The
Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as
Johns Hopkins,
JHU, or simply
Hopkins, is a
privatePrivate universities are not operated by governments though they may or may not receive funding . Depending on the region, private universities may be subject to government regulation...
research university located in
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,
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, United States. Johns Hopkins also maintains full-time campuses elsewhere in Maryland, Washington, D.C., Italy, China, and Singapore. It is one of fourteen founding members of the
Association of American UniversitiesThe Association of American Universities is an organization of leading research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education...
.
The university is named after
Johns HopkinsJohns Hopkins was a wealthy entrepreneur, philanthropist, and abolitionist of 19th century Baltimore, now most noted for his philanthropic creation of the institutions that bear his name, namely the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Johns Hopkins University and its associated divisions, in particular...
, who left $7 million in his 1873 will for the foundation of the university and
Johns Hopkins HospitalThe Johns Hopkins Hospital is the teaching hospital and biomedical research facility of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, located in Baltimore, Maryland . It was founded using money from a bequest by philanthropist Johns Hopkins...
. At the time, this was the largest philanthropic bequest in
U.S. historyThe first known inhabitants of what is now the United States are believed to have arrived over a period of several thousand years beginning sometime prior to 15,000–50,000 years ago by crossing Beringia into Alaska...
, the equivalent of over $131 million in the year 2006. The university opened on February 22 1876, with the stated goal of "The encouragement of research…and the advancement of individual scholars, who by their excellence will advance the sciences they pursue, and the society where they dwell."
Johns Hopkins was the first U.S. university to apply the
German university modelEuropean research universities have a long history that arguably dates back to the founding of the University of Bologna in 1088, although the University of Paris and the University of Magnaura are other contenders for this position...
developed by
Wilhelm von HumboldtFriedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Humboldt , government functionary, diplomat, philosopher, founder of Humboldt Universität in Berlin, friend of Goethe and in particular of Schiller, is especially remembered as a linguist who made important contributions to the philosophy of...
and
Friedrich Daniel Ernst SchleiermacherFriedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher was a German theologian and philosopher known for his impressive attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional Protestant orthodoxy. He also became influential in the evolution of Higher Criticism...
. Johns Hopkins was also the first U.S. university to teach through seminars, instead of solely through lectures, as well as the first U.S. university to offer an undergraduate major (as opposed to a purely
liberal artsLiberal arts are the skills derived from the Classical education curriculum.-Definition:The term liberal arts denotes a curriculum that imparts general knowledge and develops the student’s rational thought and intellectual capabilities, unlike the professional, vocational, technical curricula...
curriculumIn formal education, a curriculum is the set of courses, and their content, offered at a school or university. As an idea, curriculum stems from the Latin word for race course, referring to the course of deeds and experiences through which children grow to become mature adults...
). As such, Johns Hopkins was a model for most large research universities in the United States, particularly the
University of ChicagoThe University of Chicago is a private, coeducational research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by oil magnate and benefactor John D...
. According to the
National Science FoundationThe National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...
(NSF), Johns Hopkins performed $1.68 billion in science, medical and engineering research in fiscal year 2008. NSF has ranked the university
#1 among U.S. academic institutions in total
Research and DevelopmentThe phrase research and development , according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, refers to "creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of...
spending for the 30th year in a row, and it is among the most cited institutions in the world.
Overview
The Johns Hopkins University was founded on January 22, 1876 by educational pioneers who abandoned the traditional roles of the American college and forged a new era of modern research universities by focusing on the expansion of knowledge, graduate education, and support of faculty research. The university's first president was
Daniel Coit GilmanDaniel Coit Gilman was an American educator and academician, who was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and who subsequently served as one of the earliest presidents of the University of California, the first president of Johns Hopkins University, and as...
. Its motto in Latin is
Veritas vos liberabit – "The truth will free you."
Origin of the name
The peculiar first name of philanthropist
Johns HopkinsJohns Hopkins was a wealthy entrepreneur, philanthropist, and abolitionist of 19th century Baltimore, now most noted for his philanthropic creation of the institutions that bear his name, namely the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Johns Hopkins University and its associated divisions, in particular...
is the surname of his great-grandmother, Margaret Johns, who married Gerard Hopkins. They named their son Johns Hopkins, and his name was passed on to his grandson, the university's founder.
In a commencement address to the undergraduate Class of 2001, university president
William R. BrodyWilliam R. Brody is the current President of the Salk Institute and former President of The Johns Hopkins University, a position which he had held since 1996. On March 10, 2008, he announced his intent to step down as president effective December 31, 2008...
had the following to say about the name: "In 1888, just 12 years after the university was founded,
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wrote about this university in a letter to a friend. He said: A few months ago I was told that the Johns Hopkins University had given me a degree. I naturally supposed this constituted me a Member of the Faculty, and so I started in to help as I could there. I told them I believed they were perfectly competent to run a college as far as the higher branches of education are concerned, but what they needed was a little help here and there from a practical commercial man. I said the public is sensitive to little things, and they wouldn't have full confidence in a college that didn't know how to spell the name John. More than a century later, we continue to bestow diplomas upon individuals of outstanding capabilities and great talent. And we continue to spell
Johns with an
's' ".
Milton Eisenhower, a president of the university, was once invited to speak to a convention in
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. Making a common mistake, the
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introduced him as "President of
John Hopkins." Eisenhower retorted that he was "glad to be here in
Pittburgh."
Early years
In 1873
Johns HopkinsJohns Hopkins was a wealthy entrepreneur, philanthropist, and abolitionist of 19th century Baltimore, now most noted for his philanthropic creation of the institutions that bear his name, namely the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Johns Hopkins University and its associated divisions, in particular...
, a childless bachelor, bequeathed $7 million to fund a hospital and university in Baltimore, Maryland. At that time this fortune, generated primarily from the
Baltimore and Ohio RailroadThe Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was one of the oldest railroads in the United States and the first common carrier railroad. It came into being mostly because the city of Baltimore wanted to compete with the newly constructed Erie Canal and another canal being proposed by Pennsylvania, which...
, was the largest philanthropic gift in the history of the United States. The new board searched the nation for appropriate models of higher education, however finding none to their liking, they opted for an entirely different model dedicated to the discovery of knowledge at an advanced level. It owed its inspiration not to America's higher educational system but to that of contemporary Germany. By following the Germanic university example, the board moved higher education in the United States away from a focus on teaching either revealed or applied knowledge to a concentration on research, the scientific discovery of new knowledge. This made Johns Hopkins the genesis of the modern research university in the United States. The university was intended to be national in scope for a country divided in the aftermath of the
Civil WarA civil war is a war between organized groups within a single nation state, or, less commonly, between two nations created from a formerly-united nation state. The aim of one side may be to take control of the nation or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies...
. Therefore, the university's official inauguration took on great significance: 1876 was the nation's centennial year and February 22 was
George WashingtonGeorge Washington was the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and served as the first President of the United States of America...
's birthday.
The Gilman period
Johns Hopkins viability depended on the board of trustees' choice for the first president,
Daniel Coit GilmanDaniel Coit Gilman was an American educator and academician, who was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and who subsequently served as one of the earliest presidents of the University of California, the first president of Johns Hopkins University, and as...
, who had been recruited away from the presidency of the
University of CaliforniaThe University of California is a public university system in the state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University system...
. Gilman launched what many at the time considered to be an audacious and unprecedented academic experiment to merge teaching and research. He dismissed the idea that the two were mutually exclusive: "The best teachers are usually those who are free, competent, and willing to make original researches in the library and the laboratory," he stated. To implement his educational plan, Gilman recruited internationally known luminaries such as the biologist
Henry Newell MartinHenry Newell Martin was a British physiologist. He was born in Newry, County Down and educated at the University of London and Cambridge University...
; the Greek scholar Basil Gildersleeve; the classicist Charles D. Morris; the economist
Richard T. ElyRichard Theodore Ely was an American economist, author, and leader of the progressive Movement who called for more government intervention in order to reform the injustices of capitalism, especially regarding factory conditions, compulsory education, child labor and labor unions...
; and the chemist
Ira RemsenIra Remsen was a chemist who, along with Constantin Fahlberg, discovered the artificial sweetener saccharin. He was the second president of Johns Hopkins University.-Biography:...
, who became the second president of the university in 1901. Gilman thus abandoned the traditional roles of the American college and forged a new era of modern research universities by focusing on the expansion of knowledge, graduate education, and support of faculty research. To Gilman, Johns Hopkins existed not for the sake of God, the state, the community, the board, the parents, or even the students, but for knowledge. Therefore, faculty who expanded knowledge were rewarded. Coupled with this focus was the concentration on graduate education and the fusion of advanced scholarship with such professional schools as medicine and engineering. Hopkins consequently became the national trendsetter in doctoral programs and the host for numerous scholarly journals and associations with the founding of the first university press in 1878. With the completion of the
Johns Hopkins HospitalThe Johns Hopkins Hospital is the teaching hospital and biomedical research facility of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, located in Baltimore, Maryland . It was founded using money from a bequest by philanthropist Johns Hopkins...
in 1889 followed by the opening of the medical school in 1893, the university's research focused mode of instruction soon began attracting world-renowned faculty members who would become major figures in the emerging field of academic medicine, including
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, William Halsted, Howard Kelly, and
William WelchWilliam Henry Welch, M.D. was an American physician, pathologist, and medical school administrator. He was first dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where the library is named for him...
. During this period Hopkins also made history by becoming the the first medical school to admit women on an equal basis as men and require a Bachelors degree to gain enterance, based on the efforts of
Mary E. GarrettMary Garrett was an American suffragist and philanthropist.- Biography :Mary Garrett was the daughter of John W. Garrett, a philanthropist and president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad . She became the wealthiest "spinster woman" in the country with demise of her father.Garrett helped found...
who had also endowed the school at Gilman's request.
