The University of Maryland, Baltimore County has received a Carnegie Classification, the nation’s highest designation for research universities.
Two other universities in Maryland – Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland – share the classification.
The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education ranked UMBC in the R1 category, which signifies “very high research activity.”
UMBC is one of only 146 R1 institutes nationally, including 107 public universities and 39 private universities.
“This is an amazing accomplishment by faculty, staff, and administrative leaders who have built a research culture that nurtures undergraduate and graduate students,” said UMBC president Freeman Hrabowski in a news release.
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