National Universities USA – 2016 – Johns Hopkins University – Rank 11/100

National Universities USA – 2016 – Johns Hopkins University – Rank 11/100


National Universities USA – 2016 – Johns Hopkins University – Rank 11/100

Johns Hopkins University

3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Phone: (410) 516-8000

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Johns Hopkins University is a private institution that was founded in 1876. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 6,469, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 140 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Johns Hopkins University’s ranking in the 2016 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 10. Its tuition and fees are $48,710 (2015-16).

Johns Hopkins University has four main campuses in and around Baltimore. The Homewood Campus, located next to the eclectic neighborhood of Charles Village, is the primary campus for undergraduates, and three other campuses house various graduate schools. Hopkins also has three additional campuses for its School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C.; Bologna, Italy; and Nanjing, China. The Hopkins Blue Jays compete in the NCAA Division III Centennial Conference, but they are perhaps best known for their consistently dominant men’s lacrosse team, which competes in NCAA Division I competitions. Freshmen and sophomores are required to live in on-campus residences. There is a sizeable Greek community with a membership of more than 1,000 students.

Johns Hopkins University is divided into nine schools, five of which serve undergraduate and graduate students. Hopkins’ graduate programs include the top ranked Bloomberg School of Public Health and the highly ranked School of Education, Whiting School of Engineering, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, SAIS and the well-regarded Peabody Institute for music and dance. Johns Hopkins Hospital is the top-ranked overall hospital in the nation, with the majority of its specialties ranked in the top five. Former U.S. president Woodrow Wilson, former president of the NAACP Kweisi Mfume and businessman and the 108th Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg all received degrees from Hopkins.

Johns Hopkins students are passionate about intellectual exploration; they are eager for life in a community of equally ambitious scholars and teachers. This community is based at Homewood, a serene, tree-lined 140 acre campus next to the eclectic north Baltimore neighborhood of Charles Village. Here, students partner with their mentors to push the boundaries of knowledge. Johns Hopkins exposes these independent thinkers to new tools of analysis and new perspectives on the arts, humanities, social and natural sciences and engineering. At the same time, they engage with fellow students outside the classroom in intellectual, cultural, service and recreational pursuits that greatly enrich their education. When our students graduate, they join a global alumni body of men and women who use knowledge and experience acquired at Johns Hopkins to change the world.

Rankings, Scores & Key Indicators

Score – 90
High school counselor score (out of 5) – 4.9
Average freshman retention rate – 97%
Classes with fewer than 20 students – 71.9%
Classes with 50 or more students – 10%
Student-faculty ratio – 10:1
Fall 2014 acceptance rate – 15%
6-year graduation rate – 94%

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