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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UMBC underplays one of their biggest datapoints demonstrating their quality; they send more African American students on to PhD programs in STEM than any other school.  You have to be a high quality program to accomplish this.  Say what you want about DEI, this is a lot of kids going on to advanced STEM education.

And, UMBC as a whole feels very vanilla to me.  Like I can’t identify its vibe because it doesn’t really have one.

I do think it is becoming more popular as UMD-CP is becoming a significantly harder admit and it is going to go up in the rankings.  But when I’ve been there it hasn’t felt like the most fun and inspiring place.  More like a place where you go four years to get the job done.[/quote]

That's great if you want to  be with African-American students, but doesn't make the school academically or professionally better or worse than other schools that have fewer African-American students or fewer students overall, especially considering OOS cost vs OP's instate costs.

UMBC is in Baltimore so it draws from a heavily African-American population, and has the Meyerhoff program for students highly interested minority communities.

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