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Originally Posted by Crawford
None of the top ranked U.S. universities have huge undergraduate enrollments. No school in the top 15 has even 10,000 undergraduate students. But all have at least 4,000 undergrads, excepting CalTech, which is tiny.
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Johns Hopkins, #10 on this list, had well less than 2000 undergrads when I went there. Their web site says in 2018 they awarded 1500 bachelors' degrees. So 4000??? If you count all the grad programs maybe.
Meanwhile, I'd put the Hopkins Applied Physics Lab up against JPL (but as the following indicates, sometimes they work together). APL gets more government research money and the rovers currently stalking around on Mars are from APL.
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The Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory
We solve complex research, engineering, and analytical problems that present critical challenges to our nation. APL—the nation’s largest university affiliated research center—provides U.S. government agencies with deep expertise in specialized fields to support national priorities and technology development programs. We also serve as independent trusted technical agents to the government, providing continuity for highly complex, multigenerational technology development systems.
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Current projects besides the Mars Rovers:
- "Just two days after leaving Johns Hopkins APL in a specialized container,
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, where it is scheduled to launch in late November. . . . Shortly after it arrived at Johns Hopkins APL, the Italian Space Agency’s first-ever deep-space miniaturized satellite, called LICIACube, was installed on DART. The CubeSat will snap images of DART as it performs its final maneuver: a deliberate crash into an asteroid."
- "Just a year after a team from Johns Hopkins APL and Durham University showed for the first time that spacecraft could help end a decades-long stalemate on
how long a neutron can last outside an atom’s nucleus, the team has done it again. In a new study using lunar data, the team made a tenfold improvement on their last estimate, drawing closer to answering a question that will improve our understanding of the early universe."
- "APL has been working with the U.S. Army to develop an experimental
prototype for the Multi-Domain Task Force for situational awareness, targeting and intelligence preparation of the operational environment at the security level of the unit."
- "APL scientists have made significant progress toward creating the first
worldwide, near-real-time inventory of road transportation emissions, contributing a major piece to a larger effort to monitor greenhouse gas emissions on a global scale, known as Climate TRACE."
- "After five years of developing and testing
a complex particle detection instrument for NASA’s Psyche mission, the world’s first mission to study a potentially metal-rich asteroid, the Psyche team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, can finally take a breather.
The team’s instrument — a gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer, or GRNS — safely arrived at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on Aug. 2. There, it will be integrated with the Psyche spacecraft and prepped for launch next year."
- "NASA has given Princeton University, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and their many partner institutions the go-ahead to begin implementing
the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) — a mission to sample, analyze and map particles streaming to Earth from the edges of interstellar space. Set to launch in February 2025, IMAP will investigate two critical issues in space physics: the acceleration of energetic particles from the Sun and the interaction of these particles — known as the solar wind — with the interstellar medium."
https://www.jhuapl.edu
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