Location: College Park, Maryland
Year Founded: 1856
Nearest Major City: Washington, D.C., 8 miles/13 kilometers from campus
Campus Size: 5 square kilometers
Colleges: 12
Number of Faculty: 4,610
- Tenured/Tenure-Track: 1,480
- Nobel Laureates: 3
- Pulitzer Prize Winners: 6
- Members of the National Academies: 60
Fall 2017 graduate student enrollment: 10,653
Fall 2017 undergraduate enrollment: 29,868
- 75.7% Maryland residents
- 24.3% Non-Maryland residents
- 43.3% Minority
- 116 countries represented
Degree Programs: 90+ Undergraduate and 190 Graduate
Research Awards in FY 2017: $514,747,497
Rankings:
- No. 22 among public universities and No. 15 for most innovative schools by the U.S. News & World Report (Sept. 2017)
- No. 13 among public universities by Forbes (July 2017)
- No. 8 and No. 10 "Best Value" for in-state students and out-of-state students, respectively, by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance (Dec. 2016)
- Undergraduate programs ranked 8th overall and 4th overall among public schools by Princeton Review's Top Schools for Entrepreneurship Programs 2018 (Nov. 2017)
- A top 20 "Green College" by The Princeton Review (Aug. 2016)
- UMD is ranked 4th in federal research expenditures among all U.S. universities without a medical school
Source: National Science Foundation (NSF) - UMD publishes over 4,700 academic articles a year, ranking No. 6 for most research articles among all U.S. public universities
Sources: Web of Science and 2016 Nature Index
Research Awards FY 2017
- Total Research Awards: $514,747,497
Award Activity FY2007-2017
Awards by Sponsor FY2017
Awards by College FY2017
