 The College of Pharmacy, founded in 1903, was an independent school in Atlanta until it merged with Mercer in 1959.The college, ranked by "US News and World Report" among the top five private pharmacy schools in the country, moved from its downtown location to Mercer's Atlanta campus in 1992.In 1981, the college became the first in the southeast and the fifth in the nation to offer the Doctor of Pharmacy, the highest level of pharmacy education, as its sole professional degree.