The university was founded in 1876 with money left by the merchant Johns Hopkins. Its first president, Daniel Gilman, named the mission at his inauguration: "The encouragement of research . . . and the advancement of individual scholars." That broke with American practice, where colleges taught classics to undergraduates. Gilman imported the German model, in which a university exists to produce knowledge and trains graduate students to do it.
The firsts followed quickly: the university press in 1878, still the oldest continuously running publisher of its kind in the country; a continuing-education programme in 1909; the first US school of public health in 1916. From 1942 the Applied Physics Laboratory worked as a major wartime defence contractor. In the early 2000s the School of Education and the Carey Business School brought the university to its present nine divisions.
Almost every American research university copies a template that Johns Hopkins wrote first. When it opened in 1876 it was the first US institution built around research and graduate training rather than undergraduate teaching, and that founding decision still runs the place. Graduate and professional students outnumber undergraduates roughly four to one; the university is first in the United States for research and development spending in the National Science Foundation's latest survey[1]; and the medical and public-health schools in East Baltimore are its centre of gravity, not an add-on. That has two consequences for applicants. Hopkins does not select undergraduates who merely tolerate research, and it does not treat an international file the way it treats a domestic one — money is part of the decision.
Location
Baltimore, United States
Establishment year
1876
Students
30,874
International students
8,721
Female students
52%
Acceptance rate
7%
Place in ratings
There's not enough data to display the dynamics of this rating.
By subject
Subject
Place in QS 2024
Life Sciences & Medicine
3
Anatomy & Physiology
3
Natural Sciences
76
Arts & Humanities
97
Social Sciences & Management
108
Engineering & Technology
114
Accounting & Finance
101-150
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Johns Hopkins: the short version
Status and location
Private non-profit research university, founded 1876; Baltimore, Maryland, plus a Washington DC campus
Undergraduate deadlines, autumn 2027 entry
Early Decision I — 1 November 2026; Early Decision II and Regular Decision — 2 January 2027[2]
Need-aware admission; demonstrated need met in full without loans, but only about 10% of international students receive aid[8]
Work during study
20 hours per week on campus in term, full time in official breaks
Work after graduation
OPT for 12 months, plus 24 months for STEM graduates
What Hopkins is built to do well
🔬 The largest research budget of any US university — and undergraduates are inside it
Hopkins tops the National Science Foundation's table for research and development expenditure[1]. What matters to a bachelor's applicant is access: laboratory work is a normal part of the degree here, not a prize for final-year students.
🏥 Medicine and public health are the institution, not a department inside it
The School of Medicine, the School of Nursing, the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Hospital sit together on the East Baltimore campus[9]. If your target is epidemiology, global health, biomedical engineering or clinical research, that ecosystem is the reason to be here, and no ranking position captures it.
🧭 You apply to the university, not to a major, and can change your mind afterwards
Undergraduates are admitted to Hopkins as a whole and choose a specialisation later; switching is free, with Biomedical Engineering the one exception that needs separate admission even for current students[10]. Where other universities make you commit to a named course at eighteen, this removes a category of guesswork.
💵 Admitted students get their demonstrated need met in full, with no loans in the package
A 2018 gift from Michael Bloomberg permanently endowed need-blind admission for domestic undergraduates and let the university drop need-based loans altogether[11]. International students admitted with aid get the same no-loan promise[8], and merit scholarships need no separate form[12].
👥 A student-to-faculty ratio of 9:1 and an average class of 19 students
Those figures come with more than 100 undergraduate majors and minors[4]. Outside the big first-year science lectures teaching is seminar-shaped, which is what makes the research-apprenticeship model work: a professor who teaches nineteen people can plausibly take two into a laboratory.
What Hopkins asks you to accept
🎯 Admission is harder than it has ever been
The Regular Decision round for the class that entered in 2025 produced 1732 offers from 41549 applications, the most selective cycle in the university's history[3]. Build a list where Hopkins is the ambitious entry rather than the safe one.
💰 Admission is need-aware for international citizens — asking for money can cost you the place
The university states plainly that it is need-aware for international citizens and that financial circumstances are considered in the decision[8]. The second half of the rule is harsher: an international student who does not request need-based aid in the first-year application cannot apply for it later at any point in the degree[12]. That is one irreversible choice, made months before you know whether you are admitted.
