Rethinking Maryland

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UMD booster also doesn't seem to realize it's UMCP, not UMD.

Google Umd.

unless it belittles you to use another Umd alum invention.

Nope, it's UMCP that's being referred to above. UMD could refer to any of the 6 campuses listed below.

University of Maryland, Baltimore
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Maryland Eastern Shore
University of Maryland University College
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

This.

[Anonymous]

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=umd

[Anonymous]

And the Web Site is UMD.edu

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UMD booster also doesn't seem to realize it's UMCP, not UMD.

Google Umd.

unless it belittles you to use another Umd alum invention.

Nope, it's UMCP that's being referred to above. UMD could refer to any of the 6 campuses listed below.

University of Maryland, Baltimore
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Maryland Eastern Shore
University of Maryland University College
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

I'm new to this area. I hear UMCP is really good. But then, what about the other UMD schools you have listed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UMD booster also doesn't seem to realize it's UMCP, not UMD.

Google Umd.

unless it belittles you to use another Umd alum invention.

Nope, it's UMCP that's being referred to above. UMD could refer to any of the 6 campuses listed below.

University of Maryland, Baltimore
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Maryland Eastern Shore
University of Maryland University College
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

I'm new to this area. I hear UMCP is really good. But then, what about the other UMD schools you have listed?

UMBC (Baltimore County) seems to be doing well. There are some threads on this campus here. UMUC (University College) is designed for adult learners and it predominately a virtual online line learning environment. I really don't know anything about the other locations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And the Web Site is UMD.edu

That's because it's the flagship campus and was the first to have a significant web presence. To faculty, it is the only University of Maryland campus that matters, and the only one with national name recognition. Outside the university, in professional contexts, it's just called the University of Maryland. Within the system it's UMCP. The general public forgets that it's a system, perhaps because UMCP is so dominant within the system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thread predictably jumped the shark.

There are always 2-3 posters prepared to sing UMCP's praises, but it always comes across as isolated and over-the-top. You never get the sense that there really are a lot of excited UMCP graduates or that many kids from this area are particularly excited about the prospect of going there.

Where do you live? I find that many kids would love to go there but don't think they can get in. The only kids I know that would not want to go there from MCPS are either really wealthy and think college is a 4 year vacation or kids that think UMCP is too big.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The facts on UMD
1) Umd has more Nobel, Pulitzer ,fields medal ,academy award and Emmy award alumni than any school in the ACC.
2) Umd has more national championships (47)than any school in the ACC. ( For example Virginia Tech has zero).
3) College Park has less violent crime than Charlottesville by a significant amount.
4) Umd grads invented/created the following.
Google, Underarmour, pulse Dopplar radar, Sirius satellite radio, Seinfeld , The Muppets, linear programming , the universal product code , broke watergate , liberty meadows , boondocks , the Wire, the Octane System, the first large screen stadium television , the miniturized insulin pump, coronary stents , the automatic parachute , retractable landing gear , the hybrid engine.
Most of these products of Umd alum are greater than anything out of all the ACC schools combined.
5) Umd is a member of the AAU.
6) Umd is a member of the CIC, the Big Ten schools including Hopkins and Chicago. It shares resources and allows for students to take classes between institutions .
7) Umd as installations from the following agencies and organizations ON CAMPUS... NASA , FDA, USDA, Homeland Security, the National Weather Prediction Institute, the American Physics Institute, Raytheon, the National Center for the Study of Foreign Language. NIH .
8)Umd is ranked higher than Uva in every world university ranking.
9) College Park is undergoing a massive development including a huge 4 star hotel and conference center along with 9 other large developments along route 1 including a Whole Foods center , Urban Outfitters center, and a ton of retail/office /residential projects.
10) Umd - Umd Baltimore have a 1billion plus per year research budget which is top 5 in the nation.


Opinion. Umd is a large Big Ten school in a semi urban location located inside the beltway of the Nations Capital. It is not a school for shrinking violets. Children graduate from Umd more adult and tougher than they went in. It's my opinion that is why the alumni have produced so many geniuses and inspired creations. My kids go there and never come home. They are always busy with their friends from Annapolis , Baltimore , NJ, and NY.. Lol.

This is incredible info. UMD is very humble not to blast this every day.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And the Web Site is UMD.edu

That's because it's the flagship campus and was the first to have a significant web presence. To faculty, it is the only University of Maryland campus that matters, and the only one with national name recognition. Outside the university, in professional contexts, it's just called the University of Maryland. Within the system it's UMCP. The general public forgets that it's a system, perhaps because UMCP is so dominant within the system.

Much like UVAR (Richmond) and UVAHR (Hampton roads) UVA ia UVAC (charlotesville)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UMD booster also doesn't seem to realize it's UMCP, not UMD.

Google Umd.

unless it belittles you to use another Umd alum invention.

Nope, it's UMCP that's being referred to above. UMD could refer to any of the 6 campuses listed below.

University of Maryland, Baltimore
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Maryland Eastern Shore
University of Maryland University College
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

I'm new to this area. I hear UMCP is really good. But then, what about the other UMD schools you have listed?

UMBC (Baltimore County) seems to be doing well. There are some threads on this campus here. UMUC (University College) is designed for adult learners and it predominately a virtual online line learning environment. I really don't know anything about the other locations.

Yes, University College is exactly what you said. It's a huge provider of educational services to U.S. military personnel worldwide. UMBC has a great president. UMES is a historically black campus that's somewhat isolated due to location. UM Baltimore is more for graduate and professional degrees. The MSW program is housed there, for example, and the medical school. There are other schools in the UM system: Coppin, for example, and Frostburg.

[Anonymous]

go terps

http://www.ncaa.com/video/2014-05-25/wlax-di-maryland-syracuse-championship

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And the Web Site is UMD.edu

That's because it's the flagship campus and was the first to have a significant web presence. To faculty, it is the only University of Maryland campus that matters, and the only one with national name recognition. Outside the university, in professional contexts, it's just called the University of Maryland. Within the system it's UMCP. The general public forgets that it's a system, perhaps because UMCP is so dominant within the system.

This. Lifelong Maryland resident here. If someone says "Maryland" or U Maryland" they are talking about College Park. The other universities are called "UMBC" or other more specific names.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And the Web Site is UMD.edu

That's because it's the flagship campus and was the first to have a significant web presence. To faculty, it is the only University of Maryland campus that matters, and the only one with national name recognition. Outside the university, in professional contexts, it's just called the University of Maryland. Within the system it's UMCP. The general public forgets that it's a system, perhaps because UMCP is so dominant within the system.

I should add that in journals and publications it's University of Maryland at College Park.

[Anonymous]

Back to the subject at hand...............

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And the Web Site is UMD.edu

That's because it's the flagship campus and was the first to have a significant web presence. To faculty, it is the only University of Maryland campus that matters, and the only one with national name recognition. Outside the university, in professional contexts, it's just called the University of Maryland. Within the system it's UMCP. The general public forgets that it's a system, perhaps because UMCP is so dominant within the system.

This. Lifelong Maryland resident here. If someone says "Maryland" or U Maryland" they are talking about College Park. The other universities are called "UMBC" or other more specific names.

Right. Just like UMASS Amherst is simply referred to as UMASS. UMass, Lowell and company are the only ones that go by their specific name. The flagship gets the primary name.