University of Maryland , Maryland, USA

About

The University of Maryland is a well-known public research university that is situated in College Park, Maryland. It was established in 1856 and is the centrepiece of the University System of Maryland. The university is the largest in the greater Washington, D.C., area. The university uses semesters as the basis for its academic calendar. The National Institutes of Standards and Technology, the Department of Homeland Security, NASA, and the National Institutes of Health provide funds for its research. A few of the departments held by the university are the college of arts and humanities, the college of natural and agricultural resources, and the college of behavioural and social sciences.

University of Maryland is listed as the 164th-best university worldwide in the 2023 QS World University Rankings. Some of the University of Maryland's top rankings from reputable rating agencies are listed below: ranked 59th among all national colleges by U.S. News and World Report and 93rd in the world by Times Higher Education in 2022.

It is one of the leading institutions in the state and the Washington metropolitan area, with more than 41,000 students attending from more than 50 states and 118 other nations. The 12 schools and colleges provide almost 200 degree programmes, including 92 undergraduate programmes, 107 master's programmes, and 83 doctoral programmes. Indian students enrolled in undergraduate programmes at the University of Maryland can expect to pay tuition per credit of 1.14 lakh INR. Graduate degrees cost 1.59 lakh Indian rupees per credit. The typical cost of living for international students ranges from 10 to 15 lakhs INR.

According to U.S. News & World Report, the admissions process is more selective. Only 12,637 of the 28,301 applications received for the 2019 class were accepted, and 3,937 students were admitted to the school. The institution started following the standards established by The Coalition for Affordability, Success, and Access for the top 130 private and public colleges in 2017–18. The admissions process became more difficult as College Park gained recognition and climbed to ninth place among the most elite public universities in the US.

The University of Maryland offers undergraduate, master's, doctoral, dual, and postgraduate certifications through its twelve colleges and schools of study. These academic institutions include the colleges of agriculture and natural resources, architecture, planning & preservation, arts & humanities, business, education, engineering, information studies, journalism, public health, and public policy.

It is a part of the Big Ten Conference, one of the oldest collegiate athletic conferences in the nation. From New Jersey to Nebraska, each of the 11 states has a major public university that belongs to the Big Ten Conference. The Committee of Institutional Cooperation, a group of academic institutions that includes the University of Chicago and the Big Ten colleges and whose members spent more than $10 billion on research in 2012, has accepted the University of Maryland as a member. The university employs teachers who have won Noble Prizes, which says a lot about the calibre of the education they offer to students.

In addition, the university is home to the Maryland Language Science Center, one of the largest groups of language scientists in North America, which has more than 200 academic members, graduate students, and researchers.

More than 377,000 graduates from different countries throughout the world call the university home. Raymond Davis Jr., a Nobel Prize recipient, Carl Bernstein, a journalist who covered the Watergate scandal and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, and Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, are just a few of the notable graduates.

• #56 Universities Rankings - ARWU (Shanghai Ranking) 2021
• #158 World University Ranking - QS 2022
• #93 University Ranking - THE (Times Higher Education) 2022
• #60 Global Universities - US News & World Report 2022
• #59 National University Ranking - US News & World Report 2022

University of Maryland Tuition Fees

Admission Standards - Elite

Applications Accepted - 51% 

University of Maryland English Proficiency Test Requirements 

For admission to the University of Maryland, foreign students whose native tongue is not English must pass an English proficiency test. Conditional enrollments are also available for students who scored comparably lower on the exams.

Graduate students that fall under the category of Intensive English and English Bridge programmes have scores that fall below the norm. These students must sign up for intense and semi-intensive language courses at the Maryland Language Institute, respectively. The university's general English language requirements for graduate and undergraduate programmes are listed below.