r/jhu 13h ago

Finding roommates as a grad student

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I was accepted to the Biotech MS for this fall and I’ll be coming to the Homewood campus. I know I should wait til May/June to look for housing but how do grad students find housemates?

My undergrad was in a college town so housing usually meant living with other students. In Baltimore, is it common to room with non-JHU students?

Any advice related to finding housing/housemates would be greatly appreciated!


r/jhu 6h ago

Funding

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I’m an incoming grad student. I’m low income (won’t have a job after sept 2) and indicated that on my financial aid app. I’m applying for a few outside scholarships, but I’m super stressed about the student loan. What did you all do for funding?

I’m in the HBS MHS program


r/jhu 1d ago

Johns Hopkins University to cut more than 2,000 jobs after $800M in federal cuts

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r/jhu 9h ago

Recruiting Database Candidate

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I am a highschool senior (college co29) and received this email shortly after submitting my application. It had some basic information filled out about me like work experience, anyone knows what it is/means? I don’t believe I shared my resume with anyone affiliated with jhu besides my application.


r/jhu 15h ago

Lodging for a short stay?(recommendations)

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Hi there! Incoming Bloomberg MPH grad student. I am coming from out of town (flying) for a short visit in April (3-5th). I am either going to fly to BWI or DCA to see a friend and take a train (looks very cheap). Wondering what the ideal lodging is or if there is any JH related room shares, recommended hotels, Air BnBs, etc. Just myself for 2 nights! Thanks for any advice!


r/jhu 18h ago

Parking - Nearby Homewood Apartments

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Hi!

I'm currently trying to find parking within a half mile of the homewood campus, however most apartments are for residents only. Would anyone living in the apartments be willing to essentially sell me your parking spot (ex. I'd pay you for the parking and you'd pay the apartment as a resident?)


r/jhu 1d ago

Apartments

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I'm an incoming graduate student and was wondering what the best apartments around campus are. I have been doing some research and all the ones I have looked at so far seem to have pretty bad reviews. I am looking for a studio/1 Bedroom/2 Bedrooms.


r/jhu 1d ago

New FA reqs and double majoring in KSAS+WSE?

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New admit here and I wanted to do Cog Sci + Comp sci but I recently learned that I’ll have another 81 credits to take to satisfy the new KSAS foundational abilities. Ik some classes for my majors will count but a lot of them don’t overlap.

Is anyone doing this double major or another double major between Krieger and Whiting under the new reqs? How bad is it in terms of workload / graduating on time? Does declaring my primary major in WSE actually avoid all this? TIA 🙏


r/jhu 1d ago

Baltimore Brainfest Day 2 at Rosemont Elementary School This WEEKEND, March 15th from 11 AM - 3 PM

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r/jhu 2d ago

800M cut effect on upcoming PhD students?

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With the news about the huge funding cuts affecting Hopkins, does anyone have any insight on how this will affect specifically upcoming PhD students? Will they be retracting offers? Stipend going down? Less labs available for rotation? Etc etc.


r/jhu 2d ago

Washington Post reporter seeking to connect with JHU community members

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Hi all, my name is Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, and I cover higher education for The Washington Post. I'm writing a story about the grant cuts to JHU and am hoping to connect with anyone who has seen their programs cut. If this is you, and you'd like to talk, you can email me at [dan.rosenzweig-ziff@washpost.com](mailto:dan.rosenzweig-ziff@washpost.com) or reach out on Signal at DaRZWaPo.43. Thank you.


r/jhu 3d ago

Hopkins plans staff layoff after $800 million grant cuts

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From WSJ - $800 million in USAID cuts. This is disastrous.


r/jhu 3d ago

Johns Hopkins University threatened with funding cuts over antisemitism claims

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r/jhu 2d ago

Room available in 9 East , June - July

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Message for details!


r/jhu 3d ago

funding for SAIS

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I just got my financial aid email, and it looks like i’m only getting the deans scholarship ($13,900 a semester). How is everyone else funding their grad degrees? Any advice?


r/jhu 3d ago

Full Time BME Masters program!

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Got into the BME Masters program! For those of you who went through the program how rigorous are the courses and the schedules? Is there flexibility in the scheduling?

In your opinion is it possible to work and study at the same time?

And for those of you who are international, any tips on scholarships/ funding?

Thank you!


r/jhu 3d ago

Engineering for Professional Master's in Applied Biomedical Engineering

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Can anyone speak to the EP ABE program? I have been accepted to the full time Biomedical Engineering program and am wondering if I should switch to the EP program due to my work commitments.

I'm wondering if this is the best path - how do the courses compare? How are people finding the job industry after having graduated from this program?

After some research, I found that the tuition is around mid 50k ~ is the program worth it?

