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“What are we aiming at?” 1. The university’s graduate programs in 3. It is the leading U.S. academic institution public health, nursing, biomedical in total research and development engineering, , and are spending. In fiscal year 2017, the university That’s the question asked in 1876, considered among the best in the country, performed $2.562 billion in medical, science, and at his inauguration as University’s first according to U.S. News & World Report. The engineering research. It has ranked No. 1 in higher president. His answer, in part: “The encouragement master’s and doctoral programs in public health, education research spending for the 39th year in a the graduate program in , row, according to the National Science Foundation. of research . . . and the advancement of individual and the master’s program in nursing all rank No. 1. The university also ranks first on the NSF’s list scholars, who by their excellence will advance the sci- The program in internal medicine is tied at No. 1. for federally funded research and development, ences they pursue, and the society where they dwell.” The Doctor of Nursing Practice program is No. 2. spending $2.179 billion in fiscal year 2017 on Gilman believed that teaching and research are The School of Medicine as at No. 2 on the list of research supported by the NSF, NASA, the National research-oriented medical schools. And the School Institutes of Health, and the Department of interdependent, that success in one depends on success of Education is at No. 17. The university itself is tied Defense. in the other, and that a modern university must do for No. 10 on the list of top national . Its both well. Johns Hopkins was the nation’s very first undergraduate engineering program is tied for No. 4. Johns Hopkins is ’s largest private employer. The university and the , and the realization of Gilman’s 14. The university is tied for No. 6 among high school counselors. The university ranks at No. 12 on hospital and health system employ more than philosophy here, and at other institutions that later the list of the best global universities. 47,000 people in Maryland and together contribute attracted Johns Hopkins–trained scholars, revolution- more than $9.1 billion a year to the state’s ized in America. 2. Johns Hopkins claims 27 Nobel laureates economy. past and present. Among current faculty, there For more than 140 years later, Johns Hopkins are four—as well as 52 American Academy of 5. The university has a presence in nearly remains a world leader in both teaching and research, Arts and Sciences members; 57 members of every corner of the globe. It has campuses in with nine academic divisions—the Krieger School of the Health and Medicine Division, seven recipients Maryland and Washington, plus , , and Nanjing, ; faculty and students conduct Arts and Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering, of the Lasker Medical Research Award, six research on six continents; and more than 20 the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Carey MacArthur fellows, four members of the National Academy of Engineering, 27 members of the percent of the university’s students come from Business School, the , the Paul H. National Academy of Sciences, two Presidential countries outside the . Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and Medal of Freedom winners, and one Pulitzer Prize the schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Education— winner. plus the Applied Physics Laboratory, a nonacademic division that supports national security and pursues space science, exploration of the solar system, and other civilian research and development.

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We made purification possible.

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY FACT BOOK RESEARCHOVER THE YEARS,IN 24 TIME JOHNS ZONES HOPKINS AND 70RESEARCHERS… COUNTRIES

Developed and received FDA-approval for an Isolated and cultivated human embryonic Invented the lifesaving first-aid techniquecardio - We also developed the immunotherapy drug for based on stem cells, the undifferentiated cells from which pulmonary resuscitation, thanks to a chance genetic glitch rather than organ site (2017). an entire human being eventually develops (1998). observation during work on the defibrillating ramjet engine, launched machine (also invented at Johns Hopkins) that the field of genetic Built JEDI, one of nine scientific instruments Helped develop the first effective treatment weight placed on the chest increases blood aboard NASA’s JUNO spacecraft, which is orbiting for sickle cell anemia (1995). pressure (1958. FIrst performed in July 1959). engineering, and Jupiter (2016) Discovered that pennies’ worth of A Showed that retrolental fibroplasia, which authenticated the Designed, built, and operated the supplements administered to Indonesian causes blindness in premature infants, was related spacecraft, which completed a flyby of Pluto children as part of a blindness prevention program to high concentrations of oxygen used in babies’ Dead Sea Scrolls. (2015). were accompanied by a dramatic drop in infant incubators (1954). death rates, leading to similar vitamin treatments Cataloged more than 80 percent of the proteins for thousands of children in developing countries Confirmed theauthenticity of the Dead Sea At Johns Hopkins, research isn’t just something we in the human body—the “proteome”—as a (1983–86). Scrolls, speeding acceptance as genuine of these do—it’s who we are. For more than 140 years, our biomedical resource (2014) earliest biblical manuscripts (1948). faculty and students have worked side by side in a Identified high rates of infant deaths in motor Showed that half-matched bone marrow vehicle accidents, leading to the passage of child Discovered Dramamine’s effectiveness in tireless pursuit of discovery. Their efforts have led to transplants are comparable to fully matched safety restraint laws throughout the United alleviating motion sickness (1948). advances in human knowledge that include the first tissue (2011). States (1979). color photograph of Earth taken from space and the Immunized chimpanzees with inactivated vaccines, Developed a blood test for cancer (2008) Developed the first successful treatment to essential to the development of the first widely research that led to child safety restraint laws, Drama- used polio vaccine and a major step toward First cancer genomes decoded (2006) desensitize people against bee stings (1975). mine, rubber surgical gloves, and, yes, the system of the prevention of poliomyelitis in human beings water purification by chlorination, which was eventu- Determined that massive, mature, fully formed Invented the first implantable, rechargeable (1947–52). pacemaker for cardiac disorders (1972). ally adopted by every major municipal and industrial galaxies existed more than 8 billion years Took the first images of Earth’s curvature, ago, far earlier than expected, necessitating a water supply system in the country and many other Took the first color photograph of the whole from a V-2 rocket (1946). re-examination of the dominant theory parts of the world. earth from space (1967). of galactic evolution (2004). Developed the first supersonicramjet engine The good work continues, with faculty conducting Discovered restriction enzymes, the so-called (1944). research in the humanities, social and natural sciences, Sent a spacecraft to Mercury to orbit the “biochemical scissors,” which gave birth to the planet and see its entire surface for the first time engineering, international studies, education, business, entire field of genetic engineering (1960s). Developed the “blue baby” operation to correct (2004). The discoverers were awarded the in congenital heart defects, ushering in a new era in and health and medicine—and about two-thirds of 1978 for their achievement. open heart surgery (1944). our undergraduates engaging in some form of research Pioneered exchange of kidneys among incom- patible donors (2003-2009) during their time here. Who knows what they’ll Conducted the first large-scale researchstudy Published the first modern edition of the of conditions of inequality in American ‘Epic of Gilgamesh,’ making available to the discover next? Landed the first spacecraft on an asteroid world the most significant extra-biblical work of (2001) schools, which resulted in the landmark report “Equality of Educational Opportunity“ (1960). ancient Near Eastern literature (1891).

Introduced the rubber glove for use during surgery (1889). JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY FACT BOOK AWARDS

Adam Riess discovered dark energy.

