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2011 University Rankings

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World University Rankings 2011-2012

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings employ 13 separate performance indicators designed to capture the full range of university activities, from teaching to research to knowledge transfer. These 13 elements are brought together into five headline categories, which are:

  • Teaching — the learning environment (worth 30 per cent of the overall ranking score)
  • Research — volume, income and reputation (worth 30 per cent)
  • Citations — research influence (worth 30 per cent)
  • Industry income — innovation (worth 2.5 per cent)
  • International outlook — staff, students and research (worth 7.5 per cent).

2011-2012      94th in the world
                     48th in the United States


2010-2011      98th in the world
                     52nd in the United States

U.S. News & World Report Undergraduate Rankings, Top Public Universities

  • The university is 17th in the ranking of national public universities.
  • With the release of these rankings, Maryland has 30 programs overall in the magazine's Top 10 rankings (undergraduate and graduate) in comparision to last year's 24, and 71 programs in Top 25 rankings.

  • The Robert H. Smith School of Business is ranked overall No. 20. It is No. 9 among public universities.
    • Entrepreneurship specialty ranked 15th
    • Management specialty ranked 10th
    • Management Information Systems ranked 7th
    • Supply Chain Mgt/Logistics specialty ranked 9th
    • Finance specialty ranked 18th
    • Marketing specialty ranked 19th

  • The A. James Clark School of Engineering is ranked overall No. 24 (among schools whose highest degree is a doctorate).

    • Aerospace Engineering specialty ranked 9th
    Best Colleges 2011: Academic Programs to Look For

  • First Year Experiences
    UMD among 18 schools selected; only school from Maryland.
    "Orientation can go only so far in making freshmen feel connected. Many schools now build into the curriculum first-year seminars or other programs that bring small groups of students together with faculty or staff on a regular basis."

  • Service Learning
    UMD among 24 schools selected; only school from Maryland
    "In service-learning programs, volunteering in the community is an instructional strategy -- and a requirement of a student's coursework. The service relates to what happens in class and vice versa."

  • Internships/Co-ops
    UMD among 10 schools selected; only school from Maryland
    "Schools voted into this category require or encourage students to apply what they're learning in the classroom out in the real world - through closely supervised internships or practicums, or through cooperative education, in which a period of study typically alternates with one of work."

  • Learning Communities
    UMD among 18 schools selected; only school from Maryland
    "Students typically take two or more linked courses as a group and get to know one another and their professors especially well. The idea is to keep the discussions going after class ends."

    Up-and-Coming National Universities
    UMD ranked No. 8.
    "In spring 2011, for the fourth year in a row, U.S. News asked the experts who respond to our annual peer assessment survey to identify institutions in their 2012 U.S. News Best Colleges ranking category that are making the most promising and innovative changes in the areas of academics, faculty, and student life. All of the schools that received the most nominations from top college officials in their ranking peer group for being up-and-coming are listed here."

    U.S. News & World Report Graduate Rankings

    With the release of U.S. News & World Report's graduate rankings, Maryland has a cumulative total of 32 Top 10 programs and 73 Top 25 programs.

    Robert H. Smith School of Business
      Business ranked 45th
      • The information systems specialty ranked 5th
      • The supply chain/logistics specialty ranked 13th
      • The part-time MBA specialty ranked 17th
      • The entrepreneurship speciality ranked 20th
      • The marketing specialty ranked 20th
      • The production/operations specialty ranked 23rd

    College of Education
    • Education ranked 23rd
      • The counseling and personnel services specialty ranked 1st
      • The education psychology specialty ranked 7th
      • The special education specialty ranked 9th
      • The higher education administration specialty ranked 10th
      • The education policy specialty ranked 13th
      • The elementary education specialty ranked 13th
      • The secondary education specialty ranked 14nd
      • The curriculum and instruction specialty ranked 15th
      • The administration/supervision specialty ranked 16th

    A. James Clark School of Engineering
    • Engineering ranked 22nd
      • The aerospace engineering specialty ranked 9th
      • The electrical/electonic/communications speciality ranked 14th
      • The computer engineering specialty ranked 17th
      • The mechanical engineering specialty ranked 21st
      • The biological/agricultural specialty ranked 26th
      • The civil engineering specialty ranked 27th
      • The materials engineering specialty ranked 31 st
      • The biomedical/engineering specialty ranked 37th
      • The chemical engineering specialty ranked 41st




