by our College Data Analytics Team
College Factual recognizes the best colleges and universities in its annual rankings. These rankings include categories for best overall colleges, best colleges for each major, best value schools, and much more.
University of Maryland - College Park was awarded 115 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is teacher education grade specific.
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UMCP landed the #37 spot in College Factual's 2025 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,152 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This puts it in the top 5% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when UMCP held the #42 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 35 colleges in Maryland, UMCP is ranked at #2.
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The acceptance rate at University of Maryland - College Park is a competitive 45%, so make sure you take your application seriously when putting it together. Even leaving out a minor detail could be a reason to move you to the rejection pile.
About 53% of students accepted to UMCP submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 670 and 740. Math scores were between 690 and 780.
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With a student to faculty ratio of 18 to 1, University of Maryland - College Park 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.
In addition to the student to faculty ratio, some people look at what percentage of faculty members are full-time as a sign of how much time professors will be able to spend with their students. This is because part-time teachers may not be be on campus as much as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at University of Maryland - College Park is 80%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
University of Maryland - College Park has a freshmen retention rate of 95%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
The on-time graduation rate for someone pursuing a bachelor's degree is typically four years. This rate at UMCP for first-time, full-time students is 70%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 30,875 undergraduates at UMCP with 28,160 being full-time and 2,715 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $3,907 | $10,123 | $14,312 | $21,675 | $24,937 |
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 UMCP, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At UMCP, approximately 25% of students took out student loans averaging $10,201 a year. That adds up to $40,804 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for UMCP are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Phone: | 301-405-1000 |
| Website: | www.umd.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Computer Science | 1,055 | $99,756 |
| Business Administration & Management | 640 | $65,842 |
| Information Science | 628 | $70,344 |
| Public Health | 601 | $38,273 |
| General Biology | 581 | $30,325 |
| Economics | 511 | $58,650 |
| Criminology | 443 | $43,698 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 425 | $76,485 |
| Finance & Financial Management | 423 | $75,689 |
| General Psychology | 422 | $35,933 |
Online learning options are becoming more and more popular at American colleges and universities. Online classes are great for students who have busy schedules or for those who just want to study on their own time.
In 2022-2023, 10,899 students took at least one online class at University of Maryland - College Park. This is a decrease from the 13,547 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 10,899 | 1,516 |
| 2021-2022 | 13,547 | 1,847 |
| 2020-2021 | 37,981 | 23,231 |
| 2018-2019 | 5,087 | 949 |
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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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