Johns Hopkins University Overview

Located in Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University is a private not-for-profit institution. The surrounding area of the school is a good match for students who enjoy city life.

What Is Johns Hopkins University Known For?

• Students who want to work more closely with their professors have an easier time at Johns Hopkins since the student to facuty ratio is 6 to 1.
• Students at Johns Hopkins have an easier time paying back their loans. The school's student loan default rate is only 1%, compared to the national rate of 10.1%.
• The highest award offered at Johns Hopkins is the doctor's degree.
• For the <nil> academic year, 95% of the faculty were full-time.
• After graduation, Johns Hopkins bachelor's degree recipients go on to jobs where they make $89,551 a year. That's about 119% more than their peers at other schools.
• On average, it takes about 4.1 years for students from Johns Hopkins to earn a bachelor's degree. This is excellent when compared to the average of 4.4 years.

Where Is Johns Hopkins University?

Contact details for Johns Hopkins are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218-2688
Phone:	410-516-8000
Website:	www.jhu.edu

How Do I Get Into Johns Hopkins?

You can apply to Johns Hopkins online at: https://apply.commonapp.org/

Admission Requirements for Johns Hopkins

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	Required
High School Rank	Neither required nor recommended
High School Transcript	Required
College Prep Program	Recommended
Recommendations	Required
SAT or ACT Scores	Neither required nor recommended
TOEFL	Required

How Hard Is It To Get Into Johns Hopkins?

The acceptance rate at Johns Hopkins is 8%, which means the school is highly selective when deciding who will be admitted and who won't. Even if you have great grades and test scores, that may not be enough. So be sure to look for ways to make your application memorable.

Approximately 42% of accepted students are men and 58% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 7%, and the acceptance rate for women is 8%.

Can I Afford Johns Hopkins University?

The overall average net price of Johns Hopkins is $44,934. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At Johns Hopkins, approximately 12% of students took out student loans averaging $9,874 a year. That adds up to $39,496 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Johns Hopkins is 0.6%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

Johns Hopkins University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 6,132 undergraduate students at Johns Hopkins, with 5,727 being full-time and 405 being part-time.

There are also 25,917 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 5,727 full-time undergraduates at Johns Hopkins, 46% are male and 54% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Johns Hopkins University students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	1,521
Black or African American	479
Hispanic or Latino	1,057
White	1,370
International Students	786
Other Races/Ethnicities	514

Geographic Diversity

Maryland students aren't the only ones who study at Johns Hopkins University. At this time, 44 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 104 countries are represented at Johns Hopkins. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, India, and South Korea.

Online Learning at Johns Hopkins University

In 2020-2021, 25,707 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Johns Hopkins has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 3rd most popular in Maryland for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of Johns Hopkins

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Johns Hopkins University was 37.2%. This is the #633 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at Johns Hopkins regardless of major.

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Image Credit: By Lester Spence under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.