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Tuesday, 28 April 2015

University of Maryland, College Park

The University of Maryland, College Park (often referred to as The University of Maryland, Maryland, UM, UMD, or UMCP) is a accessible analysis university amid in the city-limits of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, about 8 afar (13 km) from Washington, D.C. Founded in 1856, the University of Maryland is the flagship academy of the University System of Maryland. It is advised a Accessible Ivy institution, acceptation it is a accessible university with a superior of apprenticeship commensurable to those of the clandestine Ivy League. With a abatement 2010 acceptance of added than 37,000 students, over 100 undergraduate majors, and 120 alum programs, Maryland is the better university in the accompaniment and the better in the Washington Metropolitan Area. It is a affiliate of the Association of American Universities and competes athletically as a affiliate of the Big Ten Conference.
The University of Maryland's adjacency to the nation's basic has resulted in able analysis partnerships with the Federal government. Many associates of the adroitness accept analysis allotment and institutional abutment from agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Department of Homeland Security.
The operating account of the University of Maryland in budgetary year 2009 was projected to be about US$1.531 billion. For the aforementioned budgetary year, the University of Maryland accustomed a absolute of $518 actor in analysis funding, before its 2008 mark by $118 million.As of May 11, 2012, the university's "Great Expectations" attack had exceeded $950 actor in clandestine donations.
The University of Maryland offers 127 undergraduate degrees and 112 alum degrees in thirteen altered colleges and schools:
A. James Clark School of Engineering
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
College of Arts and Humanities
School of Music
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences
College of Education
College of Information Studies
Philip Merrill College of Journalism
Robert H. Smith School of Business
School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
School of Accessible Health (formerly the College of Health & Human Performance)
School of Accessible Policy
Office of Undergraduate Studies
The Alum School
Undergraduate apprenticeship is centered about both a student's called bookish affairs and the alternative of amount coursework to accomplish accepted apprenticeship requirements. For Spring 2010, the boilerplate undergraduate GPA for women was 3.22 and 3.05 for undergraduate men.