The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences values discovery, community, impact, and integrity.
These values shape everything from our student experience to faculty and staff recognition. Faculty, staff, and students build community together through a rich tapestry of academic, professional, and personal opportunities.
Whether at the Center for Visual Arts, the Data and Science AI Institute, or in more than 400 student groups and clubs, Blue Jays can try new experiences and find their people.
Custom academic experience
Both the undergraduate and graduate experiences at the Krieger School can be flexible, and our connections with other institutions allow you to choose how you spend your time. All Krieger students have both an academic advisor and a departmental advisor from their first days on campus.
The Krieger School offers experiential research labs, teaching workshops for doctoral students, and much more. Whether you are pursuing public health, philosophy, or neuroscience, you are empowered to chart pathways that align with your ambitions.
Daniela Rodriguez ’24 majored in neuroscience and minored in visual arts.
History professor Jessica Marie Johnson speaking at “Who Owns Black Data?” conference in 2024.
Research across fields
Faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows explore new questions, break new ground, and solve challenges that don’t always fit into one box.
Two-thirds of Johns Hopkins University students double major or minor, often working and researching at other branches of the university. From interpreting historical trends with mathematical modeling to using improvisational comedy to improve doctors’ bedside manners, Krieger School research crosses academic bounds.
Collaboration
A key aspect of studying or working at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences is collaboration, across both Johns Hopkins and the greater Baltimore community.
Faculty often share academic interests and work across departments, and labs and research groups often span from first-year students through postdocs and senior faculty. Members of the Krieger School community discover more together.
Biology professor Jocelyn DiRuggiero and student in discussion.
Passion pursuits
There are more than 400 student groups at Johns Hopkins University. Students and faculty at the Krieger School get involved with the Hopkins Review, Hopkins Emergency Response Organization, Greenhacks, and more.
In spring, we celebrate student work across the gamut, from the Physics Fair to the Studio North film premiere. Beyond that, we advocate for collective well-being by fostering dialogue, collaboration, and belonging across our university, local communities, and beyond.
Design your life
The Krieger School offers wellness, health services, recreation, and counseling for all. Our school and experiential learning and life design offices also offer collaborative advising, courses, workshops, experiential learning, and networking opportunities for students, postdocs, and staff to help navigate their next academic or professional steps—academic, corporate, or otherwise.
Students traveled to Utila Island, Honduras, to experience and research tropical ecosystems and organisms.