Kiplinger’s Personal Finance 100 Best Values in Public Colleges 2018
(Jan. 2018)
- Ranked 10th for in-state students
- Ranked 16th for out-of-state students
Princeton Review's Top Schools for Entrepreneurship Programs 2018
(Nov. 2017)
- UMD undergraduate programs ranked 8th overall and 4th overall among public schools
U.S News & World Report Best Global University Rankings 2018
(Oct. 2017)
- Ranked No. 50 globally
- Seven subject rankings in top 50:
- Geosciences – No. 12
- Physics – No. 17
- Environment/Ecology – No. 28
- Space Science – No. 29
- Economics and Business – No. 30
- Arts and Humanities – No. 45
- Computer Science – No. 42
Six additional subjects ranked in the top 100, including agriculture, chemistry, engineering, plant and animal science, psychiatry/psychology, and social sciences and public health.
Times Higher Education's World University Rankings 2017-18
(Oct. 2017)
- Ranked 69th in World University Rankings
U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Rankings 2018
(Sept. 2017)
- Ranked 22nd among public institutions
- Ranked 15th overall for Most Innovative Schools
A. James Clark School of Engineering
- Ranked 25th nationally for undergraduate programs.
- The aerospace engineering specialty ranked 9th.
- The mechanical engineering specialty ranked 16th.
Robert H. Smith School of Business
- Ranked 21st nationally
- Management Information Systems ranked 8th
- Supply Chain Management/Logistics ranked 12th
Sierra Magazine's Cool Schools Ranking 2017
(Aug. 2017)
- Ranked 33rd overall
- Ranked 2nd among Big Ten universities
The Princeton Review's Green College Honor Roll
(Aug. 30, 2016)
- Ranked in Top 20 with the highest possible Green Rating of 99 out of 99
Campus Pride's "Best of the Best" Top 30 LGBTQ-Friendly Universities And Colleges 2016
- UMD recognized as a top university for its diversity, inclusion and safety for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people
Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2017
(Aug. 2017)
- Ranked 53rd overall
- Ranked 32nd among U.S. institutions
Forbes America's Top Colleges 2017
(July 2017)
- Ranked 13th among public colleges
- Ranked 72nd among all institutions
- Ranked 31st Best Value College
U.S. News & World Report Graduate Rankings 2019
(March 2018)
Robert H. Smith School of Business
- The information systems specialty ranked 9th
- The part-time MBA specialty ranked 15th
- The supply chain/logistics specialty ranked 24th
College of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences
- Physics program ranked 14th overall
- The quantum specialty ranked 6th
- The atomic/molecular/optical specialty ranked 6th
- The condensed matter specialty ranked 11th
- The elementary particles/field/string theory specialty ranked 13th
- Computer Science program ranked 16th overall
- The articifial intelligence specialty ranked 16th
- The systems specialty ranked 16th
- The theory specialty ranked 16th
- The programming language specialty ranked 17th
- Mathematics program ranked 22nd overall
- The applied math specialty ranked 13th
College of Education
- The counseling and personnel services specialty ranked 1st
- The educational psychology specialty ranked 9th
- The higher education administration specialty ranked 10th
- The special education specialty ranked 14th
- The secondary teacher education specialty ranked 15th
A. James Clark School of Engineering
- School of Engineering ranked 22nd
- The aerospace engineering specialty ranked 12th
- The mechanical engineering specialty ranked 16th
- The electrical engineering specialty ranked 18th
- The materials engineering specialty ranked 24th
School of Public Policy
- School of Public Policy ranked 31st
- The homeland/national security specialty ranked 6th
- The public finance and budgeting specialty ranked 10th
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
- The criminology specialty ranked 1st
- The african american studies specialty ranked 1st
- The sociology of population specialty ranked 12th
- The economics specialty ranked 21st
Note: U.S. News & World Report ranks business, engineering, health and education graduate programs annually, while programs and specialties in other disciplines are ranked on a rotating cycle. For UMD’s most recent graduate rankings in other areas, including Agriculture and Natural Resources; Arts and Humanities; Behavioral and Social Sciences; Information Studies; Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences; Public Policy; Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSOS); Information Studies; Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences (CMNS); and Arts and Humanities, scroll to the bottom of this page.
Business First's U.S. Public Colleges Rankings 2017
(April 2017)
- Ranked 9th among four-year public institutions
- Ranked 3rd among public Big Ten universities
Peace Corps' 25 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges 2017
(Feb. 2017)
- Ranked 12th in the large school category
- 42 undergraduate alumni currently serving as volunteers overseas
Princeton Review's Colleges That Pay You Back 2018
- Ranked among top 200 colleges for eighth consecutive year
- Recognized for comprehensive aid program and wide selection of merit-based scholarships
Past U.S. News & World Report Graduate Rankings
(March 16, 2016)
Robert H. Smith School of Business
- Business School ranked 41st
- The information systems specialty ranked 7th
- The part-time MBA specialty ranked 19th
College of Education
- College of Education ranked 26th
- The counseling and personnel services specialty ranked 1st
- The educational psychology specialty ranked 4th
- The higher education administration specialty ranked 10th
- The special education specialty ranked 13th
- The curriculum and instruction specialty ranked 14th
- The secondary teacher education specialty ranked 14th
A. James Clark School of Engineering
- School of Engineering ranked 24th and online graduate program ranked 16th
- The aerospace engineering specialty ranked 10th
- The electrical/electronic/communications specialty ranked 16th
- The computer engineering specialty ranked 16th
- The mechanical engineering specialty ranked 21th
- The civil engineering specialty ranked 27th
- The materials engineering specialty ranked 29th
- The biological/agricultural specialty ranked 33rd
- The chemical engineering specialty ranked 33rd
- The biomedical/bioengineering specialty ranked 35th
- The environmental specialty ranked 45th
College of Arts and Humanities
- Master of Fine Arts program ranked 82nd
School of Public Policy
- School of Public Policy ranked 31st
- The public finance and budgeting specialty ranked 11th
- The social policy specialty ranked 18th
- The public management/administration specialty ranked 24th
- The public policy analysis specialty ranked 26th
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
- The audiology specialty ranked 17th
- The speech-pathology specialty ranked 20th
- The clinical psychology specialty ranked 31st
(2015)
College of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences
- Physics ranked 14th
- The plasma specialty ranked 3rd
- The atomic/molecular/optical specialty ranked 6th
- The quantum specialty ranked 8th
- The condensed matter specialty ranked 10th
- The cosmology/relativity/gravity specialty ranked 13th
- Computer Science ranked 15th
- The systems specialty ranked 13th
- The programming language specialty specialty ranked 13th
- The artificial intelligence specialty ranked 16th
- Mathematics ranked 17th
- The applied math specialty ranked 10th
- Earth Sciences ranked 32nd
- The geochemistry specialty ranked 7th
- Chemistry ranked 41st
- Bilogical Sciences ranked 55th