Images from Emory University and the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta Georgia. Emory was founded in 1836 and is a private research university and liberal arts college. It is consistently ranked as one of the best colleges in the United States. The Michael C. Carlos Museum boasts 17,000 artifacts in its permanent collection. Emory University Hospital, on the Emory University campus, received the first two Ebola patients to enter the United States.