In his will and in the instructions that he gave to the trustees of the university and the hospital,
Johns HopkinsJohns Hopkins was a wealthy entrepreneur, philanthropist, and abolitionist of 19th century Baltimore, now most noted for his philanthropic creation of the institutions that bear his name, namely the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Johns Hopkins University and its associated divisions, in particular...
requested that both institutions be built upon the vast grounds of his Baltimore estate, Clifton. When
Daniel Coit GilmanDaniel Coit Gilman was an American educator and academician, who was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and who subsequently served as one of the earliest presidents of the University of California, the first president of Johns Hopkins University, and as...
assumed the presidency of the university, he decided that it was more important to use the university's endowment for other purposes, such as recruiting faculty and students, than for the construction of buildings for the two institutions, and declared that it was more important to "build men, not buildings." Also, in his will
Johns HopkinsJohns Hopkins was a wealthy entrepreneur, philanthropist, and abolitionist of 19th century Baltimore, now most noted for his philanthropic creation of the institutions that bear his name, namely the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Johns Hopkins University and its associated divisions, in particular...
stipulated that none of the money he left behind should be used for the construction of buildings, only interest incurred from the principal could be used for this purpose. Unfortunately, stocks in The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from which most of the interest would have been generated became virtually worthless soon after Hopkins's death because of mismanagement in the company. Therefore the university's first home was in Downtown Baltimore and plans were made to move the university to Clifton in the future. GIlman's decision to not locate the university where Hopkins wanted became the only major criticism of his presidency. In the early 1900s the university outgrew the buildings available to it and the trustees began to search for a new home. Developing the entirety of Clifton for the university was out of the financial reach of the university at the time, and Johns Hopkins' beautiful estate was bought for one million dollars by the city and became a public park. In the end, the 140-acre estate in north Baltimore known as
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was purchased as the university's new campus with assistance from prominent Baltimore citizens.
Civil rights
During his lifetime Johns Hopkins was a prominent abolitionist who supported
Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery...
during the
American Civil WarThe American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several other names, was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America...
. After his death Johns Hopkins' memory was reported to be a decisive factor in opening the doors of Johns Hopkins University to both its first African American student, a graduate student in physics, astronomy and mathematics,
Kelly MillerKelly Miller was an African American mathematician, sociologist, essayist, newspaper columnist, author, and an important figure in the intellectual life of black America for close to half a century....
, and the first three African American physicians to Maryland's Medical and Chirurgical Society MedChi. Harvard trained physician Whitfield Winsey was the first African American member of this organization and of another local medical society that later merged with it. These physicians could attend meetings because meetings were held on Johns Hopkins' campus. As the memory of Johns Hopkins waned and trustees like King died, the institutions he endowed became more like so many other institutions in the city where Johns Hopkins had made his wealth, particularly in terms of race. On March 15, 1892, it is stated in the Johns Hopkins University chronology that an administrator hired by Gilman recommended that the hospital should have a "separate ward for colored patients". Johns Hopkins Hospital subsequently became a segregated facility. Yet, Johns Hopkins' separate but equal stance was still evident when it came to these segregated wards: "Special care will be taken to see that the heating and ventilation apparatus is as perfect as possible. A sun balcony will be erected on each floor on the east side, for convalescents, while a sun bay-window will be constructed at the south end of the south wing. On each floor there will be a dining room, kitchen, lavatory and bath-rooms...The building will be fireproof throughout."
As segregation began to be increasingly reflected within the Johns Hopkins institutions, it affected pay, hiring and promotions and until today patients in these segregated wards and those employed in the lower rungs of the service industries have the longest and most continuous history within the Johns Hopkins Institutions. Johns Hopkins' students, physicians, administrators and staff of African descent have a much shorter history within these institutions, and most are still living today, including the first African undergraduate,
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and one of the two first graduates of the medical school, "British-trained Nigerian", James Nabwangu. He and an African-American, Robert Gamble, graduated in 1967.
The first African American instructor, laboratory supervisor was
Vivien ThomasDr. Vivien Theodore Thomas was an African-American surgical technician and animal surgeon who developed in the canine model the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s...
who also invented and developed research instruments, served as an assistant in surgery to surgeon
Alfred BlalockAlfred Blalock was a 20th-century American surgeon in the field of medical science most noted for his research on the medical condition of shock and the development of the Blalock-Taussig Shunt, surgical relief of the cyanosis from Tetralogy of Fallot—known commonly as the blue baby syndrome—with...
, and worked closely with Blalock and Helen Taussig in developing and conducting the first successful blue baby operation. The doors of the Johns Hopkins Institutions, and of Maryland's state medical societies were largely closed to students and professionals of African descent until after the 1940s, and more so, the 1960s and 1970s. African Americans and women were labeled "The Uninvited" in the second major history of Johns Hopkins University.
Women's rights
The most well known struggle of women was that led by daughters of trustees of the university,
Mary E. GarrettMary Garrett was an American suffragist and philanthropist.- Biography :Mary Garrett was the daughter of John W. Garrett, a philanthropist and president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad . She became the wealthiest "spinster woman" in the country with demise of her father.Garrett helped found...
,
M. Carey ThomasMartha Carey Thomas was an American educator, suffragist, and second President of Bryn Mawr College.-Biography:...
, Mamie Gwinn, and Elizabeth King, and Julia Rogers. They donated funds, undertook the effort in raising the funds needed to open the medical school, and required Hopkins' officials to agree to their stipulation that women would be able to obtain a medical education at Hopkins. Still this stipulation did not apply to the rest of the schools at the university founded over a decade earlier. Other graduate schools were eventually opened to women by the university's second president
Ira RemsenIra Remsen was a chemist who, along with Constantin Fahlberg, discovered the artificial sweetener saccharin. He was the second president of Johns Hopkins University.-Biography:...
in 1907 despite the fact that in 1882
Christine Ladd-FranklinChristine Ladd-Franklin was an American psychologist and logician.Christine Ladd-Franklin was born in Windsor, Connecticut to Eliphalet Ladd and Augusta Niles. In 1869 she graduated from the newly opened Vassar College, where she studied linguistics and physics...
had already met the requirements for her PhD in mathematics (the first woman to do so in any subject at Hopkins), though the trustees had denied her the degree and had refused to change the policy about admitting women at the time; her degree was consequently awarded to her in 1926, 44 years later. In 1889, the nursing school "opened and accepted women and men as students and in 1893 Florence Bascomb became the university's first female Ph.D..
The decision to admit of women at undergraduate level however was not considered until the late 1960s. The policy change was eventually implemented in October 1969, and in the fall of 1970, 90 female students, five of them African Americans, become undergraduates at Johns Hopkins University. In the academic year 1970–1971, 4.7% of students in the Arts and Sciences programs were women. In the year 1985–1986 the proportion of female students in the Arts and Sciences programs had increased to around 38%. Currently, the undergraduate population is 47% female and 53% male.
Modern times
Hopkins is known for a range of ground breaking programs. The
Johns Hopkins University PressThe Johns Hopkins University Press is the publishing division of the Johns Hopkins University. It was founded in 1878 and holds the distinction of being the oldest continuously running university press in the United States. The Press publishes books, journals, and electronic databases...
, founded in 1878, is the oldest American
university pressA university press is an academic, nonprofit publishing house that is typically affiliated with a large research university, and publishes work that has been reviewed by scholars in the field. It produces mainly scholarly works...
in continuous operation. Along with the hospital, Hopkins established one of the nation's oldest
schools of nursingThe Johns Hopkins School of Nursing is part of the Johns Hopkins University located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Established in 1889, it is one of the nation’s oldest and pre-eminent schools for nursing education ranking among the top five in the nation; it is also among the top...
in 1889. The
school of medicineThe Johns Hopkins School of Medicine , located in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., is the academic medical teaching and research arm of Johns Hopkins University.-Overview:...
was the nation's first coeducational, graduate-level medical school and the prototype for academic medicine which emphasized bedside learning, research projects, and laboratory training. In 1909, the university was among the first to start adult continuing education programs and in 1916 it founded the first
school of public healthThe Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is part of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. As the oldest and largest public health training facility in the world, the Bloomberg School is a leading international authority on the improvement of health and...
in the country. Programs in international studies and the performing arts were established in 1950 and 1977 when the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington D.C and the
Peabody InstituteThe Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University is a conservatory and preparatory school located in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland at the corner of Charles and Monument Streets at Mount Vernon Place.-History:...
in Baltimore became divisions of the university.
In terms of leadership, the legacy begun by Gilman has continued among the university's presidents through the years. Among them,
Milton S. EisenhowerMilton Stover Eisenhower, D.H.L. served as president of three major American universities: Kansas State University, the Pennsylvania State University, and the Johns Hopkins University. He was the younger brother of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Edgar N. Eisenhower, and Earl D...
, brother of Dwight Eisenhower, led Johns Hopkins during the 1950s and 1960s when the university's income tripled,
endowmentA financial endowment is a transfer of money or property donated to an institution, usually with the stipulation that it be invested, and the principal remain intact in perpetuity or for a defined time period...
doubled, ambitious building projects were undertaken, and strong ties with Washington, D.C. were developed. Because of his contributions, Eisenhower was one of two men named President Emeritus.
Steven MullerSteven Muller was the president of the Johns Hopkins University, serving from 1972 to 1990.While serving as Vice President for Public Affairs of Cornell University, Muller played a leading role in negotiating the end to the occupation of Willard Straight Hall by African American students on April...
, who served as president from 1972 until 1990, is the only other one awarded this title - and along with Gilman is one of two to be named president of both the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the university.
Though privately endowed, Johns Hopkins University embodies what
Clark KerrClark Kerr was an American professor of economics and academic administrator. He was the first chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley and twelfth president of the University of California.- Early years :...
calls the "federal grant university", as it is often the most prolific in federal research and development expenditures. This also shows the priorities of federal grant authorities, as the school's humanities programs do not attract research funding commensurate with that attracted by
medicineMedicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
,
public healthPublic health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals." It is concerned with threats to the overall health of a community based...
,
engineeringEngineering is the discipline, art and profession of acquiring and applying technical, scientific and mathematical knowledge to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems, and processes that safely realize a desired objective or inventions.The American Engineers' Council...
, and
physicsPhysics is a natural science; it is the study of matter and its motion through spacetime and all that derives from these, such as energy and force...
; despite this, programs in the humanities are still highly ranked. The huge infusion of federal funding however aids the university in supplementing its educational presence in Baltimore with the economic role of being the city's single largest employer.
Campuses and divisions
| Main Campuses & Divisions |
| Homewood |
East Baltimore
(Medical Institutions Campus) |
Downtown Baltimore |
Washington D.C. |
Laurel, Maryland |
School of Arts and SciencesThe Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is one of nine academic divisions of the Johns Hopkins University, in the United States. Located at the university’s Homewood campus at the Charles Village neighborhood in northern Baltimore...
1876 |
School of Education The Johns Hopkins School of Education is one of the nine academic divisions of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. The largest provider of master’s degrees in education throughout the state of Maryland, it is known for its emphasis on flexible learning formats that encourage...