💸 An unfunded four-year bachelor's degree runs close to 400,000 USD
The published cost of attendance is a per-year figure, before four years of increases, and paying it in full is not unusual here. If your plan depends on aid, model the version where the aid does not arrive and decide whether you would still enrol. Doctoral applicants compute this differently: most funded science and engineering places carry no fee at all.
🧪 The centre of gravity is biomedical and technical, and the campus map is split
Arts, humanities and social-science undergraduates study at a university whose money and institutional attention sit elsewhere. The teaching is not weaker for it, but you should want the research culture rather than merely accept it. Four Baltimore campuses plus Washington DC[9] also mean no single site where everyone crosses paths.
🏙 Baltimore divides opinion, and you cannot try it before you commit
Homewood is a green, handsome pocket of north Baltimore; the wider city is a mid-sized post-industrial port with real problems and a modest entertainment scene, and students who expected Boston or New York say so. Since you will probably not visit first, read student accounts of the neighbourhood rather than prospectus photographs.
Who Johns Hopkins suits — and who should look elsewhere
The best fit is a student who already knows they want to do research and can name roughly what kind. Someone heading for medicine, public health, biomedical engineering, neuroscience or international affairs will find the institution organised around exactly that ambition.
The worst fit is a student choosing a famous name and expecting a general American college experience; the workload is unforgiving of anyone who arrived without a reason.
Between those poles sits money. If your family can meet the published cost, the file is judged on merit alone; if it cannot, you are competing for a small pool under a need-aware rule, and a parallel list of universities is planning rather than pessimism.
The university is organised into nine academic divisions spread over Maryland and Washington DC:
Krieger School of Arts and Sciences;
Whiting School of Engineering;
School of Education;
School of Medicine;
School of Nursing;
Bloomberg School of Public Health;
Carey Business School;
Peabody Institute;
School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
Those divisions sit on five distinct campuses[9]. Homewood, in north Baltimore, holds Krieger, Whiting and the School of Education, and is where almost all undergraduates study and live. East Baltimore holds Medicine, Nursing, Bloomberg Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Peabody occupies its own historic building in Mount Vernon, Carey sits on the Harbor East waterfront, and SAIS is in Washington DC with overseas centres in Bologna and Nanjing.
Beyond the teaching divisions the university runs the Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, a not-for-profit university-affiliated research centre working chiefly on national-security and space programmes[13], and the largest of its kind in the country.
The size ratio is the structural fact most applicants miss: around 6400 undergraduates share the institution with close to 24000 graduate and professional students — a graduate university with a selective college attached.
Campus, facilities and the city
Homewood is the campus in the photographs: red-brick Georgian buildings on a green plateau, with the eighteenth-century Homewood House and Evergreen House among the university's historic properties. The George Peabody Library, opened in 1878 on the Mount Vernon campus, is regularly listed among the most beautiful library interiors anywhere.
First- and second-year undergraduates live in university housing on or beside Homewood; most graduate students rent nearby with help from the housing office.
The practical geography: Homewood to East Baltimore is a shuttle ride, Baltimore to Washington DC roughly an hour by train, and Baltimore/Washington International is the arrival airport. You can take a virtual tour of the Homewood campus before committing to the trip.
Campus Type
Urban
Library
Yes
Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore
The undergraduate catalogue runs to more than 100 majors and minors across Krieger and Whiting[4], and the graduate catalogue is several times larger, because every division admits its own students. There is no single graduate admissions office and no single graduate deadline: the department decides.
Two features shape the bachelor's degree: there is no compulsory core curriculum, so students build a programme with a faculty adviser and can rebuild it mid-degree; and undergraduate research reaches into APL and the hospital system, so a project can become the spine of a graduate-school application.
