What is special about UMBC and UMBC students/alumni?
UMBC offers 42 majors, 41 minors and 17 certificate programs at the undergraduate level and 29 master degree, 24 doctoral degree, and 22 graduate certificate programs. Program fields span the visual and performing arts, information technology, engineering, biological and physical sciences, humanities, and social and behavioral sciences. (The enrollment at UMBC is 12,000+ students; 40% minority. The Carnegie Foundation ranks UMBC in the category of Research University with high research activity. Record-breaking, seven-time Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Champions. Named one of 50 best colleges for women in 2004 and 2005. Only Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at a Maryland public university. U.S. Department of Education recognized UMBC as one of the largest producers of undergraduate IT degrees in the nation. Located on 500 acres, 15 minutes from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, 30 minutes from Washington, D.C., and five minutes from BWI airport. UMBC is home to more than