1909 |
School of EngineeringThe G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering, is a division of the Johns Hopkins University located in the university's Homewood campus in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
1913 |
School of NursingThe Johns Hopkins School of Nursing is part of the Johns Hopkins University located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Established in 1889, it is one of the nation’s oldest and pre-eminent schools for nursing education ranking among the top five in the nation; it is also among the top...
1889 |
School of Medicine The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine , located in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., is the academic medical teaching and research arm of Johns Hopkins University.-Overview:...
1893 |
School of Public Health
1916 |
Peabody Institute The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University is a conservatory and preparatory school located in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland at the corner of Charles and Monument Streets at Mount Vernon Place.-History:...
1857 |
School of Business The Carey Business School is one of the academic schools of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. It places a heavy emphasis on business education aimed at professionals in the Baltimore-Washington corridor, and offers several joint degrees with other Johns Hopkins schools,...
2007 |
School of Advanced International StudiesThe Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies , a division of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C., is one of the world's most prestigious and leading graduate schools devoted to the study of international affairs, economics, diplomacy, and policy research and...
1943 |
Applied Physics Laboratory The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory , located in Howard County, Maryland near Laurel and Columbia, is a not-for-profit, university-affiliated research center employing 4,150 people. APL is primarily a defense contractor. It serves as a technical resource for the Department of...
1942 |
Homewood
The original main university campus was in downtown Baltimore City. However, this location did not permit room for growth and the trustees began to look for a place to move. Eventually, they would relocate to the estate of
Charles Carroll of CarrolltonCharles Carroll of Carrollton was a delegate to the Continental Congress and later United States Senator for Maryland...
and Homewood House, a wedding gift from Charles to his son Charles Jr.
The park-like main campus of Johns Hopkins,
HomewoodThe Homewood campus is the main academic and administrative center of the Johns Hopkins University. It is located at 3400 North Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Although Hopkins has several campuses, the Homewood campus and medical campus are the most important...
, is set on 140 acres (0.57 km²) in the northern part of Baltimore. The architecture was modeled after the
GeorgianGeorgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840. It is eponymous for the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover—George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the...
-inspired
Federalist styleFederal-style architecture is the classicizing architecture built in the United States between c. 1780 and 1830, particularly from 1785 to 1815. In the early Republic the founding generation consciously chose to associate the nation with the ancient democracies of Greece and the republican values...
of Homewood House. Most newer buildings resemble this style, being built of red brick with white marble trim, but lack the details. Homewood House was later used for administrative offices but now is preserved as a museum.
As a part of the donation, Hopkins was required to donate part of the land for art. As a result, the
Baltimore Museum of ArtThe Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, was founded in 1914. It is located between the Charles Village and Remington neighborhoods, immediately adjacent to the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University, though the museum is an independent institution not affiliated with the...
, which is not part of the university, is situated next to the University's campus, just south-east of Shriver Hall.
The Decker Gardens, bordered by the Greenhouse,
Nichols HouseThe Nichols House is a house located on the Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. It is known as the President's House because, when designed, it was intended to become the residence of the university's president.-History:...
and the
Johns Hopkins ClubThe Johns Hopkins Club is a private club located on the grounds of The Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus at 3400 North Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland.-History:...
, were originally known as the Botanical Gardens and were used by members of the Department of Biology to grow plants for research. By the early 1950s, the gardens no longer served an educational purpose, and in 1958, when Nichols House was built as the president's residence, they were completely re-landscaped with aesthetic criteria in mind. In 1976, the gardens were done over again, and named for trustee Alonzo G. Decker, Jr. and members of his family in appreciation for their generosity to Hopkins.
The statue in the middle of the pool, the Sea Urchin, was sculpted by Edward Berge. It stood in Mount Vernon Place, near the
Washington MonumentThe Washington Monument is an obelisk near the west end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate the first U.S. president, General George Washington. The monument, made of marble, granite, and sandstone, is both the world's tallest stone structure and the world's tallest...
, for 34 years before being replaced by a 7'10" copy, which fit in better with its monumental surroundings. Frank R. Huber, the man who left the city the money to make the copy, asked that the original be given to Paul M. Higinbotham, who donated it to the university. North of the campus, also on Charles Street, we find the Evergreen House, one of Hopkins' museums.
In 1997, the university purchased the vacant 200,000 square foot former
Eastern High SchoolEastern High School is a historic female high school located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a three story, "H"-shaped structure, with a main lateral section and four projecting wings. It has a steel and concrete frame with red brick cladding in the Tudor Revival style...
, immediately across from
Memorial StadiumMemorial Stadium was a sports stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, that formerly stood on 33rd Street. It stood on an oversized block also bounded by Ellerslie Avenue , 36th Street , and Ednor Road...
on East 33rd Street, one mile east of Homewood. It reopened in 2001, largely occupied by administrative offices.
A second campus expansion called Charles Commons was completed in September 2006, is located across Charles St from Homewood, at 33rd Street between Charles and St. Paul Streets. The approximately development includes housing for approximately 618 students, with supporting amenity spaces; a central dining facility and specialty dining area with
seating capacitySeating capacity refers to the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, either in terms of the physical space available, or in terms of limitations set by law. Seating capacity can be used in the description of anything ranging from an automobile that seats two to a stadium that...
of approximately 330; an approximately . Book store run by Barnes and Noble College Division.
The Decker Quadrangle development constitutes the last large building site on the contiguous Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University, making it the most important project on campus since the development of the two original quadrangles. In this first phase, the project includes a visitors and admissions center, a computational sciences building , and an underground parking structure, creating a new quadrangle, south of Garland Hall, named in honor of Alonso G. and Virginia G. Decker. Importantly, the project establishes a new public entrance for the campus and recognizes the potential for future growth of campus activities sited across Wyman Park Drive.
Recently, the university announced a $73 million renovation of Gilman Hall, the academic centerpiece of the Homewood Campus. The renovation will include updating all classrooms in the building, as well as a full replacement of the infrastructure of the building. Gilman hall, superficially renovated in the 1980s will now include a movie theater and a large atrium, with a glass roof. The atrium will have a sky-walk from the entrance of the building to the Hutzler Undergraduate Reading Room and will contain the university's premier archaeological collection. The project is slated for completion for the 2010–2011 academic year.
In early December 2008, the Trustees proposed the construction of a new library costing $30 million. The new structure will augment the existing library, a 185,000-square-foot facility built in 1964 and partially renovated in 1998 that will for the most part not change. The design firm for the project has not been selected, but university officials hope to complete the project by 2012.
The
Space Telescope Science InstituteThe Space Telescope Science Institute is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope and for the James Webb Space Telescope...
is located on the Homewood campus and controls, analyzes, and collects data from the
Hubble Space TelescopeThe Hubble Space Telescope is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by the space shuttle in April 1990. It is named after the American astronomer Edwin Hubble. Although not the first space telescope, the Hubble is one of the largest and most versatile, and is well-known as both a vital...
.
The Johns Hopkins University, working with Collegetown Development Alliance, a joint venture team composed of Struever Brothers, Eccles & Rouse and Capstone Development recently teamed up to develop a mixed use project featuring student housing, a central dining facility and a major campus book store.
Divisions
- Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
The Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is one of nine academic divisions of the Johns Hopkins University, in the United States. Located at the university’s Homewood campus at the Charles Village neighborhood in northern Baltimore...
: Located at the university’s Homewood campus, the Krieger School is the core institution of the university and offers undergraduate and graduate programs, with more than 60 undergraduate majors and minors and more than 40 full-time and part-time graduate programs.
- G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering
The G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering, is a division of the Johns Hopkins University located in the university's Homewood campus in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
: The Whiting School is located on the main Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and offers undergraduate and graduate engineering programs.
- School of Education
The Johns Hopkins School of Education is one of the nine academic divisions of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. The largest provider of master’s degrees in education throughout the state of Maryland, it is known for its emphasis on flexible learning formats that encourage...
: Originally established in 1909 as The School of Professional Studies in Business and Education, the divisions of Education and Business became separate schools in 2007.
East Baltimore (medical institutions)
The campus in East Baltimore and is home to the
School of MedicineThe Johns Hopkins School of Medicine , located in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., is the academic medical teaching and research arm of Johns Hopkins University.-Overview:...
, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the
School of NursingThe Johns Hopkins School of Nursing is part of the Johns Hopkins University located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Established in 1889, it is one of the nation’s oldest and pre-eminent schools for nursing education ranking among the top five in the nation; it is also among the top...
. Collectively known as Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions (JHMI) campus, it comprises several city blocks spreading from the original
Johns Hopkins HospitalThe Johns Hopkins Hospital is the teaching hospital and biomedical research facility of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, located in Baltimore, Maryland . It was founded using money from a bequest by philanthropist Johns Hopkins...
building and its trademark dome. The School of Medicine is associated with clinical practice at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Divisions
- School of Medicine
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine , located in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., is the academic medical teaching and research arm of Johns Hopkins University.-Overview:...
: The School of Medicine is based at the university's Medical Institutions campus in East Baltimore with Johns Hopkins HospitalThe Johns Hopkins Hospital is the teaching hospital and biomedical research facility of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, located in Baltimore, Maryland . It was founded using money from a bequest by philanthropist Johns Hopkins...
. The School of Medicine is widely regarded as one of the best medical schools and biomedical research institutes in the world.
- School of Nursing
The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing is part of the Johns Hopkins University located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Established in 1889, it is one of the nation’s oldest and pre-eminent schools for nursing education ranking among the top five in the nation; it is also among the top...
: The School of Nursing, is located in East Baltimore and is affiliated with Johns Hopkins Hospital and the School of Medicine.
- Bloomberg School of Public Health: The Bloomberg School was founded in 1916, is the first and largest public health school in the world. It has consistently been ranked the number one school of public health by U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report is an American newsmagazine published in Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek, it was for many years a leading news weekly, although it focused more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories...
.
Downtown Baltimore
Downtown Baltimore is home to the Peabody Conservatory of Music located on
Mount VernonMount Vernon was the Virginia estate of George Washington, the first President of the United States. The name may also refer to several other places around the world:* In Australia:**Mount Vernon, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia...
and the main campus of the Carey Business School located on
Charles StreetMaryland Route 139, locally North Charles Street runs through Baltimore City and through the Towson area of Baltimore County. On the north end it terminates at a traffic circle with Bellona Avenue near Interstate 695 and at the south end it terminates in Federal Hill in Baltimore...