Tuition, and the two gifts that changed it
Academic calendar
Semesters
Scholarships
Yes
Financial Aid
Yes
Bachelor
54,145USD/year
Master
15,746USD/year
Doctorate
24,983USD/year
Two Bloomberg gifts, in 2018 and 2024, changed what many students here actually pay, but neither touched the published price — and the published price is what you plan against. Hopkins charges international and domestic students the same tuition; there is no international surcharge at any school. What differs is the aid, not the price. For undergraduates the university publishes a full cost of attendance rather than tuition alone, and that fuller number is what you plan against — it also sets your visa funding evidence, because the United States has no federal proof-of-funds figure and uses the school's cost of attendance on the I-20 instead.
Undergraduate cost item, 2026-27
Amount per year
Tuition
68,670 USD
Housing, on-campus double room
13,073 USD
Meal plan
8,894 USD
Books and course materials
1,377 USD
Personal expenses
1,606 USD
Transportation
738 USD
Student health insurance
3,624 USD
Matriculation fee
500 USD
Published total cost of attendance, living on campus
98,482 USD
These are the university's own published 2026-27 rates[7]. Living off campus is estimated slightly lower, at 12,040 USD for housing[7], though that saving usually disappears into utilities and commuting. Note what the table cannot show: flights home, the visa fees covered below, and replacing on arrival everything you could not pack. Those land in the first year and appear on no fee page.
Room and board
on campus17,640USD/year
off campus13,808USD/year
Other expenses
on campus1,400USD/year
off campus1,400USD/year
Graduate and professional tuition
Each school sets its own rate, and several bill by credit rather than by year, so a part-time master's and a full-time one differ enormously.
School or programme
Published tuition
Krieger and Whiting, full-time graduate
66,670 USD per year, or 2,222 USD per credit part-time
Nursing, Peabody, SAIS, Education and Bloomberg Public Health publish their own rates, and they move every year — check the school, not a general figure.
Fee tables mislead people every year: most doctoral students in the sciences and engineering never pay the tuition printed on those pages. Funded PhD offers at Whiting and Krieger normally combine a stipend, a full tuition waiver and health insurance for at least five years. Multiply a doctoral fee by five and you are modelling the wrong scenario. Taught master's degrees are the opposite case, usually paid in full.
Hopkins reads an application for evidence that you will use a research university rather than merely attend one, and it does the reading on paper. International applicants go through the same process as US citizens, with two additions: proof of English, and the Certification of Finances documenting how the degree will be paid for. Without that form the application is incomplete, whether or not you want aid[8].
The biggest change since the pandemic is that standardised testing came back. Hopkins ran a test-optional policy from 2020 through the cycle that admitted the class of 2029, then reinstated a mandatory SAT or ACT requirement from the cycle for autumn 2026 entry[6]. Advice telling you Hopkins is test-optional is out of date.
From the Common App to the I-20: the first-year route
Decide between Early Decision and Regular Decision first, because Early Decision is binding and that choice sets every other date in your calendar.
Register for the SAT or ACT early enough that scores arrive before the deadline — in many countries test seats are scarce and sittings months apart.
Sit TOEFL or IELTS unless your schooling was English-medium for the last three years.
Open a Common Application or Coalition account and add Johns Hopkins; there is no separate university form.
Write the personal essay and the Hopkins supplement — the admissions office publishes essays that worked, worth reading for tone rather than imitation.
Ask two teachers and your school counsellor for letters of recommendation, giving them at least a month.
Have your school send transcripts covering the equivalent of US grades 9 to 11, with certified English translations where needed.
Complete the Certification of Finances and, if you want need-based aid, tick the aid box in the application itself. This is the irreversible step.
Pay the application fee or request a waiver, and submit before the deadline in your own time zone.
If admitted, accept by the reply date and pay the deposit; the university then issues the I-20 you need for the visa appointment.
Minimum language requirements
Exam
Recommended minimum score
TOEFL iBT
100 total, with preferred sub-scores of Reading 26, Listening 26, Writing 22, Speaking 25
IELTS
7.0 or higher in every band, not merely overall
Duolingo English Test
120 composite, with preferred sub-scores of Literacy 125, Conversation 120, Comprehension 135, Production 105
Cambridge English
C1 Advanced or C2 Proficiency at a Cambridge English score of 185 or above
All four are the university's published recommendations rather than hard cut-offs[5]. Admitted files generally clear them comfortably, and a score sitting exactly on the line is not an argument in your favour.
