Georgetown University is a private institution that was founded in 1789. In the 2026 edition of Best Colleges, Georgetown University is ranked No. #24 in National Universities. It's also ranked No.

One-hundred-seventy-eight years ago, the school that would become Georgetown University was free to everyone who was able to attend. It was also massively in debt. To pay that debt, the Jesuits who ...

Around 25 Georgetown University students disrupted senior convocation to advocate for divestment from Israel, a living wage ...

When one of American’s oldest and most prestigious universities decided to give preferential admission to the descendants of slaves with ties to the university, it immediately ramped up the pressure ...

Professor Morton Schapiro withdrew as speaker for the law school’s graduation after students objected to his selection over ...

Georgetown University and MedStar Health have launched a pioneering Health Security Operations Center (HSOC) to monitor ...

Former top public health official, 82, stepped down as director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases last year Anthony Fauci, who was previously the top public health official ...

Ford CEO Jim Farley gave a heartfelt commencement speech at his alma mater and also picked up an honorary degree.

When Ethan Henshaw (CAS ’26) heard the Supreme Court had ruled against affirmative action, he saw Georgetown as facing a different issue from many other elite national universities. “I just remember ...

A pro-Israel group is asking the Trump administration to investigate whether the university is violating the Foreign Agents ...