Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University meets 100% of financial need for all students; the average need-based grant for first-year students of over $42,000.

Costs for 2018-2019 are $53,740 for tuition and $15,836 for room and board, plus personal expenses like book and travel. (Expenses such as travel and room and board vary based on choices.)

The financial aid philosophy at Hopkins is anchored around a simple approach: Enrolling the brightest minds. Students, from all backgrounds, should have access to the opportunities, resources, and intellectual community where groundbreaking ideas are created. Those opportunities abound on the Homewood campus, and we are proud to support our students—during their time here and after graduation. With the potential to graduate debt-free, equipped with an education that opens doors, students have the freedom to boldly explore ways to apply their knowledge and talents.

The university offers a variety of financial support programs for all types of families as well as personalized guidance through the process of finding the right path for them. Last year, students received over $100 million in Hopkins grant money towards their education, with an average need-based grant for first-year students of over $42,000. In the fall of 2018, a landmark gift by Michael R. Bloomberg '64 expanded the university's ability to carry on this mission: supporting need-blind admissions and meeting 100% of demonstrated need with no-loan financial aid packages.

With a traditional campus feel and nearby big city amenities, the undergraduate Homewood Campus is an exciting place to live, research, learn, and play. Every week offers lectures, concerts, art and photography exhibitions, theater shows, film screenings, volunteer opportunities, and more. And just outside the campus gate waits the bustling, energetic city of Baltimore, Maryland. A short walk or a free shuttle ride leads to museums, concert halls, shops, historic movie-theaters, restaurants, and professional sports stadiums. Hopkins students are involved, engaged, and pursuing the activities that mean the most to them. They create a vibrant community, sharing their interests with one another and participating in about 400 student-run groups on campus that range from dance and performing arts to service-based organizations or Sorority and Fraternity Life.

The Rare Books Collection, laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, and other state-of-the-art resources on the Homewood campus allow undergraduates to follow their interests beyond papers and projects to make meaningful contributions across disciplines. From labs to libraries to film centers, groundbreaking discoveries happen everywhere at Hopkins.

Collaborative learning is fundamental to the academic environment and many buildings were designed to foster collaboration across disciplines. The Brody Learning Commons (BLC) is one of the most popular places for students to gather, study, and work together. Designed with student input, the building contains the latest learning technology to support collaborative work-like interactive projectors that allow students to write on walls and video teleconferencing capabilities. It's also directly connected to the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, part of the university's Sheridan Libraries, which provide one of the most comprehensive learning resources in the world.

The Undergraduate Teaching Labs (UTL) is a 105,000-square-foot facility equipped with the latest lab technology that enables synergistic, cross-disciplinary partnerships and research opportunities. Two on-campus creative centers provide resources for students in the arts: The Mattin Student Arts Center contains theaters, a dance studio, music practice rooms, film and digital labs, darkrooms, and art studios; the Brown Foundation Digital Media Center offers digital tools like high-end computers and cameras that enable digital and audio composition and editing, animation, virtual painting, and 3-D modeling workshops for programs like Adobe After Effects. Off campus, just a short shuttle ride away, the Johns Hopkins-MICA Film Centre gives students access to professional-grade production facilities. A collaborative, cross-disciplinary environment open to all Johns Hopkins students, FastForward U is an innovative space that provides training and resources to empower emerging student entrepreneurs to develop ideas and disruptive technologies into successful startups.

The Ralph S. O'Connor Recreation Center houses basketball and volleyball courts, a rock-climbing wall, a weight room, and fitness training and aerobics areas, as well as access to the Athletic Center's swimming facilities. Popular fitness classes include yoga, Pilates, kickboxing, step aerobics, spinning, and sports conditioning.

Baltimore is a vibrant city-an entrepreneurial hub with a rapidly growing technology sector and dynamic arts scene. Students enjoy the fast-paced yet accessible nature of a city like Baltimore, which gives them access to coveted internships and careers. It's the perfect environment for real-world experiences like building professional networks or getting startups off the ground. It's an incubator for scientists, clinicians, artists, legal experts, venture capitalists, philanthropists-and students who want to change the world.

As a part of the Hopkins family, undergrads have the entirety of an internationally renowned research institution at their fingertips. The medical school and school of Public Health, where many students take classes or have internships, are about 15 minutes away and available by a free shuttle. Peabody, the world-class music conservatory, offers dual degree options as well as classes and private instruction, and is also a free shuttle ride away. There's also other schools and centers throughout Baltimore and in Washington, DC, including the Applied Physics Lab near DC, which offers a unique internship each year in conjunction with NASA.