Applying to a Hopkins department, not to Hopkins
Identify the department, not the university. Requirements, deadlines and funding are set at programme level, and a Whiting deadline tells you nothing about a Bloomberg one.
For research degrees, find two or three academics whose work you can discuss specifically; supervision fit decides doctoral admission far more than a grade average.
Check whether the programme requires GRE or GMAT — policies now differ sharply between departments in the same school.
Prepare transcripts for every degree you have taken, plus certificates and translations.
Write the statement of purpose. For research programmes it is a research proposal in disguise; for professional master's degrees a career argument. Our guide to motivation letters covers the difference.
Arrange two or three references, sent directly by the referee rather than by you.
Add a CV, plus a writing sample or portfolio where the programme asks for one.
Submit through the graduate application system and pay the programme's own application fee, which each school sets for itself.
Apply for funding at the same time. Fellowships and assistantships are decided from the admission file, so a late request is no request.
Medical applicants face a separate regime: the MD programme requires MCAT results and at least a year of study or work at an accredited US institution, which rules out most direct applications from abroad.
ED I, ED II and Regular Decision: the 2027-entry dates
Stage
Early Decision I
Early Decision II
Regular Decision
Application deadline
1 November 2026
2 January 2027
2 January 2027
Financial aid documents
15 November 2026
15 January 2027
15 January 2027
Decision released
11 December 2026
12 February 2027
24 March 2027
Reply and enrolment deposit
15 January 2027
26 February 2027
1 May 2027
Dates are the university's published undergraduate calendar[2]. Graduate deadlines are not on it — departments set their own, commonly between December and February, with some running an early-notification round in November.
The class of 2029 in numbers
The figures below cover the class that entered in autumn 2025. Read the two admit rates as a pair: the early round is more than twice as generous, but that advantage is bought with a binding commitment made before you see an aid package.
The Homewood year runs in two semesters — autumn from early September to December, spring from late January to May — separated by Intersession, a short January term for one unusual course, a project or travel. Medicine, Bloomberg and SAIS run their own calendars, so never book flights from the undergraduate dates if you are entering a professional school; confirm yours on the registrar's academic calendar.
Assessment is continuous rather than exam-final, and workload is the most consistent student complaint: those who arrive on momentum tend to struggle in the second year, when research commitments stack on top of coursework.
Support is organised rather than improvised. Writing centres, subject tutoring, disability services and study-skills provision cost nothing extra, and a dedicated international office handles visa status and work authorisation — which matters the moment you want an internship.
Two separate systems sit behind the word "scholarship" here, and only one of them is blind to your finances — and only for US applicants. Need-based aid and merit awards run on different rules, different forms and different deadlines.
Need-based aid is the larger system and the one governed by the need-aware rule. Admitted international undergraduates have 100% of demonstrated need met with grants rather than loans, but the number receiving aid is limited to roughly a tenth of the international cohort[8]. To be considered you must declare aid interest inside the first-year application and file the CSS Profile alongside the Certification of Finances; the Profile fee is not waived for internationals, though the university offers a free alternative form[12]. Miss this at application and the door closes for the whole degree.
Merit scholarships work more kindly: every applicant is automatically considered regardless of citizenship, with no extra form and no extra deadline[15]. The named award most applicants have heard of is the Hodson Trust Scholarship, awarded to incoming first-years on academic merit, covering a significant share of tuition and renewable across four years so long as a grade point average of 3.0 is maintained[16]. International citizens do receive merit awards, but the university describes the number as small[12].
At graduate level the money is programme-specific. Doctoral funding in the sciences and engineering is the strong case, described above. The medical school changed dramatically in 2024, when a gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies made the MD programme free for students from families earning under 175,000 USD a year and tuition-free for families under 300,000 USD, with almost two thirds of the class qualifying; the same gift expanded aid at the Nursing and Public Health schools[17]. Those bands are written around US family-income reporting, so an international MD applicant should confirm the position with the School of Medicine rather than assume it transfers. For what else exists in the country, see our overview of scholarships in the USA.
