
	Georgetown University is a private research university in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Jesuit and Catholic university in the United States. Georgetown&#39;s main campus, located in Washington&#39;s Georgetown neighborhood, is noted for Healy Hall, a National Historic Landmark in the Romanesque revival style. Georgetown operates a law center on Capitol Hill and auxiliary campuses in Italy, Turkey, and Qatar. Georgetown&#39;s founding by John Carroll, America&#39;s first Catholic bishop, realized efforts to establish a Roman Catholic college in the province of Maryland that were repeatedly thwarted by religious persecution. The university expanded after the American Civil War under the leadership of Patrick Francis Healy, who came to be known as Georgetown&#39;s &quot;&quot;&quot;&quot;second founder&quot;&quot;&quot;&quot; despite having been legally born a slave. Jesuits have participated in the university&#39;s administration since 1805, a heritage Georgetown celebrates, but the university has always been governed independently of the Society of Jesus and of church authorities. The university has around 7,000 undergraduate and over 8,000 post-graduate students from a wide variety of religious, ethnic, and geographic backgrounds, including 130 foreign countries.The university&#39;s most notable alumni are prominent in public life in the United States and abroad. Among them are former U.S. President Bill Clinton, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, dozens of U.S. governors and members of Congress, heads of state or government of more than a dozen countries, royalty and diplomats. Campus organizations include the country&#39;s largest student-run business. Georgetown&#39;s athletic teams, called the Hoyas, include a men&#39;s basketball team that has won a record-tying seven Big East championships, appeared in five Final Fours, and won a national championship in 1984. Georgetown University is an education institution offering graduate, undergraduate, medial, law, and business administration programs. The schools of the university include Georgetown College, Graduate School, Law Center, Robert E. McDonough School of Business, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, School of Medicine, School of Nursing and Health Studies, and School for Summer and Continuing Education. Georgetown University was established in 1789 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia. The university has endowment assets worth $796.7 million.
