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UMBC campus setting is suburban, and the campus size is 500 acres. The university offers a wide range of on-campus services including housing, dining, Recreation and Fitness, wealth center, parking, international travel services, students clubs and organizations.
There are also several bus shuttle lines that are available to all students, faculty, and staff. UM shuttle contributes to a vibrant, dynamic University community by transporting students, faculty, and staff and University of Maryland Medical Center employees to and from the University fare-free.
Students can have fun outside the academic world by participating in about 250 student organizations, pledging one of the nearly 20 fraternities and sororities or attending any of the annual campus events, such as the spring carnival and concert.
UMBC has 23 officially registered sororities and fraternities with nearly 5% of undergraduatestudents belonging to one of them.
The university offers coed housing, apartments for single students, special housing for disabled students, special housing for international students, theme housing.
Its dorms are close to campus – students live within three blocks of all academic buildings. Utilities included are water, sewer, electricity, cable, Internet/WiFi). There are also priority parking for an additional charge. Filled with tons of study spaces for those late nights, as well as washer/dryers, fully-furnished apartments, elevators, and even a gym, they are excellent for students.
Traditional dormitories include following characteristics:
Shared rooms (usually two students per room)
Shared bathrooms (usually four students per bathroom/two rooms per bathroom)
Includes basic furniture (bed, desk, chair, closet), Internet access (Ethernet and Wi-Fi) and access to cable television
Special activities and events every week in the dormitories
Potomac Hall and the on-campus apartments are open all year, including holiday breaks
Most international students prefer Potomac Hall because it is always open. (The other dormitories close during Thanksgiving, winter, and spring breaks.)
Erickson and Harbor Hall rooms include a living area between the two bedrooms, with the bathroom located in the living area. (living room shared by four students).
According to statistics, 76% of students feel confident they will find a job in their field after graduation.
The career development office provides a range of professional development and recruitment services to assist students and alumni in obtaining legal experience and employment to advance their careers in the legal profession.
Total undergraduate costs for nine-month academic year, 2016–2017 are about $61,000 for a non-resident living on-campus. This sum includes tuition and fees - about $40,000 per year, books and supplies - $1,500, room and board - $16,000, personal and transportation costs - $3,000, health insurance - $2,000.
Opened in 1966, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County is based on a 500-acre site close to the city of Baltimore and only 30 minutes’ drive from Washington, DC. From the beginning, the university was performing as innovative, interdisciplinary, inclusive with ground-breaking research and a relentless focus on undergraduate success going hand-in- hand.
Today UMBC is a dynamic public research university integrating teaching, research and service to benefit the citizens of Maryland. As an Honors University, the campus offers academically talented students a strong undergraduate liberal arts foundation that prepares them for graduate and professional study, entry into the workforce, and community service and leadership.
UMB is Maryland is only public health, law, and human services university. Undergraduate courses are largely on the liberal arts model, though many graduates stay on to study science, engineering and IT.
Particular areas of research strength include life sciences; environmental sciences; big data, cybersecurity and high-performance computing; and public policy. UMBC is growing strongly in all these areas and classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a university with high research activity.
Though it is a public university, one of 12 institutions within the Maryland university system, UMBC has always stressed innovation and interdisciplinarity. It has never been afraid to pioneer new models of teaching and research, and new ways of contributing to the regional economy. It was responsible, for example, for creating the state’s first university research park, to promote local entrepreneurship. This can be found on a separate but adjacent 71-acre site and has proved highly effective in nurturing start-ups, offering support for existing businesses and providing networking opportunities.
In 2017 the university was ranked 80 th among the most liberal colleges in America by Baltimore County Rankings. In the 2017 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities University of Maryland it was placed 159 th .
There are 3 colleges and 4 schools in the university:
The most popular majors by the number of students are biology computer and information sciences, psychology, social science, engineering, economics.