    Diverse: Issues in Higher Education Graduate Rankings

    Doctorate Degrees:

    • Total Minority Education, No. 24
    • African American Education, No. 22
    • Total Minority Engineering, No. 27
    • Asian American Engineering, No. 33
    • Hispanic Engineering, No. 16
    • Asian American Psychology, No. 6
    • Total Minority Psychology, No. 26
    • Total Minority Social Sciences, No. 40
    • African American Social Sciences, No. 3
    • Total Minority Visual and Performing Arts, No. 5
    • Asian American Visual and Performing Arts, No. 4
    Master's Degrees:
    • Total Minority Business Administration, Management and Operations, No. 37
    • Asian American Business Administration, Management and Operations, No. 21
    • Total Minority Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, No. 48
    • Asian American Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, No. 27
    • Total Minority Business/Commerce, General, No. 26
    • African American Business/Commerce, General, No. 23
    • Asian American Business/Commerce, General, No. 16
    • Asian American Education, No. 34
    • Total Minority Engineering, No. 25
    • African American Engineering, No. 10
    • Asian American Engineering, No. 28
    • Hispanic Engineering, No. 29
    • Total Minority English Language and Literature/Letters, No. 31
    • African American English Language and Literature/Letters, No. 31
    • Total Minority Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, No. 28
    • Hispanic Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, No. 25
    • Total Minority Library Science, No. 35
    • African American Library Science, No. 24
    • Asian American Library Science, No. 21
    • African American Mathematics and Statistics, No. 6
    • Total Minority Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, No. 13
    • African American Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, No. 9
    • Asian American Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, No. 21
    • Hispanic Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, No. 17
    • Total Minority Social Sciences, No. 40
    • African American Social Sciences, No. 25
    • Total Minority Visual and Performing Arts, No. 42
    • Asian American Visual and Performing Arts, No. 21
    Diverse: Issues in Higher Education Undergraduate Rankings

    • Total Minority Degrees No. 20, 2,149
    • African American Degrees, No. 20, 751
    • Asian American Degrees, No. 16, 996
    • Hispanic Degrees, No. 73, 382
    • Total Minority Agriculture, Agriculture Operations and Related Sciences, No. 10
    • African American Agriculture, Agriculture Operations and Related Sciences, No. 14
    • Asian American Agriculture, Agriculture Operations and Related Sciences No. 7
    • Hispanic Agriculture, Agriculture Operations and Related Sciences, No. 15
    • Total Minority Acounting and Related Services, No. 13
    • African American Acounting and Related Services, No. 38
    • Asian American Acounting and Related Services, No. 9
    • Hispanic Acounting and Related Services, No. 47
    • Total Minority Architecture and Related Services, No. 42
    • African American Architecture and Related Services, No. 17
    • Asian American Architecture and Related Services, No. 44
    • Total Minority Area, Culture & Gender Studies, No. 29
    • African American Area, Culture & Gender Studies, No. 4
    • Total Minority Biological and Biomedical Sciences, No. 11
    • African American Biological and Biomedical Sciences, No. 8
    • Asian American Biological and Biomedical Sciences, No. 11
    • Native American Biological and Biomedical Sciences, No. 32
    • Asian American Business, Management, Marketing & Related Support Services, No. 23
    • Total Minority Communication Disorders Sciences and Services, No. 20
    • African American Communication Disorders Sciences and Services, No. 20
    • Asian American Communication Disorders Sciences and Services, No. 23
    • Total Minority Computer and Information Sciences and Support Service, No. 29
    • Asian American Computer and Information Sciences and Support Service, No. 18
    • Total Minority Education, No. 16
    • African American Education, No. 20
    • Asian American Education, No. 4
    • Total Minority Engineering, No. 22
    • African American Engineering, No. 11
    • Asian American Engineering, No. 18
    • Total Minority English Language, Literature/Letters, No. 34
    • African American English Language, Literature/Letters, No. 10
    • Asian American English Language, Literature/Letters, No. 26
    • Total Minority Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, No. 10
    • African American Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, No. 8
    • Asian American Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, No. 21
    • Hispanic Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, No. 23
    • Total Minority Finance and Financial Management Services, No. 23
    • African American Finance and Financial Management Services, No. 36
    • Asian American Finance and Financial Management Services, No. 9
    • Total Minority Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, No. 13
    • African American Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, No. 4
    • Asian American Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, No. 11
    • Hispanic Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, No. 37
    • Total Minority History, No. 26
    • African American History, No. 9
    • Asian American History, No. 16
    • Total Minority Mathematics and Statistics, No. 11
    • African American Mathematics and Statistics, No. 20
    • Asian American Mathematics and Statistics, No. 11
    • Total Minority Parks, Recreation, Leisure, and Fitness Studies, No. 15
    • African American Parks, Recreation, Leisure, and Fitness Studies, No. 8
    • Asian American Parks, Recreation, Leisure, and Fitness Studies, No. 13
    • Total Minority Physical Sciences, No. 20
    • African American Physical Sciences, No. 19
    • Asian American Physical Sciences, No. 29
    • Hispanic Physical Sciences, No. 30
    • Asian American Psychology, No. 32
    • Native American Psychology, No. 16
    • Total Minority Social Sciences, No. 8
    • African American Social Sciences, No. 2
    • Asian American Social Sciences & History, No. 9
    • Hispanic Social Sciences, No. 24
    • African American Visual and Performing Arts, No. 35
    University of Maryland Named a Top 20 Green School by Sierra Magazine

