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Woodcut of Mercer University from an 1877 Macon, Georgia city directory. Mercer University was founded in Penfield, Georgia, as a boys' preparatory school under Billington McCarter Sanders, a professor who served as the first president, and Adiel Sherwood, a Baptist minister who previously founded a boys' manual labor school that served as a model.
To apply, visit Mercer’s undergraduate admissions website. Here is Niche’s list of the best colleges in Georgia: ... Mercer University, Macon. Agnes Scott College, Decatur. Spelman, Atlanta.
Mercer University School of Law (historically Walter F. George School of Law) is the law school of Mercer University. Founded in 1873, it is one of the oldest law schools in the United States ; the first law school accredited by the bar in Georgia, and the second oldest of Mercer's 12 colleges and schools.
Raleigh Kirby Godsey, better known as R. Kirby Godsey, (born April 2, 1936) served as the seventeenth president of Mercer University, an independent, coeducational, private university, located in the U.S. state of Georgia, from July 1, 1979 to June 30, 2006 (27 years), longer than any of his predecessors. [1]
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Mercer is the only university of its size in the United States that offers programs in eleven diversified fields of study: liberal arts, business, education, music, engineering, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, law, theology, and continuing and professional studies. Mercer enrolls approximately 8,300 students in its eleven colleges and schools.
The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College is a 2002 nonfiction book, written by education reporter Jacques Steinberg, that examines the inner workings of the admissions committee at Wesleyan University. The book expands upon a series of articles Steinberg wrote in The New York Times.
Mercer president Bill Underwood said the students at Roberts Academy will also have access to all the resources of Mercer University. “We intend for this to be the finest school of its kind ...