Facts At A Glance
The Johns Hopkins University,
founded in 1876, was the first university in the Western
Hemisphere based on the European research institution,
with a mission both to teach and to advance human knowledge
through discovery. Its establishment revolutionized U.S.
higher education; today, it remains a world leader in
education, research and patient care.
The university is named for
its initial benefactor, Baltimore merchant Johns
Hopkins, whose $7 million bequest — the
largest U.S. philanthropic gift to that time —
was divided evenly to finance the establishment of
the university and The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Today, the university enrolls
nearly 20,000 full-time and part-time students on
three major campuses in Baltimore, one in Washington,
D.C., one in Montgomery County, Md., and facilities
throughout the Baltimore-Washington area and in
China and Italy.
The headquarters campus —
Homewood — has more than 4,700 full-time undergraduates
and about 1,600 full-time graduate students in
two schools, the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
and the Whiting School of Engineering.
Johns Hopkins has offered
courses for part-time students since its founding,
and established a formal division to administer
continuing education in 1909. Today, part-time
students — primarily master's degree
candidates — account for nearly 40
percent of Johns Hopkins enrollment.
The university employs
about 27,000 people in full-time, part-time and
temporary positions. It is one of Maryland's
largest private employers.
The Johns Hopkins Institutions
— that is, the university and the Johns
Hopkins Health System, a separate corporation
— together constitute the state's
largest private employer.
Johns Hopkins ranks first
among U.S. universities in receipt of federal
research and development funds. The School of
Medicine ranks first among medical schools
in receipt of extramural awards from the
National Institutes of Health. The Bloomberg
School of Public Health is first among its peers
in research support from the federal government.
The mission of The Johns Hopkins University is to educate its students and cultivate their capacity for life-long learning, to foster independent and original research, and to bring the benefits of discovery to the world.
