Johns
Hopkins University is an American private research university in Baltimore,
Maryland. It was founded in 1876, and named after its first benefactor, the
American entrepreneur, abolitionist, and philanthropist Johns Hopkins.
It
blazed a trail among higher education institutions by being the first US
research university, and today it puts more money into research than any other
US academic institution. It’s also widely credited with revolutionizing higher
education by being the first US institution to integrate teaching and research.
To date, Johns Hopkins has spawned 27 Nobel laureates, including the former US
president Woodrow Wilson.
Johns
Hopkins is organized into 10 divisions on campuses in Maryland and Washington,
DC with international centers in Italy, China, and Singapore. Johns Hopkins
regularly ranks in the top 10 universities in the US, and is also competitive
globally, especially for its undergraduate programs.
Johns
Hopkins enrolls more than 24,000 full- and part-time students across its nine
academic divisions with faculty members and students studying, teaching, and
learning across more than 260 programs in the arts and music, the humanities,
the social and natural sciences, engineering, international studies, education,
business, and the health professions.
Applicants
at undergraduate level are generally ranked in the top 10 percent of their high
school class, and over time applications and selectivity has risen. For the
class graduating in 2020, the acceptance rate was 11.4 percent.
Most
Johns Hopkins undergraduates study at Homewood, a 140-acre North Baltimore
campus that is home to the schools of engineering and arts and sciences. It’s a
traditional college setting in the heart of a big and blossoming city, with
red-brick buildings, tree-lined pathways, an iconic clock tower, and expansive
green quads.
Nearly
all undergraduates based in the main campus live in residence halls during their
first two years, where they make friends and take advantage of what has
officially been named one of the best campus dining programs in the US.
There’s
also easy access to top class arts and culture: the school’s conservatory, the
Peabody Institute, regularly hosts musical extravaganzas, concerts and
performances, while the Center for Visual Arts, located next to the Baltimore
Museum of Art, provides plenty of sources for artistic inspiration.
Off-campus,
students can venture into Baltimore itself, a city with a rich history as a
working-class port that has blossomed into a hub of social, cultural, and
economic activity – yet retains a small-town feel.
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