Exchanges, partnerships and online study
Study abroad and research placements are organised by the divisions rather than centrally, so the list is long and uneven: short trips to Cuba, Ireland or Japan sit alongside year-long placements such as the Vredenburg Scholarship for biological research in London and global-health fieldwork in Brazil, India and South Africa. Closer to home, Hopkins and Princeton University jointly run the Institute for Quantum Matter.
Online courses at Johns Hopkins University
The online catalogue is large, and for an applicant it doubles as a cheap way to test whether the teaching suits you before committing to a degree:
Full online and hybrid degree programmes across several divisions — certificates, master's degrees and some doctoral routes;
A large open catalogue of Johns Hopkins courses on Coursera, covering bioinformatics, data analysis, patient safety, dementia care and much else;
Continuing medical education courses for physicians from the School of Medicine.
Undergraduate careers support runs through the Life Design Lab, with Pre-Professional Advising on top of it for health- and law-track students. There is no formal industry co-op scheme; internship flow runs through the laboratories, the hospital system and the affiliated institutes instead, which is why the campus job board fills with research-assistant roles. Outcomes are published by school rather than university-wide, which is the more honest unit: SAIS reports 78% of its MA in International Studies graduates employed, in further study or holding a fellowship within six months across the classes of 2020 to 2024, and 93% for the MA in Global Risk.
The immigration side is the part to plan around, because it keeps changing.
Before you arrive. The SEVIS I-901 fee is 350 USD and the F-1 visa application fee 185 USD. A statutory Visa Integrity Fee of 250 USD exists in law from the 2026 fiscal year, though collection has been uneven — budget for it as a possibility[18]. Since June 2025 F, M and J applicants must set their social-media accounts to public for consular vetting.
During the degree. On-campus work is capped at 20 hours a week in term and may be full time during official breaks. Off-campus employment is not permitted at all in the first academic year. At Hopkins prices, campus work covers pocket money, not tuition.
After graduation. Optional Practical Training gives 12 months of work authorisation, extended by 24 more for graduates of eligible STEM programmes working for an E-Verify employer. Given how much of the catalogue is STEM-designated, 36 months is the realistic horizon for engineering, computing and biomedical graduates, and 12 for humanities and most business master's degrees.
The rule change to watch. A Department of Homeland Security final rule issued on 17 July 2026 and effective from 15 September 2026 ends "duration of status" for F visas. Students now receive a fixed admission period tied to the I-20 and capped at four years, with a 30-day departure window rather than 60, and extensions require Form I-539. For a five-year doctorate this turns a formality into a scheduled application.
Applying to Hopkins from abroad
Hopkins publishes no equivalency table matching every national school system to a US grade point average. It evaluates each system on its own terms through regional admissions counsellors, and the qualifications it names are A-levels and O-levels, the IB Diploma, Cambridge International Examinations and Advanced Placement, alongside European and Chinese school-leaving qualifications[8]. In practice, by region:
India. CBSE, ISC and state board results are assessed as a national system, not converted to a published percentage threshold. Nobody at Hopkins has printed a minimum aggregate, so an agency quoting you one is guessing.
West Africa. WAEC and NECO results are handled the same way. Order official results early — board verification is slow, and offices ask for it at the offer stage.
The Philippines. Senior high school records under K-12 are accepted as the national qualification; make sure the school issues Form 137 and the diploma with an English record of the grading scale.
The UAE and international schools. British-curriculum and IB schools are the simplest case, since Hopkins names those qualifications directly.
The United States. A high school diploma with AP results is the standard path — and domestic applicants are the only group admitted need-blind.
Whatever your system, the mechanics match. Transcripts must cover the equivalent of grades 9 to 11 and arrive as official documents from the school, not scans you send yourself. Anything not in English needs a certified translation attached to the original; our guide to diploma and transcript translation covers what "certified" means. Some graduate programmes additionally ask for a WES or ECE credential evaluation — check the programme page rather than assume, because practice varies between the nine schools.
Three timing traps are worth naming. Tests: SAT and ACT sittings are scarce in many countries and score reporting takes weeks, so a November deadline means booking in the summer. Money: the Certification of Finances needs a bank statement in a form the university accepts, and in several countries getting an English-language statement with the right wording takes longer than the application. Visa: the I-20 only arrives after you accept and pay the deposit, and consular queues run for months — a Regular Decision applicant accepting on 1 May is starting exactly on time, not early, and any slippage is theirs to absorb. Sort student health insurance or the waiver paperwork in the same window, since the university plan is charged automatically otherwise.
