General Info

Georgetown University, located in Washington, D.C., is a research-oriented, private institution of learning that specializes in graduate, undergraduate, law school and medicine. Founded in 1789, the same year the United States Constitution took effect, Georgetown University is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit university in America. The university offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in biomedical and health sciences, business, economics, humanities, history and classical studies, languages and linguistics, literature, cultural studies, theology, philosophy, religious studies, ethnic studies, law, political science, multi- and inter-disciplinary studies, science, mathematics, technology, social sciences and visual and performing arts. Georgetown University s colleges include the Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, School of Nursing and Health Studies and the School of Medicine.