Mini Baja Jumping

For the second year in a row, UMBC was named the top “up-and-coming” national university for making “the most promising and innovative changes in academics, faculty, students, campus, or facilities.”

U.S. News & World Report 2011 America's Best Colleges Guide

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URCAD event

“Of all the research universities we visited, UMBC was the place that we thought had most capably connected its research functions with its undergraduate schooling.”

Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus
"Higher Education?"
Times Books, 2010

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Chemistry Discovery Center

“UMBC specializes in the task that every parent, pundit, and every lawmaker in America most wants universities to accomplish: teaching young people to become great scientists and engineers. It may already be better at this than the Ivies.”

The Chronicle of Higher Education
October 10, 2010

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Teacher with Student

“Students here are given access to academic and social resources usually reserved for those attending mammoth public institutions or pricy private colleges. In addition to solid programs in the sciences and humanities, UMBC offers students a seemingly endless menu of social options.”

“Fiske Guide to Colleges 2010”

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