.
Divisions
- Carey Business School
The Carey Business School is one of the academic schools of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. It places a heavy emphasis on business education aimed at professionals in the Baltimore-Washington corridor, and offers several joint degrees with other Johns Hopkins schools,...
: The Carey Business School was established in 2007, incorporating divisions of the former School of Professional Studies in Business and Education.
- Peabody Institute
The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University is a conservatory and preparatory school located in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland at the corner of Charles and Monument Streets at Mount Vernon Place.-History:...
: founded in 1857, is the oldest continuously active music conservatory in the United States; it became a division of Johns Hopkins in 1977. The Conservatory retains its own student body and grants its own degrees in musicology, though both Hopkins and Peabody students may take courses at both institutions.
Washington, D.C.
The Washington, D.C. campus on
Massachusetts AvenueMassachusetts Avenue, abbreviated Mass Ave, is a major diagonal transverse road in Washington, D.C. Appearing in Pierre L'Enfant's original plan, it is the longest thoroughfare in the capital, crossing three of its four quadrants. It intersects every major north-south street and passes numerous...
includes one of the main divisions of the university, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and branches of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences (Advanced Academic Programs) and the Carey Business School.
Division
- Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies , a division of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C., is one of the world's most prestigious and leading graduate schools devoted to the study of international affairs, economics, diplomacy, and policy research and...
is located in the Washington D.C. campus near Dupont Circle. SAIS is devoted to international studies, particularly international relationsInternational relations or International studies represents the study of foreign affairs and global issues among states within the international system, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , non-governmental organizations , and multinational corporations...
, diplomacyDiplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states. It usually refers to international diplomacy, the conduct of international relations through the intercession of professional diplomats with regard to issues of peace-making, trade, war,...
, and economicsEconomics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
. SAIS has full-time international campuses in Bologna, Italy and Nanjing, ChinaThe Hopkins-Nanjing Center , an international campus of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, is a joint educational venture between Johns Hopkins University and Nanjing University that opened in Nanjing, China in 1986...
. Founded in 1943, SAIS became a part of the university in 1950. In a 2005 survey 65% of respondents ranked SAIS as the nation's top Master's DegreeA master's degree is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
program in International RelationsInternational relations or International studies represents the study of foreign affairs and global issues among states within the international system, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , non-governmental organizations , and multinational corporations...
.
Laurel, Maryland
The Applied Physics Laboratory, a division of the university co-equal to the nine schools but with a non-academic mission lies between Baltimore and Washington in
LaurelLaurel is a city in northern Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, located midway between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. Incorporated in 1870, the city maintains a historic district including its Main Street...
,
MarylandMaryland is a state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia to the south and west, Pennsylvania to the north, and Delaware to the east. It is comparable in size to the European country of Belgium. According to the U.S...
.
Division
- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory , located in Howard County, Maryland near Laurel and Columbia, is a not-for-profit, university-affiliated research center employing 4,150 people. APL is primarily a defense contractor. It serves as a technical resource for the Department of...
: The APL specializes in research for the U.S. Department of DefenseThe United States Department of Defense is the federal department charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the military...
, NASAThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program. NASA was established by the National Aeronautics and Space Act on July 29, 1958, replacing its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for...
and other government and civilian research agencies. It has developed more than 100 biomedical devices, many in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. It is also linked to the Space Telescope Science InstituteThe Space Telescope Science Institute is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope and for the James Webb Space Telescope...
located on the Homewood campus which controls, analyzes, and collects data from the Hubble Space TelescopeThe Hubble Space Telescope is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by the space shuttle in April 1990. It is named after the American astronomer Edwin Hubble. Although not the first space telescope, the Hubble is one of the largest and most versatile, and is well-known as both a vital...
.
Other campuses
- see also List of Johns Hopkins University Research Centers and Institutes
Domestic
- Columbia, Maryland Center
Columbia is a planned community that consists of ten self-contained villages, located in Howard County, Maryland, United States. Columbia is a suburb of Baltimore and, to a lesser degree, Washington, D.C. It began with the idea that a city could enhance its residents' quality of life. Creator and...
(Branches of The Carey Business SchoolThe Carey Business School is one of the academic schools of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. It places a heavy emphasis on business education aimed at professionals in the Baltimore-Washington corridor, and offers several joint degrees with other Johns Hopkins schools,...
and The School of EducationThe Johns Hopkins School of Education is one of the nine academic divisions of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. The largest provider of master’s degrees in education throughout the state of Maryland, it is known for its emphasis on flexible learning formats that encourage...
)
- Montgomery County
Montgomery County of the U.S. state of Maryland is situated just north of Washington, D.C. and southwest of Baltimore. It is one of the most affluent counties in the nation, and has the highest percentage of residents over 25 years old who hold a post-graduate degree. The county seat and largest...
, MarylandMaryland is a state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia to the south and west, Pennsylvania to the north, and Delaware to the east. It is comparable in size to the European country of Belgium. According to the U.S...
Campus (Offers part-time Programs in Biosciences, Engineering, Business & Education)
- Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790...
(Branches of The Carey Business SchoolThe Carey Business School is one of the academic schools of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. It places a heavy emphasis on business education aimed at professionals in the Baltimore-Washington corridor, and offers several joint degrees with other Johns Hopkins schools,...
and The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences' Advanced Academic Programs (AAP))
International
- The SAIS Bologna Center, Italy
- The SAIS Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies, China
The Hopkins-Nanjing Center , an international campus of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, is a joint educational venture between Johns Hopkins University and Nanjing University that opened in Nanjing, China in 1986...
- Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (Collaboration between the Peabody Institute
The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University is a conservatory and preparatory school located in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland at the corner of Charles and Monument Streets at Mount Vernon Place.-History:...
and the National University of SingaporeThe National University of Singapore is Singapore's oldest university. It is the largest university in the country in terms of student enrollment and curriculum offered....
)
Campus sustainability
Johns Hopkins University has implemented a significant number of
sustainabilitySustainability, in a broad sense, is the capacity to endure. In ecology, the word describes how biological systems remain diverse and productive over time...
initiatives. Energy retrofits in certain buildings have resulted in energy conservation of over 50 percent. Carbon emissions are currently being inventoried and electric vehicles are used for some campus transportation needs. Dining services managers prioritize the purchasing of locally sourced produce and seafood, and organic food is being integrated into the menu. In addition, the smaller cafés around campus sell exclusively organic, shade-grown coffees. There is currently a small pilot composting program on the undergraduate campus. The University is currently pursuing
LEEDThe Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council , provides a suite of standards for environmentally sustainable construction...
certification for several new and existing buildings. Retrofits include a green roof deck, experimentation with waterless urinals and low-flow shower heads, and upgraded fluorescent lighting that has reduced lighting load on one campus by over 40 percent. Similar lighting retrofits are underway at all other campuses. In 2004, one campus completed a water conservation retrofit that annually saves over eight million gallons of water. The university's students have also contributed significantly to several environmental initiatives including, setting up the JHU recycling program, hosting a national "Greening" conference, launching a transportation shuttle service between campuses, and making the campus more bike-friendly. In 2009, the
Sustainable Endowments Institute named Johns Hopkins a Campus Sustainability Leader on its College Sustainability Report Card with a grade of "A-", the highest grade awarded.
Academics
Johns Hopkins is a large, highly-residential, majority post-graduate research university. The full-time, four year undergraduate program is "most selective" with low transfer-in and a high graduate co-existence. The university is one of fourteen founding members of the
Association of American UniversitiesThe Association of American Universities is an organization of leading research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education...
(AAU); it is also a member of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE) and the
Universities Research AssociationThe Universities Research Association, Inc. is a consortium of leading research oriented universities primarily in the United States, with members also in Canada, Japan, and Italy.- History and purpose :...
(URA).
Student body
Johns Hopkins received 16,006 applications for the 2008–2009 academic year. The undergraduate programs enrolled 4,591 students and granted 1,464 degrees in 2007. 14,848 students applied for admissions to the undergraduate program for the 2007–2008 academic year, 3,603 were admitted (24%), and 1,206 enrolled (33%). 82% of admitted students graduate in the top tenth of their high school class and the inter-quartile range on the
SATThe SAT Reasoning Test is a standardized test for college admissions in the United States. The SAT is owned, published, and developed by the College Board, a non-profit organization in the United States, and was once developed, published, and scored by the Educational Testing Service...
reading was 660-760, math was 690-780, and writing was 670-760. 97% of freshmen rematriculated after the first year, 84% of students graduated in 4 years and 91% graduated in 6 years.
Rankings
Comprehensively,
The Times Higher Education SupplementTimes Higher Education , formerly The Times Higher Education Supplement , is a magazine based in London reporting specifically on news and other issues related to higher education.-Publication history:...
(THES) ranked Johns Hopkins University
#9 nationally and
#13 worldwide in 2008. The 2008
Academic Ranking of World UniversitiesThe Academic Ranking of World Universities is compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The ranking compared 1200 higher education institutions worldwide according to a formula that took into account alumni winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals , staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals ,...
(ARWU) ranked Hopkins
#20 internationally (
#17 nationally). Johns Hopkins University ranked
#7 among Top Performing Schools according to the
Faculty Scholarly Productivity IndexThe Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index , a product of Academic Analytics, is a metric designed to create benchmark standards for the measurement of academic and scholarly quality within and among United States research universities....
(FSPI) in 2008. and was listed
#9 among research universities by the
Center for Measuring University PerformanceThe Center for Measuring University Performance is a research center at Arizona State University. The center is best known for an annual report it produces, The Top American Research Universities, that ranks American universities on nine different measures: Total Research, Federal Research,...
in 2007.. At the undergraduate level, Hopkins was ranked
#14 among National Universities by
U.S. News and World Report (USNWR).
For medical and
public healthPublic health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals." It is concerned with threats to the overall health of a community based...
research
U.S. News and World Report ranked the
School of MedicineThe Johns Hopkins School of Medicine , located in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., is the academic medical teaching and research arm of Johns Hopkins University.-Overview:...
#2 and has consistently ranked the
Bloomberg School of Public HealthThe Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is part of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. As the oldest and largest public health training facility in the world, the Bloomberg School is a leading international authority on the improvement of health and...
