page_title: Mercer University
hierarchical_section_title: Mercer University
caption_attribution_description: English: The R. Kirby Godsey Administration Building, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 71000261
context_page_description: Mercer University is a private research university with its main campus in Macon, Georgia. Founded in 1833 as Mercer Institute and gaining university status in 1837, it is the oldest private university in Georgia and enrolls more than 8,600 students in 12 colleges and schools: liberal arts, business, engineering, education, music, college of professional advancement, law, theology, medicine, pharmacy, nursing, and health professions. Mercer is a member of the Georgia Research Alliance and has a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest collegiate honors society. Mercer University alumni include 24 United States Representatives, 12 Governors, four United States Senators, and two Pulitzer Prize winners.
  Mercer has three major campuses: the historic campus in Macon, a graduate and professional education campus in Atlanta, and a four-year campus of the School of Medicine in Savannah.
context_section_description: Mercer University is a private research university with its main campus in Macon, Georgia. Founded in 1833 as Mercer Institute and gaining university status in 1837, it is the oldest private university in Georgia and enrolls more than 8,600 students in 12 colleges and schools: liberal arts, business, engineering, education, music, college of professional advancement, law, theology, medicine, pharmacy, nursing, and health professions.  Mercer is a member of the Georgia Research Alliance and has a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest collegiate honors society. Mercer University alumni include 24 United States Representatives, 12 Governors, four United States Senators, and two Pulitzer Prize winners. 
  Mercer has three major campuses: the historic (main) campus in Macon, a graduate and professional education campus in Atlanta, and a four-year campus of the School of Medicine in Savannah.  Mercer also has regional academic centers in Henry County and Douglas County; the Mercer University School of Law on its own campus in Macon; teaching hospitals in Macon, Savannah, and Columbus; a university press and a performing arts center, the Grand Opera House, in Macon; and the Mercer Engineering Research Center in Warner Robins.  The Mercer University Health Sciences Center encompasses Mercer's medical, pharmacy, nursing, and health professions programs in Macon, Atlanta, Savannah, and Columbus.
  U.S. News and World Report has ranked Mercer among the top two private universities in Georgia for approximately 25 years:  Overall, U.S. News and World Report (2020 edition) ranks Mercer 153 among the 381 National Universities, the 40th best value in terms of education relative to cost, and 34 (the same ranking as Harvard University) in terms of undergraduate teaching. Mercer has been cited by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching for its community engagement and was among the 113 institutions listed on the 2015 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction. Princeton Review has ranked Mercer as one of the best colleges in the nation for 18 years.  
  Mercer has an NCAA Division I athletic program and fields teams in eight men's and ten women's sports; all university-sponsored sports compete in the Southern Conference except women's sand volleyball, which is not sponsored by the SoCon, and thus compete in the Atlantic Sun Conference.
caption: R. Kirby Godsey Administration Building, a university landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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