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And in 2011, he won a , PhD 1886 (History) , AB 1900, MD 1905 David H. Hubel , 1919 Nobel Prize in or Medicine, 1966 Assistant Resident, Neurology, 1954–55 for Fellow, , 1958–59 , MD 1927 Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1981 his part in showing that Professor of Physics, 1935–38 Professor of , 1949–54 the expansion rate of the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1925 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1967 Fellow, Ophthalmology, 1955–58 universe is accelerating. , PhD 1890 Assistant Professor, 1958–59 (Zoology) Professor of Political Economy, 1954–60 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1933 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1971 In fact, there have been 27 Nobel Prize winners Merton H. Miller, PhD 1952 associated with Johns Hopkins University, either George Hoyt Whipple, MD 1905 Christian B. Anfinsen (and honorary doctorate 1993) (Economics) Associate Professor of Pathology, 1910–14 Professor of Biology, 1982–95 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1990 as graduates or faculty, before, at the time of, or Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1934 Nobel Prize in , 1972 subsequent to their receipt of the prize. And they are Robert W. Fogel, PhD 1963 (Economics) in good company, swapping ideas and sharing office , MD 1899 Hamilton O. Smith, MD 1956 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1993 Assistant in Physiology, 1900–1901 Assistant Professor of Microbiology, 1967–69 space with MacArthur fellows, presidential honorees, Instructor, 1901–1903 Associate Professor, 1969–73 , BA 1949 (Biology) National Academies members, and Academy of Arts Associate, 1903–1904 Professor, 1973–98 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1994 and Sciences members. Associate Professor, 1904–1906 Professor Emeritus, 1998–present Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1978 , MA 1984 ( American Studies) Nobel Peace Prize, 1997 , MD 1915 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1944 Assistant Professor, 1962–65 , PhD 1953 (Biophysics) Associate Professor, 1965–67 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2000 Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, National Research Fellow, Pharmacology, 1927–28 1967–99 , 1955 Interim President, 1995–96 Professor of Physics and Astronomy, 1982–97 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1978 Research Professor of Physics and Astronomy Maria Goeppert-Mayer 1998–present Assistant in Physics, 1930-32 Nobel Prize in Physics, 2002 Associate, 1932-36 Nobel Prize in Physics, 1963

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Peter Agre, MD 1974 Carol Greider American Academy of Arts and Sciences members: 51 Virginia Apgar, developer of Apgar score for newborns Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pharmacology, Daniel Nathans Professor and Director of Molecular Health and Medicine Division members: 57 , actor 1974–75 Biology and Genetics, Institute for Basic Biomedical Lasker Award winners: 8 , Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist for The Times Research Associate/Instructor, Sciences, School of Medicine, 1997–present MacArthur fellows: 6 and former host of PBS’ Masterpiece Theatre and Anatomy, and Medicine, 1981–83 Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, 2014 National Academy of Engineering members: 7 Manuel Barrueco, Grammy Award–winning guitarist Assistant Professor, 1984–88 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2009 , novelist Associate Professor, 1988–93 National Academy of Sciences members: 34 Professor of Biological Chemistry and Medicine, National Academy of Medicine members: 14 Jeffrey Blitz, writer/director of Spellbound, Rocket Science, and Lucky 1993–2005 Thomas J. Barber Professor in Physics and Astronomy, National Medal of Science winners: 3 Wolf Blitzer, Institute, 2008–present Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Nobel laureates: 3 Michael R. Bloomberg, former New York mayor, founder of Bloomberg Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, 2014 Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom winners 2 L.P., Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Radio Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners: 1 , principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic , biologist, ecologist, and author of Silent Spring , MD 1971 Note: International Physicians for The Prevention of , Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2004 Nuclear War Inc. of Boston, Mass., was the winner Wes Craven, film director of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. Two Johns Hopkins graduates—Bernard Lown, M.D. 1945, and , cinematographer Adjunct Professor of Biology, 1989–2009 James E. Muller, M.D. 1969—were among the , American philosopher, social critic, and educator Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2006 six physicians (three Americans, three Soviets) who Victor A. McKusick, medical geneticist; author of Mendelian Inheritance founded that organization in 1980. Dr. Lown deliv- in Man, the definitive source of information on human genes and ered one of the two Nobel acceptance speeches on genetic disorders behalf of the organization. James McPherson, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and author , former president of NAACP Walter Murch, Oscar-winning film editor and sound mixer , Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, longtime international reporter for Tommy Newsom, Emmy winner who was assistant conductor of the Tonight Show band Sam Palmisano, former CEO of IBM Awadagin Pratt, pianist; winner of the Naumburg International Piano Competition, 1992 Joanne Silberner, journalist Bill Stromberg, CEO of T.Rowe Price John A. Wheeler, physicist Woodrow Wilson, 28th U.S. president , water treatment expert JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY FACT BOOK GLOBAL REACH

Our researchers are working in 24 time zones ...

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…and that’s all of them. More than 4,900 international graduate partnering with health experts, governments, and and undergraduate students study at Johns community leaders to provide high-quality health Hopkins, hailing from 141 countries. care. Jhpiego’s training and low-cost, practical Johns Hopkins faculty, students, staff, and alumni have health care solutions remove barriers to health care There are 12,107 university alumni currently always made a practice of living, thinking, and acting for the world’s most vulnerable populations.The living in countries outside the U.S. There are offers a full-timeGlobal globally. Johns Hopkins now reaches into nearly every international alumni clubs in 63 countries. MBA program to help prepare experienced corner of the globe—with campuses or centers in the world-class business leaders. Its Innovation for Each year, more than 500 undergraduate United States, China, and Italy; research and training Humanity course is a six-month project that students study abroad in more than 40 includes a three-week in-country experience programs on every continent; medical facilities around countries. working in a developing market. the world; and distance education and online courses Johns Hopkins ranks No. 12 on U.S. News & anywhere the Internet will take them. The Johns Hopkins Malaria Research World Report’s annual list of the Best Global Institute has gathered a critical mass of malaria As one of our academic divisions, SAIS has Universities. JHU is also among the top 20 in 10 experts from around the world to take a established itself as a proven training ground for the different subject areas. multidisciplinary approach to understanding the world’s diplomats, with more than 135 graduates .Johns Hopkins Health System treats 3,922 pa- Plasmodium parasite, the , and the genes having served as international ambassadors. In various tients from 145 countries in its facilities based and proteins involved in the transmission of capacities, 19,500 SAIS alumni are currently working in the United States malaria. in approximately 140 countries. Donors to the university live in 129 countries. The Peabody Conservatory collaborated with the National University of Singapore to create the Yong In addition to its U.S. campuses, the university has Siew Toh Conservatory, Singapore’s first and only campuses in Bologna, Italy, and Nanjing, conservatory of music. It brings an international China. dimension to the Peabody community with student and faculty exchange programs. Johns Hopkins international research and training sites, programs, and offices are in101 countries. Because of the importance of the globalization of technology, all students pursuing a bachelor of arts Johns Hopkins students can participate in study in general engineering from the Whiting School are abroad programs in 55 countries. Medical and encouraged to study abroad for at least one nursing students participate in international semester. medical electives in 19 countries. The Department of German and Romance Jhpiego is an international, nonprofit health Languages and Literatures in the Krieger School organization that has spent 4 years improving the offersundergraduate programs in Paris at health of women and families in more than 155 , in at the Berlin Consortium, developing countries. It works to prevent the and in Madrid at Universidad Carlos III. needless deaths of women and their families by

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Our best ideas are yet to come.

