Why Hopkins Engineering? Five Good Reasons…
You'll learn by doing.
We're one of the nation's top-ranked research institutions. This means our undergrads have unrivaled opportunities to discover and create knowledge.
At Hopkins, you won't simply acquire information--that note-taking, textbook-reading, rote-memorizing style of learning--but you'll help expand our understanding of and develop solutions to some of society's most pressing problems. You'll be mentored by faculty in their labs, work side-by-side with clinicians and researchers, and apply the facts and theories you acquire in the classroom to the real world.
Student research is held in the highest regard. Every year, our undergrads author papers in leading scholarly publications, present findings at professional conferences, and work to commercialize their inventions.
Some of our unique research opportunities include:
- Undergradaute Research at JHU
- WSE's Student Initiatives Fund
- Provost's Undergraduate Research Awards
- Johns Hopkins Medicine Summer Internship Programs
- JHU IGEM Team
You'll get your hands dirty.
Whether building concrete canoes, cars, or community gardens in nearby neighborhoods, Hopkins Engineers have fun getting dirty and making stuff. With a large (and ever-growing) number of student groups, you'll have many opportunities to build, compete, construct, repair and have fun.
For example, JHU's Engineers Without Borders student chapter is a national model. For the past seven years, Hopkins engineers have brought irrigation systems to remote South African villages and are now designing irrigation and construction projects for Guatemala and Ecuador.
Extracurricular opportunities include:
You'll expand your worldview.
Contrary to popular belief, engineering students can study abroad--it just requires a little extra planning. At Hopkins, you may study abroad in your sophomore year, junior year, first semester of senior year, or during the summer.
One popular program, the Vredenburg Summer Engineering Travel Scholarships, covers travel, living, and other expenses for 10 to 15 rising juniors and seniors pursuing international research, service projects, or internships. Grants average $6,000. In 2010 - '11, students traveled to countries including Spain, The Gambia, Argentina, China, France, Germany, and Japan.
In 2011, Johns Hopkins ranked fifth among small colleges (under 5,000 students) producing Peace Corps volunteers and third in the 2011 rankings of graduate schools particpating in the Peace Corps Fellows program. Over the past 50 years, 674 Johns Hopkins alumni have joined the Peace Corps with 22 alumni currently serving.
Consider these opportunities:
- Vredenburg Scholarships
- JHU Study Abroad
- Institute for NanoBioTechnology summer research fellowships in Belgium
- JHU and the Peace Corps
You'll be part of Johns Hopkins University.
As a Hopkins engineering student, you'll have access to the full resources of one of the world's leading research universities. You'll take courses at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. You can participate in internships at the School of Medicine, study and conduct research at the School of Public Health, and perform and take music classes (and even major and/or minor) at JHU's Peabody Institute.
Johns Hopkins is uniquely positioned to offer such a breadth of opportunities. Since 1979, the university has been ranked by the National Science Foundation as the nation's top research academic institution. Roughly 70 percent of our undergraduates participate in research. Many students, for example, combine their studies at Homewood with work in laboratories at the schools of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing.
Your campus will include:
You'll become a leader.
At Hopkins, we are known for training leaders. We'll provide you with the skills and knowledge you need to make your mark on the world. As an undergrad, we'll help you launch your own business, invest in a Wall Street portfolio, develop a marketing plan for a corporate client, and engage in the process of invention -- from start to finish.
In fact, in Vanity Fair magazine's 2011 ranking of the 100 most influential people of the Information Age, two Hopkins Engineering grads moved up from last year's top ten to even loftier heights: Michael Bloomberg, '64 was named to "The Powers that Be" and John Malone, PhD '64 to their Hall of Fame.
Among the resources we provide: