University of Maryland 

IGCA courses are planned in consultation with scholars at the University of Maryland (UM) who also serve as lecturers for many of our training programs.

Founded in 1856 as a land grant college, the University of Maryland has risen to become one of the America’s leading comprehensive universities.  The academic resources on the flagship campus in College Park are supplemented by expertise at schools and in programs throughout the State of Maryland, by a network of over 30,000 active alumni, and by nonpareil local resources.

The University of Maryland is the only major public institution of higher education in the Washington DC area.  Our location gives UM students, faculty, visiting scholars, and trainees exposure to the agencies of federal government—executive, legislative, and judicial—to multinational organs like the World Bank, the IMF, and the Library of Congress, to many of America's finest museums, and to the highest concentration of NGOs, professional associations, and issues advocates in the world.  The talent and influence that coalesce around Washington, and the resources of the nearby state capital, Annapolis, enrich the entire UM community.  

Rankings

The University of Maryland's reputation has soared over the past ten years.

• We rank 37th on Shanghai Jiaotong University's 2007 list of the world’s leading universities;
  
• UM is the 18th finest public university in America, according to the U.S. News & World Report 2007 rankings;
  
• The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine listed UM entrepreneurship programs as 14th (undergraduate) and 18th (graduate) in their 2007 rankings;
  
• 31 UM programs are ranked in the top 10;
  
• 61 programs are in the top 15;
  
• 91 programs are in the top 25;
  
• UM is the only research university on the East Coast with programs in computer science, mathematics, physical science, and engineering all ranked in the top 20.
  

Faculty and Students

UM's beautiful 1,200-acre campus is home to 36,000 graduate and undergraduate students and 3,752 full-time faculty members.  Our faculty includes:

• 3 Nobel laureates
  
• 7 Pulitzer Prize winners
  
• 40 members of national academies and scores of Fulbright scholars
  

The University of Maryland features:

• 13 colleges and schools
  
• 146 centers and institutes
  
• 110+ undergraduate majors
  
• 100+ graduate programs
  
• A library holding over 3 million volumes
  
• UM works closely with the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, which has a major facility on the UM campus

China Programs
The number of UM faculty and students with research interests in China is growing in nearly every department.  Dozens of proposals for new China initiatives are under consideration.  The university's major established China programs include:

• Award-winning EMBA programs run by the Robert H. Smith School of Business in Beijing and Shanghai
  
• The School of Public Policy’s Executive Master of Public Management program for Chinese officials   
  
• The Phillip Merrill College of Journalism's new MA in journalism in China, in collaboration with Zhejiang University
  
• The National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education trains Chinese scholars and officials in China and the U.S. through its China Land Policy Program
  
• The University of Maryland-China Research park that builds joint ventures at its state-of-the-art facilities
  
• The University of Maryland Confucius Institute promotes Chinese language and cultural studies throughout the area