Overview

More than 125 years after the University’s founding, the Krieger School still follows the guiding principles of Hopkins's visionary first president, Daniel Coit Gilman. The plan that Gilman devised established Johns Hopkins as the nation's first research university and revolutionized higher education in America.

“It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures — but far and wide. ” — Daniel Coit Gilman First President of Johns Hopkins University

Today, each of the School's faculty members is expected to spend as much time on research as on teaching, and students—undergraduate and graduate alike—routinely collaborate with faculty and engage in their own independent, original research. As a result, inquiry and the creation of new knowledge are the engine and fuel that drive both instruction and learning in the school.