Type Private Parent institution Georgetown University Location Washington, D.C., USA Mascot Hoyas Phone +1 202-687-4043 Dean Chester Gillis | Established 1789 Students 3,200 Undergraduate tuition and fees 20,460 USD (2011) Total enrollment 1,851 (2010) Founded 1789 | |
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Affiliation Roman Catholic (Jesuit) Address 108 White-Gravenor 37th and O Streets, N.W., Washington, DC 20007, USA Notable alumni Samuel Mudd, James R Zazzali, John Thomas Scharf, Edward Kavanagh, Peter Rainsford Brady Similar George Washington University, Boston College, Trinity Washington University, Coppin State University, Catholic University of America Profiles | ||
Georgetown College, infrequently Georgetown College of Arts and Sciences, is the oldest school within Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The College is the largest undergraduate school at Georgetown, and until the founding of the School of Medicine in 1850, was the only higher education division. In 1821, the school granted its first graduate degrees, though the graduate portion has since divided as the Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Former theology professor Chester Gillis is the Dean of the College, a position he was named to after initially serving as interim Dean while a search committee, led by University President John J. DeGioia and Provost James J. O'Donnell was underway. The previous dean, Jane Dammen McAuliffe, left to become the President of Bryn Mawr College. Alone, the college accounts for over 3,200 students, 30 academic majors with 23 departments. This forms the core of the undergraduate population.
History
From 1789 until the founding of the School of Medicine in 1850, Georgetown College was the only secondary school at what became Georgetown University. Robert Plunkett, the first president of Georgetown, oversaw the division of the school into three parts, "college", "preparatory", and "elementary". Elementary education was eventually dropped by Patrick Francis Healy, and preparatory eventually separated as Georgetown Prep.
Over the years many schools have broken off of the College. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences first broke off in 1855, but rejoined the college organization following the downturn in admissions caused by the American Civil War, until reestablishment in 1891. The School of Languages and Linguistics, itself organized out of the School of Foreign Service in 1949, was collapsed into the College in 1995, as the Faculty of Languages and Linguistic, though it maintains its separate programs.