHSC facilities are located on Emory’s main campus, 6 miles east of downtown Atlanta (see map). Clairmont campus is the site of residential facilities for patients’ families. Midtown campus is the site of Emory University Hospital Midtown and outpatient clinic facilities.
In addition to the WHSC, Emory University includes Emory College, Oxford College, Laney Graduate School, Goizueta Business School, Emory Law School, and Candler School of Theology. Emory’s students, including the WHSC, total 12,930, and faculty total 3,777. Employees, including faculty, total 23,408 (as of Sept. 1, 2009). At $4.3 billion (as of fiscal year 2009), Emory’s endowment ranks 15th among U.S. universities.
