unitid 162928 · Baltimore, MD · private nonprofit 4-year · city (large)
Johns Hopkins University
Private university in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
- founded
- 1876
- enrollment 2023
- 39,399
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- jhu.edu
- motto
- “Veritas vos liberabit”
Johns Hopkins University is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Incorporated in 1867 and opened in 1876 based on the European research institution model, Johns Hopkins is considered to be the first research university in the U.S. wikipedia rev 1363867913 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within private nonprofit 4-years
The record
admission rate
6%
2nd pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
undergraduates
5,693
94th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
Pell share
19%
undergrads on Pell grants
19th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
completion
94%
finish within 150% time
96th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$85,947
96th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
avg net price / yr
$18,809
after aid, aided students
31st pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$87,555
after entry, Title IV students
95th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median grad debt
$10,250
3rd pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $428 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of private nonprofit 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k16%
- 30-48k9%
- 48-75k11%
- 75-110k14%
- 110k+49%
- Median family income
- $79,480
- First-generation students
- 13%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $65,230
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 8.5× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 1,008 | — | — |
| International Relations and National Security Studies. | 749 | $113,563 | — |
| Education, General. | 573 | $77,888 | — |
| Public Health. | 477 | $102,525 | — |
| Biotechnology. | 466 | $116,723 | — |
| Economics. | 393 | $139,377 | — |
| Public Health. | 378 | — | — |
| Biology, General. | 353 | — | — |
| Computer and Information Sciences, General. | 329 | $169,587 | — |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. | 326 | $114,391 | — |
| Health and Medical Administrative Services. | 269 | $123,655 | — |
| Biomedical/Medical Engineering. | 267 | $104,666 | — |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 6,349 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (2,546) · university teacher (802) · writer (254) · politician (243) · physician (211) · historian (204) · economist (152) · diplomat (129)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Woodrow Wilson Peace 1919
- Thomas Hunt Morgan Medicine 1933
- George Whipple Medicine 1934
- Herbert Spencer Gasser Medicine 1944
- Francis Peyton Rous Medicine 1966
- Haldan Keffer Hartline Medicine 1967
- Hamilton Smith Medicine 1978
- Herbert A. Hauptman Chemistry 1985
- Clark Gregg Economics 1990
- Robert Fogel Economics 1993
- Martin Rodbell Medicine 1994
- Jody Williams Peace 1997
- Paul Greengard Medicine 2000
- Peter Agre Chemistry 2003
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Woodrow Wilson
189 wikis · Public domain
Rachel Carson
109 wikis · Public domain
John Dewey
109 wikis · Public domain
Madeleine Albright
109 wikis · Public domain
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
94 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Michael Bloomberg
83 wikis · CC0
Gertrude Stein
82 wikis · Public domain
Jody Williams
80 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Thomas Hunt Morgan
79 wikis · Public domain
Spiro Agnew
73 wikis · Public domain
Wes Craven
66 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Peter Agre
64 wikis · CC BY 3.0
Thorstein Veblen
60 wikis · Public domain
John Archibald Wheeler
60 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Robert Fogel
59 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
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- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1363867913), CC BY-SA 4.0.