Mercer University

Mercer University is the most seasoned private college in Georgia with its primary grounds in Macon, Georgia, United States.

Mercer selects more than 8,500 understudies in 12 universities and schools: human sciences, business, building, training, music, proceeding and expert studies, law, philosophy, drug, drug store, nursing, and wellbeing callings. Mercer is an individual from the Georgia Research Alliance and has a section of Phi Beta Kappa, the country's most established university respects society.

Mercer has three grounds: the primary grounds in Macon, a graduate and expert training grounds in Atlanta, and a four-year grounds of the School of Medicine in Savannah. Mercer additionally has territorial scholarly focuses in Henry County, Douglas County, and Newnan; the Walter F. George School of Law all alone grounds in Macon; showing healing facilities in Macon, Savannah, and Columbus; a college press and a performing expressions focus, the Grand Opera House, in Macon; and the Mercer Engineering Research Center in Warner Robins. The Mercer University Health Sciences Center includes Mercer's restorative, drug store, nursing, and wellbeing callings programs in Macon, Atlanta, Savannah, and Columbus.

U.S. News and World Report has positioned Mercer among the main ten colleges in the South for 17 continuous years, and among the main two best values as far as instruction in respect to cost for four sequential years.Princeton Review reliably positions Mercer in the main ten percent of schools and colleges in North America,and in 2005, appraised Mercer has having one of the main five most delightful school grounds in North America.Mercer was refered to by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching for its group engagement, and was among the 113 establishments recorded on the 2013 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction.

Mercer has a NCAA Division I athletic program and fields groups in eight men's and ten ladies' games; all college supported games contend in the Southern Conference with the exception of ladies' lacrosse and ladies' sand volleyball, which are not supported by the SoCon, and consequently contend in the Atlantic Sun Conference.
Mercer University was established in Penfield, Georgia, as a young men's private academy under Billington McCarthy Sanders, an educator who served as the primary president, and Adiel Sherwood, a Baptist clergyman who beforehand established a young men's physical work school that served as a model. The school opened as Mercer Institute with 39 understudies on January 14, 1833.[16] The school was named for Jesse Mercer,[18] a conspicuous Baptist pioneer who gave an establishing enrichment and who served as the primary administrator of the leading group of trustees.[16][19] The Georgia General Assembly allowed a college sanction in December 1837.[16] Mercer embraced its present name in 1838 and graduated its first college class, of three understudies, in 1841.

In 1871, Mercer moved to Macon, a focal point of transportation and trade in Georgia. The School of Law was built up in 1873 and was named the Walter F. George School of Law in 1947 to pay tribute to Mercer former student Walter F. George, class of 1901, who served as a United States Senator from Georgia and as President genius tempore of the United States Senate