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Let’s start with 10. One University Individual Excellence 1. Selectively invest in those programs and 4. Build Johns Hopkins’ undergraduate experience activities that will advance significantly our core so it stands among the top 10 in the nation. Ronald J. Daniels took office in March 2009 as the academic mission. 14th president of Johns Hopkins University. Before his 5. Build on our legacy as America’s first research 2. Strengthen our capacity for faculty-led university by ensuring that at least two-thirds of appointment at Johns Hopkins, Daniels was at interdisciplinary collaboration and launch a set of our PhD programs stand among the top 20 in the University of Pennsylvania, and before that, dean innovative cross-cutting initiatives that will their fields. and James M. Tory Professor of Law at the University contribute substantially to the world of ideas and 6. Attract the very best faculty and staff in the of Toronto Faculty of Law. action. world through a welcoming and inclusive Daniels is the author or co-author of dozens of 3. Enhance the impact of Johns Hopkins Medicine, environment that values performance and scholarly articles and the author or editor of seven the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the celebrates professional achievement. books. In 2009, he was elected a member of the School of Nursing, as the world’s pre-eminent Commitment to Our Communities American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He sits on the academic health sciences enterprise by deepening collaboration among these entities and with 7. Enhance and enrich our ties to , the boards of the East Baltimore Development Inc., the disciplines in other parts of the university and nation, and the world, so that Johns Hopkins Baltimore Community Foundation, the Goldseker across the globe. becomes the exemplar of a globally engaged urban Foundation, the Maryland Chamber of Commerce, the university. Governor’s International Advisory Council, and the Asia Institution Building Pacific Rim Universities World Institute. 8. Strengthen the institutional, budgetary, In May 2013, after several years of discussions with technological, and policy frameworks necessary to faculty and students, staff and alumni, deans and set priorities, allocate resources, and realize the trustees, Daniels unveiled “Ten by Twenty.” This set of highest standards of academic excellence. four major priorities, grouped by themes, are guiding 9. Reinforce our position as the leading university the university through the remainder of the decade. To recipient of competitively funded federal research take a look at how the university is doing as it approach- support, while increasing the amount of annual es this milepost, vist http://10x2020progress.jhu.edu/ research investment from other sources with appropriate cost recovery. for progress reports, sucess stories, and where Johns Hopkins is striving to do more to move the needle. 10. Develop the resource base necessary to support investments in key academic priorities.

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President’s Cabinet Susan Ridge – Vice President for Communications Vali R. Nasr – Dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Kerry A. Ates – Vice President, Chief of Staff Advanced International Studies Stephen M. Ruckman–Senior Adviser to the Heidi E. Conway – Vice President for Human Resources President for Policy Paul B. Rothman – Vice President for Medicine; Frances Watt Baker, M.D., and Lenox D. Baker Jr., Daniel G. Ennis – Senior Vice President for Finance Fritz W. Schroeder – Vice President for M.D., Dean of the School of Medicine; Chief and Administration Development and Alumni Relations Executive Officer, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Andrew B. Frank – Special Adviser to the President Christy Wyskiel – Senior Adviser to the President T. E. “Ed” Schlesinger – Benjamin T. Rome Dean for Economic Development for Enterprise Development of the G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering

Helene T. Grady – Vice President for Planning and Ralph D. Semmel – Director of the Applied Budget Deans and Directors Physics Laboratory Melissa R. Hyatt – Vice President for Security Fred Bronstein – Dean of the Peabody Institute Winston Tabb – Sheridan Dean of University Sunil Kumar – Provost and Senior Patricia M. Davidson – Dean of the School of Libraries and Museums Vice President for Academic Affairs Nursing Beverly Wendland – James B. Knapp Dean Thomas S. Lewis – Vice President for Government Bernard T. Ferrari – Dean of the Carey Business of the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Community Affairs School

Maureen S. Marsh – Secretary, Board of Trustees Elaine T. Hansen – Executive Director, Center for Robert A. McLean – Vice President for Facilities and Talented Youth Real Estate Ellen J. MacKenzie – Dean of the Bloomberg Jason T. Perlioni – Vice President, Investments and School of Public Health Chief Investment Officer Christopher C. Morphew – Dean of the School of Paul Pineau – Vice President and General Counsel Education

Stephanie L. Reel – Vice Provost for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer

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University Board of Trustees, 2018-19 Sarah Brown O’Hagan Rafael Hernandez-Colon Jeffrey H. Aronson, chair Karen B. Peetz R. Christopher Hoehn-Saric Louis J. Forster, vice chair Anika M. Penn Stuart S. Janney III David C. Hodgson , vice chair, ex officio Gary Roughead Jeong H. Kim Marshal L. Salant David H. Koch Ashok Agarwal Charles W. Scharf Donald A. Kurz Anthony A. Anderson Charles P. Scheeler Joanne Leedom-Ackerman James K. Anderson Mayo A. Shattuck III Alexander H. Levi Janie E. Bailey William J. Stromberg F. Pierce Linaweaver Jeffrey S. Barber James L. Winter Roger C. Lipitz Chaomei Chen Raymond A. Mason Renee Y. Chenault-Fattah Emeritus Trustees Christina L. Mattin Charles Clarvit Robert J. Abernethy Gail J. McGovern N. Anthony Coles Leonard Abramson Harvey M. Meyerhoff Blake L. Cordish Peter G. Angelos Naneen Hunter Neubohn Susan Daimler C. Michael Armstrong Ronald M. Nordmann Ronald J. Daniels, ex officio Norman R. Augustine Ralph S. O’Connor Andreas C. Dracopoulos Lenox D. Baker Jr. Morris W. Offit Roger C. Faxon H. Furlong Baldwin Walter D. Pinkard Jr. Allyson H. Handley Jeremiah A. Barondess George G. Radcliffe Taylor A. Hanex Ernest A. Bates Joseph R. Reynolds Jr. Michael D. Hankin David H. Bernstein Brian C. Rogers Charles J. Homcy Paula E. Boggs David M. Rubenstein Bahija Jallal Aurelia G. Bolton Mark E. Rubenstein Solomon J. Kumin George L. Bunting Jr. John F. Ruffle Ethan D. Leder Constance R. Caplan Frank Savage Ross S. Margolies Ina R. Drew Rajendra Singh William H. Miller III Manuel Dupkin II Wendell A. Smith Stephen G. Moore Pamela P. Flaherty Shale D. Stiller Heather H. Murren James A. Flick Jr. David P. Nolan Richard S. Frary Adena Wright Testa Sanford D. Greenberg William F. Ward Jr. Benjamin Howell Griswold IV Calman J. Zamoiski Jr. Lee Meyerhoff Hendler

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Looking for the next big thing?

