Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a major research university in the United States. It is located in Georgetown, a neighborhood of Washington, DC. It is both the oldest Roman Catholic and Jesuit university in the United States, having been founded on January 23, 1789 by Archbishop John Carroll. It is a member institution of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.

The University

Globally recognized for its academics — especially in the fields of international relations and law — Georgetown University currently had 6,332 full-time and part-time undergraduate students, 3,768 full-time and part-time graduate students on the Main Campus, 2,043 students at the Law Center and 713 students in the Medical School as of 2002-03. The university employees approximately 1,100 full-time and 330 part-time faculty members across its three campuses.

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Competitiveness

Georgetown's overall undergraduate acceptance rate as of 2006 was 20%, a rate among the most selective of any university in the United States and many of the graduate programs, particularly in the Law Center and Medical School, are similarly competitive. The undergraduate schools maintain an Early Action admissions program. According to admissions fact sheets, applicants applying to Georgetown typically consider institutions such as Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Brown University, Duke University, and the University of Chicago during their application and subsequent enrollment periods. The Princeton Review rates Georgetown as the eleventh most difficult college to enter in the United States in its latest edition.

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Early Action - Harvard University - Yale University - Princeton University - Brown University - Duke University - University of Chicago - Princeton Review

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Student organizations

Student organizations include

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• Georgetown University College Republicans
• Georgetown University College Democrats
• The Philodemic Debate Society, a historic debate society
• The Georgetown International Relations Club
• Mask & Bauble, the oldest continually operating student theater group in the country
• Georgetown University Grilling Society (GUGS) an organization devoted to bringing the campus community together with their weekly cookouts and, of course, the famous GUGS burger.

Georgetown University has three student-run newspapers. The Hoya is the university's oldest newspaper. It has been in print since 1920, and since 1987 has published twice weekly. The Georgetown Voice is published weekly and The Georgetown Independent is published monthly. The Georgetown Academy is another student paper, though it is not affiliated with, or recognized by, the university. Its contributors and editors are primarily noted for their interest in traditionalism and conservativism.

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The Hoya - 1920 - 1987 - Traditionalism - Conservativism

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Georgetown University is also home to the largest student-run company in the world, The Corp which does business in excess of $3 million a year.

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Alumni

For a comprehensive list of alumni, see the list of notable Georgetown University alumni.

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Besides numerous members of the United States Congress and the senior diplomatic corps, several chiefs of states (including Bill Clinton, a former United States President) are alumni of the university and Georgetown graduates have served at the head of such diverse and important institutions as the AFL-CIO, the United States Marine Corps, the Central Intelligence Agency, theNational Football League, the University of Illinois, the Catholic Archdiocese of New York, the American Medical Association, the Internal Revenue Service, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Conservative Party of Canada, the United States Navy and the Peace Corps. Major corporations run by graduates include Citigroup, Investor AB and Lucent Technologies. Major regulatory bodies such as the Federal Communications Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board have had G.U. alumni at the helm in recent years. In any election cycle, a number of state governors will, generally, hold Georgetown degrees (Indiana and New Hampshire elected graduates in 2004, and graduates stood for election in Alabama, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and New Jersey in the immediate prior cycles).

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United States Congress - Bill Clinton - United States President - AFL-CIO - The United States Marine Corps - Central Intelligence Agency - National Football League - University of Illinois - Archdiocese of New York - American Medical Association - Internal Revenue Service - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Conservative Party of Canada - United States Navy - Peace Corps - Citigroup - Investor AB - Lucent Technologies - Federal Communications Commission - Public Company Accounting Oversight Board - Indiana - New Hampshire - Alabama - Oklahoma - Pennsylvania - New Jersey

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In the international military arena, both the current head of the U.S. Multinational Force in Iraq and the Supreme Commander of NATO are alumni from Georgetown's School of Foreign Service.

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Iraq - NATO - School of Foreign Service

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Two of the fifteen most powerful women in the world as rated by Forbes magazine in 2005, (Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the President of the Philippines, and Patricia Russo, the Chairwoman of Lucent Technologies) are alumni of the university.

Related Topics:
Forbes - Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo - Philippines - Lucent Technologies

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