About UMBC
Thr University of
Maryland Baltimore County is a mid-sized university of 10,000
students togethor with over 1400 faculty and staff. The overriding
objective of the campus is to be recognized, by the year 2000, as the
best public research university of it's size in the country. UMBC is
part of the eleven-campus University of Maryland System. UMBC, at 26
years old is the youngest member of that campus. As the newest campus
in the University of Maryland system, UMBC has had a crucial advantage
of being able to recruit a superb research faculty during the
favorable academic hiring market of the last twenty years. In
addition, as a young campus we have had the benefit of having a modern
campus physical plant.
UMBC is located in Baltimore/Washington Corridor 10 minutes from
downtown Baltimore and 25 minutes from the Washington Beltway.
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