At Hopkins, subject standing matters far more than the overall rank. The university sits at =20 in the QS World University Rankings 2027[19] and 16th in the THE World University Rankings 2026[20] — respectable, but a poor description of an institution first in the country for research spending that has led public health and clinical medicine for a century. Choosing between offers, compare departments, not tables.
The Bloomberg School of Public Health is the largest of its kind and the reference institution in epidemiology and global health;
Restriction enzymes — the tool that made genetic engineering practical — were discovered here by Hamilton Smith, work that won a Nobel Prize;
Neurosurgery and cardiac surgery as modern specialisms both trace their development to the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
One programme deserves a dated note rather than a live description. During the pandemic the Coronavirus Resource Center became the world's default source for case data. That operation ended: collection and reporting stopped on 10 March 2023, and the datasets are now a read-only archive[21].
Notable alumni
Woodrow Wilson — 28th US president, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, doctorate in history and political science;
Virginia Apgar — anaesthetist and neonatologist, author of the Apgar score used in delivery rooms worldwide;
Denton Cooley — cardiac surgeon, the first to implant an artificial heart in a human;
Peter Agre — Nobel laureate in chemistry for the discovery of aquaporins, an MD of the university;
Michael Bloomberg — businessman, 108th mayor of New York and the university's most consequential donor;
Wes Craven — director of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream, master's graduate.
Beyond the admissions FAQ
Does Johns Hopkins interview undergraduate applicants?
No. The university offers no admissions interview at any stage of the undergraduate process[15]. Everything the committee learns comes from the file you submit.
Can I change my major after I arrive?
Yes, and it is normal. Undergraduates are admitted to the university rather than to a department and can rebuild their programme with an adviser at any point. The exception is Biomedical Engineering, which requires separate admission even for students already enrolled[10].
Is Johns Hopkins part of the Ivy League?
No. The Ivy League is an eight-member athletic conference of north-eastern colleges, and Hopkins is not one of them. It is a founding member of the Association of American Universities — the more relevant club when comparing research output.
Does the university have campuses outside the United States?
Yes, but not for undergraduates: the School of Advanced International Studies runs graduate centres in Bologna and Nanjing[9]. All bachelor's teaching happens in Baltimore.
Is Early Decision worth it if I need financial aid?
It is a trade-off, not an easy win. Early Decision is binding: accept and you withdraw your other applications, committing before you can compare aid packages. If enrolling depends on the size of a grant, Regular Decision keeps your options open despite the worse odds. If cost is not the constraint, the early round is the stronger play.
Is the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 dashboard still running?
No. The Coronavirus Resource Center stopped collecting and publishing data on 10 March 2023 and its repositories were archived the same day[21]. Anything still linking to a "live" Hopkins case map points at a frozen archive.
You want medicine, public health, biomedical engineering, neuroscience or international affairs, and want to be near the graduate machinery from year one;
You intend to do research and can already describe what kind;
Your family can meet the published cost, or you are applying to a funded doctoral programme where the sticker price is irrelevant;
You prefer a flexible curriculum and small classes to a fixed core and lecture halls;
You are a STEM applicant planning to use the 36-month OPT route to start a US career.
Look elsewhere when:
Your enrolment depends entirely on aid as an international student — the need-aware rule and small aid pool make that a low-probability plan;
You want a unified campus, major college sport and a city that supplies the social life;
Your field sits at the humanities or arts end and you would rather be somewhere built around it;
You cannot sit the SAT or ACT in time, since there is no test-optional route any more;
You are a medical applicant without a prior US degree.
Check before you apply
Confirm current-year tuition and cost of attendance on the university's student financial services page — figures move every spring;
Book an SAT or ACT sitting that reports before your deadline, not on it;
Decide the aid question before you submit: for international applicants it cannot be revisited;
Check your graduate programme's own deadline and test policy on its own page;
Get the Certification of Finances and bank statement issued in English early;
Diarise the visa steps backwards from your start date, allowing for appointment queues.
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