The University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) is a large, public university in College Park, Maryland. The university was founded in 1856 as Maryland Agricultural College. The first class began in 1989 on a 420 acre campus.
The campus was used as an army camp, first for Union soldiers, then for Confederate soldiers, during the Civil War. (There were sympathies for both sides at the university.) After the war the school went into bankruptcy and was converted to a boys
| Overall Score (about) | 94.2 |
| Total Cost On-Campus Attendance | $27,146 |
| Admission Success rate | N/A |
| ACT / SAT 75%ile scores | 33 / 1470 |
| Student Ratio Students-to-Faculty | 20 : 1 |
| Retention (full-time / part-time) | 95% / 70% |
| Enrollment Total (all students) | 41,200 |
UMCP offers 127 bachelor
Admissions to UMCP are highly competitive. Incoming first-year students in recent years have had average SAT scores in the 1280s and an average grade point average (GPA) of about 3.90.
In addition to the standard forms of federal and state aid available to its students, UMCP offers a number of unique scholarships to its students. Some of the most prized include the Regents Scholarship and the President
The school newspaper is named The Diamondback. It is published weekdays during the school year. It has won several awards for journalistic excellence in recent years. The student radio station is WMUC, broadcasting at 88.1 FM.
There are about thirty residence halls, apartment buildings, and suite buildings. Many students choose to live in living/learning communities or a fraternity or sorority. 10% of female undergraduates belong to a sorority and 13% of the male undergraduates belong to a fraternity. There are three Greek councils that oversee their activities.
There are three large dining halls, twelve cafes, and a food court with several fast food options. There are also two restaurants on campus
The athletic department at UMCP is known as the Terrapins, as the Diamondback terrapin is the school mascot. The Terrapins compete in 27 intercollegiate varsity sports in the NCAA Division I. Their athletic facilities have been recognized as some of the best in the nation.
Basketball is one of the most popular sports at the university, and baseball has been a proud tradition at UMCP since at least 1888, when the school played the first competitive games against the United States Naval Academy and St. John
UMCP alumni include Nobel Prize laureates include Raymond Davis Jr., for physics, and Herbert Hauptman, for chemistry. Other award-winning alumni include Fields medalist Charles Fefferman and National Medal of Science winner George Dantzig.
Other well-known alumni of UMCP include Seinfeld producer Larry David, former House Majority Leader Steny Hover, news anchor Connie Chung, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carl Bernstein, O magazine editor Gayle King, CNN CEO Jim Walton, and Jim Henson of Muppet fame.
There are several Nobel Prize laureates among the faculty at UMCP, including William Daniel Phillips, who worked on laser cooling; John Mather, who discovered blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation, and Thomas Schelling, a game theorist. Other award-winning faculty include Field Medalist Sergei Novikov, Wolf Prize winner Michael Fisher, Japan Prize winner James A. Yorke.
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