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JOHNS HOPKINS

BASIC INFORMATION:

BRIEF HISTORY:

  • Located in Baltimore, Maryland

  • The school's motto is Veritas vos liberabit, which means ''The truth will set you free''

  • The number of students attending is approximately 30,550

  • The student-faculty ratio is 7:1

  • The university's model was dedicated to the discovery of knowledge at an advanced level, based on the German Heidelberg University

  • The Johns Hopkins University Press was founded in 1878 and is the oldest American university press in continuous operation

  • 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:

  • Over 50 majors and minors

  • Majors - Behavioral Biology, Biophysics, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Engineering Mechanics, Materials Science and Engineering and more

  • Minors - Robotics, Space Science and Engineering, Energy, Bioethics, Computer Integrated Surgery...

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ALUMNI:

SOME FAMOUS ALUMNI:

  • 39 Nobel Prize laureates (October 2019)

  • Pulitzer Prizes

  • Oscars

  • Grammys

  • Emmys

  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (novelist)

  • Virginia Apgar (Apgar score for newborns)

  • Russel Baker (Pulitzer Prize, New York Times writer)

  •  Victor A. McKusich (medical genetist, Mendelian Inheritance in Man)

  • John A. Wheeler (physicist)

CAMPUS INFO:

  • Homewood Campus - School of Education, Whiting School of English, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences

  • East Baltimore - Johns Hopkins Baltimore School of Public Health, School of Medicine, School of Nursing

  • Downtown Baltimore - Carey Business School, Peabody Institute

  • Washington, D.C. - Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Advanced Academic Programs, Carey Business School

  • 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)

  • 4 International Campuses

REQUIREMENTS:

John Hopkins Requirements
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