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University of Maryland, College Park

 

Founded in 1856, the University of Maryland is a public research university and the largest university in the Washington Metropolitan Area. The university has close funding and institutional links to the capital – receiving research funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa), the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Department of Homeland Security.

It belongs to the Big Ten Conference, one of the oldest collegiate athletic conferences in the United States that includes the flagship public university in each of 11 states stretching from New Jersey to Nebraska. The membership also places the university within the Committee of Institutional Cooperation, an academic consortium of Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago, whose members generated more than $10 billion in research expenditure in 2012.

The 1,250 acre campus, which started out as the 428 acres of an old sugar plantation, has redbrick Georgian buildings, a large central lawn called McKeldin Mall, and enough plants and trees to be designated a botanical garden. Morrill Hall, built in the 1890s, is the oldest structure still in use today.

Almost 40,000 students on one of either 100 undergraduate majors and 120 graduate programmes join a number of notable alumni, including House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, The Muppets creator Jim Henson, The Wire creator David Simon and Seinfeld co-creator Larry David.

Nobel prizewinners are also among the staff, with John C. Mather, a Nasa researcher and physics professor, sharing the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 and Thomas C. Schelling sharing the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2005 – with two more faculty staff and two alumni being awarded in the past century.

The college’s future was not always secured, and indeed the institution went bankrupt from 1864 to 1866 before reopening a year later with 11 students. The first woman earned her bachelor’s degree in 1919, and the first African American student graduated in 1952.

The University of Maryland also hosts one of the largest communities of language scientists in North America, including more than 200 faculty, researchers and graduate students, who collectively comprise the Maryland Language Science Center.

Important Facts

Academics 

  • 40,700+ students
  • 12 schools and colleges
  • 102 undergraduate majors, 115 master's programs and 84 doctoral programs
  • 300+ study abroad destinations
  • 29 living-learning programs
  • 9 million titles in 8 libraries and online  
  • No. 20 public research institution—U.S. News & World Report
  • No. 14 among Forbes’ Top Public Colleges
  • No. 15 among U.S. public institutions ranked as Best Global Schools by U.S. News & World Report
  • No. 56 in Jiao Tong University’s Academic Ranking of World Universities
  • No. 10 in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine’s 100 Best Values in Public Colleges for in-state students
  • No. 6 overall and No. 3 among public universities for undergraduate entrepreneurship—The Princeton Review/Entrepreneurship magazine
  • 14 Fulbright scholars in 2019-20; 50+ students and scholars accepted Fulbright grants in last 5 years

 
Research 

  • $1.096 billion combined research expenditures in FY19 with the University of Maryland, Baltimore
  • No. 8 among public institutions for research and development spending and No. 14 overall in the National Science Foundation's Higher Education Research and Development Survey

Student Life

  • 800+ student clubs
  • Students from 50 states and 105 countries
  • No. 3 among public universities and No. 8 in the nation for LGBTQ+ students—Campus Pride and BestColleges.com
  • No. 32 producer of minority graduates with bachelor’s degrees—Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

 Faculty

  • 4,264 faculty members
  • 58 members of the national academies
  • 2 Nobel laureates
  • 4 Pulitzer Prize winners 
  • 1 Emmy winner and 1 Tony winner

 Additional Facts 

  • Founded in 1856
  • 1,340-acre campus 
  • Nearly 400,000 alums

Ranking / Awards

Academic rankings
National
  • ARWU 31
  • Forbes 63
  • THE/WSJ 75
  • U.S. News & World Report 58
  • Washington Monthly 50
Global
  • ARWU 53
  • QS 152
  • THE 91
  • U.S. News & World Report 51
USNWR graduate school rankings
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  • Biological Sciences 62
  • Business 44
  • Chemistry 41
  • Clinical Psychology 33
  • Computer Science 16
  • Criminology 1
  • Earth Sciences 28
  • Economics 21
  • Education 27
  • Engineering 20
  • English 30
  • Fine Arts 110
  • History 27
  • Library & Information Studies 8
  • Mathematics 22
  • Physics 14
  • Political Science 29
  • Psychology 39
  • Public Affairs 32
  • Public Health 32
  • Sociology 24
  • Speech–Language Pathology 16

Features

  • Ranking: 93
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  • Type of Accommodation: Off Campus

Financials

Annual Cost of living 10000 USD /year
Average Annual UG Fee 38636 USD
Average Annual PG Fee 45000 USD
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Programs Offered

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Bachelor in Computer Science

  • Length 03 Year  
  • Total Tuition Fee 115908 USD
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Master of Professional Studies in Data Science and Analytics

  • Length 02 Year  
  • Total Tuition Fee 90000 USD
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