Johns Hopkins University

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (1876) is a private university located in Baltimore, Maryland. Johns Hopkins offers both undergraduate and graduate programs and was the first university in the United States to emphasize research in education. The mission of Hopkins is “The encouragement of research … and the advancement of individual scholars, who by their excellence will advance the sciences they pursue, and the society where they dwell.” Johns Hopkins, in fact, was a model for most large research universities throughout the United States.

The university boasts 32 Nobel laureates and is academically strong in every discipline, from art history to biomédical engineering to international studies to romantic languages.

Johns Hopkins used $1.44 billion in science, medical, and engineering research in the 2005 fiscal year, which made it the leading U.S. academic institution in research and development spending. The National Science Foundation ranked Johns Hopkins as number one on the list of institutions receiving federally funded research and development, which for Johns Hopkins amounted to over $1.2 billion. Research at Johns Hopkins on stem cells is supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), healthcare organizations, partnerships with corporations, and private donors.

At Johns Hopkins, undergraduate students are expected and encouraged to become involved with undergraduate research. In this respect, some undergraduate students have the opportunity to work alongside graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and leading professionals in science to study stem cells in a laboratory setting. Johns Hopkins is also renowned for its academic healthcare centers and its graduate schools of medicine, public health, and international studies. The Johns Hopkins Hospital was ranked as the top hospital in the United States in the U.S. News and World Report annual ranking of American hospitals for the 17th year in a row; the medical school ranked second in the nation.