Global UMD at a Glance

Do You Know…

• 29 percent of UMD graduate students are from outside the United States?
• UMD has agreements with more than 300 international partners?
• Nearly 40 percent of UMD professors and researchers are citizens of other countries?
• 137 countries are represented in UMD’s student body?
• More than 2,000 UMD students study abroad every year, visiting 62 countries?
• Nearly 50 members of UMD’s faculty are members of national academies?
• More than 1,200 UMD students have volunteered for the Peace Corps?
• In 2016, UMD was rated #52 in the prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities?
• UMD is ranked #40 by the U.S. News & World Report's Best Global Universities?
• In 2016, UMD ranked #33 in the U.S. and #67 in the world in Times Higher Education’s World Reputation Rankings?
• UMD is regularly among the top U.S. institutions for student and faculty Fulbright scholarships?
• Five of UMD’s current deans were born outside the United States?
• UMD’s first international student (A.P. Menocal from Cuba) matriculated in 1875?
• UMD President Wallace Loh is only the latest in a long line of Shanghai natives to work at UMD?
• Which UMD college/school has the highest percentage of study abroad participation?
• UMD’s first Nobel Prize winner was from Spain?
• What distinction UMD shares with only five other research universities, worldwide (MIT, Princeton, Stanford, University of California, Berkeley, and University of Michigan)?