Our vibrant campus arts community collaborates with local and national cultural organizations such as the Phillips Collection, Kennedy Center and Folger Shakespeare Library.
Students here can create a unique identity and grow as individuals, even as they’re part of a close-knit and diverse community.Spanning 12 schools and colleges, Maryland offers more than 200 degree-granting programs, many of them ranked among the best in the country.
Since 2005 alone, Maryland has won 19 national championships, including NCAA titles in women’s basketball, men’s soccer, men's lacrosse, women’s lacrosse, and field hockey. Since joining the Big Ten Conference in 2014, UMD has won a combined 32 regular season and tournament championships. Located just outside Washington, D.C., we discover and share new knowledge every day through our renowned research enterprise and programs in academics, the arts and athletics. Our faculty includes three Nobel laureates, two Pulitzer Prize winners, 60 members of the national academies and scores of Fulbright scholars. Students here can create a unique identity and grow as individuals, even as they’re part of a close-knit and diverse community.Spanning 12 schools and colleges, Maryland offers more than 200 degree-granting programs, many of them ranked among the best in the country. Since 2005 alone, Maryland has won 19 national championships, including NCAA titles in women’s basketball, men’s soccer, men's lacrosse, women’s lacrosse, and field hockey. The University of Maryland, College Park is the state's flagship university and one of the nation's preeminent public research universities. Located just outside Washington, D.C., we discover and share new knowledge every day through our renowned research enterprise and programs in academics, the arts and athletics. The UMD iSchool, with a history of activism and a continued mission to support social good, is a supportive and diverse community of 100 faculty and staff members and 1500 students. The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public research university in College Park, Maryland. Since joining the Big Ten Conference in 2014, UMD has won a combined 32 regular season and tournament championships. It is also the largest university in both the state and the Washington metropolitan area, with more than 41,000 students representing all fifty states and 123 countries, and a global alumni network of over 360,000. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK With our strategic location and scores of partnerships with government and businesses, UMD conducts groundbreaking research on some of the biggest challenges facing our global community, including cybersecurity and terrorism, bioengineering, public health equity, food safety and climate change. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF MARYLAND BOARD OF REGENTS Linda R. Gooden, Chair (301) 445-2701 CHANCELLOR Jay A. Perman, M.D., Chancellor (appointed by Board of Regents) (301) 445-1901 . More than 550 student-athletes compete each year in 20 intercollegiate sports—12 for women and eight for men. We strive to discover new knowledge and put it to work through innovation and entrepreneurship, advancing economic development and transforming lives.The University of Maryland, College Park is the state's flagship university and one of the nation's preeminent public research universities.
Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland.