Georgetown University

Location and Affiliation:

Georgetown University is located in Washington D.C., population 609,909.
Affiliation: Roman Catholic.

Population:

Georgetown University’s enrollment is 6314 undergraduate students and 6444 graduate students.

• 54% female
• 7% black
• 10% Asian
• 4% international
• 6% Hispanic

22% of applicants are admitted.

Professor to Student Ratio:

1:11

Academic Level:

• Georgetown is a Level 1 school
• The average high school GPA is 3.9
• The middle 50% range of ACT scores is English 28-33, Math 27-31, Composite 27-32
• The middle SAT range is Verbal 640-740, Math 640-730, Composite 1280-1470

Graduates:

93% graduate after 6 years. Freshman return at a rate of 95%.

Application:

• Admission fee is $60
• The Early Action deadline is November 1, Regular Decision is December 15.
• The financial aid deadline is February 1

Generosity:

Average need met is 100%.

Features:

Georgetown was founded the same year the U.S. Constitution took effect. Georgetown University is the nation’s oldest Catholic and Jesuit university. Today, Georgetown is a major international research university that embodies its founding principles in the diversity of our students, faculty, and staff, our commitment to justice and the common good, our intellectual openness, and our international character.

Georgetown University began with the vision of John Carroll, an American-born, European-educated Jesuit priest who returned to the United States in 1773 with the goal of securing the future of American Catholicism through education — in particular, through the establishment of a preeminent Catholic place of higher learning.

As America’s first Catholic bishop and a strong supporter of the American Revolution, Carroll firmly believed that a Catholic institution could make a major contribution to the political, cultural, and educational life of the fledgling nation. In 1789, he acquired the deed to a plot of land overlooking the Potomac River outside the village of George-Town for the “Academy at George-Town.” The school was, in the emerging tradition of American religious tolerance, to be open to “every class of citizens” and students of “every religious profession.”

Carroll saw Georgetown as an academically rigorous Catholic academy with a diverse student body. The vision of John Carroll continues to be realized today in a distinctive educational institution — a national University rooted in the Catholic faith and Jesuit tradition, committed to spiritual inquiry, engaged in the public sphere, and invigorated by religious and cultural pluralism.

Contact:

Georgetown University Admissions 1-202-687-3600.

Learn more about Georgetown University. http://www.georgetown.edu

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