Bryn Mawr

Dickinson

Franklin & Marshall

Gettysburg

Haverford

Johns Hopkins

McDaniel

Muhlenberg

Swarthmore

Ursinus

Washington

Building from scratch, rather than taking over an existing institution, freed Gilman to create something entirely new, at least in the United States. He established a research university, dedicated not just to advancing students' knowledge but also to advancing the state of human knowledge generally, through research and scholarship.

The university is named for its initial benefactor, Baltimore merchant Johns Hopkins, whose $7 million bequest -- the largest U.S. philanthropic gift to that time -- was divided evenly to finance the establishment of both the university and The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Today, the university enrolls 18,000 full-time and part-time students. The headquarters campus -- Homewood -- has nearly 4,000 full-time undergraduates and nearly 1,400 full-time graduate students in two schools, the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering.

Homewood Field

Newton H. White Center