#1 in the nation. The
School of NursingThe Johns Hopkins School of Nursing is part of the Johns Hopkins University located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Established in 1889, it is one of the nation’s oldest and pre-eminent schools for nursing education ranking among the top five in the nation; it is also among the top...
was ranked
#4 nationally among peer institutions. The
Times Higher Education Supplement ranked Johns Hopkins University
#3 in the world for
biomedicineBiomedicine, also known as theoretical medicine, is a term that comprises the knowledge and research which is more or less in common to the fields of human medicine, veterinary medicine, odontology and fundamental biosciences such as biochemistry, chemistry, biology, histology, genetics,...
and
life sciencesWe define Life Sciences to encompass companies in the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, biomedical technologies, life systems technologies, nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals, food processing, environmental, biomedical devices, and organizations and institutions that devote the majority of...
. Hopkins ranks
#1 nationally in receipt of federal research funds and the School of Medicine is
#1 among medical schools in receipt of extramural awards from the
National Institutes of Health (NIH)The National Institutes of Health is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. It consists of 27 separate institutes and centers which includes the Office...
. Newsweek named Johns Hopkins as the "Hottest School for Pre-meds" in 2008. The
Johns Hopkins HospitalThe Johns Hopkins Hospital is the teaching hospital and biomedical research facility of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, located in Baltimore, Maryland . It was founded using money from a bequest by philanthropist Johns Hopkins...
was ranked as the top hospital in the United States for the eighteenth year in a row by the
U.S. News and World Report annual ranking of American hospitals.
The university's graduate programs in the areas of Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Engineering (
BiomedicalBiomedical engineering is the application of engineering principles and techniques to the medical field. It combines the design and problem solving skills of engineering with medical and biological sciences to improve healthcare diagnosis and treatment.Biomedical engineering has only recently...
,
ElectricalElectrical engineering, sometimes referred to as electrical and electronic engineering, is a field of engineering that deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after...
&
EnvironmentalEnvironmental engineeringis the application of science and engineering principles to improve the environment , to provide healthy water, air, and land for human habitation and for other organisms, and to remediate polluted sites.Environmental engineering involves water and air pollution control,...
),
Human DevelopmentDevelopmental psychology, also known as human development, is the scientific study of systematic psychological changes that occur in human beings over the course of the life span. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence and adult development,...
&
Family StudiesThe Sociology of the family examines the family unit through various sociological perspectives, particularly with regard to the relationship between the nuclear family and industrial capitalism, and the distinct gender roles and concepts of childhood which arose with it...
, Health Sciences,
HumanitiesThe humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural and social sciences....
, Physical & Mathematical Sciences and
International AffairsFor more information on international affairs, see one of the following links:* Diplomacy* International relations* The Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs* International Affairs, a peer-reviewed academic journal...
&
DevelopmentInternational development or global development is a concept that lacks a universally accepted definition, but it is most used in a holistic and multi-disciplinary context of human development – the development of greater quality of life for humans,...
all rank among the top-10 of their respective disciplines.
The
School of EducationThe Johns Hopkins School of Education is one of the nine academic divisions of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. The largest provider of master’s degrees in education throughout the state of Maryland, it is known for its emphasis on flexible learning formats that encourage...
is ranked
#7 nationally by
U.S. News and World Report. Although no formal rankings exist for music conservatories, the
Peabody InstituteThe Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University is a conservatory and preparatory school located in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland at the corner of Charles and Monument Streets at Mount Vernon Place.-History:...
is generally considered one of the most prestigious conservatories in the country, along with Juilliard and the Curtis Institute.
Science Watch ranks Johns Hopkins
#3 globally for the total number of citations to their papers published between 1999 and 2009 period in America.
Libraries
The Johns Hopkins University Library system houses more than 3.6 million volumes. It includes ten main divisions: the Sheridan Libraries at Homewood, the Medical Institutions Libraries, the School of Nursing Library, Abraham M. Lilienfeld Library at the Bloomberg School, the Peabody Institute Library, the Carey Business School and School of Education libraries, the School of Advanced International Studies Libraries (Sydney R. and Elsa W. Mason Library and Bologna Center Library), the R.E. Gibson Library at the Applied Physics Laboratory Library and other minor satellite locations, as well as the archives.
The
Milton S. Eisenhower LibraryThe Milton S. Eisenhower Library , is the Johns Hopkins University principal research library and the largest in a network of libraries at Johns Hopkins. This network, known as The Sheridan Libraries, encompasses the Milton S. Eisenhower Library and its collections at the Albert D...
(called "MSE" by students), located on the
Homewood campusThe Homewood campus is the main academic and administrative center of the Johns Hopkins University. It is located at 3400 North Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Although Hopkins has several campuses, the Homewood campus and medical campus are the most important...
, is the main library. It houses over 2.6 million volumes and over 20,000 journal subscriptions. The Eisenhower Library is a member of the university's Sheridan Libraries encompassing collections at the Albert D. Hutzler Reading Room (called "The Hut" by students) in Gilman Hall, the John Work Garrett Library at Evergreen House, and the George Peabody Library at Mount Vernon Place. Together these collections provide the major research library resources for the university, serving Johns Hopkins academic programs worldwide. The library was named for
Milton S. EisenhowerMilton Stover Eisenhower, D.H.L. served as president of three major American universities: Kansas State University, the Pennsylvania State University, and the Johns Hopkins University. He was the younger brother of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Edgar N. Eisenhower, and Earl D...
, former president of the university and brother of former U.S. president
Dwight D. EisenhowerDwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was a five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. During the Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the...
.
Only two of the MSE library's six stories are above ground; the rest are beneath, though architects designed the building so that every level has windows and natural light. The design accords with a bit of traditional campus lore which says no structure on campus can be taller than Gilman Hall, the oldest academic building. There is no written rule regarding building height, however, and the library's design was chosen for architectural and aesthetic reasons when it was finally built in the 1960s. In December 2008, it was announced that a new addition would be constructed directly to the south of the MSE library. The six-and-a-half-story expansion will be named the Brody Learning Commons in honor of University President
William R. BrodyWilliam R. Brody is the current President of the Salk Institute and former President of The Johns Hopkins University, a position which he had held since 1996. On March 10, 2008, he announced his intent to step down as president effective December 31, 2008...
and will function as a "collaborative learning space". It is scheduled to be completed by 2012.
Faculty and research
Johns Hopkins has a very high level of research activity. The opportunity to be involved in important research is one of the distinguishing characteristics of an undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins. About 80 percent of the university's undergraduates engage in some form of independent research during their four years, most often alongside top researchers in their fields. Johns Hopkins receives more dollars in federal research grants than any other university in the United States. Thirty-three (33)
Nobel PrizeThe Nobel Prize is a Sweden-based international monetary prize. The award was established by the 1895 will and estate of Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel. It was first awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace in 1901...
winners have been affiliated with the university as alumni or present or former faculty members. It boasts a wide spectrum in terms of its academic strengths, particularly in art history, biological and natural sciences, biomedical engineering, creative writing, English, history, economics, international studies, medicine, music, neuroscience, nursing, political theory, public health, public policy, and the
Romance languagesThe Romance languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family comprising all the languages that descend from Latin, the language of ancient Rome...
.
Between 1999 and 2009, Johns Hopkins was among the most cited institutions in the world. Having attracted nearly 1,222,166 citations and producing 54,022 papers under its name, it ranks
#3 globally behind
Harvard UniversityHarvard University is a private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and currently comprises ten separate academic units...
and
Max Planck SocietyThe Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften Eingetragener Verein is an independent non-profit association of German research institutes funded by the federal and state governments.The nearly 80 research institutes of the Max Planck Society conduct basic research in the interest...
with the highest total citations to their papers published in Thomson Reuters-indexed journals over all 22 fields in the database in America.
In FY2000, Johns Hopkins received $95.4 million dollars in research grants from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), making it the leading recipient of NASA funding for research and development. In FY2002, Hopkins became the first university to cross the $1 billion threshold on either list, recording $1.14 billion in total research and $1.023 billion in federally sponsored research that year. To date, no other institution has reached that mark. In FY2008 Johns Hopkins University performed $1.68 billion in science, medical and engineering research, making it the leading U.S. academic institution in total R&D spending for the 30th year in a row, according to a the
National Science FoundationThe National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...
(NSF) ranking. The university also ranked
#1 on the NSF's separate list of federally funded research and development, spending $1.42 billion in FY2008 on research supported by such agencies as the
National Institutes of HealthThe National Institutes of Health is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. It consists of 27 separate institutes and centers which includes the Office...
(NIH), NASA, the NSF and the
Department of DefenseThe United States Department of Defense is the federal department charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the military...
.
Divisional
- School of Medicine (28)
- School of Public Health (70)
- School of Nursing (2)
- School of Arts and Sciences (27)
- School of Advanced International Studies (17)
- School of Engineering (16)
- School of Education (3)
- Applied Physics Laboratory
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory , located in Howard County, Maryland near Laurel and Columbia, is a not-for-profit, university-affiliated research center employing 4,150 people. APL is primarily a defense contractor. It serves as a technical resource for the Department of...
Medical
- Johns Hopkins Hospital
The Johns Hopkins Hospital is the teaching hospital and biomedical research facility of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, located in Baltimore, Maryland . It was founded using money from a bequest by philanthropist Johns Hopkins...
- Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, formerly known as Francis Scott Key Medical Center and Baltimore City Hospital, is a hospital and medical office center in East Baltimore.It is located along Eastern Avenue near Bayview Boulevard...
- Johns Hopkins Singapore International Medical Centre
Johns Hopkins Singapore International Medical Centre is a hospital and a member of the National Healthcare Group in Singapore.Located in Tan Tock Seng Hospital, is the only Hopkins-owned and managed facility outside the United States...
- Howard County General Hospital
Howard County General Hospital is a 209-bed, not-for-profit, health care provider located in Columbia, Maryland. Serving the community since 1973, the hospital, with a professional staff of over 800 physicians and allied health professionals, representing more than 70 specialties and...
Others
- The Center for Language and Speech Processing
The Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing was established at Johns Hopkins University in 1992 with support from the U.S. government...
- Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies
The is a leading public policy school affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. It seeks to improve the response of government, businesses, and nonprofit institutions locally, nationally, and internationally to such challenges as poverty, urban decline, and regional changes...
- The Berman Institute of Bioethics
- Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute
- Space Telescope Science Institute
The Space Telescope Science Institute is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope and for the James Webb Space Telescope...
