Sarah Steinberg, associate dean of Advanced Academic Programs for the Krieger School, oversees strategic planning for this rapidly growing graduate program for part-time students. Founded in 1992, the AAP serves the regional community in disciplines such as applied economics, bioinformatics, government, writing and liberal arts, drug discovery technologies, homeland security, communication, biotechnology, and environmental science.

Currently, with program enrollments each semester exceeding 2,300, the AAP offers 12 master's degree programs (including three that are dual MS/MBA or MA/MBA degrees) as well as targeted certificate offerings. Classes are offered at the Montgomery County Campus, the AAP’s administrative headquarters in the Bernstein-Offit Building in Washington, and the Homewood campus. In addition, the AAP offers a fully online degree in bioinformatics and many fully online course offerings.

Steinberg came to Johns Hopkins in 1993, joining the Whiting School of Engineering; in 2001 she was named executive director of Engineering and Applied Science Programs for Professionals. She assumed the associate dean post at the Krieger School in December 2004.

Before arriving at Hopkins, she was a marketing manager and senior engineer at Froehling and Robertson, an engineering firm in Sterling, Va. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering from Cornell University, a master's degree in finance and marketing from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and her PhD in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania.

Sarah Steinberg Associate Dean of Advanced Academic Programs

Sarah Steinberg
Associate Dean of Advanced Academic Programs