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Do You Know…
- 34 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?
- 130 countries are represented in UMD’s student body?
- Almost 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?
- The current Director of the Peace Corps, Dr. Josephine Olsen, is a 2x UMD alumna (MSW '72, PhD '79)?
- In 2018, UMD was rated #51 in the prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities?
- UMD is ranked #51 by the U.S. News & World Report's Best Global Universities?
- In 2018, UMD ranked #36 in the U.S. and #71 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?
- Nearly half of UMD’s deans over the past decade 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?
