About Baltimore

With its distinctive blend of small town charm and big city vitality, Baltimore is known as one of the most livable cities on the East Coast. It is also one of the most dynamic, part of the fastest growing high-technology corridor in America.

A city of neighborhoods, Baltimore is at once cosmopolitan and friendly. Like the Homewood campus, it is a manageable size. You can walk to the restaurants and shops of Charles Village, the neighborhood adjacent to the campus, to browse in bookstores and shops or dine on Chinese cuisine or a quick delicatessen snack. An easy 15-minute bus ride takes you from the campus to the center of the city and Baltimore's showcase, the Inner Harbor. The waterfront pavilions at the Inner Harbor house dozens of specialty shops and restaurants. The National Aquarium and the Science Center are located nearby.

The city offers a range of cultural and recreational activities, from top-notch art museums (the excellent Baltimore Museum of Art is on the south edge of the Homewood campus) to major league baseball and football (the Orioles and Ravens play at the new Camden Yards complex near the Inner Harbor). The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs in a beautiful concert hall just a few minutes from Homewood. With its gleaming, vibrant waterfront--full of shops and restaurants that offer, among other things, Maryland's famous Chesapeake Bay seafood specialties--it is easy to see why Baltimore has been acclaimed a renaissance city. For all its growth as a business, retail, and tourist center, Baltimore retains its charm and human scale. All of this within an hour's drive of Washington, D.C.