At a Glance
Johns Hopkins admits 6.1% of applicants.
What You'll Actually Pay
See what families at different income levels actually pay after aid.
What families actually pay, by income level
After grants and scholarships. Before loans. Public school prices shown at in-state rates.
Source: College Scorecard / IPEDS, 2024-25
Where the Sticker Price Goes
Based on average need-based grant. Actual cost varies by family income — see chart above.
Debt at Graduation
52.6%
receive need-based grant aid
$28,217
average debt at graduation
Johns Hopkins graduates carry an average of $28,217 in debt.
Merit Aid
346
students received merit aid
$30,315
average merit award
Getting In
Johns Hopkins admits 6.1% of applicants.
Johns Hopkins University's Early Decision applicants are admitted at nearly 2x the rate of Regular Decision applicants — 10.9% vs 5.2%. Note: ED is binding — you commit to attending if admitted.
SAT — Middle 50% of those who submitted · 57% of the class submitted
ACT — Middle 50% of those who submitted · 20% of the class submitted
100% were in the top 10% of their high school class.
What They Value
Academic
Nonacademic
Johns Hopkins University rates your personal essay as Very Important — equal weight to your GPA. Don't underestimate it. Demonstrated interest is Not Considered here — campus visits and emails to admissions won't affect your odds.
Student Life
Class size distribution not reported by these schools' Common Data Sets.
Share of undergraduate class sections at each size, from CDS Section I-3. More red = more large lectures.
Johns Hopkins data pending.
Class size data reflects all undergraduate sections including labs, seminars, and lectures. Large research universities often have smaller upper-division and graduate-level sections that improve the overall distribution. First and second-year students typically experience larger classes than these averages suggest.
Source: Common Data Set 2025–26, Section I-3 (class sizes)
9:1
student:faculty ratio
Campus Life
From out of state (freshman class)
78.6%
Live on campus
46%
Men in fraternities
23%
Women in sororities
15%
Who Attends
Racial and ethnic breakdown of enrolled undergraduates, as reported in each school's Common Data Set. "Unknown / Other" includes students who did not report or selected "other."
Johns Hopkins's student body is 19.9% white.
Popular Majors
Will They Graduate?
Johns Hopkins graduates 85.4% of students in 4 years.
Graduating late means paying for extra semesters. The 6-year rate tells you who eventually finishes — the 4-year rate tells you what it actually costs.
Johns Hopkins graduates 85.4% of students in 4 years.
What finishing late actually costs
Based on each school's published cost of attendance. Public school costs shown at in-state rates.
Johns Hopkins
85.4%
4-yr grad rate
Most finish on time
Graduation rate data from Common Data Set 2025–26, Fall 2018 cohort (most recent available). 4-year rate = students completing in 4 years or less. 6-year rate = students completing within 6 years.
93.4%
Overall 6-yr rate
92.7%
Pell recipient rate
Lower-income students graduate at nearly the same rate as their peers — a sign of strong institutional support.
Freshman Retention
97.83%
97.83% of first-year students return for sophomore year.
City & Culture
Beyond the data — what it's actually like to spend four years in Baltimore.
The Homewood campus is a red-brick quadrangle set in green a few miles north of downtown Baltimore, with the medical campus and hospital across the city. Charles Village around it is where most upperclassmen live; the city is cheap, historic and uneven, and rewards students who engage with it.
Notable Alumni
Rachel Carson
Wrote Silent Spring, which started the modern environmental movement and led to the ban on DDT. She took her master's in zoology here in 1932.
Class of 1932
Michael Bloomberg
Founded Bloomberg LP and served three terms as mayor of New York. He graduated here in engineering in 1964 and has since become the university's largest benefactor.
Class of 1964
Woodrow Wilson
President of the United States and winner of the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize. He took the first political science doctorate awarded here, in 1886.
Class of 1886
Peter Agre
Shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering aquaporins, the channels that move water through cell membranes. He earned his medical degree here in 1974 and returned to teach.
Class of 1974
Alumni selected for name recognition and range of fields. Not from the Common Data Set.
The City
Major city
Baltimore, MD
Best For
Traditions
Spring Fair
A student-run festival that takes over the campus each April and draws the surrounding neighbourhoods in — one of the largest of its kind run entirely by undergraduates.
Lacrosse
The one sport where Hopkins competes at the top national level, with a rivalry against Maryland that predates most of the modern game.
Research from year one
Undergraduates working in laboratories early is the norm rather than a distinction here, which is what the first American research university was founded to do.
The Blue Jay
The mascot, and the name students use for themselves as readily as the university's own.
Weekend Escapes
Within driving distance from Baltimore
Washington DC
About an hour by trainReachable without a car from Penn Station, for museums, internships and politics.
The Inner Harbor and Fell's Point
About 15 minutesThe waterfront, the aquarium and the older cobbled quarter beyond it.
Annapolis and the Chesapeake
About 45 minutesSailing water and a colonial waterfront, the standard warm-weather trip.
Shenandoah National Park
About 2 hours 30 minutesBlue Ridge hiking and Skyline Drive when the leaves turn.
Getting There & Game Days
Nearest airport
Baltimore/Washington International (BWI)
About 25 minutes from campus
Flies international — you can start a trip abroad from here.
Pro sports nearby
- Baltimore Ravens NFL
- Baltimore Orioles MLB
- Washington Capitals NHL
Career Proximity
The university's own hospital and applied physics laboratory are two of Maryland's largest employers, and Washington is an hour away by train.
Top Industries Nearby
Major Employers
- Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Applied Physics Laboratory
- Northrop Grumman
- T. Rowe Price
- MedStar Health
Baltimore, with Washington DC about an hour south by train
Who Thrives Here
Johns Hopkins admits 6.1%, and 10.9% under early decision, so applying early nearly doubles the rate for a family prepared to commit. Test scores are required for the Homewood schools — arts and sciences and engineering, which is where essentially every undergraduate applicant is headed — and the middle half of enrolled first-years scored 1530 to 1565. The financial answer is among the strongest in this catalog: 100% of demonstrated need is met, 52.6% of undergraduates receive need-based aid, the average package is $70,919 and graduates who borrow leave owing about $28,217. Outcomes match, with 97.8% returning for a second year, 85.4% graduating in four and 93.4% within six. Two honest gaps: the university did not report its class-size distribution at all this year, so the usual measure of how many sections run under 20 is simply unavailable here, and 46.0% live in university housing, which means most upperclassmen are renting in Charles Village rather than living on campus. 13.3% of undergraduates are international. The research culture is the reason to come — this was the first American university built around it — and it reaches undergraduates early, which is why so many arrive intending medicine and stay for the laboratory.