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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: 4,541

Nobel Laureates: 2
Pulitzer Prize Winners: 5
Members of the National Academies: 79

Number of Staff: 6,484

Number of Graduate Assistants: 4,232

Graduate Student Enrollment: 10,592

Undergraduate Student Enrollment: 31,133

76.4% Maryland residents
23.6% Non-Maryland residents

Total Number of Students: 41,725

Number of Bachelor Degree Programs: 107

Number of Masters Degree Programs: 120

Number of Doctoral Degree Programs: 84

Total Number of Degree Programs: 311

Degrees Awarded Annually: 11,444

Number of Alumni: 422,000

Warm bright day at the end of ODK fountain looking up towards McKeldin Library, Students sit and benches and on the grass studying and enjoying the day

#12

Ranking among public universities by Forbes' Top Public Colleges

#11

Ranking among public universities for research expenditures in National Science Foundation Higher Education R&D Survey

$1.4B

Combined research expenditures for University of Maryland, College Park and University of Maryland, Baltimore from latest NSF Higher Education R&D Survey

#17

Ranking among public universities by the U.S. News & World Report

#7

Ranking among universities in The Princeton Review's “Top Schools for Entrepreneurship Programs” for undergraduate programs

#8

Ranking among U.S. public institutions for Patents According to the National Academy of Inventors

Research Awards

Total Research Awards: $1+ billion annually in combined research funding between the University of Maryland College Park, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore

Research Expenditures

The University of Maryland climbed higher in the National Science Foundation Higher Education Research and Development Survey Ranking, with $1.4 billion in combined research spending from the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Maryland, Baltimore, rising to #18 overall and #11 among all public institutions.

The University of Maryland also ranked:
#9 in computer and information science funding
#10 in geoscience, atmospheric, and ocean sciences funding
#9 in physical sciences funding
#9 in physics funding
#5 in federally financed social sciences funding
#6 in civil engineering funding
#4 in NASA funding

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