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The University System of Maryland (USM) is a public corporation and charter school system comprising 13 Maryland
Maryland

Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic States of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia and the Washington, D.C. to the south and west, Pennsylvania to the north, and Delaware to the east....
 institutions of higher education
Higher education

Higher education refers to a level of education that is provided by university, vocational university, community colleges, liberal arts colleges, Institute of technology and other collegiate level institutions, such as Vocational school, trade schools and career colleges, that award academic degrees or professional certifications....
. It is the 12th-largest university system
University system

A university system is a set of multiple, affiliated universities and colleges that are usually geographically distributed. Typically, all member universities in a university system share a common component among all of their various names....
 in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, with over 100,000 undergraduate, 30,000 graduate and 8,700 faculty. In 1988, it was created from the merger of the five University of Maryland institutions and the six members of the State University and College System of Maryland under the name University of Maryland System.






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The University System of Maryland (USM) is a public corporation and charter school system comprising 13 Maryland
Maryland

Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic States of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia and the Washington, D.C. to the south and west, Pennsylvania to the north, and Delaware to the east....
 institutions of higher education
Higher education

Higher education refers to a level of education that is provided by university, vocational university, community colleges, liberal arts colleges, Institute of technology and other collegiate level institutions, such as Vocational school, trade schools and career colleges, that award academic degrees or professional certifications....
. It is the 12th-largest university system
University system

A university system is a set of multiple, affiliated universities and colleges that are usually geographically distributed. Typically, all member universities in a university system share a common component among all of their various names....
 in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, with over 100,000 undergraduate, 30,000 graduate and 8,700 faculty. In 1988, it was created from the merger of the five University of Maryland institutions and the six members of the State University and College System of Maryland under the name University of Maryland System. In 1997, its name was changed to the University System of Maryland. In 1999, the Maryland General Assembly
Maryland General Assembly

The Maryland General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland. It is a bicameral body. The upper house, the Maryland State Senate, has 47 representatives and the lower house, the Maryland House of Delegates, has 141 representatives....
 transformed the system to the charter model.

The merger creating the University of Maryland System was directed by governor
Governor of Maryland

The Governor of Maryland heads the executive branch of the government of the U.S. state of Maryland and is commander-in-chief of the state's military forces....
 William Donald Schaefer
William Donald Schaefer

William Donald Schaefer is an United States politician who served in public office for 50 years at both the state and local level in Maryland. A Democratic Party , he was mayor of Baltimore from 1971 to 1987, the 58th Governor of Maryland from 1987 to 1995, and the Comptroller of Maryland from 1999 to 2007....
 and was overseen by University of Maryland President John S. Toll
John S. Toll

John S. Toll is a physicist and well-known educational administrator.He received his bachelor's degree in physics from Yale University in 1944, after which he served in the United States Navy in World War II....
, who then became the system's first Chancellor. The current Chancellor is William Kirwan
William English Kirwan

William English "Brit" Kirwan is currently the third Chancellor of the University System of Maryland . Prior to that, Kirwan was the 26th President of the University of Maryland, College Park and the 12th President of Ohio State University....
.

System Members


Universities

  • Bowie State University
    Bowie State University

    Bowie State University , located on 355? acres in unincorporated Prince George's County, Maryland, Maryland, United States. Located north of the suburban city of Bowie, Maryland, Bowie State is part of the University System of Maryland....
  • Coppin State University
    Coppin State University

    Coppin State University is an historically black college located in Baltimore, Maryland. It is part of the University System of Maryland....
  • Frostburg State University
    Frostburg State University

    Frostburg State University is a four-year university located on a campus in Frostburg, Maryland, in western Maryland, and is part of the University System of Maryland....
  • Salisbury University
    Salisbury University

    Salisbury University is a public university in Maryland.According to U.S. News and World Report's 2009 America's Best Colleges index, "In guidebooks and surveys by U.S....
  • Towson University
    Towson University

    Towson University, often referred to as TU or simply Towson for short, is an United States of America public university located in Towson, Maryland in Baltimore County, Maryland, Maryland, USA....
  • University of Baltimore
    University of Baltimore

