Hey y'all! I'm considering applying to Johns Hopkins, and I wanted to get a feel for the size of their undergraduate population. Can anyone give me an idea of how many undergraduate students they have and how that compares to other universities? Thanks so much!
Hey there! Johns Hopkins University has around 6,100 undergraduate students. To give you a comparison to other universities, the size of their undergraduate population can be considered moderate when compared to smaller liberal arts colleges, which typically have around 1,000 - 3,000 students, and large public universities, which can have upward of 30,000 - 40,000 undergraduates.
For example, nearby Swarthmore College is a small liberal arts school and has roughly 1,500 undergraduate students, while Penn State University, another institution in the same region, has around 40,000 undergraduates. Compared to other top-tier private research universities, Johns Hopkins is still on the smaller side; for instance, the University of Pennsylvania has approximately 10,000 undergraduates.
Ultimately, the size of Johns Hopkins falls somewhere in the middle, allowing for a more tight-knit community feel, while still providing the resources and opportunities of a larger research university.
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