Whats up With Emory?

bernie12
Fri, 22 Jan 2016 15:17:01 +0000

Already is in public health naturally (school opened in 1990 and is consistently ranked in top 10 near much older, more prestigious peers) and is also really well known for certain areas of immunology (again, I think Emory needs more centers to become even better) like vaccines. Has top programs in molecular and systems pharmacology which has likely led (along with help of the chemistry department and the cancer center) to Emory being ultra high on the drug discovery list (as in number of patents or drugs making it to the market. Just behind the UC-system for example). All of the biological graduate programs are gaining more attention because the grant writing course hosted by them resulted in Emory having the most grad. students earn NIH grants I believe. Things like English/Creative Writing, Biology, and NBB (Emory has a ridiculous primate research center so the behavioral biology part is about as respected as the more hardcore neuroscience part), and some others such as political science. However, for English, I don’t think the grad. entity is as renowned. Emory has much work to do in order to grow and enhance its graduate school. Its endowment is really low for example. The force of the graduate school is relatively new at Emory. You have to remember that Emory was indeed more of a liberal arts model in the 1980s and early 90s. A certain president(s) decided to take it in the direction of a research university only after that period. If Emory can continue to grow its Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and not just the professional schools (recently Public Health has been enjoying lots of success, and do to USNews changing its metrics, the nursing school just hit the top 10 and will likely stay near it for a while. That will help as before, it was only top 10 among private schools and was more like 25-30 overall). The Business school, even at the graduate level has been surprising many lately with lots of good press from extremely competitive performances in many areas with several much more famous peer schools (I think the new Dean is quite ambitious and knows what she is doing by expanding its influence into healthcare).

However, again, the professional schools cannot do it alone. But again, another issue with Emory is that its excellence in certain areas is obvious, but it is kind of too new to get attention for much of it. And it isn’t a school constantly in the spotlight in media sources other than scholarly literature. New excellence will always have a lagging reputation, especially when other more renowned schools overall are also good in the area (even if not as good or roughly equal). NRC for example has some STEM graduate programs in very close proximity to Duke (sometimes tying, like 1-2 below in most categories or slightly ahead), but the reputation indicators are lower.