Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. describes itself as the oldest Catholic and Jesuit institution of higher learning in the United States. John Carroll secured the deed to one acre of land on a hilltop overlooking the village of Georgetown in 1789, classes began in 1792, and the school awarded its first two bachelor's degrees in 1817. It added a School of Medicine in 1851 and a Law School in 1870, and the School of Nursing and the School of Foreign Service followed in 1903 and 1919. Patrick F. Healy, president from 1873 to 1882, was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. and the first to head a major American university, and women were accepted into the College for the first time in 1969.
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Georgetown University is a private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States.
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