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY FACT BOOK INNOVATION

We have more than 2,800 In fiscal year 2018, Johns Hopkins executed 138 new research and commercial firms in Building to Remington, a burgeoning hub for license and option agreements to commercialize the country—over the next several decades. entrepreneurship within blocks of the Homewood inventions ready to go. technologies and was issued 150 new patents. The plan includes the development of about 4.5 campus. Under the new name FastForward U million square feet of research and office space at Homewood, this 10,000-square-foot innovation Johns Hopkins is an active partner in several major the Belward Research Campus, a 108-acre site space was designed with students in mind with Johns Hopkins is a community of makers and doers. science- and technology-based economic develop- owned by Johns Hopkins near the university’s various spaces large and small for events and We are dedicated to using our best ideas to improve ment initiatives in Maryland: Montgomery County Campus. collaboration including a 2,000 square foot maker the lives of people around the world. From potable The Baltimore Development Corporation’s space run by the Whiting School of Engineering Johns Hopkins is helping prepare Maryland’s next with high-tech tools for crafting and prototyping. water in the 1920s to 21st-century prosthetic limbs, Emerging Technologies Center at Johns generation of innovators and entrepreneurs through our innovations contribute to the common good. Hopkins Eastern provides flexible space and entrepreneurship education programs both in FastForward1812 opened in January 2017. The Our discoveries also generate funding to pay for support services to startup companies associated Baltimore and at its Montgomery County 23,000-square-foot space is located in Eager Park, with Johns Hopkins and other universities in even more research. We had 2,864 active patents in Campus in Rockville. within walking distance of the East Baltimore the city. campus. It offers offices, labs, and communal fiscal year 2018, when the university’s inventions In fall 2017, Johns Hopkins’ first innovation hub workspaces and amenities to help fledgling generated $16.5 million in licensing revenue with the The East Baltimore Science + Technology moved from the Stieff Silver building to Remington, Park, adjacent to the main campus of Johns ventures develop and build their products. guidance of Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures. The a burgeoning hub for entrepreneurship within Hopkins Medicine, is one of the central elements blocks of the Homewood campus. Under the new Located across from FastForward 1812, several thousand active patents held by Johns Hopkins of a broader, long-term effort to revitalize East name FastForward R. House, this 9,000-square- FastForward East (Rangos) began transitioning today could become lifesaving medical devices and Baltimore. The first of a number of research foot renovated space, located a short walk from to a student-dedicated innovation hub in FY2017. therapeutic treatments tomorrow. buildings planned for the Park, the 300,000- Johns Hopkins’ Homewood campus, features 9,000 For the 2017-2018 academic year, FastForward East square-foot Rangos Building, was completed in From creating new awards for entrepreneurial square feet of office, co-working, meeting and wet/ will also house the five startups selected for the 2009. dry lab space.​ M-1 Ventures accelerator for connected health and faculty to fostering the development of the FastFor- fitness startups. ward business accelerator, President Daniels has made The Great Seneca Science Corridor is an In fall 2018, Johns Hopkins’ first student innovation ambitious project aimed at doubling the size of it a priority to encourage innovation and entrepreneur- hub, Fastforward U, moved from the Wyman Park Montgomery County’s life sciences cluster—already ship across the institution. In addition to supporting- one of the largest concentrations of life sciences Johns Hopkins faculty, staff, and students in their efforts to translate discoveries into marketable inven- tions, Daniels is a champion of young researchers on a national scale, submitting testimony to a U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee on research funding and authoring a paper titled, “A Generation at Risk: Young Investigators and the Future of the Biomedical Workforce.”

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Our students are pursuing more than 260 courses of study.

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That’s everything from Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Whiting School of Engineering Carey Business School The mission of the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts The Whiting School of Engineering prides itself On December 4, 2006, Johns Hopkins University archaeology and applied and Sciences is discovery—the creation of on being a leader in innovation and research. trustees, in response to a $50 million gift from economics, to computer knowledge through scholarship and research, and U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks the William Polk Carey, voted to establish a new the education of our students, undergraduate, and university’s program in biomedical engineering business school dedicated to producing innovative engineering and genetic graduate alike. The school’s unique character derives among the top in the country. Among the school’s leaders with broad, interdisciplinary knowledge. from its commitment to choose carefully what is graduates are former New York Mayor Michael The Carey Business School opened January 1, 2007, , to women’s worth pursuing and to do so without compromise. Bloomberg and chairman of Liberty Media John C. continuing the Johns Hopkins tradition of bringing The school’s academic programs in the humanities, Malone. innovative business management programs to the studies and woodwind natural sciences, and social sciences are renowned ever-changing workplace. instruments. for their excellence and intensity, and notable for the Number of students: 6,569 (1,821 undergraduates, wide range of interdisciplinary opportunities they 1,595 graduate students, 3,153 part-time Engineering Number of students: 2,209 graduate students provide. for Professionals students) Number of faculty: 103 full-time, 59 part-time Johns Hopkins University enrolls more than 26,000 Number of faculty: 221 full-time faculty, 33 faculty full-time and part-time students throughout nine Number of students: 8,181 (3,511 undergraduates, teaching faculty, 29 research faculty, 556 Engineer- 911 full-time graduate students, 82 postbacs, 3,677 Degrees awarded in 2018: 1,103 master’s, 26 academic divisions. No matter what their field of study, ing for Professionals faculty Advanced Academic Programs graduate students) graduate certificates our students are active and engaged learners, fully Degrees awarded in 2018: Full-time programs: Number of faculty: 328 full-time tenured and Year established: 2007 immersed in the process of discovery. 503 bachelor’s, 486 master’s, 97 PhDs, 9 certificates tenure-track of advanced study. Part-time programs: 679 Dean: Bernard Ferrari Degrees awarded in 2018: 924 undergraduate, master’s degrees, 13 certificates 280 graduate, 1,230 AAP master’s degrees and Year established: 1912 certificates Dean: T. E. “Ed” Schlesinger Year established: 1876 Dean: Beverly Wendland

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School of Education School of Medicine School of Nursing For over a century, the School of Education has been From its beginnings, the School of Medicine The and the Johns Hopkins preparing educators to make a difference in the lives revolutionized the education of physicians, the Training School for Nurses both opened in 1889. of children and adults. Founded in 1909 as the practice of medicine, and medical research Founders M. Adelaide Nutting, Isabel Hampton College Courses for Teachers, the school addresses nationally and internationally by applying Robb, and Lavinia Dock established what would some of the most challenging problems facing unprecedented standards to medical training. become the national model for nursing education. education today through graduate and doctoral Rigid entrance requirements were established; the Renamed the School of Nursing, it became a programs; research and development activities; curriculum emphasized scientific methods as well division of the Johns Hopkins University in 1983 external partnerships with school systems, as bedside teaching, laboratory research, and and opened its doors to students in 1984. Today, educational entrepreneurs, and health care–related advanced training in specialized fields. For the first the school is a global leader in nursing research, organizations; and collaborative connections to the time ever in the United States, women were education, and scholarship. Its master’s degree broader Johns Hopkins research community. Ranked admitted as medical students on an equal basis program is ranked at No. 1 on the U.S. News & at No. 17 for graduate schools of education by U.S. with men. Today, the school annually receives World Report list for graduate schools of nursing, News & World Report, the school is home to the more research grants from the National Institutes and its Doctor of Nursing Practice program is ranked Institute for Education Policy and three research of Health than any other medical school and No. 2. The school’s programs in several nursing centers: the Center for Research and Reform in consistently is ranked among the top medical specialties made the U.S. News top five. Education, the Center for Social Organization of schools in the nation by U.S. News & World Schools, and the Center for Technology in Education. Report. Number of students: 1,244 (775 graduate students, 43 graduate certificates, 426 non-degree Number of students: 2,608 (14 undergraduates, Number of students: 1,305 (475 professional special students, ) 2,594 graduate students) practice candidates, 830 graduate degree candidates) Number of faculty: 78 full-time, 157 part-time Number of faculty: 116 full-time; 17 joint, Number of faculty: 2,855 full-time, Degrees awarded in 2018: 324 master’s, 32 emeriti, or courtesy appointments 1,266 part-time post-master’s certificiates, 33 professional practice degrees, 10 PhDs Degrees awarded in 2018: 18 bachelor’s, 719 Degrees awarded in 2018: 130 professional Year established: 1889 as Johns Hopkins Training master’s, 5 PhD, 41 EdD practice degrees, 19 master’s, 125 PhDs School for Nurses; 1983 as Johns Hopkins University Year established: 1893 Year established: 1909; became the School of School of Nursing Education in 2007 Dean: Paul B. Rothman Dean: Patricia M. Davidson

