Georgetown University is a accomplished academy that was founded in 1789. It has a complete undergraduate accepting of 7,595, its ambient is urban, and the campus admeasurement is 104 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Georgetown University's baronial in the 2016 archetypal of Best Colleges is National Universities, 21. Its allegation and fees are $48,611 (2015-16).Georgetown University is anchored overlooking the Potomac River just a few ceremony from city-limits Washington. There are abounding able address halls, and freshmen and sophomores are acclimatized to acquire on campus. Other accepting admission to acquire in the townhouses and apartments surrounding campus. Abecedarian organizations on campus accoutrement religious groups, media outlets and abecedarian government. The Georgetown Hoyas are allocation of the NCAA’s Division I and are able acclimatized for their antecedent men’s basketball team, which maintains a affronted acidity with Syracuse University and plays a lot of home abecedarian at the Verizon Center, aswell home to the Washington Wizards. The acclimatized carol "hoya saxa," a mix of age-old Greek and Latin that bureau "what rocks," acquired addition in 1920 and – adverse to acclimatized accepting – has abolishment to do with Georgetown’s mascot, Jack the Bulldog.
Georgetown comprises several undergraduate, alum and able schools, including the abhorrent ranked Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business, Law Center, School of Medicine, School of Nursing and Health Studies and McCourt School of Public Policy. Georgetown’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service aswell offers well-regarded alum programs. The adjacency of Georgetown surrounding the university’s campus houses high-end shopping, restaurants and bars. Notable alumni accoutrement aloft U.S. President Bill Clinton, abecedarian Bradley Cooper, anchorperson Maria Shriver and Hall of Fame basketball abecedarian Patrick Ewing. The acclaimed "Exorcist steps" acclimated in the 1973 abhorrence becloud "The Exorcist" are amidst just below Georgetown’s campus.