    The University of Baltimore , located in Downtown Baltimore Baltimore, Maryland in the Mt. Vernon neighborhood at 1420 Maryland Route 139, is part of the University System of Maryland....
  • University of Maryland, Baltimore
    University of Maryland, Baltimore

    University of Maryland, Baltimore, was founded in 1807. It comprises some of the oldest professional schools in the nation and world. It is the original campus of the University System of Maryland....
  • University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  • University of Maryland, College Park
    University of Maryland, College Park

    The University of Maryland, College Park is a public research university located in the city of College Park, Maryland in Prince George's County, Maryland outside Washington, D.C....
     (the flagship
    Flagship

    A flagship is the lead ship in a fleet of vessels, a designation given on account of being either the largest, fastest, newest, most heavily armed or, for publicity purposes, the most well known....
     campus)
  • University of Maryland Eastern Shore
    University of Maryland Eastern Shore

    University of Maryland Eastern Shore, located on 776 acres in Princess Anne, Maryland, is part of the University System of Maryland.UMES is a historically black college, as well as an Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act....
  • University of Maryland University College
    University of Maryland University College

    The University of Maryland University College , located in the unincorporated community of Adelphi, Maryland in Prince George's County, Maryland, Maryland in the United States....


Centers and Institutes

  • University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
    University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

    With 1925 origins as a research station on Solomons Island, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science is one the University System of Maryland's two scientific research centers....
  • University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
    University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute

    Formed in 1985, the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute is part of the University System of Maryland. It was created to provide a unified focus for Maryland's biotechnology research and education....


Satellite Campuses

  • Universities at Shady Grove
    Universities at Shady Grove

    Established in fall 2000, the Universities at Shady Grove is a facility located in Rockville, Maryland, United States, that offers career-oriented higher education courses to residents of Montgomery County, Maryland and its surrounding region....
  • University System of Maryland at Hagerstown
    University System of Maryland at Hagerstown

    Established in January 2005, the University System of Maryland at Hagerstown is a facility located in Hagerstown, Maryland that offers upper-level undergraduate and graduate programs to residents of Hagerstown and its surrounding region....


Relationships With Other Schools

When USM was originally formed in 1988, Maryland's other two state-funded (i.e., public) 4-year institutions (Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland

Baltimore is an independent city and the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland in the United States. Baltimore is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay....
's Morgan State University
Morgan State University

Morgan State University, formerly Centenary Biblical Institute , Morgan College Morgan State College , is located in residential Baltimore, Maryland....
 and Southern Maryland
Southern Maryland

Southern Maryland in popular usage is composed of the state's southernmost counties on the "Western Shore" of the Chesapeake Bay. This region includes all of Calvert County, Maryland, Charles County, Maryland and St....
's St. Mary's College of Maryland
St. Mary's College of Maryland

St. Mary's College of Maryland, established in 1840, is a public, secular liberal arts college located in St. Mary's City, Maryland. It is a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges and designated as a Public Honors College ....
) opted out of the system and made separate funding arrangements with the state.

The Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine
Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine

The Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine is a unique college in that it is a state supported college of two states, Virginia and Maryland, filling the need for veterinary medicine education in both states....
, although state-supported, remained outside the system because of its unique status as an institution jointly funded by Maryland and Virginia
Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia is an United States U.S. state on the East Coast of the United States of the Southern United States. The state is known as the "Old Dominion" and sometimes as "Mother of Presidents", because it is the birthplace of Lists of United States Presidents by place of birth#By state....
. It is a constituent of both the College Park campus and Virginia Tech
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, better known as Virginia Tech, is a public land-grant university Institute of technology university in Blacksburg, Virginia, Virginia, United States Virginia Tech is well known for its programs in engineering, architecture, science, business and agriculture....
, with its main campus at Virginia Tech.

The USM institutions with the words "University of Maryland" in their names are not satellite campuses of the University of Maryland, College Park
University of Maryland, College Park

The University of Maryland, College Park is a public research university located in the city of College Park, Maryland in Prince George's County, Maryland outside Washington, D.C....
, and are not referred to as such.

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