Dean: Christopher C. Morphew

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Peabody Institute Bloomberg School of Public Health thinkers and problem-solvers with the economic and cultural expertise to confront complex global The Peabody Institute provides the highest level of As a leading international authority on public challenges. training to musicians and dancers of every age health, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of through its degree-granting Conservatory and its Public Health is dedicated to protecting health and Number of students: 1,138 (904 in Washington, community-based Preparatory school. Founded in saving lives—millions at a time. Founded in 1916, D.C.; 178 in Bologna, Italy; 56 in Nanjing, China) 1857 and a division of the Johns Hopkins University it is the world’s oldest and largest independent Number of faculty: 110 full-time, 176 part-time since 1977, Peabody is building on its rich history as school of public health. It has been ranked No. 1 by the first major intellectual and arts center in an U.S. News & World Report since 1994. The Degrees awarded in 2018: 595 master’s, American city to prepare 21st-century artists for Bloomberg School’s faculty and alumni are 7 PhDs, 52 certificates success, with a focus on excellence, interdisciplinary recognized local and global leaders in public health Year established: 1943 experiences, innovation, and community research, education and practice. Dean: Vali R. Nasr connectivity. Number of students: 2,505 (2,335 graduate Number of students: 643 (297 undergraduates, students, 170 certificate or non-degree students) Applied Physics Laboratory 266 graduate students, 80 certificate or non-degree Number of faculty: 765 full-time, 797 part-time The Applied Physics Laboratory is a not-for-profit students) Degrees awarded in 2018: 763 master’s, 335 center for engineering, research, and development; Number of faculty: 79 full-time, 6 part-time, certificates, 153 doctorates it is a nonacademic division that does not grant and 92 adjunct Conservatory faculty members Year established: 1916 degrees, though APL staff members lead many of Degrees awarded in 2018: 67 bachelor’s, Dean: Ellen J. MacKenzie the Whiting School of Engineering’s part-time 128 master’s, 7 DMAs, 40 certificates and diplomas Engineering for Professionals programs. Year established: 1857; affiliated with JHU Strategically located between Baltimore and in 1977 The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced Washington, D.C., APL has been a major asset to the International Studies nation since it was organized to develop a critical Dean: Fred Bronstein A division of Johns Hopkins University since 1950, the World War II technology in 1942. APL staff and Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies collaborators work on more than 600 programs that is a global institution that offers students a truly protect the and advance the nation’s international perspective on today’s critical issues. The vision in research and space science, at an annual school was established in Washington, D.C., in 1943; funding level of about $1.5 billion. opened its European campus in Bologna, Italy, in 1955; and in 1986 initiated one of the first Western Number of employees: Approximately 7,200; university programs in the People’s Republic of China, more than 65 percent are scientists and engineers; in Nanjing. SAIS graduates are known as innovative more than 55 percent hold a master’s or doctorate degree Year established: 1942 Director: Ralph Semmel

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You can visit all our campuses in just 9,921 miles.

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While you’re at it, take in Homewood Carey Business School SAIS The Homewood campus, situated in the north The main campus of the Carey Business School is The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International the Lincoln Memorial, the Baltimore neighborhood of Charles Village, is a located in a state-of-the-art waterfront building in Studies is an urban campus with three buildings on Piazza Maggiore, and Sun peaceful place of green grass, wide-spreading Harbor East, one of Baltimore’s newest and most Massachusetts Avenue in northwest Washington, trees, brick residence halls and classroom buildings, dynamic neighborhoods. The 77,000-square-foot D.C.: the Rome Building at 1619 Massachusetts Yat-sen’s mausoleum. and interconnecting walkways that combine to space offers unparalleled views of a working Avenue, the Bernstein-Offit Building at 1717 create a comfortable country atmosphere in the seaport, where container ships still ferry raw sugar Massachusetts Avenue, and the Nitze Building at heart of a major city. It’s also just minutes— by to the Domino and tall ships from around the 1740 Massachusetts Avenue. SAIS classes are held Baltimore is the university’s hometown, but we’re bus, light rail, bike, or Johns Hopkins shuttle— world dock regularly. The Carey Business School in all three buildings, while the library, student at home throughout the world—with campuses in from the , Park at Camden Yards, occupies three and a half floors of the Legg Mason lounge, cafeteria, and most administrative offices Bologna, Italy, and Nanjing, China, in addition to Johns Hopkins’ medical campus, and the Peabody tower, sharing the structure with one of the world’s are housed in the Nitze Building. those in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., area. Institute. The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, top investment firms as well as other businesses. the Whiting School of Engineering, the School of The campus includes classrooms with video and SAIS Europe Education, the Carey Business School, and the audio technology, smaller rooms for breakout SAIS’ European campus is in Bologna, Italy, a city Peabody Institute offer classes and programs at groups and study sessions, an IT support desk, a with a long tradition of education, a rich cultural Homewood. business center offering print and fax capabilities, heritage, and a history of political vitality. American and a suite of offices dedicated to student and European students enjoy strong relationships East Baltimore organizations. with faculty, vigorous debate, and a cohesive social The East Baltimore campus is home to the School and intellectual community. Courses emphasize of Medicine, the Bloomberg School of Public Peabody economics, political science, history, and language Health, and the School of Nursing, as well as Johns Baltimore’s historic Mount Vernon neighborhood skills, and offer an international perspective on Hopkins Hospital. Ongoing redevelopment of an provides the Peabody campus with a backdrop of global issues. 88-acre, piano-shaped area to the north of the stunning 19th-century architecture and inviting campus has brought the Johns Hopkins Berman parks. Mount Vernon is a cultural urban village that Nanjing Institute of Bioethics to the neighborhood, along boasts museums, music, theater, international The Asian campus of SAIS is in Nanjing, China. The with the Henderson-Hopkins K–8 elementary/ cuisine, boutiques, festivals, and a thriving Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American middle school and the Harry and Jeanette nightlife. The neighborhood’s historic centerpiece is Studies opened in 1986 as a one-of-a-kind Weinberg Early Childhood Center. The neighbor- the Washington Monument, built in 1815 as the educational collaboration between Johns Hopkins hood features a 20-story residential tower called nation’s first monument to George Washington and and Nanjing universities. Located on the downtown the 929, a 10-story parking garage, a pharmacy, soaring 178 feet above four picturesque parks. campus of Nanjing University, the center educates and several new restaurants. Still to come are Mount Vernon is a special place, rich in history and future leaders in the only China-based international several residential developments and a central vibrant in the present, a neighborhood that program with spaces for genuinely free and open park. beckons residents and visitors to take their time academic exploration. and enrich their lives.

