<p>I visited Johns Hopkins this summer. I noticed that the JHU hospital for grad students is right next to a pretty bad part of baltimore. The main campus a few miles away, I saw that some of the neighborhoods ~1 mile awayish arent that great either.</p>
<p>Any Hopkins students/alum want to comment on how safe they feel? Or about traveling outside of the Hopkins campus to downtown Baltimore- do hopkins students go often?</p>
<p>The area around the undergrad campus is really cute and pretty safe. It’s a city, don’t walk alone late at night, etc. But that’s pretty par for the course on all city campuses.</p>
<p>There was a recent discussion on this topic just a few weeks ago with a variety of responses:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/johns-hopkins-university/1187341-jhu-whats-neighorbood-really-like.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/johns-hopkins-university/1187341-jhu-whats-neighorbood-really-like.html</a></p>
<p>Ignore the immaturity of one of the posters on that thread but aside from that I think there is a lot of helpful opinions.</p>
<p>Thanks for the link</p>
<p>I visited the undergraduate campus a few months ago, expecting to find a dangerous neighborhood. It was actually quite nice. If you travel towards Penn Station on the way to the tourist area on the water, however, you do hit a bad area where people have been murdered. But I would say that if you stay close to campus, you will be fine. Now, we wee there during the summer, so I would say that with hundreds of students walking around, it is even safer.</p>
<p>I just started as a freshman at Hopkins and I can tell you that the campus is very, very secure. There are hopkins security guards posted at every nearby street corner 24 hours per day. While it can be a nuisance, you need to carry your JCard (campus ID) everywhere to get anywhere. However, this makes it so that the dorms and all the buildings are really safe. Additionally, the nearby parts off campus are really safe. There is really not much to be worried about with the number of policemen and security guards nearby. Now, if you were to venture towards the inner harbor at night, you would be going through some of the worst parts of Baltimore. Being safe at Hopkins and in most other facets of life is about common sense. If you are aware of the parts of Baltimore you shouldn’t go to as well as the many services provided by Hopkins security, you should go through four years of JH unscathed.</p>
<p>I second daiviko, same situation (freshman)… so far nothing here has made me feel unsafe. Plenty of Hop cops and uniformed officers around campus on the weekend nights and plenty of Hopkins security cars patrolling around campus. Campus is extremely safe and the neighborhoods north of campus are fantastic (I took a walk through them the other day.) Going south of campus or east of campus at night is not recommended, but all in all its great here and certainly feels as safe as an open campus could be practically.</p>