Question: Which school is cited as one of the world's leading research universities, Emory University or Smith College?
Context: 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.  Emory is frequently cited as one of the world's leading research universities and one of the top institutions in the United States. Oxford College of Emory University, also called Oxford College and founded in 1836 as Emory College, is an American two-year residential college specializing in the foundations of liberal arts education.  It is the birthplace and one of nine academic divisions of Emory University.  The college is located on Emory University's original campus in Oxford, Georgia, 38 mi east of Emory's Atlanta campus.  Students who enroll in Oxford College complete an associate of the arts degree there, after which they can continue their studies at Emory's Atlanta campus to pursue a bachelor degree without any additional applications. The Emory University School of Medicine is the Graduate Medical School of Emory University and a component of Emory’s Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center.  It is located on the university's main campus in the Druid Hills neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.  The medical school offers a full-time Doctor of Medicine degree program, Masters programs in Anesthesiology and Genetic Counseling, degrees in Physical Therapy and Physician Assistant training, joint degree programs with other Emory graduate divisions, graduate medical education, and continuing medical education.  Emory University School of Medicine traces its origins back to 1915 when the Atlanta Medical College (founded 1854), the Southern Medical College (1878), and the Atlanta School of Medicine (founded 1905) merged. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im ("Arabic: عبد الله أحمد النعيم") (born in 1946) is a Sudanese-born Islamic scholar who currently lives in the United States and teaches at Emory University.  He is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law, associated professor in the Emory College of Arts and Sciences, and Senior Fellow of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion of Emory University. BRICS Universities League is a consortium of leading research universities from BRICS countries including Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.  Initiated in Shanghai on July 6, 2013, the League aims to become a platform for academic and expert cooperation, comparative research, and international educational projects.  In October 2015, around 40 outstanding universities from the five BRICS countries gathered in Beijing Normal University to hold the BRICS Universities Presidents Forum.  After this Forum, the participating universities declared the Beijing Consensus, and they decided to establish the BRICS Universities League.  The League Secretariat is located in Beijing Normal University, with the BNU as a leading university in terms of BRICS higher education and academic cooperation.  The League is expanding to attract more and more outstanding BRICS universities to participate in its activities.  The BRICS Universities League has performed as a strategic pillar for the BRICS cooperation. The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, and Cal ) is a public research university located in Berkeley, California.  Founded in 1868, Berkeley is the oldest of the ten research universities affiliated with the University of California system (although UCSF was founded in 1864 and predates the establishment of the UC system) and is ranked as one of the world's leading research universities and the top public university in the United States. Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college with coed graduate and certificate programs, located in Northampton, Massachusetts, United States.  It is the largest member of the Seven Sisters.  In its 2017 edition, "U.S. News & World Report" ranked it tied for 12th among the best National Liberal Arts Colleges.  Smith is also a member of the Five Colleges consortium, which allows its students to attend classes at four other Pioneer Valley institutions: Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Carlos del Rio is Hubert Professor in, and chair of, the Hubert Department of Global Health at the Rollins School of Public Health Professor of Medicine at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University School of Medicine.  He is also a professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University School of Medicine, program director of the Emory AIDS International Training and Research Program, and co-Director of the Emory Center for AIDS Research. Emory University Hospital is a 587-bed facility in Atlanta, Georgia, specializing in the care of acutely ill adults.  Emory University Hospital is staffed exclusively by Emory University School of Medicine faculty who also are members of The Emory Clinic.  The hospital is renowned as one of the nation's leaders in cardiology and cardiac surgery, oncology, transplantation and the neurosciences. World TOP University : University Putra Malaysia (UPM; formally known as Universiti Pertanian Malaysia or College of Agriculture Malaya or School of Agriculture) is recognised by the independent government assessments as one of Malaysia's leading research universities offering undergraduate and postgraduate courses with a focus on agricultural sciences and its related fields.  Founded in 1931 as the School of Agriculture, UPM's main campus is in central Peninsular Malaysia, close to the capital city, Kuala Lumpur and next to Malaysia’s administrative capital city, Putrajaya.  It was formerly known as Universiti Pertanian Malaysia or Agricultural University of Malaysia.  It was ranked as the joint 376th best university in the world in 2014 by Quacquarelli Symonds.  On 2015, UPM was ranked 45th in Best Global Universities for Agricultural Sciences of "U.S. News & World Report" College and University Ranking.
Answer: Emory University