Johns Hopkins University Press
The Johns Hopkins University Press is the publishing division of the Johns Hopkins University. It was founded in 1878 and holds the distinction of being the oldest continuously running
university pressA university press is an academic, nonprofit publishing house that is typically affiliated with a large research university, and publishes work that has been reviewed by scholars in the field. It produces mainly scholarly works...
in the
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. To date the Press has published more than 6,000 titles and currently publishes 65 scholarly periodicals and over 200 new books each year. Since 1993, the Johns Hopkins University Press has run
Project MUSEProject MUSE is an online database of current and back issues of peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals. It was founded in 1993 by Todd Kelley and Susan Lewis and is a project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. It had support from the Mellon...
, a large online collection of over 250 full-text, peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences. The Press also houses the Hopkins Fulfilment Services (HFS), which handles distribution for a number of university presses and publishers. Taken together, the three divisions of the Press - Books, Journals (including MUSE) and HFS - make it one of the largest of America's university presses.
Student life
The blueprints for a new programming board called The Hopkins Organization for Programming ("The HOP") were drawn up during the summer and fall of 2006.
In addition
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, the region of North Baltimore surrounding the university, has undergone several restoration projects, and the university has gradually bought the property around the school for additional student housing and dormitories.
The Charles Village Project, scheduled for completion in 2008, brought new commercial spaces to the neighborhood. The project included Charles Commons, a new, modern residence hall that includes a
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and a
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. A
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and Starbucks have moved in, and the university itself has installed a new
Einstein Bros. BagelsEinstein Bros. Bagels is a bagel and coffee chain in the United States. As of 2006, there are 424 restaurants with the Einstein Bros. name....
franchise in Wolman Hall.
Hopkins has also invested heavily in improving campus life for its students with creation in 2001 of an arts complex, the Mattin Center; and a three-story sports facility, the O'Connor Recreation Center. The large on-campus dining facilities at Homewood were renovated in the summer of 2006, and the caterer was switched from
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to
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.
Hopkins has also advertised the "Collegetown" atmosphere it shares with neighboring institutions, including
Loyola CollegeLoyola University Maryland is a Roman Catholic, Jesuit private university located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Established as Loyola College in Maryland by John Early and eight other members of the Society of Jesus in 1852, it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit...
, UMBC,
Goucher CollegeGoucher College is a private, co-educational, liberal arts college located in the northern Baltimore suburb of Towson in unincorporated Baltimore County, Maryland, on a 287 acre campus. The school has approximately 1,475 undergraduate students studying in 31 majors and six interdisciplinary...
, and
Towson UniversityTowson University, often referred to as TU or simply Towson for short, is an American public university located in Towson in Baltimore County, Maryland, USA...
, as well as the proximity of downtown Baltimore's
Inner HarborThe Inner Harbor is a historic seaport, tourist attraction, and iconic landmark of the City of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The harbor itself is actually the end of the Northwest Branch of the Patapsco River and includes any water west of a line drawn between the National Aquarium in...
.
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender student organization, The Diverse Sexuality and Gender Alliance, affectionately called DSAGA, at Hopkins is well known. Annually DSAGA organizes and oversees the Awareness Days Program. This program is a series of events and speakers with the focus on LGBTA inclusivity and awareness.
Annually, the
Johns Hopkins Spring FairThe Johns Hopkins Spring Fair is a three-day festival celebrated during the month of April at the Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University. The 2009 dates are April 24 through April 26.-Organization:...
is held on the
homewood campusThe Homewood campus is the main academic and administrative center of the Johns Hopkins University. It is located at 3400 North Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Although Hopkins has several campuses, the Homewood campus and medical campus are the most important...
over a three day weekend in mid to late April. Food, arts and crafts, and non-profit vendors, along with a popular musical act and various other activities attract nearly 25,000 people from the greater Baltimore-Washington area. The
Spring FairThe Johns Hopkins Spring Fair is a three-day festival celebrated during the month of April at the Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University. The 2009 dates are April 24 through April 26.-Organization:...
is planned and run entirely by Johns Hopkins students, making it the largest entirely student-run fair in the country.
Housing
On-campus housing is required for all freshmen and sophomores at Johns Hopkins, with exceptions for commuter students who live close to campus. Juniors and seniors choose between entering the on-campus housing lottery or moving into nearby apartments or row houses. Housing is not guaranteed for all four years at Johns Hopkins.
Freshmen housing is centered around Freshman Quad which consists of three major residence hall complexes: The Alumni Memorial Residences (AMR I and AMR II), Building A and Building B. AMR I was built in 1923 and AMR II in 1954 and divided into fourteen houses each dedicated to Hopkins Alumni who died in World Wars I and II: Adams, Baker, Clark, Gildersleeve, Griffin, Hollander, Jennings, Lazear, Royce, Sylvester, Vincent, Willard, Wilson and Wood. The first eight houses can be found in AMR II and the last six in AMR I. While each house has its own entrance from outside, there are no dividers indoors that distinguish the houses from one another. In 1983, Buildings A and B were added to Freshmen Quad. Currently they have not yet been dedicated and are sometimes informally referred to as AMR III.
Freshmen are also housed in Wolman Hall on the other side of North Charles Street from Homewood. Sophomores are housed in McCoy Hall, across the street from Wolman Hall. Both buildings were previously apartment buildings that were bought by the university during the 1960s when enrollment at Johns Hopkins drastically increased. Both were refurbished in 1991 so that their initial capacity was more than doubled.
Sophomores may also live in the University owned Bradford Apartments, Homewood Apartments, or the Charles Commons Building, the university housing building which was officially opened in 2006. Charles Commons is a building complex reserved entirely for upperclassmen on 33rd Street, between North Charles and St. Paul Street. It is comprised of two towers connected by a bridge and houses 618 students and it includes a ballroom, laundry room, exercise facility, game room and lounges. On the ground floor of Charles Commons is the Johns Hopkins University Bookstore and the Homewood Branch of the Federal Credit Union. The opening of Charles Commons was seen as an important step toward insuring housing for juniors and seniors who want it.
Whenever there is an overflow of students who are required to live in on-campus housing, several buildings on North Charles Street are leased out by the university. At full capacity, all of Johns Hopkins dormitory buildings can house approximately 60% of undergraduates. Fortunately, there are many privately-owned apartment buildings around Homewood that are usually filled with Hopkins upperclassmen, so despite the lack of university-owned dormitories, housing is not particularly difficult to attain.
Fraternities and Sororities
The Johns Hopkins University Office of Greek Life recognizes thirteen fraternities and eight sororities, which include as members approximately 20% of the student body. Greek life has been a part of the University culture since 1877, when
Beta Theta PiBeta Theta Pi is a social collegiate fraternity that was founded in 1839 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA, where it is part of the Miami Triad which includes Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Chi...
fraternity became the first Greek letter organization to form a chapter on campus. Sororities did not begin colonizing at Hopkins until 1982.
As of Spring 2009, 990 students were members of one of the Johns Hopkins University fraternities or sororities and the All-Greek Average GPA was 3.28, above the average GPA for all Johns Hopkins University Undergraduates.
All Johns Hopkins fraternities and sororities belong to one of four Councils: the
Inter-Fraternity Council, the
National Panhellenic ConferenceThe National Panhellenic Conference , founded in 1902, is an umbrella organization for 26 national women's sororities.Each member group is autonomous as a social, Greek-letter society of college women and alumnae...
, the
National Pan-Hellenic CouncilThe National Pan-Hellenic Council is a collaborative organization of nine historically African American, international Greek lettered fraternities and sororities...
and the
Multicultural Council.
The
Inter-Fraternity Council includes eleven fraternities:
- ΑΔΦ - Alpha Delta Phi
Alpha Delta Phi is the fourth oldest continuous Greek-letter fraternity in the United States and Canada and was founded in 1832 by Samuel Eells at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. Today the name refers to both the all-male fraternity and the Alpha Delta Phi Society, which separated from the...
fraternity, chapter founded 1889.
- ΑΕΠ - Alpha Epsilon Pi
Alpha Epsilon Pi , the Jewish college fraternity, has 140 active chapters in the United States and Canada, and a membership of over 8,000 undergraduates. Alpha Epsilon Pi is a Jewish fraternity, though non-discriminatory and open to all who are willing to espouse its purpose and values...
fraternity, Psi chapter founded 1996. Jewish interest.
- ΒΘΠ - Beta Theta Pi
Beta Theta Pi is a social collegiate fraternity that was founded in 1839 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA, where it is part of the Miami Triad which includes Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Chi...
fraternity, Alpha Chi chapter founded 1877.
- ΛΦΕ - Lambda Phi Epsilon
ΛΦΕ is a nationally-recognized Asian-interest fraternity based in the United States. Lambda Phi Epsilon's goals include servicing the community through various philanthropies, increasing Asian awareness, promoting academic scholarship, and strengthening the Asian American voice on campus...
fraternity, chapter founded 1994. Asian-American interest.
- ΦΔΘ - Phi Delta Theta
Phi Delta Theta is an international fraternity founded at Miami University in 1848 and headquartered in Oxford, Ohio. Phi Delta Theta, Beta Theta Pi, and Sigma Chi form the Miami Triad. The fraternity has about 160 active chapters and colonies in over 43 U.S. states and five Canadian provinces and...
fraternity, Maryland Delta colony founded 2008.
- FIJI - Phi Gamma Delta
Phi Gamma Delta is a collegiate social and secret fraternity with 108 chapters and 12 colonies across the United States and Canada. It was founded at Jefferson College, Pennsylvania in 1848 and its headquarters are located in Lexington, Kentucky, USA...
fraternity, Beta Mu chapter founded 1891.
- ΦΚΨ - Phi Kappa Psi
Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity is an American collegiate fraternity.-History:Phi Kappa Psi was founded in 1852 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, on the campus of Jefferson College by William Henry Letterman and Charles Page Thomas Moore...
fraternity, Maryland Alpha chapter founded 1879.
- ΠΚΑ - Pi Kappa Alpha
Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity is an international secret social Greek-letter college fraternity. It was founded at 47 West Range at the University of Virginia in the United States on Sunday evening, March 1 1868.-History:...
fraternity, Iota Tau chapter founded 1994.
- ΣΑΕ - Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Sigma Alpha Epsilon is a North American Greek-letter social college fraternity. Founded at the University of Alabama in 1856, it is the only fraternity founded in the Antebellum South still in operation...
fraternity, chapter founded 1994.
