<p>I sent my 18 year old daughter there as an undergraduate (she graduated in 2006–and loved it BTW). She never felt unsafe on campus or in the immediate environs although, needless to say, Baltimore does have some very bad neighboorhoods that one needs to avoid. Of course, you can say the same thing about most large cities. I live near Brown U (in Providence) and most people think the area around Brown is safe. Frankly, I don’t think it is much different in terms of crime than the areas adjacent to Homewood (Charles Village, Roland Park, Hampden, etc).</p>
<p>Often, when people speak of “Johns Hopkins” being in an unsafe neighborhood–they are referring not to Homewood (Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering) but to the East Baltimore campus which houses the Hospital, the Medical School and the Schools of Public Health and Nursing. That area has been very sketchy for a long time although Hopkins has bought up (and torn down) large tracts near that campus and it is slowly improving. It is, however, at least 3 miles from Homewood.</p>