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University of Maryland College Park is a public institution that was founded in 1856. Its setting is suburban, and the campus size is 1,250 acres. The University of Maryland has a highly ranked graduate program in education and the noted A. James Clark School of Engineering (ranked at #22 on US News Rankings), as well as well-regarded offerings through the Robert H. Smith School of Business. The university regularly earns accolades for its sustainable and clean energy initiatives, such as its plan to be carbon neutral by 2050 and campus-wide efforts to compost dining hall waste.
Located between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, the University of Maryland offers students a suburban lifestyle within easy reach of big-city experiences. The flagship campus in College Park, which has its own subway stop on the D.C.-area Metro transit system, is often considered a commuter school. There are a lot of things to do as far as recreation is concerned. Southern Maryland has the Chesapeake Bay where there is fishing, crabbing, boating, jet ski-ing, windsurfing, and hunting. There are a lot of shopping malls, parks, and restaurants. Annapolis has a lot of night clubs and is close to Washington DC. The cost of living however is way too high.
The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.
Surely, the Professors here are of top notch. Many of the Professors themselves are Nobel Laureates, so you’ll be learning from the best of the best.
Notable alumni from University of Maryland—College Park’s Clark School of Engineering include Jeong Kim, president of Bell Labs; CHARLES L. BENNETT '78 a Prominent Astrophysicist; GEORGE B. DANTZIG* '36, D.Sc. (Hon.) '76, the Father of Linear Programming and Michael Griffin, former head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).