Oxford College is located on the original campus where Emory College was founded in 1836 and remained until 1919, when it moved to the newly established Atlanta campus of Emory University. The old campus was kept, and through several subsequent incarnations and with remarkable resilience, the college in Oxford today has emerged as a valuable and specialized division of Emory University with a focus on liberal arts intensive education.
Emory College and the town of Oxford were created together as a symbiotic living, learning, working, and worshipping community firmly based on a Methodist foundation. The early campus buildings and the very layout of the town were designed to emphasize the dual missions of education and religion. By necessity and intention, the relationship between college and town was, and to some extent remains, symbiotic.
