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unitid 163286 · College Park, MD · public 4-year · suburb (large)

University of Maryland-College Park

Public university in College Park, Maryland, US

founded
1856
enrollment 2023
44,086
predominant degree
Bachelor's
website
umd.edu
Campus of University of Maryland-College Park

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The University of Maryland, College Park is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, United States, near Washington, D.C. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland. wikipedia rev 1362932011 ↗

scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years

The record

admission rate

45%

8th pctl among public 4-years

undergraduates

30,760

95th pctl among public 4-years

Pell share

19%

undergrads on Pell grants

15th pctl among public 4-years

completion

89%

finish within 150% time

98th pctl among public 4-years

sticker cost / yr

$29,299

86th pctl among public 4-years

avg net price / yr

$15,678

after aid, aided students

70th pctl among public 4-years

median earnings, 10 yr

$82,860

after entry, Title IV students

97th pctl among public 4-years

median grad debt

$19,000

44th pctl among public 4-years

what families actually pay

Cost

Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.

Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort

Families earning under $30k paid $2,962 per year after aid.

Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).

Who enrolls, by family income

  • 0-30k
    20%
  • 30-48k
    12%
  • 48-75k
    15%
  • 75-110k
    14%
  • 110k+
    39%
Median family income
$67,353
First-generation students
22%
In-state tuition & fees
$11,809

earnings · debt · programs

Outcomes

Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid

Ten years out, the median graduate earns 4.4× the median graduate debt.

Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.

What programs pay — top fields of study

programgradsearn 5 yrdebt
Computer Science.873—$20,000
Information Science/Studies.661$113,785$20,180
Biology, General.490$72,024$19,000
Psychology, General.478$63,220$20,500
Public Health.416$67,437$23,424
Finance and Financial Management Services.415$116,598$19,500
Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.406——
Criminology.362$69,545$19,500
Engineering, General.357$134,125—
Mechanical Engineering.327$102,581$20,500
Business Administration, Management and Operations.327$153,609—
Political Science and Government.321$79,622$18,768

— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.

annual scorecard files, 1996–2026

Trajectory

Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.

Admission rate

Price per year

  • sticker
  • net

Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry

Undergraduates

wikidata · 5,425 people recorded

Memory

Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.

Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field

Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade

People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.

Wikipedia attention

monthly article views since 2015

most recorded occupationsresearcher (1,217) · basketball player (499) · university teacher (386) · American football player (174) · mathematician (133) · computer scientist (132) · politician (117) · writer (108)

Nobel laureates who studied here

  • Herbert A. Hauptman Chemistry 1985

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Provenance

  • U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
  • Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
  • Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
  • Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
  • Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
  • Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1362932011), CC BY-SA 4.0.