Facts At A Glance

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.

Today, the university enrolls more than 19,000 full-time and part-time students on three major campuses in Baltimore, one in Washington, D.C., one in Montgomery County, Md., and facilities throughout the Baltimore-Washington area and in China and Italy.

The headquarters campus — Homewood — has almost 4,400 full-time undergraduates and more than 1,600 full-time graduate students in two schools, the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering.

Johns Hopkins has offered courses for part-time students since its founding, and established a formal division to administer continuing education in 1909. Today, part-time students — primarily master's degree candidates — account for almost 45 percent of all Johns Hopkins students.

The university employs about 33,000 people in full-time, part-time and temporary positions. It is one of Maryland's largest private employers.

The Johns Hopkins Institutions — that is, the university and The Johns Hopkins Health System, a separate corporation — together constitute the state's largest private employer. In fiscal 2002, spending by the university, the Health System and their affiliates generated — directly and indirectly — an estimated $7 billion of income in Maryland, roughly one of every 28 dollars in the state's economy.

Johns Hopkins ranks first among U.S. universities in receipt of federal research and development funds. The School of Medicine ranks first among medical schools in receipt of extramural awards from the National Institutes of Health. The Bloomberg School of Public Health is first among all public health schools in research support from the federal government.

January 2006