UMBC

Website: htpp://www.umbc.edu

UMBC IS ONE OF THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES IN THE NATION.

A medium-sized honors university granting bachelor's, post baccalaureate certificates, master's and doctoral degrees, UMBC offers academically talented students a strong foundation in the liberal arts, close mentorship from professors who are also leaders in their fields and abundant co-curricular activities. The Carnegie Foundation ranks UMBC in the category of Research Universities with high research activity. UMBC has also been named one of the hottest schools in the nation by the Kaplan/Newsweek How to Get into College guide for its quality, value, location and reputation, and for the third year in a row, Cosmogirl! magazine guide has selected the university as one of the best 50 colleges for women.

UMBC's prominence and well-established industry partnerships help to provide outstanding graduate school and career opportunities for its students. UMBC offers 40 majors, 40 minors and 17 certificate programs in education, physical and biological sciences, social and behavioral sciences, engineering, mathematics, information technology, preprofessional studies, the humanities and the visual and performing arts. At the graduate and professional levels, UMBC emphasizes science, engineering, information technology, human services and public policy.

Located on 530 wooded acres in suburban Baltimore, UMBC is just 15 minutes by car from downtown Baltimore and 45 minutes from Washington, DC. The atmosphere on campus is friendly and spirited, energized by a genuinely diverse population of more than 9,400 undergraduates and over 2,000 graduate students. They participate in more than 210 student groups, and the college hosts a wide variety of performances and sporting events. More than three-quarters of UMBC's first-year students live on campus.


Address
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250

phone: 410-455-1000

Visitation Information
Group tours led by UMBC students are offered most weekdays and many Saturdays. For more information or to make a tour reservation, please call 410-455-2291 or 800-UMBC-4U2, visit www.umbc.edu/undergrad or e-mail admissions@umbc.edu.