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Applied Physics Laboratory Montgomery County Campus The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics The Montgomery County Campus in Rockville, Laboratory, founded in 1942, moved from Maryland, offers classes and programs from the downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, to its Howard School of Education and the Krieger School of Arts County campus in 1954. Today, APL staff can be and Sciences. MCC aims to create a community of found working across almost 400 acres of rolling education, business, and government organiza- countryside that is approximately 50 percent tions, where collaborative thinking and scientific forested. The Laboratory, located in an area of rural discovery advance academic and economic farmland and newer housing communities, development. The campus is experiencing currently has more than 20 buildings, as well as significant growth, with plans to expand from its facilities at two nearby satellite campuses. In the current 215,000 square feet to more than 2.6 past decade, APL completed construction of several million square feet of academic, research, and new buildings which meet LEED certification. APL corporate space during the next few decades. has also won a Bicycle Friendly Business Award from the League of American Bicyclists. Columbia Center Located in Columbia, Maryland, and housing Washington, D.C., Center classes and programs of the School of Education Situated in the heart of Washington, D.C., the and the Carey Business School, the Columbia Center Washington Center provides an excellent learning has served adult students in the region since 1974. environment for Advanced Academic Programs and Some administrative and advising offices are many Krieger School of Arts and Sciences located there, as well as Professional Career Washington-based initiatives. The Bernstein-Offit Services, the office of Enrollment Management Building, located at 1717 Massachusetts Avenue, Services, the Student and Alumni Relations office, N.W., houses the administrative office for Advanced the office of International Services, the Center for Academic Programs as well as a Library Resource Teaching and Learning, and the Center for Center, faculty and student lounges, a large Technology in Education. Columbia Center facilities administrative/program management suite for include 19 classrooms, academic and career faculty and staff, 16 classrooms or seminar rooms, advising offices, three computer labs, an electronic two computer labs, and a large presentation library, two conference rooms, a bookstore, and room—all just two blocks south of Washington’s faculty and student lounges. and accessible by Metro.

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We have 3,250,086 volumes on our shelves.

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY FACT BOOK LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS

And more than 1.2 million By the numbers: The newest of the Sheridan Libraries, the Eisenhower Library’s Special Collections depart- Total volumes held: 3,250,086 Brody Learning Commons opened in August ment. Reflecting the scholarly interests of the 19th e-books are accessible from Electronic journal subscriptions: 93,957 2012. Connected to the Eisenhower Library on century, the library’s 300,000-volume collection is all floors, the BLC is open 24/7 and features a particularly strong in religion, British art, architec- Full-text electronic books: 1,210,320 the comfort of home. large quiet room, 16 group study rooms, ture, topography, and history; American history, teaching and seminar rooms, and a café. The Com- biography, and literature; Romance languages and Everything from e-books and research journals to The Sheridan Libraries mons is also home to the Department of Special literature; history of science; and geography, ex- Collections and the Department of Conservation ploration, and travel. The Library, DVDs and sheet music can be found in the system Located in Baltimore, the Sheridan Libraries primarily serve the schools of Arts and Sciences, and Preservation. Together, the interconnected MSE designed by Baltimore architect Edmund G. Lind, of libraries supporting Johns Hopkins. In many cases, Engineering, Education, and the Carey Business Library and the Brody Learning Commons counted is one of the most beautiful libraries in the world. the libraries are open to the public. School. more than 1.5 million visits in FY2014. Its magnificent neo-Grec interior features an atrium In Baltimore and the surrounding region, Opened in 1964, the Milton S. Eisenhower Commonly referred to as “the Hut,” the surrounded by five tiers of ornamental cast-iron Albert D. Hutzler Reading Room occupies a balconies, gold-scalloped columns, and a latticed Johns Hopkins maintains the Milton S. Eisenhower Library is the university’s principal research library. Our largest library, it was named for the central room in Gilman Hall, the oldest academic skylight more than 60 feet above a -and- Library, the Brody Learning Commons, and the university’s eighth president, whose vision brought building on the Homewood campus, and features white marble floor. a high ceiling and beautiful stained-glass windows Albert D. Hutzler Reading Room, all on the Home- together the university’s collection of books, bearing the printers’ marks of 18 Renaissance printers. wood campus; the Welch Medical Library, the John journals, and other scholarly resources. Strengths Other university libraries: in the humanities include German and Romance The John Work Garrett Library is Work Garrett Library, the , The William H. Welch Medical Library collects languages, philosophy, and the ancient Near East. located in Evergreen Museum & Library, the former and the Friedheim Library in the city of Baltimore; current scholarly information that supports the In science and engineering, collection strengths residence of Ambassador John Work Garrett and research, clinical, administrative, and educational and libraries for regional campuses and centers in include biomedical engineering, chemistry, and his wife, Alice Warder Garrett. The house was be- needs of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Maryland and Washington, D.C., which is also home environmental engineering. The library also offers queathed to the university in 1942, and the library Because the library’s emphasis is on providing an extensive array of electronic resources, including contains about 28,600 volumes. The collection, to SAIS’ Mason Library. SAIS also has libraries at its materials at point of need, the collection is full-text books and journals, specialized databases, which can be used by appointment, features 16th- campuses in Bologna, Italy, and Nanjing, China. primarily in electronic format. It covers health, the and statistical and cartographic data. and 17th-century English literature, especially the Along with millions of books, the libraries works of Shakespeare, Bacon, Spenser, and Milton. practice of medicine and related biomedical and provide 24/7 access to electronic journals, e-books, Also strong in natural history, the library has some allied health care disciplines, public health and related disciplines, nursing, research literature, and special collections including rare books, manu- of the most important and beautiful ornithological works ever produced by John James Audubon, methodological literature, reviews or state-of-the- scripts, and archives. John Gould, and Alexander Wilson. The Fowler art reports, and in-depth, authoritative analyses of The university is also home to three museums— Architectural Collection focuses on early editions areas influencing biomedicine and health care. the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum, Home- of Vitruvius and the great Renaissance architects The electronic collection includes more than 5,000 journals, more than 400 databases, and more than wood Museum, and Evergreen Museum & Library. Alberti, Serlio, Palladio, Vignola, and Scamozzi. The George Peabody Library dates from 8,000 e-books. The WelDoc Service provides access All three are open to the public for tours, exhibitions, the founding of the Peabody Institute in 1857. to materials not in the Hopkins collections. lectures, and other events, and are increasingly In 1982, the Peabody Library became part of the The History of Medicine collection on the involved in the academic life of the university.

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third floor of the Welch Building is a comprehensive collections that support the curriculum and perspective on the evolution of American collecting collection, print and electronic, of history of research interests of the SAIS community and from the post-Civil War industrial revolution to the medicine materials. providing convenient and seamless access to print, modern jet age. Contemporary artists are regularly electronic, and other resources to facilitate research invited to respond to the historic property, and the The Arthur Friedheim Music Library is one and expand scholarship. museum presents exhibitions and programs that of the largest and oldest music collections in the explore the Garretts’ legacy as art patrons. country. Located in Peabody’s Leakin Hall, it serves Robert H. Evans Library at SAIS Europe in the faculty, staff, and students at the Peabody Bologna, Italy, is dedicated to the memory of Evans, Institute and Johns Hopkins University, as well as a distinguished alumnus from the class of 1960 One of the finest extant examples of American the general public. Holdings include more than and director of the center from 1992 to 2003. Federal architecture and interior design, 200,000 books, scores, and periodicals; 40,000 The collection consists of more than 85,000 Homewood was built in 1802 for newlyweds sound recordings in all formats; 3,000 DVDs and volumes, specializing in international economics, Charles and Harriet Chew Carroll. The 130-acre videos; microform; and more than 5,400 linear feet international relations, contemporary history, property became the university’s suburban campus of archival and special collections. The Friedheim international law, political science, and European a century later with the historic house serving as Library offers 24-hour electronic access, both on history and politics. There are strong holdings in the architectural inspiration for campus buildings. The and off campus, to many full-text journals, foreign relations of the United States, furnishings of Homewood Museum, a National databases, and streaming media. Alliance and European integration, and an Historic Landmark that opened to the public in extensive collection of English-language materials 1987, reflect the elegant opulence of the Carroll The Hopkins-Nanjing Center Library on Italian government and politics. The library’s family’s occupancy (1802–1832). With American The research library at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center primary mission is to support the educational goals and imported furniture, ceramics, silver, and other for Chinese and American Studies in China features of the SAIS community, but it is also open to local fine and decorative art objects, the museum’s more than 120,000 volumes in English and Chinese, and visiting readers. period interiors reflect the ideals and culture of a 400 periodicals, and access to thousands of electronic new nation while offering visitors an intimate look resources held by both Johns Hopkins and Nanjing at the early 19th-century lifestyle of a prominent University. It is the only uncensored, open-stack Museums Maryland family. library on the mainland of the People’s Republic of Evergreen Museum & Library China. Floor-to-ceiling windows, reading carrels, Evergreen Museum & Library, which opened to Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum couches, and meeting rooms provide students with the public in 1990, is renowned for its diverse The Archaeological Museum was founded in 1882 a pleasing study environment. holdings of Asian, European, and American art. to encourage and enliven the study of the ancient Of particular interest are Japanese lacquerware, world through the close study of artifacts. The The Sydney R. and Elsa W. Mason Library art glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany, postimpres- installation highlights nearly 700 archaeological offers comprehensive library services to SAIS sionist paintings, the John Work Garrett Library of objects from ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, the Near students, faculty, and staff. It is located on the sixth, rare books and manuscripts, and the only known East, and the ancient Americas, all exhibited in the seventh, and eighth floors of the Nitze Building, at theater designed by revolutionary stage designer custom-built museum facility set within the newly 1740 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Léon Bakst. The former Italianate residence of two renovated Gilman Hall atrium. Its goals include developing and preserving generations of Baltimore’s philanthropic Garrett family (1878–1952), the museum offers a unique

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY FACT BOOK ATHLETICS

We first fielded a men’s team in 1883, seven years after the founding of the university.

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY FACT BOOK ATHLETICS

Since then, the Blue Jays Mascot: Blue Jay Club sports: Intramural sports: Division I teams: Undergraduate Undergraduate have won 44 national Badminton, Brazilian Jujitsu, Cycling, Field Indoor Soccer, Volleyball, 3-on-3 Men’s Lacrosse, Big Ten Hockey, , Men’s Lacrosse, Men’s Basketball, Flag Football, Women’s Lacrosse, Big Ten titles, including nine since Soccer, Men’s Squash, Men’s Rugby, Men’s Basketball, Wallyball, Soccer, and men’s lacrosse became Division III teams, : Ultimate, Men’s Volleyball, Outdoors Club Innertube Water Polo Baseball (JHOC), Softball, Swimming, Table Tennis, Graduate an NCAA sport. Men’s & Women’s Basketball Taekwondo Sport (HST), Taekwondo Basketball, Soccer, and Softball Men’s & Women’s Cross Country (T. Kang), Tennis, Water Polo, Women’s Basketball, Women’s Lacrosse, Women’s But the Blue Jays are not just about lacrosse. The uni- Field Hockey Football Soccer, Women’s Squash, Women’s versity fields 24 varsity teams that routinely qualify for Men’s & Women’s Soccer Ultimate, Women’s Volleyball, and NCAA championship play. Beyond the varsity squads, Men’s & Women’s Tennis Wrestling Club many students get in the game through the university’s Men’s & Women’s Track (indoor & outdoor) Graduate Women’s Volleyball 11 intramural sports, including 3-on-3 basketball, flag Aikido, Cricket, Karate, Soccer Wrestling football, and wallyball. There’s also an array of club sports, ranging from badminton and Brazilian jujitsu Division III teams, other conferences or independent: to water polo and wrestling. Men’s Fencing, Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Fencing Association Women’s Fencing, Eastern Women’s Fencing Conference Men’s and Women’s Swimming, independent Water Polo, Collegiate Water Polo Association Athletic facilities include a baseball field, named Babb Field at Stromberg Stadium, , the Newton H. White Athletic Center, the Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center, and tennis courts on the Homewood campus; and the Denton A. Cooley Center on the East Baltimore campus.

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Our roots are in Baltimore.

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COMMUNITY

Johns Hopkins is truly Key Baltimore-Based Community district around the Homewood campus. The goal of Baltimore. Since 2008, Johns Hopkins has provided Engagement the partnership is to boost quality of life in the more than $5 million in grants to 587 of the 15,000 and proudly of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins isn’t acting alone; it is committed to surrounding neighborhoods, reduce blight, improve university and health system employees who call building community through collaborations with education, catalyze commercial and retail Baltimore City home. and our faculty, staff, and development, and strengthen local hiring and those vested in the improvement of Baltimore, Center for Social Concern: CSC provides a base including neighborhood leadership, business purchasing. In 2012, Johns Hopkins University students contribute to city committed $10 million to the initiative. for more than 50 student-run programs that serve interests, nonprofits, institutions, foundations, and Baltimore communities. In 2009–2010, more than life in ways both large and government. East Baltimore Revitalization: Johns Hopkins 1,500 students performed nearly 80,000 hours of small. HopkinsLocal: University, partnering with East Baltimore Develop- volunteer work through these programs. ment Inc., the city of Baltimore, the Annie E. Casey Launched in fall 2015, this initiative is a firm Baltimore Scholars Program: Launched in commitment to leverage Johns Hopkins’ economic Foundation, and others, has invested in the With his bequest establishing a hospital and a 2004 to provide full-tuition scholarships to any power to expand participation of local and large-scale revitalization of areas around Johns university in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins ensured that Hopkins’ East Baltimore campus. The effort seeks admitted graduates of city public schools, the minority-owned businesses in construction Baltimore Scholars Program reflects the university’s helping others would be his legacy. Today, enhancing opportunities; increase its hiring of city residents, to reverse historical trends and transform the neighborhood into a thriving mixed-income long-standing investment in Baltimore’s students and enriching our ties to Baltimore is one of President with a focus on neighborhoods in need of job community for families, businesses, and public and schools. The program recognizes high-poten- Daniels’ key priorities for the university community. opportunities; and enhance economic growth, tial students from the communities around Johns employment, and investment in Baltimore through institutions. Collectively, about $650 million has As the city’s largest anchor institution, Johns been invested in the project to date. Hopkins campuses and has attracted more than our purchasing activities. HopkinsLocal builds on 180 of the city’s brightest young scholars to JHU’s Hopkins feels the constant pull of urban issues. We existing community partnerships, projects with city Elmer A. Henderson: A Johns Hopkins Homewood campus schools and the Peabody are answering the call with major investments like the schools, and job training programs to sustain Partnership School: Operating under a contract Institute. Over the last five years, Johns Hopkins has ongoing revitalization of East Baltimore, where the healthier, safer, and more vibrant communities. with Baltimore City Public Schools, Henderson- spent $11.6 million on the Baltimore Scholars School of Education operates Elmer A. Henderson: BLocal: Hopkins is a K-8 school serving 260 students in Program; in the next five, it will spend more than A Johns Hopkins Partnership School in conjunction Johns Hopkins is among 25 Baltimore-area a new $43 million, 90,000-square-foot facility on $20 million. a seven-acre campus within the East Baltimore with the city and . The businesses and institutions that joined together in President’s Day of Service: This universitywide spring 2016 to commit to expanding existing Development Inc. redevelopment area. The $43 million, 90,000-square-foot facility is East day of service sends approximately 1,000 students, programs or launch new ones to build, hire, invest, school shares the site with the $10 million, Baltimore’s first new public school building in more 30,000-square-foot Harry and Jeanette Weinberg faculty, and staff to participate in volunteer projects and buy locally. These commitments will infuse at throughout the Baltimore area. than 20 years. least $69 million into local and minority-owned, Early Childhood Center. Using curricula developed at the School of Education, and maximizing the President Daniels has emphasized the university’s women-owned, and disadvantaged businesses Economic Impact: Johns Hopkins is Baltimore’s university’s expertise from across its divisions, over the next three years. largest employer, a major purchaser of goods and commitment to the city throughout his tenure. In the Henderson-Hopkins pursues the most contempo- services, a sponsor of large-scale construction rary, effective approaches to meeting the needs of wake of Baltimore’s unrest in 2015, he has sought to Homewood Community Partners Initiative: projects, and a magnet for students and visitors. In students, their families, and the community. foster dialogue among government, institutions, and This unique university-community partnership fiscal year 2014, we estimate that Johns Hopkins’ includes 10 neighborhoods and one commercial residents, and to enhance and expand the university’s Live Near Your Work: This program provides economic impact was more than $9.1 billion commitment to its hometown. grants to encourage Johns Hopkins employees to statewide and $4.7 billion in Baltimore City. purchase homes near its principal locations in JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY FACT BOOK

