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Facts and Figures

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:  14,922

  • Nobel Laureates: 2
  • Pulitzer Prize Winners: 6
  • Members of the National Academies: 73

Graduate Student Enrollment: 10,205

Undergraduate Student Enrollment: 30,608

  • 76.3% Maryland residents
  • 23.7% Non-Maryland residents
  • 47.4% Minority

Total Number of Students: 40,813

  • 127 countries represented 

Number of Academic Programs: 309

Number of Alumni: 414,000

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

$1.2B
Combined Research Expenditures in FY22
20
Fulbright students and scholars in 2023-24, making UMD a "Top Producer" of Fulbrights by The Chronicle of Higher Education
#19
Overall in NSF Higher Education R&D Survey
#17
among public universities by the U.S. News & World Report
#16
for out-of-state students by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
#12
among public universities by Forbes' Top Public Colleges
#11
Among Public Institutions for Research & Development Spending
#10
"Best Value" for in-state students by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
#9
Among U.S. Public Institutions for Patents According to the National Academy of Inventors
#5
overall among schools in The Princeton Review's “Top Schools for Entrepreneurship Programs”
#4
among public schools in The Princeton Review's “Top Schools for Entrepreneurship Programs”
#2
for African American history in U.S. News & World Report’s graduate program rankings
#1
for Criminology and for Counseling and Personnel Services in U.S. News & World Report’s graduate program rankings

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
 

Annual Startup Impact

$11,477,416
Revenues Generated
270
Full Time Jobs
(Average: 9 per Startup)
62
Newly Created Jobs
39%
Minorities in Senior Management
(2x the National Average)
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