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The University of Maryland, College Park is the state's flagship university and one of the nation's preeminent public research universities. A global leader in research, entrepreneurship and innovation, the university is home to more than 40,700 students, 14,000 faculty and staff, and nearly 400,000 alumni all dedicated to the pursuit of ...
The University of Maryland campus as it appeared in 1938 before the dramatic expansion engineered by President Byrd. The state took control of the school in 1916 and renamed it Maryland State College. That year, the first female students enrolled at the school.
The history of the University of Maryland, College Park began in 1856, when the Maryland Agricultural College was chartered. The state took complete control of the school in 1916, and consequently the institution was renamed Maryland State College.
The University of Maryland celebrates the U.S. bicentennial by establishing the M Circle on Campus Drive. 1981. School of Public Affairs, now the School of Public Policy, is founded. 1982. UMD mathematics Professor William E. Kirwan is named interim chancellor.
The campuses at College Park and Baltimore merged to form the University of Maryland in 1920. Originally created as normal (teacher-training) schools were Bowie State (founded 1865), Towson (1866), Frostburg State (1898), Coppin State (1900), and Salisbury State (1925).
The flagship campus in the University of Maryland system has buildings ranging in age from the c. 1803 Rossborough Inn, which predates the university’s founding, to the Iribe Computer Science building dedicated in 2019.
In telling the history of the African American experience on campus, the tour begins with the university’s founding when Maryland was a slave-holding state. It charts the path of the legal battle to desegregate the campus led by Thurgood Marshall, civil rights advocate and the first African-American Supreme Court justice, and the trailblazers ...
