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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]people who choose to teach and lead research labs at UMD ... My guess is those taking jobs there didn’t do so because they think the school is bad. 
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UMCP alum and professor here.  Multiple colleagues' kids did not get in here, and were forced to go to Penn State or transfer back to Maryland.

Warning:  A school can have good jobs for researchers but be bad for students, or vice versa.  My graduate school gave us the mushroom treatment:  keep students in the dark and pile on the shit.  Maryland will let you take large, cheap classes if you are happy to coast along with easy grades.  But Maryland also has expensive science labs and top professors in many areas.  You just need to seek the challenges and honors programs.

The quality of a department is different than the quality of a university.  The top departments in Oceanography are University of Washington and UCSD.  University of Colorado had the world's second best Geoscience department, because Boulder has a lot more rocks than fish.  But Harvard and Yale have better law and medical schools.

Finally, every kid does not deserve to go the a flagship state university like UMCP.  Towson, UMBC, and Bowie State are nearby.  My in-laws' kids could not get in, and ultimately chose night school at University of Maryland Global Campus, formerly University College.  Those students were not committed to full-time study and did deserve to a top place.

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