UMUC at a Glance

In fiscal year (FY) 2009*, UMUC's worldwide enrollment ranked first among four-year degree granting public universities in the U.S.
The number of stateside students has more than doubled in the last 10 years, increasing to more than 39,500 stateside students in Fall 2010.
The Board of Regents projects that UMUC's enrollments will grow by 47 percent in 2020.

In FY 2011, UMUC had more than 234,000 online course enrollments.
Currently, UMUC offers more than 100 undergraduate and graduate degree and certificate programs fully online. In FY 2011, UMUC offered 836 distinct courses online.
UMUC was winner of the highest honor in Web education, the "Sloan Consortium Award for Excellence in Institution-Wide Asynchronous Learning Network Programming."

In FY 2011, UMUC served nearly 35,000 Marylanders.
As of FY 2011, UMUC offered on-site instruction at 20 classroom locations throughout Maryland.
Maryland residents represented 63 percent of UMUC's Fall 2010 stateside course enrollments.
As of FY 2011, UMUC has alliances with all 16 Maryland Community Colleges, which includes 351 articulated programs.
In Fall 2011, UMUC has enrolled more than 2,500 students in the undergraduate and graduate Cybersecurity programs.

UMUC's overseas divisions offered on-site classes in more than 25 countries and territories, enrolling 36,078 individual students in undergraduate and graduate programs in Asia and Europe in FY 2011.
UMUC received three IMS Global Learning Consortium awards: Learning Impact Award; Best in Category, Faculty Development Network for the UMUC faculty e-zine; and Best in Category, Online Laboratory for UMUC's online hands-on labs in information assurance (2010).

In Fall 2010, 35 percent of UMUC's stateside students were African Americans; minority students comprised 44 percent of the total enrollment—UMUC enrolls more African American students than any of the four individual Maryland historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
In FY 2011, 33 percent of students who took at least one online class were African American.
In FY 2011, 36 percent of master's degrees were awarded to African American students; 31 percent of all degrees and certificates were awarded to African American students.

As of Spring 2011, 71 percent of undergraduate students enrolled in UMUC's stateside programs were working full time.
Forty-seven percent of UMUC stateside students are working parents.
In fall 2010, the median age for students enrolled in UMUC's stateside undergraduate programs was 32 years old.

Today, UMUC enrolls 55,000 active-duty military servicemembers, reservists, veterans, and their family members.
Currently, UMUC offers courses at more than 150 military installations and operating locations on four continents.
Military Times Edge ranked UMUC second out of 50 for "Best for Vets Colleges." (2010)
Military Advanced Education (MAE) named UMUC one of the top Military-Friendly Colleges & Universities for four consecutive years. (Awarded 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.)
The Chronicle of Higher Education ranked UMUC as the fourth largest provider of higher education to servicemembers and veterans who use their federal education benefits. (2010)

*Most recent data available from the Department of Education