Category: Academics

A new online service to be released this August by publishing giant MacMillan will provide professors with unprecedented control over textbook content for their classes.

The McDonough School of Business rose two spots in the 2010 Global MBA rankings published by The Financial Times this January, moving from 40th place to 38th place, primarily in response to improvements in research and placement success.

The College Academic Council hosted a town hall meeting on Wednesday to discuss various upcoming initiatives, including the new business minor proposal that would allow students in the College to cross-minor in the McDonough School of Business.

Starting this fall, the curriculum of the Liberal Arts Seminar will change for the first time in over 40 years. The first-year College program has focused on the 19th century in its study of history, literature, philosophy and theology since its inception.

The university has been awarded over $20 million in federal stimulus funding to support the research efforts of 50 faculty members at the Georgetown University Medical Center and on the main campus, it announced in a press release on Jan. 5.

The School of Foreign Service’s campus in Qatar is slated for a physical expansion of its own that administrators hope will lead to long-term improvements in student life and academics.

The history departments of Georgetown University and King’s College London will offer a joint master of arts in global history program beginning in the fall of 2010.

Surfing the Web may soon disappear entirely from Georgetown classrooms, as a growing number of professors enact policies either banning ...

Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business was recently ranked 40th among masters in business administration programs around the world by ...