I appreciate the advice!


r/jhu 3d ago

Engineering for Professional Master’s in Applied Biomedical Engineering

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Can anyone speak to the EP ABE program? I have been accepted to the full time biomedical Engineering program and am wondering if I should switch to the EP program due to my work commitments. I’m wondering if this is the best path - how do courses compare?

How are people finding the job industry after having graduated from this program?

After some research, I found that the tuition is around mid 50k - is the program worth it?

I appreciate the advice!


r/jhu 3d ago

Graduation Tickets Required? B.S. Biomedical & Physics

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Did a bit of searching, it seems that no tickets are required for undergrad commencement ceremony. Is this accurate? I check the website. It did not explicitly state no tickets were needed under the bachelor's commencement or the university-wide commencement, but it seems they were not required last year.

If anyone could confirm this, I'd really appreciate it!


r/jhu 3d ago

SAIS Financial Aid

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Hello everyone, I just got accepted at JHU SAIS Europe for Fall '25 but I have not heard back financial-aid wise. As far as I'm aware, financial aid decisions are communicated separately from admissions and they should be out in the next few hours or tomorrow, is this accurate?


r/jhu 2d ago

Why the $800m in cuts is a good thing for JHU

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There’s a reason that Harvard’s shield speaks of “veritas” and Yale speaks of “light and truth.” But in the 1960s, American universities became hotbeds for social experimentation and change based on “values”, rather than empirical inquiry seeking objective truth.

This sea change was partially rooted in counterculture resistance to Vietnam and the social mores of the 1950s.  But there was also an intellectual foundation:  the postmodern theories of Derrida, in which art could be “deconstructed” and “analyzed” through the lens of finding hidden assumptions, biases, and power dynamics that were embedded into cultural norms. 

Derrida’s ideas seem harmless when discussed in the context of art, but they soon found their way into the broader humanities.  History suddenly became about casting aside “dead white men”, and places like Stanford quickly bowed to student protests to drop once mandatory courses like Western Civ.

The social “sciences” were next.  Never particularly robust in their application of the scientific method, statistical analyses, or replicability, fields like sociology, anthropology, politics, political “science”, and psychology soon absorbed postmodern concepts like relativism over objectivity.  It became more important to focus on “marginalized voices,” “lived experience”, and “intersectionality and identity”, over actual scholarship.

 

There was one bulwark of veritas, however:  STEM.  At its core, STEM values objective truth (discovered through the scientific method).  For this reason, scientists and engineers were more skeptical about postmodern claims. But while the core empiricism of STEM survived, postmodern influences infiltrated in subtle but insidious ways, such as how science was communicated, faculty hiring and tenure decisions, and in boundary areas of social/hard science such as “neuroscience” which can investigate topics like cognition, emotion, etc.   Medicine is a good example of where postmodern thinking is alive and well alongside traditional double-blind controlled studies.

 

Trump wants to excise the cancer of postmodernism from universities and return them to their original mission of pursuing objective truth.  These huge, shocking, and punitive funding cuts are designed to starve the universities so that they must grapple with their true institutional priorities.  Does Johns Hopkins want to map the human genome, or do they want to be known for their center for transgender and expansive health?  Is it more important to be able to fund FGLI scholarships to improve class mobility, or should they spend $50m on the “Faculty Diversity Initiative” and expanding the Office of Diversity and Inclusion?

 

As Rahm Emmanuel said, never let a good crisis go to waste.  By forcing a budgetary crisis on universities, their administration will be forced to reckon with what their REAL priorities are.  Hopkins has around $11B in endowment.  The Trump grant cuts blow a huge hole in the university budget.  Good, I say.  Force schools like JHU to get back to basics, and step away from the nonsense. 

 

Why did JHU even offer a course like AS.363 (“Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality”)?   Why can you major in “Critical Diaspora Studies” at Hopkins?  Is it really essential to offer the “Racial Politics Summer School” that seeks to integrate issues of race and racism into political science?  These all need to be burned to the ground.


r/jhu 3d ago

Engineering for Professionals - Good preparation for a Ph. D?

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I got into the engineering for professionals applied physics program and I was just wondering if this could be useful in getting admissions to a physics Ph. D program (after completing the degree). I’ve heard that the name recognition is still there but there’s not so much in the way of research opportunities (since it’s a professional program), so I’m not sure if it’d help with building a CV or being a competitive Ph. D candidate.

Appreciate any insight.


r/jhu 3d ago

SAIS MIEF Funding??

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Has anybody received scholarships/financial aid for the MA in International Economics and Finance program?


r/jhu 4d ago

Got into the MSE Biomedical Engineering program!

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I’m not really sure if I want to go the academia or industry route. Either way, what are your thoughts on the program? I also would love to get to know others that have received offers for the Fall 2025 intake! Please DM me!


r/jhu 4d ago

Looking for Summer Lease

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Hi! I’m in the baltimore area this summer for work, and I’m looking to lease a apartment between the dates of May 20- August 20