- ΣΧ - Sigma Chi
Sigma Chi is one of the largest and oldest college Greek-letter social fraternities. Sigma Chi was founded on June 28, 1855 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio when members split from Delta Kappa Epsilon. Sigma Chi has seven founding members: Benjamin Piatt Runkle, Thomas Cowan Bell, William Lewis...
fraternity, Kappa Upsilon chapter founded 2002.
- ΣΦΕ - Sigma Phi Epsilon
ΣΦΕ , commonly nicknamed SigEp or SPE, is a secret letter, social college fraternity for male college students in the United States. It was founded on November 1, 1901, at Richmond College and its national headquarters remains in Richmond, Virginia. It was founded on three principles: Virtue,...
fraternity, Maryland Alpha chapter founded 1929.
The
National Panhellenic Conference includes three sororities:
- ΑΦ - Alpha Phi
Alpha Phi fraternity for women founded at Syracuse University on September 18, 1872. Its celebrated Founders Day is October 10. It was the third Greek-letter organization founded for women. In Alpha Phi the Greek letter Phi is pronounced "Fee". It is a common misconception that this...
sorority, Zeta Omicron chapter founded 1982.
- ΚΚΓ - Kappa Kappa Gamma
Kappa Kappa Gamma is a college women's fraternity, founded at Monmouth College, in Monmouth, Illinois. Although the groundwork of the organization was developed as early as 1869, the 1876 Convention voted on October 13, 1870 as Founders Day, because no earlier charter date could be determined...
sorority, Eta Epsilon chapter founded 1999.
- ΦM - Phi Mu
Phi Mu is the second oldest female fraternal organization established in the United States. It was founded at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. The organization was founded as the Philomathean Society on January 4, 1852, and announced publicly on March 4 of the same year...
sorority, Gamma Tau chapter founded 1982.
The
National Pan-Hellenic Council includes two historically African-American groups:
- ΑΦΑ - Alpha Phi Alpha
Alpha Phi Alpha is the first intercollegiate fraternity established by African Americans. Founded on December 4, 1906, on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Alpha Phi Alpha has initiated over 185,000 men into the organization and has been open to men of all races since 1940...
fraternity, Sigma Sigma chapter, unknown founding date.
- ΣΓP - Sigma Gamma Rho
Sigma Gamma Rho was founded on the campus of Butler University on November 12, 1922, by seven school teachers in Indianapolis, Indiana...
sorority, chapter founded 2009.
The
Multicultural Council includes five groups:
- αΚΔΦ - alpha Kappa Delta Phi
alpha Kappa Delta Phi is the largest Asian-American interest sorority. It was founded at the University of California, Berkeley in the Fall of 1989.-History:...
sorority, associate chapter founded 1997. Asian-American interest.
- ΔΞΦ - Delta Xi Phi
Delta Xi Phi is a national multicultural Sorority that was founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by 15 women on April 20, 1994. The sorority comprises women from all ethnic, cultural, religious and socio-economic backgrounds. Defined by diversity, Delta Xi Phi is not only...
sorority, Lambda chapter founded 2003. Multicultural interest.
- INΔ - Iota Nu Delta
Iota Nu Delta , is a South Asian interest fraternity geared towards men of all descents. It was founded on February 7, 1994, by a group of eight men of South Asian descent at Binghamton University, in Binghamton, New York...
fraternity, chapter founded 2008. South Asian interest.
- ΛΠΧ - Lambda Pi Chi
Lambda Pi Chi Sorority is a U.S.-based Latina based Greek letter intercollegiate sorority founded on April 16, 1988 at Cornell University...
sorority, Sigma chapter founded 2004. Latina interest.
- ΣΟΠ - Sigma Omicron Pi
The sisterhood of ΣΟΠ was founded in 1930 to further the awareness of women in Asian culture. As strong women participating in various social, academic, and community activities, ΣΟΠ maintain the objectives of unity, friendship, leadership, and community service established over 70 years...
sorority, Lambda chapter founded 2002. Asian-American interest.
Delta PhiDelta Phi is a fraternity founded in 1827 at Union College in Schenectady, New York. Founded as part of the Union Triad, along with the Kappa Alpha Society and Sigma Phi Society, Delta Phi was the third and last member of the Triad...
Fraternity, also known as St. Elmo's, maintains a chapter exclusive to students at Johns Hopkins, though it is not recognized by the University's Office of Greek Life.
Alpha Kappa AlphaAlpha Kappa Alpha is the first Greek-lettered sorority established and incorporated by African American college women. The sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., by a group of nine students, led by Ethel Hedgeman Lyle...
and
Delta Sigma ThetaDelta Sigma Theta is a non-profit Greek-lettered sorority of college-educated women who perform public service and place emphasis on the African American community. Delta Sigma Theta was founded on January 13, 1913, at Howard University by twenty-two young women. Today, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority...
African-American interest sororities often recruit Johns Hopkins undergraudates, though they are not recognized by the University.
Kappa Alpha ThetaKappa Alpha Theta , also known as Kathys, is an international women's fraternity founded on January 27, 1870 at DePauw University, formerly Indiana Asbury. Kappa Alpha Theta was the first Greek-letter women's college fraternity...
, a
National Panhellenic ConferenceThe National Panhellenic Conference , founded in 1902, is an umbrella organization for 26 national women's sororities.Each member group is autonomous as a social, Greek-letter society of college women and alumnae...
sorority, was removed from campus by their national headquarters on April 14, 2009 after twelve years on campus.
Recruitment for Inter-Fraternity Council and Panhellenic Conference fraternities and sororities takes place during the spring semester for freshmen, though some groups recruit upperclassmen during the fall semester. All students who wish to participate in Recruitment must have completed one semester in college and must be in good academic standing. National Pan-Hellenic and Multicultural fraternities and sororities may recruit freshmen in the fall semester.
Many of the fraternities maintain houses off campus, but none of the sororities do. There are unconfirmed press reports of a state "Brothel Law" prohibiting the cohabitation of more than eight women which may pose a barrier to such all-female housing units. The
Johns Hopkins News-Letter even reported the existence of such a law in 2001.
Snopes.com reports that such laws do not exist. Only Sigma Phi Epsilon owns a residence officially zoned by the City of Baltimore for use as a fraternity house.
Student publications
Hopkins has many publications that are produced entirely by students.
The Johns Hopkins News-LetterThe Johns Hopkins News-Letter is the independent student newspaper of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. Published since 1896, it is one of the nation's oldest continuously published, weekly student-run college newspapers....
, founded in 1896, is the oldest continuously published weekly college newspaper in the nation.
The Hopkins Donkey is a political newspaper with a
DemocraticThe Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. It is the oldest political party in continuous operation in the United States and it is one of the oldest parties in the world. In the U.S...
perspective on international, national and state-wide political topics.
The Carrollton Record is a political newspaper with an
American conservativeConservatism in the United States is a major American political philosophy. In contemporary American politics, it is often associated with the Republican Party...
perspective on campus and city-wide politics.
Epidemic Proportions is the university's public health research journal, designed to highlight JHU research and field work in public health. Combining research and scholarship, the journal seeks to capture the breadth and depth of the JHU undergraduate public health experience.
Thoroughfare, Zeniada and
j.mag are literary magazines.
Prometheus is the undergraduate philosophy journal.
Frame of Reference is an annual magazine that focuses on film and film culture.
The New Diplomat is the multi-disciplinary international relations journal.
Foundations is the undergraduate history journal.
Américas is the Latin American Studies journal.
Argot is the undergraduate anthropology journal.
The Triple Helix is the university's journal to address issues concerning science, law and society.
The Black & Blue Jay is among the nation's oldest campus humor magazines. It was founded in 1920.
According to
The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, it was the magazine's name which led the News-Letter to first use the moniker Blue Jays to refer to a Hopkins athletic team in 1923.
While the magazine enjoyed popularity among students, it received repeated opposition from the university administration, reportedly for its vulgar sense of humor. In October 1934, Dean Edward R. Berry removed financial support for the magazine; without funding, the magazine continued under the name
The Blue Jay until Berry threatened to expel the editors in 1939. The magazine had a revival in 1984, and has published intermittently since then.
Nobel laureates
As of 2009, there have been
33 Nobel Laureates affiliated with the University. Johns Hopkins considers laureates who attended the university as undergraduate students, graduate students or were members of the faculty as affiliated laureates.
Woodrow WilsonThomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States. A leading intellectual of the Progressive Era, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...
, who received his
Ph.D.Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated PhD , for the Latin , meaning "teacher of philosophy", or alternatively, DPhil, for the equivalent , is an advanced academic degree awarded by universities...
from Johns Hopkins in 1886, was the first Johns Hopkins-affiliated laureate, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919. Four Nobel Prizes were shared by Johns Hopkins laureates:
George MinotGeorge Richards Minot won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with William P. Murphy and George H. Whipple for their work in the study of anemia. He completed his A.B. in 1908 and his M.D. in 1912 from Harvard University...
and
George WhippleGeorge Hoyt Whipple was an American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator...
won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine,
Joseph ErlangerJoseph Erlanger was an American physiologist.Erlanger was born on January 5, 1874, at San Francisco, California. He completed his B.S. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and completed his M.D. in 1899 from the Johns Hopkins University...
and
Herbert Spencer GasserHerbert Spencer Gasser was an American physiologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for his work with action potentials in nerve fibers. He was born in Platteville, Wisconsin. He received his M.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in...
won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology in Medicine,
Daniel NathansDaniel Nathans was an American microbiologist.He was born in Wilmington, Delaware, the last of nine children born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents. During the Great Depression his father lost his small business and was unemployed for a long period of time...
and
Hamilton O. SmithHamilton Othanel Smith is an American microbiologist and Nobel laureate.Smith was born on August 23, 1931, and graduated from University Laboratory High School of Urbana, Illinois. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, but in 1950 transferred to the University of California,...
won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and
David H. HubelDavid Hunter Hubel was co-recipient with Torsten Wiesel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W. Sperry for his independent research on the cerebral hemispheres...
and Torsten N. Wiesel won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Eighteen Johns Hopkins laureates have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, more than any other category. Twenty-three laureates were members of the Johns Hopkins faculty, five laureates received their Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins, eight laureates received their
M.D.The Doctor of Medicine is a doctoral degree for physicians...
at Johns Hopkins, and one laureate,
Francis Peyton Rous Peyton Rous born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1879 and received his B.A. and M.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He was involved in the discovery of the role of viruses in the transmission of certain types of cancer...
