Johns Hopkins University (JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, the university was named for its first benefactor, the American abolitionist and philanthropist Johns Hopkins. His $7 million bequest (approximately $144 million in today’s dollars)—of which half financed the establishment of The Johns Hopkins Hospital—was the largest philanthropic gift in U.S. history at that time. Daniel Coit Gilman, who was inaugurated as the institution’s first president on February 22, 1876, led the university to revolutionize higher education in the U.S. by integrating teaching and research. Adopting German research-oriented models of higher learning, Johns Hopkins introduced graduate programs in medicine, engineering and science from 1883; all three remain today among its highly ranked professional schools. The first classes were held on September 9th with five professors and fifteen students.
Today, Johns Hopkins enrolls more than 24,000 full-time and part-time students throughout nine academic divisions: The Krieger School of Arts & Sciences; Whiting School of Engineering; Bloomberg School of Public Health; School of Education; Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS); Peabody Institute; Carey Business School; Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Social Sciences; and an applied physics laboratory. JHU’s main campus comprises 109 acres (44 ha) near Homewood Field in northern Baltimore along Charles Street/Maryland Route 139. Most undergraduate programs at JHU are taught at these two campuses north of downtown Baltimore, although some classes—primarily those for continuing studies students or specialized master’s degree programs—are offered at sites throughout downtown Baltimore and elsewhere around Maryland including Washington D.C., Montgomery County, Columbia, Towson, Timonium,, Bel Air, Owings Mills,, Rockville, Frederick, Gaithersburg,] Germantown,[30[] Annapolis[32[] Chestertown[34[] Shady Grove[36[] White Marsh[38[] Aberdeen Proving Ground . In addition to its main Homewood campus in Baltimore City’s Roland Park neighborhood north of downtownBaltimore (often referred to simply as “the Homewood campus”), JHU operates a second major undergraduate campus just outside Columbia called Eastern Campus which primarily serves upperclassmen studying arts & sciences disciplines though it also offers business courses through Carey Business School as well as housing for juniors & seniors enrolled at any JHU school or division across all locations . Freshmen may choose to live on either one but must declare their preference prior to arriving on campus during Orientation Week preceding their first semester . All incoming undergraduates regardless of chosen residence are required to participate in a 3 week long “Bridge Program” designed to ease their transition into college life which begins immediately after New Student Orientation ends . During Bridge , freshmen take a mix