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JOHNS HOPKINS
BASIC INFORMATION:
BRIEF HISTORY:
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Located in Baltimore, Maryland
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The school's motto is Veritas vos liberabit, which means ''The truth will set you free''
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The number of students attending is approximately 30,550
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The student-faculty ratio is 7:1
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The university's model was dedicated to the discovery of knowledge at an advanced level, based on the German Heidelberg University
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The Johns Hopkins University Press was founded in 1878 and is the oldest American university press in continuous operation
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When the Johns Hopkins Hospital (1889) and the medical school (1893) were finished, the university's focus on research began to attract world-faculty members
UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS AND MINORS:
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Over 50 majors and minors
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Majors - Behavioral Biology, Biophysics, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Engineering Mechanics, Materials Science and Engineering and more
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Minors - Robotics, Space Science and Engineering, Energy, Bioethics, Computer Integrated Surgery...
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ALUMNI:
SOME FAMOUS ALUMNI:
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39 Nobel Prize laureates (October 2019)
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Pulitzer Prizes
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Oscars
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Grammys
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Emmys
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (novelist)
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Virginia Apgar (Apgar score for newborns)
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Russel Baker (Pulitzer Prize, New York Times writer)
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Victor A. McKusich (medical genetist, Mendelian Inheritance in Man)
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John A. Wheeler (physicist)
CAMPUS INFO:
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Homewood Campus - School of Education, Whiting School of English, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
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East Baltimore - Johns Hopkins Baltimore School of Public Health, School of Medicine, School of Nursing
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Downtown Baltimore - Carey Business School, Peabody Institute
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Washington, D.C. - Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Advanced Academic Programs, Carey Business School
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Laurel, Maryland - The Applied Physics Laboratory (specializes in research for the US Department of Defense, NASA...; Primary campus for master's degrees in STEM fields)
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4 International Campuses
REQUIREMENTS:
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