Johns Hopkins is a large, highly-residential, majority post-graduate research university.[37] The full-time, four year undergraduate program is "most selective"[38] with low transfer-in and a high graduate co-existence.[37] The university is one of fourteen founding members of the Association of American Universities (AAU); it is also a member of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE) and the Universities Research Association (URA).

Student body

Johns Hopkins U. received 1,155 Early Decision (First choice) applications in the 2009-2010 cycle, up more than 10% from the previous year. [39] JHU received 16,006 total applications for the 2008–2009 academic year. The undergraduate programs enrolled 4,591 students and granted 1,464 degrees in 2007.[40] 14,848 students applied for admissions to the undergraduate program for the 2007–2008 academic year, 3,603 were admitted (24%), and 1,206 enrolled (33%).[40] 82% of admitted students graduate in the top tenth of their high school class and the inter-quartile range on the SAT reading was 660-760, math was 690-780, and writing was 670-760. 97% of freshmen rematriculated after the first year, 84% of students graduated in 4 years and 91% graduated in 6 years.[40]

Rankings

Templat:Infobox US university rankingComprehensively, The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) ranked Johns Hopkins University #9 nationally and #13 worldwide in 2008.[41]

The 2009 The Global University Ranking (GUR) ranked Johns Hopkins #9 worldwide.

The 2009 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) ranked Johns Hopkins #19 worldwide.[42]

At the undergraduate level, Hopkins was ranked #14 among National Universities by U.S. News and World Report (USNWR).[43]

For medical and public health research U.S. News and World Report ranked the School of Medicine #2[44] and has consistently ranked the Bloomberg School of Public Health #1[45] in the nation. The School of Nursing was ranked #4 nationally among peer institutions.[46] The Times Higher Education Supplement ranked Johns Hopkins University #3 in the world for biomedicine and life sciences.[47] Hopkins ranks #1 nationally in receipt of federal research funds and the School of Medicine is #1 among medical schools in receipt of extramural awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).[48]

Although no formal rankings exist for International Relations, a study conducted by the Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations[49] at the College of William & Mary examined graduate international relations programs throughout the United States, interviewing over 1,000 professionals in the field, with the results subsequently published in the November/December 2005 issue of Foreign Policy magazine. One of study's questions asked: "What do you consider the top five terminal masters programs in international relations for students looking to pursue a policy career?" From the study, 65% of respondents named Johns Hopkins University-SAIS as being the top-ranked program. SAIS received the most votes, followed by Georgetown (Walsh), Harvard (Kennedy), Tufts (Fletcher), and Columbia (SIPA). In 2007, Foreign Policy magazine produced the same study, and while SAIS remained one of the top-ranked programs, it moved to second position as Georgetown (Walsh) received the most votes.

The university's graduate programs in the areas of Art History, Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Engineering (Biomedical, Electrical & Environmental), Human Development & Family Studies, Health Sciences, Humanities, Political Theory, Physical & Mathematical Sciences and International Affairs & Development all rank among the top-10 of their respective disciplines.[50][51]

The School of Education is ranked #7 nationally by U.S. News and World Report.[52]

Among music conservatories, the Peabody Institute is generally considered one of the most prestigious conservatories in the country along with Juilliard and the Curtis Institute.

Libraries

The Johns Hopkins University Library system houses more than 3.6 million volumes.[53] 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.

The Milton S. Eisenhower Library (called "MSE" by students), located on the Homewood campus, is the main library. It houses over 2.6 million volumes and over 20,000 journal subscriptions. The Eisenhower Library is a member of the university's Sheridan Libraries encompassing collections at the Albert D. Hutzler Reading Room (called "The Hut" by students) in Gilman Hall, the John Work Garrett Library at Evergreen House, and the George Peabody Library at Mount Vernon Place. Together these collections provide the major research library resources for the university, serving Johns Hopkins academic programs worldwide. The library was named for Milton S. Eisenhower, former president of the university and brother of former U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Only two of the MSE library's six stories are above ground; the rest are beneath, though architects designed the building so that every level has windows and natural light. The design accords with a bit of traditional campus lore which says no structure on campus can be taller than Gilman Hall, the oldest academic building. There is no written rule regarding building height, however, and the library's design was chosen for architectural and aesthetic reasons when it was finally built in the 1960s. In December 2008, it was announced that a new addition would be constructed directly to the south of the MSE library. The six-and-a-half-story expansion will be named the Brody Learning Commons in honor of University President William R. Brody and will function as a "collaborative learning space". It is scheduled to be completed by 2012.[54]