    The University of Maryland jumped to No. 20 in Sierra magazine's fifth annual ranking of the nation's top 100 "Coolest Schools." Maryland climbed 47 places from its 2009 spot on this list of "universities and colleges with the greatest commitment to sustainability and learning about it outside the classroom."

    World's Top 100 Universities Ranking

    According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), which is maintained by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy, Maryland ranks 38 among the world's research universities. (UMD is No. 13 among U.S. Public Universities, No. 29 among all U.S. universities).

    In the following ARWU 'Subject' and 'Field' rankings, UMD stands out globally and among its peers, the top 25 public universities in U.S. News & World Report.

    Subject Fields
    Bicycle Friendly Universities Program

    Maryland is among 20 U.S. universities named to the BFU Master Award Medal List. Only four schools in the East are ranked: University of Maryland, Cornell, UNC-Greensboro and Emory.
    • Platinum

        • Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA


    • Gold
        University of California-Santa Barbara
        University of California-Davis
        Santa Barbara


    • Silver

        • California State Long Beach
        Colorado State University, Boulder
        Portland State University, Portland, OR
        University of Arizona, Tucson
        UC Irvine
        University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
        University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
        University of Washington, Seattle
        University of Wisconsin, Madison


    • Bronze

        • Boise State University, Idaho
        Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
        Emory University, Atlanta
        Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
        Michigan State University, East Lansing
        University of North Carolina, Greensboro
        University of Maryland, College Park
        UCLA


    Princeton Review/USA Today 100 Best Value Colleges
    • UMD ranks in the Top 50 of this ranking that includes both public and private colleges.

    ZD Net IT Management Research Rankings

    This ranking of business schools was compiled via an analysis of published items in the Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ) and Information Systems Research (ISR), two top information system journals.

    • 1. Temple University (Fox School of Business and Management
    • 2. University of Maryland (Robert H. Smith School of Business

    • 3. Emory University (Goizueta Business School)
    • 3. University of British Columbia (Sauder School of Business
    • 5. University of Connecticut (School of Business)
    • 5. University of Georgia (Terry College of Business)
    • 7. University of Texas (McCombs School of Business)
    • 8. Univeristy of Washington (Foster School of Business)
    • 9. Carnegie-Mellon University (Heinz School)
    • 9. McGill University, Montreal (Desautels Faculty of Management)

    Peace Corps Top Recruiter 2011

    UMD ranked No. 24 among large colleges and universities for producing Peace Corps volunteers.
    • Since the Peace Corps' inception more than 40 years ago, 1,076 UMD alumni have served.

    Financial Times Global MBA Rankings 2011 The U.K.'s Financial Times ranked the Smith School of Business No. 18 in the U.S. and No. 40 worldwide. In worldwide rankings, Smith was:
    • No. 10 in Research
    • No. 7 in International Board

    Kiplinger's 100 Best Values in Public Colleges The university is No. 5 among the 100 best values in public higher education for in-state students.
    • UMD is No. 6 for best value for out-of-state students.
    • UMD is ranked No. 16 for lowest admission acceptance rate.
    • The university is No. 16 in four-year graduation rates.

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