by our College Data Analytics Team
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University of Maryland - Baltimore County was awarded 430 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is social work.
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College Factual ranked UMBC as #200 out of 2,217 colleges and universities in the country on its 2024 Best Colleges list. This puts it in the top 10% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when UMBC held the #245 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 36 colleges in Maryland, UMBC is ranked at #4.
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University of Maryland - Baltimore County has an acceptance rate of 81%, which makes it somewhat selective. Make sure it's not the only school you apply to, even if it's your school of choice. Whether you get in or not will largely depend on how you compare to other applicants.
About 24% of students accepted to UMBC submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 610 and 700. Math scores were between 610 and 710.
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With a student to faculty ratio of 17 to 1, University of Maryland - Baltimore County is about average in this regard as the nationwide rate is 15 to 1. While this does not translate directly to class size, it's a good indicator of how much time professors will have to spend with their students on a one-on-one basis.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at University of Maryland - Baltimore County is 66%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 87% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like University of Maryland - Baltimore County enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
The on-time graduation rate for someone pursuing a bachelor's degree is typically four years. This rate at UMBC for first-time, full-time students is 42%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 10,932 undergraduates at UMBC with 9,220 being full-time and 1,712 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $8,565 | $14,328 | $20,879 | $24,735 | $25,451 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of UMBC, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At UMBC, approximately 25% of students took out student loans averaging $5,545 a year. That adds up to $22,180 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at UMBC is 3.1%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.
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Contact details for UMBC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250 |
| Phone: | 410-455-1000 |
| Website: | umbc.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/umbcpage |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/umbc |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| General Psychology | 374 | $30,408 |
| General Biology | 332 | $23,622 |
| Information Science | 290 | $59,810 |
| Computer Science | 275 | $69,747 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 148 | $62,037 |
| Economics | 114 | $45,390 |
| Social Work | 86 | $34,106 |
| Political Science & Government | 84 | $35,372 |
| Information Technology | 80 | $41,347 |
| Mathematics | 77 | $51,193 |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2020-2021, 10,586 students took at least one online class at University of Maryland - Baltimore County. This is a decrease from the 13,407 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 10,586 | 1,968 |
| 2019-2020 | 13,407 | 11,233 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,602 | 439 |
| 2017-2018 | 1,234 | 412 |
| 2016-2017 | 1,128 | 406 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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