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 and Staff: 14,000
- Nobel Laureates: 2
- Pulitzer Prize Winners: 3
- Members of the National Academies: 60
Graduate Student Enrollment: 11,000
Undergraduate Student Enrollment: 30,000
- 75.7% Maryland residents
- 24.3% Non-Maryland residents
- 43.3% Minority
- 116 countries represented
Total Number of Students: 41,000
Number of Academic Programs: 250
Number of Alumni: 352,000
- No. 22 among public universities and No. 15 for most innovative schools by the U.S. News & World Report
- No. 13 among public universities by Forbes
- No. 10 and No. 16 "Best Value" for in-state students and out-of-state students, respectively, by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
- Undergraduate programs ranked 7th overall and 3rd among public schools by Princeton Review's Top Schools for Entrepreneurship Programs
- A top 20 "Green College" by The Princeton Review
- UMD is ranked #1 in the nation for its Criminology, Counseling and Personnel Services, and African American Studies in the U.S. News & World Report Graduate Rankings
Research Awards FY 2019
- Total Research Awards: $570,000,000
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