Fast Facts

2018-19 Costs: Resident tuition: $11,778, non-resident tuition: $26,872, room and board: $12,046
Degrees: Bachelor’s, master’s, doctorate, certificate
Mascot: Chesapeake Bay Retrievers
Spirit Colors: Black and Gold
Calendar: two semesters (spring and fall), winter session, two summer sessions
Recent UMBC Achievements (pdf)

Rankings

• U.S. News & World Report has again named UMBC a top-10 national leader in both innovation and undergraduate teaching.
• Times Higher Education has recognized UMBC as one of the world’s top universities.
• Princeton Review, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Forbes, Money, and the Fiske Guide to Colleges have named UMBC a “Best Value” university.
• The latest U.S. News Best Graduate Schools rankings include several UMBC graduate programs as among the best in the nation.
• UMBC is the nation’s #1 producer of African American undergraduates who go on to complete an M.D./Ph.D. and #2 nationally for African American undergraduates who complete a STEM Ph.D.
• According to NSF, UMBC ranks in the country’s top 150 universities in federal research and development expenditures, and #12 in NASA funding.
• The Chronicle of Higher Education has named UMBC one of the best colleges to work for for nine years running.
• Learn more about the latest UMBC rankings news.

2018 Freshman Class Profile

• Total Freshman Enrollment: 1,794
• Average GPA: 3.86
• Average SAT Score: 1278 (2 part)
• Gender: 58.4% men; 41.6% women
• Living on campus: 69%
• Racial/Ethnic Diversity:
  • White: 40%
  • Asian American: 25%
  • African American: 16.5%
  • Hispanic: 7.7%
  • Other/unknown: 7%
  • International: 3.4%

Overall Student Body

Fall 2018 Enrollment 13,767

• Undergraduate 11,260, graduate 2,507
• Full-time 10,828, part-time 2,939
• Male 7,536, female 6,231

Minority Enrollment: 48.6%

• African American: 17.2%
• Asian American: 19.6%
• Hispanic: 7.1%
• Other: 4.7%

Faculty

• 546 Full-time, 292 Part-time

Meet Our President

UMBC is a member of the University System of Maryland.