Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...
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Founded in 1789, Georgetown University is the oldest
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institution of higher education in the United States. The school graduates about two thousand undergraduate and postgraduate students annually. There are nine constitutive schools, five of which offer undergraduate degrees and six of which offer graduate degrees, as two schools offer both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
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Georgetown College
Georgetown College is a private Christian college in Georgetown, Kentucky. Chartered in 1829, Georgetown was the first Baptist college west of the Appalachian Mountains.
The college offers 38 undergraduate degrees and a Master of Arts in educat ...
:*CAS – former College of Arts & Sciences
:*SLL – former School of Languages and Linguistics, now the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics within the College
* Dent –
School of Dentistry (defunct)
* Grad –
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
* Law –
Law Center (
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)
:*LL.M. –
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* Med –
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:*W – Fellowship in the School of Medicine
* MSB –
McDonough School of Business
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(undergraduate)
:*GSB – former Georgetown School of Business
:*SBA – former School of Business Administration
:*MBA –
Master of Business Administration
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(graduate)
* NHS –
School of Nursing and Health Studies
Georgetown University School of Nursing is one of the eleven schools of Georgetown University. Founded in 1903 as the School of Nursing, it added three other health related majors in 1999 and appended its name to become the School of Nursing & Hea ...
:*Nur – former Georgetown University Nursing School
* MPP –
McCourt School of Public Policy
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:*GPPI – former Georgetown Public Policy Institute
* SCS –
School of Continuing Studies
:*SCE – former School of Summer and Continuing Education
:*CED – School of Continuing Education
* SFS –
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
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(undergraduate)
:*MSFS – Master of Science in Foreign Service (graduate)
:*SSP – Security Studies Program (graduate)
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List of Georgetown University faculty
This is a list of notable Georgetown University faculty, including both current and past faculty at the Washington, D.C. school. As of 2007, Georgetown University employs approximately and faculty members across its three campuses. Many former ...
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List of presidents of Georgetown University
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President and Directors of Georgetown College
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History of Georgetown University
The history of Georgetown University spans nearly four hundred years, from the early European settlement of America to the present day. Georgetown University has grown with both its city, Washington, D.C., and the United States, each of which dat ...
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List of Georgetown University Law Center alumni
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Georgetown University Alumni Association
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Georgetown University alumni
Georgetown University is a private research university located in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, Georgetown University is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit institution of higher education in the United States. The school graduates about two t ...
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...