, received his
undergraduate degreeAn undergraduate degree is a colloquial term for an academic degree taken by a person who has completed undergraduate courses. It is usually offered at an institution of higher education, such as a university...
at Johns Hopkins.
Presidents of the university
- Daniel Coit Gilman
Daniel Coit Gilman was an American educator and academician, who was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and who subsequently served as one of the earliest presidents of the University of California, the first president of Johns Hopkins University, and as...
, May 1875 - August 1901
- Ira Remsen
Ira Remsen was a chemist who, along with Constantin Fahlberg, discovered the artificial sweetener saccharin. He was the second president of Johns Hopkins University.-Biography:...
, September 1901 - January 1913
- Frank Goodnow, October 1914 - June 1929
- Joseph Sweetman Ames
Joseph Sweetman Ames was a physics professor at Johns Hopkins University, provost of the university from 1926 until 1929, and university president from 1929 until 1935.He was born at Manchester, Vermont...
, July 1929 - June 1935
- Isaiah Bowman
Isaiah Bowman, AB, Ph. D. was an American geographer. He was educated at Harvard and Yale where he taught from 1905 to 1915, after which time he became the director of the American Geographical Society, a position he held for 20 years from 1915 to 1935...
, July 1935 - December 1948
- Detlev Bronk
Detlev Wulf Bronk was President of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland from 1949 to 1953 and President of the National Academy of Sciences from 1950 to 1962...
, January 1949 - August 1953
- Lowell Reed
Lowell Reed was 7th president of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.He had a long career as a research scientist in biostatistics and public health administration at Hopkins, where he was previously dean and director of the School of Public Health and later as vice president in...
, September 1953 - June 1956
- Milton S. Eisenhower
Milton Stover Eisenhower, D.H.L. served as president of three major American universities: Kansas State University, the Pennsylvania State University, and the Johns Hopkins University. He was the younger brother of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Edgar N. Eisenhower, and Earl D...
, July 1956 - June 1967
- Lincoln Gordon
Abraham Lincoln Gordon was a United States Ambassador to Brazil and the 9th President of the Johns Hopkins University. He was born in New York City....
, July 1967 - March 1971
- Milton S. Eisenhower
Milton Stover Eisenhower, D.H.L. served as president of three major American universities: Kansas State University, the Pennsylvania State University, and the Johns Hopkins University. He was the younger brother of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Edgar N. Eisenhower, and Earl D...
, March 1971 - January 1972
- Steven Muller
Steven Muller was the president of the Johns Hopkins University, serving from 1972 to 1990.While serving as Vice President for Public Affairs of Cornell University, Muller played a leading role in negotiating the end to the occupation of Willard Straight Hall by African American students on April...
, February 1972 - June 1990
- William C. Richardson
William C. Richardson was President of The Johns Hopkins University from July 1990 - July 1995. Prior to moving to Johns Hopkins, he was executive vice president and provost at The Pennsylvania State University....
, July 1990 - July 1995
- Daniel Nathans
Daniel Nathans was an American microbiologist.He was born in Wilmington, Delaware, the last of nine children born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents. During the Great Depression his father lost his small business and was unemployed for a long period of time...
, June 1995 - August 1996
- William R. Brody
William R. Brody is the current President of the Salk Institute and former President of The Johns Hopkins University, a position which he had held since 1996. On March 10, 2008, he announced his intent to step down as president effective December 31, 2008...
, August 1996 - February 2009
- Ronald J. Daniels
Ronald J. Daniels is President of the Johns Hopkins University, a position which he assumed on March 2nd, 2009. Previously, Daniels was the Vice President and Provost at the University of Pennsylvania, and prior to this was Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. Daniels received...
, March 2009 - Present
Athletics
Athletic teams at Johns Hopkins are called the Blue Jays. Even though
sableIn heraldry, sable is the tincture black, and belongs to the class of dark tinctures, called "colours". In engravings and line drawings, it is sometimes depicted as a region of crossed horizontal and vertical lines or else marked with sa. as an abbreviation.The name derives from the black fur of...
and
goldIn heraldry, Or is the tincture of gold and, together with argent , belongs to the class of light tinctures called "metals". In engravings and line drawings, it may be represented using a field of evenly spaced dots...
are used for
academic robesAcademic dress or academical dress is a traditional form of clothing for academic settings, primarily tertiary and sometimes secondary education, worn mainly by those that have been admitted to a university degree or hold a status that entitles them to assume them...
, the university's athletic colors are
Columbia blueColumbia blue is a light blue tertiary color. The typical Columbia blue is defined by Pantone as Columbia Blue 3 .- Usage, symbolism, colloquial expressions :Fraternities and Sororities...
(PMS 285) and
blackBlack is the color of objects that do not emit or reflect light in any part of the visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of light...
. Hopkins celebrates
HomecomingHomecoming is the tradition of welcoming back of former residents and alumni of an institution. It most commonly refers to a tradition in many universities, colleges and high schools in North America. It usually includes activities for students and alumni, such as sports and culture events and a...
in the spring to coincide with the height of the lacrosse season. Outside of the Men's and Women's Division I lacrosse teams, Hopkins participates in the
National Collegiate Athletic AssociationThe National Collegiate Athletic Association is a voluntary association of about 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada...
Division IIIDivision III is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States.-Membership:The division consists of colleges and universities that choose not to offer athletically related financial aid to their student-athletes...
and the
Centennial ConferenceThe Centennial Conference is an athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III. Member teams are located in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Since 1981 the "Centennial Conference" has been considered one of the nation's elite small colleges athletic conference.- Conference Background...
.
Men's lacrosse
The school's most prominent team is its Division I men's
lacrosseLacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin that is played using a small solid rubber ball and a long-handled racquet called a crosse or lacrosse stick. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose netting that is designed to hold the lacrosse ball...
team. The team is an independent and does not belong to a conference. The team enjoys a winning tradition and has won 44 national titles - nine
National Collegiate Athletic AssociationThe National Collegiate Athletic Association is a voluntary association of about 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada...
(
NCAAThe National Collegiate Athletic Association is a voluntary association of about 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada...
) Division I (2007, 2005, 1987, 1985, 1984, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1974), 29
United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse AssociationThe United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association is an association of institutions with varsity college lacrosse programs in all three NCAA divisions, founded in 1885.-Awards:...
(
USILAThe United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association is an association of institutions with varsity college lacrosse programs in all three NCAA divisions, founded in 1885.-Awards:...
), and six Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (ILA) titles. Hopkins' primary national
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rivals are
Princeton UniversityPrinceton University a private university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and is considered one of the Colonial Colleges....
,
Syracuse UniversitySyracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, U.S.A.. It was founded as a university in 1870, but its roots can be traced back to a seminary founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832 which eventually became Genesee College...
, and the
University of VirginiaThe University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
; its primary intrastate rivals are
Loyola CollegeLoyola University Maryland is a Roman Catholic, Jesuit private university located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Established as Loyola College in Maryland by John Early and eight other members of the Society of Jesus in 1852, it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit...
,
Towson UniversityTowson University, often referred to as TU or simply Towson for short, is an American public university located in Towson in Baltimore County, Maryland, USA...
, the
United States Naval AcademyThe United States Naval Academy is an undergraduate college in Annapolis, Maryland, United States, that educates and commissions officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps. The Academy often is referred to simply as "Annapolis". It is also called "The Academy", "The Boat School", or "Canoe...
, and the
University of MarylandThe University of Maryland, College Park is a public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. Founded in 1856, the University of Maryland is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland...
. The rivalry with Maryland is the oldest, the schools having met 103 times since 1899, with two of those meetings being in playoffs.
Women's lacrosse
The school's Division I women's lacrosse team is a member of the
American Lacrosse ConferenceThe American Lacrosse Conference is a NCAA Division I women's lacrosse-only college athletic conference whose members are located in the Midwest, East Coast, and increasingly the Southeastern states from Illinois to Florida....
(ALC). The team is developing into a top twenty caliber team. The Lady Blue Jays were ranked number 19 in the 2008 Inside Lacrosse Women's DI Media Poll (ILWDIMP). They ranked number 8 in both the 2007 Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Poll for Division I and the ILWDIMP. In 2006, they were ranked 14th in the ILWDIMP, in 2005, they were 11th, and, in 2004, they were 9th. However, recently the team has struggled and finished with a record of 5 wins and 12 losses in the 2009 season.
Other teams
Hopkins also has several notable Division III Athletic teams. 2006–2007 saw Hopkins winning the Centennial Conference titles in Baseball, Men's and Women's Soccer, Men's and Women's Tennis and Men's Basketball. Hopkins also has an acclaimed
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team, which has ranked in the top three of Division III teams in the past few years and in both 2008 and 2007 defeated the
University of North CarolinaThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. The university is the oldest in, and flagship of, the University of North Carolina system...
, a Division I team. In 2008, they defeated UNC by one bout, winning the MACFA championship. The
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team also has ranked in the top two of Division III for the last 10 years. The Men's Swimming team placed second at DIII Nationals in 2008. The Water Polo team has been number one in Division III for several of the past years, playing a full schedule against Division I opponents. Hopkins also has a century-old rivalry with
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(formerly Western Maryland College), playing the Green Terrors 83 times in football since the first game in 1894. In 2008, the Hopkins Blue Jays Baseball team played, and lost, in the final of the Division III College World Series.
Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame
The
Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of FameThe US Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame, located in Baltimore, Maryland on the campus of Johns Hopkins University, is operated by US Lacrosse...
, maintained by
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, is on the Homewood campus adjacent to the home field for the lacrosse teams,
Homewood FieldHomewood Field is the athletics stadium of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. It was built in 1906 and has an official capacity of 8,500 people. The name is taken, as is that of the entire campus, from that of the estate of Charles Carroll of Carrollton. It serves as the home...
. Johns Hopkins lacrosse teams have represented the
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in international competition. At the
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in Amsterdam and
1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympics lacrosse demonstration eventsLacrosse was a demonstration sport at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Teams from Canada and the United States played three games, with the team from the United States winning the series 2 games to 1...
Hopkins represented the US and team members received Olympic Gold Medals. This was the only such accolade in the history of US college sports. They have also gone to
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,
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to win the 1974
World Lacrosse ChampionshipThe World Lacrosse Championship is the world championship for international men's field lacrosse. From its inception in 1967 through the 2006 event, it was sanctioned by the International Lacrosse Federation...
.
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