Three bachelor’s degrees were conferred in spring 1879.

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By spring 2018, that Freshman Admission Selectivity (2018) ‘U.S. News & World Report’ Costs and Financial Aid Applicants: 29,129 2019 undergraduate rankings Tuition: $53,740 number had increased Admitted: 2,284 National university: 10 (tie) Room and board (double room, “anytime” by 56,667 percent. Enrolled: 1,319 Undergraduate engineering: 14 (tie) meal plan): $15,836 Admit rate: 13 percent High school counselor ranking: 6 (tie) Average need-based grant for first-year Early Decision available? Yes On lists of schools that are noted for socioeconomic students: $44,318 The undergraduate educational experience has come a Early Decision applicants: 2,037 diversity, innovation, and that are considered the Students receiving aid: nearly 51 percent long way since George W. McCreary, A. Chase Palmer, Admitted Early Decision applicants: 610 best values. Estimated costs for 2018-19 and Edward Henry Spieker picked up their diplomas Standardized Tests Students Projected total aid for undergraduates in 2018-19: on June 12, 1879, at the close of Johns Hopkins’ third Middle 50th percentile for admitted students: Enrolled undergraduates: 5,615 $106 million academic year. SAT Composite: 1480–1550 Geographic origin: all 50 states, 70 nations Student Life The academic offerings have increased exponen- ACT: 33–35 Male/female ratio: 52/48 percent More than 300 student groups and organizations tially. The university awarded 1,523 bachelor’s degrees Programs of Study Enrollment by racial/ethnic category: 29 percent More than 60 student-run groups dedicated to across all divisions on May 23, 2018, joining more Majors: 52 white; 30 percent Asian/Pacific Islander; 14 percent volunteerism or service than 213,920 alumni worldwide. The majority of those Minors: 46 Hispanic; 11 percent Black; <1 percent American Ten sororities, 13 fraternities, 21 percent of students degrees were earned by undergraduates on the Home- Indian/Alaskan Native; 5 percent ethnicity involved in Greek life Most Popular Majors (Homewood) unknown; 11 percent international. More than 40 club sports; more than 1,000 wood campus, home to the Krieger School of Arts and students participate in intramurals Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering. Public Health Studies Freshman retention rate: 98 percent International Studies Graduation rate: 94 percent Johns Hopkins also offers undergraduate programs Neuroscience through the Carey Business School, the Peabody Biomedical Engineering Institute, and the School of Nursing. Economics

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We eradicated boring lectures.

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The seminar method Throughout the university’s campuses locally The School of Education offers a full-time Doctor ‘U.S. News & World Report’ and worldwide, more than 20,000 full-time and of Philosophy program, an interdisciplinary graduate rankings: of instruction was part-time graduate students study in approach to address policy and practice challenges Bloomberg School of Public Health: 1 180 fields. associated with improving children’s introduced in the United classroom success from preschool through School of Education: 17 The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and high school. School of Nursing: 1 States by a Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering offer36 different School of Medicine: 2 University postdoctoral full-time graduate programs. The Peabody Conservatory’s graduate-level conducting program is highly competitive: Biomedical engineering: 1 Graduate students in the Krieger and Whiting The acceptance rate is only about one in seven. student. schools collaborate at the Hopkins Extreme Biological sciences: 5 (tie) Materials Institute to protect people, Students in the full-time Master of Public Health Statistics: 5 structures, and the planet by advancing the program spend 11 months interacting with American students have historian Herbert Baxter Environmental health engineering: 9 fundamental science of materials and structures faculty at the Bloomberg School of Public Health Adams to thank for today’s give-and-take classroom vibe under extreme conditions. They develop who are renowned for teaching, practice, between professors and students. A postdoctoral fellow science-based tools for academia, industry, and ongoing research around the world. in history, Adams imported the seminar method to the and the government. The School of Medicine was the first major United States from in Germany, Faculty and graduate-level researchers collaborate medical school in the U.S. to admit women. where he earned his doctorate in 1876 prior to starting with government and industry to address the Today, approximately 50 percent of the students his career at Johns Hopkins. Adams championed the idea nation’s cybersecurity and privacy issues in in the school are women. the Whiting School’s Information Security Institute. that graduate students would learn more by conducting It has been designated as a Center of Academic In the School of Nursing’s Simulation Center, their own research and then presenting it in class for Excellence in Information Assurance by the graduate students get hands-on experience critique from both the professor and fellow students, . without risk to patients. Instead they may first practice their skills with “Sim Fam” members like rather than the old-school style of listening to lectures Students pursuing a Master of Arts in international Harvey, Noelle, and Sim Baby. and taking exams. Adams’ philosophy subsequently studies from SAIS’ Hopkins-Nanjing Center caught on at colleges and universities across the country. complete course work and a thesis entirely in Candidates for a Global MBA at the Carey Business School take a yearlong course called Discovery to That spirit of inquiry fostered by Adams and his Chinese. This demands a high level of Chinese Market, where students work with inventors and colleagues is alive today at Johns Hopkins, where the language proficiency and well-developed cultural sensitivity. entrepreneurs to commercialize actual university’s nine academic divisions offer full-time gradu- scientific discoveries. ate programs that provide rigorous course work and research opportunities with world-renowned faculty. For working professionals, there are also numerous part-time and nondegree programs available.

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