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1. U.S. News & World Report has ranked Mercer among the top 15 colleges and universities in the South for 17 consecutive years.
2. The Princeton Review has consistently ranked Mercer in the top 10 percent of colleges and universities in North America. The national college guide also ranked Mercer's Macon campus as one of the five most beautiful in North America in 2005.
3. U.S. News & World Report has ranked the Legal Writing Program at Mercer's Walter F. George School of Law as one of the best in the nation in its annual "Best Graduate Schools" guide.
4. Mercer is one of only 81 colleges and universities nationwide to be recognized as a "College with a Conscience" for its commitment to service beyond the campus by Campus Compact, in conjunction with The Princeton Review.
5. Mercer, the University of Georgia, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Emory University are the only universities in Georgia to have entering freshman classes with an average SAT score above 1200, along with an academic grade point average above 3.6.
6. Mercer enrolls more Georgia HOPE scholarship recipients, STAR students, and valedictorians than any other private college or university in the state.
7. Mercer ranks in the top 10 percent of comparable U.S. universities in engaging undergraduate students in educational opportunities, including level of academic challenge, active and collaborative learning, student-faculty interaction, enriching educational experiences, and supportive campus environment, according to the National Survey of Student Engagement.
8. More than 25 percent of Mercer's undergraduate students on the Macon campus participate in service-learning activities.
9. More than 50 percent of Mercer's undergraduate students on the Macon campus complete an internship before they graduate.
10. While 40 percent of Mercer students are Baptist, the University has a diverse student body with 26 different religions and denominations represented.
11. Mercer's Townsend School of Music is home to the Robert McDuffie and Friends Labor Day Festival for Strings, which provides exceptionally talented high school string musicians the opportunity to study with an elite group of concert artists in a strings immersion workshop. The festival serves as an introduction to the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings Studies at Mercer.
12. Mercer College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences has one of the largest doctor of pharmacy applicant pools in the nation.
13. Mercer's College of Nursing is the only nursing program in Georgia to provide students with three years of clinical experience instead of the standard two years required at other institutions.
14. Mercer University School of Medicine opened in 1982 with a mission to educate more physicians to serve Georgians. Today, Mercer-educated physicians practice in 112 towns and cities and 87 counties in Georgia and handle some 1,320,000 patient visits each year.
15. Mercer's Tift College of Education prepares more educators than any other private college or university in Georgia.
16. Mercer has completed more than $150 million in capital improvements across the University since 1999, including construction of the Science and Engineering building, University Center, the McCorkle Music Building, the Greek Village, Education and Business Academic Building, student apartments on the Macon and Atlanta campuses, the College of Nursing Building, the Religious Life Center and the Henry County Regional Academic Center.
17. Mercer is one of the most comprehensive universities of its size in the nation in undergraduate, graduate and professional education, with 11 schools and colleges:
  • College of Liberal Arts,
  • Walter F. George School of Law,
  • College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences,
  • School of Medicine,
  • Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics,
  • School of Engineering,
  • James and Carolyn McAfee School of Theology,
  • Tift College of Education,
  • Georgia Baptist College of Nursing,
  • College of Continuing and Professional Studies,
  • Townsend School of Music.
18. Mercer has two Ph.D. programs: the Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Leadership.
19. Mercer is the only university in Georgia that provides educational programs that address all three of the major shortages in health care professionals: pharmacists, nurses and physicians.
20. The College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences introduced a graduate Physician Assistant program in 2007, which complements the bachelor's program offered by the College of Liberal Arts.
21. Instead of developing a separate teaching hospital, Mercer has partnerships with the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon and Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah. These partnerships have enabled Macon and Savannah to become major hubs of healthcare services in Georgia.
22. Mercer established the School of Engineering in 1985 on the Macon campus and the Mercer Engineering Research Center in Warner Robins in 1987 to help answer the need for engineers at Robins Air Force Base. More than 62 percent of Mercer engineering graduates work in Georgia, and the University is the number one provider of engineers to Robins Air Force Base. The Mercer Engineering Research Center has exceeded more than $189 million in contract revenue.
23. Mercer has an immeasurable impact on the cultural arts in central Georgia. In addition to the superb Fickling Hall in the University's McCorkle Music Building, where outstanding musical programs are performed, Mercer operates the historic Grand Opera House in downtown Macon, which attracts thousands of patrons throughout Central Georgia to cultural activities including concerts, dance performances, Broadway musicals, and more.
24. Mercer received high marks for its Quality Enhancement Plan - "The Engaged University" - during the University's re-accreditation visit by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the accrediting body for educational programs in the Southeast.
25. Mercer's Tift College of Education's Early Care and Education bachelor's degree program, which prepares educators to teach children from birth to 5 years old, is the first of its kind in Georgia.
26. Mercer is known around the world as a literary center through the Mercer University Press, established in 1979. Over its 27-year history, Mercer University Press has released more than 1,100 titles, making it one of the most successful university presses in the country.
27. Mercer has had an active role in the revitalization of the downtown Macon area, including renovating buildings for student housing, providing student transportation to and from the business area, operating The Grand Opera House, and providing office space for The Macon Symphony.
28. Mercer has a chapter of Sigma Xi, one of the most prestigious honor societies of scientists and engineers. Established in 2005, the chapter is the first in Central Georgia and serves not only Mercer but other academic institutions in the area.
29. Mercer's Stetson School of Business and Economics holds the highest level of accreditation for business education from the prestigious AACSB - International.
30. Mercer has more than 60,000 alumni around the world. Among those men and women are former United States Attorney General Griffin B. Bell, Georgia Secretary of State Cathy Cox, Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine, popular television legal analyst Nancy Grace, and vice chairman of National Geographic Society Reg Murphy.