In the same year, the graduate school on the College Park campus awarded its first PhD degrees and the university's enrollment reached 500 students. John's College, Annapolis as the university's undergraduate campus. On April 9, 1920, the college became part of the existing University of Maryland, replacing St. That year, the first female students enrolled at the school. The state took control of the school in 1916, and the institution was renamed Maryland State College. The University of Maryland campus as it appeared in 1938 before the dramatic expansion engineered by President Byrd Morrill Hall (the oldest instructional building still in use on campus) was built the following year. During the same period, state laws granted the college regulatory powers in several areas-including controlling farm disease, inspecting feed, establishing a state weather bureau and geological survey, and housing the board of forestry. Twenty years later, the federally funded Agricultural Experiment Station was established there. In 1873, Samuel Jones, a former Confederate Major General, became president of the college. In 1868, the former Confederate admiral Franklin Buchanan was appointed President of the school, and in his tenure of just over a year, he reorganized it, established a system of strict economy in its business transactions, applied some of its revenues for the paying off of its debts, raised its standards, and attracted patrons through his personal influence: enrollment grew to 80 at the time of his resignation, and the school's debt was soon paid off. By October 1867, the school reopened with 11 students. The college thus became in part a state institution. įollowing the Civil War, in February 1866, the Maryland legislature assumed half ownership of the school. For the next two years the campus was used as a boys preparatory school. By the end of the war, financial problems forced the administrators to sell off 200 acres (81 ha) of land, and the continuing decline in enrollment sent the Maryland Agricultural College into bankruptcy.
Morrill Hall, built in 1898, is the oldest academic building on campus.ĭuring the Civil War, Confederate soldiers under Brigadier General Bradley Tyler Johnson moved past the college on July 12, 1864, as part of Jubal Early's raid on Washington, D.C.
As of 2021, the operating budget of the University of Maryland is approximately $2.2 billion. According to the National Science Foundation, the university spent a combined $1.1 billion on research and development in 2019, ranking it 14th overall in the nation and 8th among all public institutions. In 2016, the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Maryland, Baltimore formalized their strategic partnership after their collaboration successfully created more innovative medical, scientific, and educational programs, as well as greater research grants and joint faculty appointments than either campus has been able to accomplish on its own. UMD is ranked among the top 100 universities both nationally and globally by several indices, including its perennially top-ranked criminology and criminal justice department. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and is labeled a " Public Ivy", denoting a quality of education comparable to the private Ivy League. The University of Maryland's proximity to the nation's capital has resulted in many research partnerships with the federal government faculty receive research funding and institutional support from agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health, NASA, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Security Agency, and the Department of Homeland Security. UMD is a member of the Association of American Universities and competes in intercollegiate athletics as a member of the Big Ten Conference.
Together, its 12 schools and colleges offer over 200 degree-granting programs, including 92 undergraduate majors, 107 master's programs, and 83 doctoral programs. It is also the largest university in both the state and the Washington metropolitan area, with more than 41,000 students representing all fifty states and 123 countries, and a global alumni network of over 388,000. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland. The University of Maryland, College Park ( University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland.
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