The JohnsHopkinsUniversity, founded in Baltimore in 1876, was the first university in the Western Hemisphere founded on the model of the European research institution, where research and the advancement of knowledge were integrally linked to teaching. Its establishment began a revolution in U.S. higher education.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 both the university and The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
The university has nine academic divisions and campuses throughout the Baltimore-Washington area. The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering, the School of Education and the CareyBusinessSchool are based at the Homewood campus in northern Baltimore. The schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing share a campus in east Baltimore with The Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Peabody Institute, a leading professional school of music, is located on Mount Vernon Place in downtown Baltimore. The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies is located in Washington's Dupont Circle area.
Johns Hopkins also has a campus near Rockville in Montgomery County, Md., and has academic facilities in Nanjing, China, and in Bologna, Italy. It maintains a network of continuing education facilities throughout the Baltimore-Washington region, including centers in downtown Baltimore, in downtown Washington and in Columbia.
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.
University housing is provided to registered, full-time JohnsHopkinsUniversity's KriegerSchool of Arts & Sciences and Whiting School of Engineering undergraduate students.
On-campus housing is required for all freshmen and sophomores at Johns Hopkins, with exceptions for commuter students who live close to campus. Juniors and seniors choose between entering the on-campus housing lottery or moving into nearby apartments or row houses. Housing is not guaranteed for all four years at Johns Hopkins.
Freshmen housing is centered around Freshman Quad which consists of three major residence hall complexes :The Alumni Memorial Residences (AMR I and AMR II), Building A and Building B.
Off-Campus Housing :
University provide a list of private residential and commercial properties in the area that offer leases of various lengths, including short-term.
The Johns Hopkins Library network includes the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, one of the Sheridan Libraries, and the principal research library at the university.
Other specialized collections in medicine, international affairs, music, and earth and space science are located across the university’s campuses.
Smaller collections are also maintained at the satellite campuses and centers.
The Johns Hopkins University Library system houses more than 3.6 million volumes.It includes ten main divisions: the Sheridan Libraries at Homewood, the Medical Institutions Libraries, the School of Nursing Library, Abraham M. Lilienfeld Library at the Bloomberg School, the Peabody Institute Library, the Carey Business School and School of Education libraries, the School of Advanced International Studies Libraries (Sydney R. and Elsa W. Mason Library and Bologna Center Library), the R.E. Gibson Library at the Applied Physics Laboratory Library and other minor satellite locations, as well as the archives.
SAIS offers several kinds of financial aid options, awarded on the basis of need and merit, and provides information and assistance with applying for aid.
Candidates should recognize, however, that although SAIS does offer limited fellowship funding each year, the cost of attending school is significant, so students should plan carefully.Very few SAIS fellowship awards cover full tuition, and they do not include living stipends. Students are therefore encouraged to seek other sources of funding in addition to applying for a SAIS fellowship.
There are some outside sources of funding available to many students.
Loans :
Private loans are available to assist students in financing educational costs (as defined by JohnsHopkinsUniversity) less any financial aid. For most of these loans, the student is the borrower with the parent as a cosigner. Interest rates generally are variable.
The Hodson Trust Scholarship :
This highly competitive merit-based scholarship is renewable for up to three additional years of undergraduate study if the recipient maintains a 3.0 GPA.
Students selected as Hodson Trust Scholars have demonstrated excellence in their curriculum, extraordinary intellectual curiosity, academic inquisitiveness, and extensive leadership in high school and community activities.
All accepted freshman applicants are considered for this scholarship.
Athletic teams at Johns Hopkins are called the Blue Jays.Hopkins celebrates Homecoming in the spring to coincide with the height of the lacrosse season. Outside of the Men s and Women s Division I lacrosse teams, Hopkins participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III and the Centennial Conference.
Men s lacrosse :
The school s most prominent team is its Division I men s lacrosse team. The team is an independent and does not belong to a conference.
The team enjoys a winning tradition and has won 44 national titles - nine National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I, 29 United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA), and six Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (ILA) titles.
Women s lacrosse :
The school s Division I women s lacrosse team is a member of the American Lacrosse Conference (ALC). The team is developing into a top twenty caliber team. The Lady Blue Jays were ranked number 19 in the 2008 Inside Lacrosse Women s DI Media Poll (ILWDIMP).
They ranked number 8 in both the 2007 Intercollegiate Women s Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Poll for Division I and the ILWDIMP.
Other teams :
Hopkins also has several notable Division III Athletic teams. 2006–2007 saw Hopkins winning the Centennial Conference titles in Baseball, Men s and Women s Soccer, Men s and Women s Tennis and Men s Basketball.
Hopkins also has an acclaimed fencing team, which has ranked in the top three of Division III teams in the past few years and in both 2008 and 2007 defeated the University of North Carolina, a Division I team.
The Swimming team also has ranked in the top two of Division III for the last 10 years.
LacrosseMuseum and National Hall of Fame :
The LacrosseMuseum and National Hall of Fame, maintained by US Lacrosse, is on the Homewood campus adjacent to the home field for the lacrosse teams, Homewood Field. Johns Hopkins lacrosse teams have represented the United States in international competition.
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