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+1 I'm a professor at UMD. I previously taught at Hopkins. No measurable different in colleagues or "professor quality." In general I agree about peer group. However, there are many smart kids at UMD that would do well at Hopkins. [/quote]
This is because UMD is a top research university on par with Hopkins ([b]UMD does not have a medical school[/b] while Hopkins has the top-most one, which helps it a lot of in rankings). You'll find a lot of top PhD's among the top publics due to research.

The difference of course is that access to these professors might be lower in a public than a private. Not necessarily by all that much (they are generally inaccessible everywhere), but enough. Also classes tend to be smaller in privates which can help in both learning and interacting with professors.

SLACs on the other hand will have much better professor interaction than both top publics and privates. However generally the best and brightest PhD grads don't want to go to SLACs because they value research first and foremost, while SLAC jobs tend to consist of a lot of teaching. SLACs will also hire a lot of PhD's from schools with name-value but weak research (i.e. Vanderbilt)[/quote]

Say what?

"University of Maryland School of Medicine was chartered in 1807 as the first public medical school in the United States."

[url]https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/about/[/url][/quote]
UMD's medical school is on a separate campus and is not connected to UMCP. Therefore in rankings UMD-Baltimore and UMD-College Park are considered to be two different schools.

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Also Honors College at UMD gives great access to the top professors as they need researchers for their labs and have small H-version classes.[/quote]
All students at UMD, Honors College or not, have access to those professors/labs to work as undergraduate research assistants (given they have the talent and time). This is true for all research institutions in general. [/quote]

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