Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876 in Baltimore, Maryland, is America's first research university and a global institution in education, research, and patient care. It unites ten academic divisions as one university and enrols more than 24,000 full- and part-time students across undergraduate and graduate programmes.

Its technical and scholarly domains span engineering, medicine, public health, natural sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Civil, environmental, and infrastructure work sits within a broader engineering and applied-science environment that draws on the university's strengths in public health and medicine, offering scope for interdisciplinary research on water, environmental quality, resilient infrastructure, and related systems.

Research is central to the institution's standing: Johns Hopkins has led the United States in research and development spending every year since 1979. Its stated mission treats research and teaching as inseparable, with research feeding teaching and teaching enriching research, and it describes a culture of discovery, innovation, and interdisciplinary collaboration across its divisions.

Work is conducted across nearly 150 years of institutional history in higher education, research, and healthcare. The university's community of scholars and researchers is oriented towards addressing large-scale global problems through collaborative, cross-disciplinary work.