UMBC Research Achievements
For the second year in a row, UMBC was ranked number one in the list of “Up-and-Coming” national universities in the 2010-2011 U.S. News & World Report America’s Best Colleges Guide. In addition, UMBC was recognized in a new book, Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids— and What We Can Do About It, as a research university that effectively connects research with undergraduate education. Learn more >>
UMBC Research Achievements
UMBC also joined Cal Tech, Duke University, Williams College, MIT and others in an unranked list of schools that give students outstanding opportunities for undergraduate research and creative projects. UMBC was also listed on U.S. News & World Report’s Most Student Diversity List.
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UMBC Research Achievements
UMBC ranks second among U.S. universities in NASA research funding. The University’s NASA-funded centers are the Joint Centers for Earth Systems Technology, the Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute and the Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology.
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UMBC Research Achievements
The UMBC Public Policy program is ranked 10th nationally in faculty scholarly productivity, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. In 2006-2007, UMBC ranked second nationally in public policy doctoral degrees awarded.
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UMBC Research Achievements
According to Thomson Scientific's Science Watch, UMBC's geoscience research ranked third nationally in citation impact for 2001-2005. The only other U.S. universities producing more frequently cited papers were Harvard and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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UMBC Research Achievements
The Rise of American Research Universities, a book ranking university research achievement on a per-capita basis, found that UMBC scholars in the arts, humanities and related social sciences ranked 13th among all public campuses in the nation in prestigious awards.
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UMBC Research Achievements
UMBC ranks 76th in the nation for prestigious faculty awards. Recent honors include a Mellon Research Fellow, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, Guggenheim Fellow and Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellow.
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UMBC Research Achievements
UMBC faculty are consistently among the winners of the NSF Career Awards, grants made to young scientists who show exceptional promise in their research. In recent years (2001-06), 10 UMBC faculty members received these prestigious awards, a rate of success that compares favorably to Georgetown, Brandeis and Tufts.
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UMBC Research Achievements
UMBC faculty attract nearly $180,000 in per-capita research funding, a rate higher than that of George Mason University, the University of Delaware and the University of Virginia.
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