Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland (Park):

2. Johns Hopkins University (hereinafter referred to as Hopkins or JHU), founded in 1876, is the first research university in the United States and one of the founding schools of association of american universities 14, and is a world-famous private university. The National Science Foundation ranked this university as the university with the highest research expenditure in the United States for 33 consecutive years. Up to now, 36 faculty members have won the Nobel Prize. In 20 14, American news and world report listed it as 1 1 in the world and the 9th in the United States. The Higher Education Supplement of The Times of England listed it as 15 in the world.

Hopkins University not only has the world's top medical schools, public health schools and international relations schools, but also has outstanding achievements in the fields of biological engineering, space science, social humanities, music art and so on. Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH), the teaching and research unit of medical college, was rated as the best hospital in the United States in 2 1 year. Its Nietzsche Institute for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) has trained a large number of outstanding alumni, including US Secretary of State Albright, Treasury Secretary Geithner, World Bank President Eindhoven, China's Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai, Icelandic Prime Minister Hald, Dutch Foreign Minister Cohen and Finance Minister Hogwarts. The school's Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is the cradle of modern American physics talents, and also the contractor of the US Department of Defense, the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope ground control center. With the support of the founder of Morgan Consortium, Hopkins gave birth to the first and most prestigious conservatory of music in America. Hopkins University's main campus is located in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, and its branch campus is located in Washington, D.C., with teaching campuses in China, Nanjing and Bologna.

3. The University of Maryland (Park) is a world-class top-level comprehensive institution of higher learning located in Maryland, USA, ranking 4 1[ 1] in the 20/6 US News World University Ranking? . The University of Maryland, founded in 1856, is located in the University City Park in Prince George County, Maryland, 3 kilometers away from Washington, D.C. 13. The University of Maryland covers an area of 65,438+0,250 acres, or about 7,600 acres. The area is located in the metropolitan area of Washington, DC, USA.

Half of Maryland's land area belongs to the Atlantic coastal plain, with sandy land in the south and fertile land in the north. Chesapeake bay, which spans the Atlantic Ocean, has a coastline of 3,200 miles. Chesapeake bay is a wide and long drowning valley, which extends inland from south to north and divides Maryland into two parts. Chesapeake bay is 320km long from north to south, 6-60km wide from east to west, and the deepest part can reach105m. The main rivers in the west bank are James River and Potomac River. There is a bay head in the north, which is injected by the Susquehanna River. And there is a 30-kilometer-long canal that runs through the northern part of Delaware and reaches the lower reaches of the Delaware River.