Facts about Georgetown
Georgetown's most notable alumni, such as former U.S. President Bill Clinton, served in various levels of government in the United States and abroad.
WGTB, Georgetown's radio station, is available as a webcast and on 92.3 FM in certain dormitories.
Both Healy Hall and the Georgetown University Astronomical Observatory, built in 1844, are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places.
Academically, Georgetown is divided into four undergraduate schools and four graduate schools, with nationally recognized programs and faculty in international relations, law, and medicine.
Healy Hall, built in Flemish Romanesque style from 1877 to 1879, is the architectural gem of Georgetown's campus, and is a National Historic Landmark.
The issue contributes to Georgetown's 'red light' status on free speech under the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education rating system.
Georgetown offers many opportunities to study abroad, and 58.7 percent of the undergraduate student body spends time at an overseas school.
The Georgetown University Student Association is the student government organization for undergraduates.
Georgetown's student organizations include one of the nation's oldest debating clubs, the Philodemic Society, and the oldest running dramatic society, the Mask & Bauble Society.
Of schools with less than 15,000 graduates annually, Georgetown produces more Peace Corps volunteers than any other private university.
Annual events on campus celebrate Georgetown traditions, culture, alumni, sports, and politics.
The main facility for the McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies was donated to Georgetown in 1989 by alumnus and former United States Ambassador to Turkey George C. McGhee.
Georgetown University has three campuses in Washington, D.C.: the undergraduate campus, the Medical Center, and the Law Center.
Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university, located in Washington, DC's Georgetown neighborhood.
Georgetown University has 172 registered student organizations that cover a variety of interests: student government, club sports, media and publications, performing arts, religion, and volunteer and service.
The United States Congress issued Georgetown the first federal university charter in 1815, which allowed it to confer degrees.
Georgetown University is a self described "student-centered research university" considered by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education to have "very high research activity."
Georgetown graduates have served at the head of diverse institutions, both in the public and private sector, and have headed military organizations on both the national and international level.
The remainder live off-campus, mostly in the Georgetown, Burleith, and Foxhall neighborhoods.
Georgetown's three urban campuses feature traditional collegiate architecture and layout, but prize their green spaces and environmental commitment.
Active fraternities at Georgetown include Delta Phi Epsilon, a professional foreign service fraternity; Alpha Kappa Psi, a professional business fraternity; Alpha Phi Omega, a national community service fraternity; Alpha Epsilon Pi; and Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Georgetown also operates a facility in Doha, Qatar, and villas in Alanya, Turkey, and Fiesole, Italy.
Georgetown University offers undergraduate degrees in 48 majors in the four undergraduate schools, as well as the opportunity for students to design their own individualized courses of study.
Georgetown's Army ROTC unit, the Hoya Battalion, is the oldest military unit native to the District of Columbia.
Georgetown Visitation, a private Roman Catholic high school, is on land adjoining the main campus.
Georgetown Preparatory School relocated from campus in 1919 and fully separated from the University in 1927.
U.S. News and World Report listed Georgetown's athletics program among the 20 best in the nation.
The D.C. A cappella Festival has been held on Georgetown's campus since its inception in 1990.
Every year since 2002, Traditions Day has focused attention in early November on the two centuries of Georgetown history.
The Georgetown Independent is a monthly "journal of news, commentary and the arts."
The Georgetown Heckler is a humor magazine founded on the Internet in 2003 by Georgetown students, releasing its first print issue in 2007.
Georgetown Solidarity Committee is a workers' rights organization whose successes include ending use of sweatshops in producing Georgetown-logoed apparel, and garnering pay raises for both university cleaning staff and police.
The medical school is on a property adjacent to the northwestern part of the undergraduate campus on Reservoir Road, and is integrated with Georgetown University Hospital.
Georgetown University hosts notable speakers each year, largely because of the success of the Georgetown Lecture Fund and the Office of Communications.
In 1844, the school received a corporate charter, under the name "The President and Directors of Georgetown College," affording the growing school additional legal rights.
Georgetown's student body is particularly active in politics; groups based on local, national, and international issues are popular, and free speech is generally respected.
The Georgetown Chimes, founded in 1946, is the University's oldest and only all-male singing group.
Shortly after its founding in 1920, students requested that Georgetown's newspaper take the name The Hoya rather than The Hilltopper.
Georgetown's chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi, affiliated with the campus Hillel, was established in 2002.
Georgetown is both the oldest Roman Catholic and oldest Jesuit university in the United States.
Georgetown ended its bicentennial year of 1989 by electing Leo J. O'Donovan as president.
The Georgetown athletics teams are nicknamed "the Hoyas," made famous by their men's basketball team, which leads the Big East Conference with seven tournament championships.
In 2006, researchers at Georgetown's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center developed the breakthrough HPV vaccine for cervical cancer.
The Georgetown Voice, known for its weekly cover stories, is a newsmagazine that split from The Hoya to focus more attention on citywide and national issues.
Georgetown's alumni include numerous public figures, of whom many have served in the United States Senate and House of Representatives.
Georgetown University's undergraduate campus and medical school campus are situated on an elevated site above the Potomac River, overlooking northern Virginia.
The Georgetown Academy targets more conservative readers on campus and the Georgetown Federalist, founded in 2006, purports to bring a "conservative and libertarian" viewpoint to campus.
The founding of Georgetown University took place on two main dates, 1634 and 1789.
The mascot of Georgetown athletics programs is Jack the Bulldog and the school fight song is There Goes Old Georgetown.
In 2008, Georgetown will again play host to a first round division of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.
Georgetown has many additional groups representing national, ethnic, and linguistic interests.
Georgetown faculty conduct research in hundreds of subjects, but have priorities in the fields of religion, ethics, science, public policy, and cancer medicine.
Other a cappella groups on campus include the coed Phantoms, the coed Superfood, the all-female GraceNotes, the all-female international group Harmony, and the service-focused Georgetown Saxatones.
The Georgetown athletics teams are nicknamed "the Hoyas," made famous by their men's basketball team, which leads the Big East Conference with seven tournament championships.
Delta Phi Epsilon was founded at Georgetown in 1920, and members of their Alpha Chapter include Jesuits and several deans of the School of Foreign Service.
The U.S. Civil War greatly affected Georgetown as 1,141 students and alumni enlisted and the Union Army commandeered university buildings.