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
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
(Average: 9 per Startup)
(2x the National Average)