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Maryland
Maryland has 34 degree-granting institutions in this data. Between them they award 4,853 research doctorates and 38,589 master’s degrees over the window, and take $4.71bn in federal research and development money.
This page counts every institution in the state, including the ones that award no graduate degree at all. Leaving those out would make a state look like its flagship.
institutions in the state
16 award a research doctorate. 5 enrol no graduate students at all.
of research doctorates go to non-residents
1,926 of 4,853. National figure: 38.9%.
of graduate enrolment is non-resident
14,792 of 72,456 graduate students.
federal research and development money
Across 22 institutions. $2.91bn in total federal obligations.
Where Maryland sits
The non-resident share of research doctorates, against the same figure for the country. That is level with the national figure of 38.9%.
Maryland ranks 26 of 52 states on that share, and 14 of 56 on the number of research doctorates it awards. Rank 1 is the highest. Only states that award doctorates are ranked.
Undergraduate and graduate, side by side
The same institutions at two levels. Undergraduate is the remainder once graduate enrolment is taken out of the total, and both levels carry their own non-resident count. In Maryland the graduate share is 16.6 points higher than the undergraduate share.
Click any column heading to sort. Click it again to reverse. The panel under the table narrows what is shown — everything is shown until you ask for less.
| Institution | Undergraduates | Non-res | Share | Graduates | Non-res | Share | State funding | Federal R&D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Maryland Global Campus | 50,793 | 782 | 1.5% | 9,291 | 269 | 2.9% | $66.4m | — |
| University of Maryland-College Park | 30,608 | 1,085 | 3.5% | 10,205 | 3,629 | 35.6% | $866.8m | $1.54bn |
| Johns Hopkins University | 6,089 | 893 | 14.7% | 24,273 | 6,899 | 28.4% | — | $4.13bn |
| Towson University | 16,517 | 251 | 1.5% | 3,010 | 167 | 5.5% | $203.6m | $19.2m |
| Montgomery College | 17,780 | 1,655 | 9.3% | — | — | — | $71.1m | — |
| University of Maryland-Baltimore County | 10,490 | 484 | 4.6% | 3,658 | 2,031 | 55.5% | $209.7m | $150.9m |
| Morgan State University | 8,300 | 562 | 6.8% | 1,508 | 402 | 26.7% | $190.8m | $55.5m |
| Salisbury University | 6,281 | 47 | 0.7% | 749 | 14 | 1.9% | $91.8m | $14.4m |
| University of Maryland, Baltimore | 978 | 35 | 3.6% | 5,689 | 374 | 6.6% | $365.3m | — |
| Bowie State University | 5,288 | 78 | 1.5% | 1,120 | 128 | 11.4% | $85.2m | $3.7m |
| Harford Community College | 5,108 | 79 | 1.5% | — | — | — | $18.5m | — |
| Loyola University Maryland | 3,987 | 88 | 2.2% | 1,120 | 20 | 1.8% | — | $1.4m |
| College of Southern Maryland | 4,984 | 41 | 0.8% | — | — | — | $21.4m | — |
| United States Naval Academy | 4,465 | 57 | 1.3% | — | — | — | — | $10.6m |
| Frostburg State University | 3,344 | 513 | 15.3% | 731 | 10 | 1.4% | $60.3m | — |
| Stevenson University | 3,028 | 35 | 1.2% | 479 | 1 | 0.2% | — | — |
| University of Baltimore | 1,292 | 18 | 1.4% | 1,809 | 67 | 3.7% | $62.0m | $5.8m |
| McDaniel College | 1,665 | 17 | 1.0% | 1,217 | 204 | 16.8% | — | — |
| University of Maryland Eastern Shore | 2,233 | 61 | 2.7% | 611 | 32 | 5.2% | $74.8m | $13.4m |
| Mount St. Mary's University | 1,873 | 82 | 4.4% | 626 | 37 | 5.9% | — | — |
| Coppin State University | 1,810 | 93 | 5.1% | 291 | 16 | 5.5% | $70.2m | — |
| Hood College | 1,209 | 12 | 1.0% | 869 | 135 | 15.5% | — | — |
| Maryland Institute College of Art | 1,324 | 281 | 21.2% | 537 | 128 | 23.8% | — | — |
| Notre Dame of Maryland University | 686 | 3 | 0.4% | 1,150 | 7 | 0.6% | — | — |
| SANS Technology Institute | 691 | 50 | 7.2% | 1,080 | 136 | 12.6% | — | — |
| St. Mary's College of Maryland | 1,577 | 7 | 0.4% | 10 | 0 | 0.0% | $40.7m | — |
| Goucher College | 964 | 43 | 4.5% | 536 | 1 | 0.2% | — | — |
| Strayer University-Maryland | 1,177 | 2 | 0.2% | 268 | 1 | 0.4% | — | — |
| Capitol Technology University | 266 | 4 | 1.5% | 636 | 35 | 5.5% | — | — |
| Washington Adventist University | 605 | 75 | 12.4% | 90 | 24 | 26.7% | — | — |
| Maryland University of Integrative Health | 0 | 0 | — | 646 | 7 | 1.1% | — | — |
| St. John's College | 488 | 73 | 15.0% | 90 | 9 | 10.0% | — | — |
| Ner Israel Rabbinical College | 292 | 32 | 11.0% | 157 | 9 | 5.7% | — | — |
| University System of Maryland | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | $26.5m | — |
The two levels diverge most at University of Maryland-Baltimore County: 4.6% of its 10,490 undergraduates and 55.5% of its 3,658 graduate students. These are different admissions systems with different applicant pools, different money and different reasons to say yes, and a single state figure hides both.
7,538 of 196,192 undergraduates and 14,792 of 72,456 graduate students. IPEDS reports no graduate enrolment for 5 of these institutions; their rows show a dash rather than a zero, because the file not carrying a number is not the same as the number being none.
What the state figure is an average of
The largest graduate enrolments in Maryland, each with its own non-resident share. Nothing here is excluded from the figures above. The point is to show what they are made of.
| Institution | Graduate students | Share of the state | Non-resident |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins University | 24,273 | 33.5% | 28.4% |
| University of Maryland-College Park | 10,205 | 14.1% | 35.6% |
| University of Maryland Global Campus | 9,291 | 12.8% | 2.9% |
| University of Maryland, Baltimore | 5,689 | 7.9% | 6.6% |
| University of Maryland-Baltimore County | 3,658 | 5.0% | 55.5% |
| Towson University | 3,010 | 4.2% | 5.5% |
One institution is moving this figure
Johns Hopkins University holds 33.5% of the graduate enrolment in Maryland and is 28.4% non-resident. Take it out and the rest of the state is 16.4%, against 20.4% with it in. A state average is not a description of its universities when one of them is most of the state.
Practical training, and the other student visas
A student visa does not end at graduation. Optional Practical Training lets a graduate work on the same visa, and a STEM degree adds a further twenty-four months. It applies at both levels — a foreign undergraduate can take OPT as readily as a doctoral graduate — which is why the undergraduate share above is not the end of the story.
| Institution | OPT authorisations | National rank | STEM OPT authorisations | National rank | Students employed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Maryland-College Park | 930 | 50 | 432 | 61 | 1,401 |
Do not add these two columns together. A graduate who holds post-completion OPT and then a STEM extension in the same year appears in both, and the sum counts that person twice. They are authorisations, not people. Figures are for 2024, from SEVP’s top-100 and top-200 school lists — an institution outside those lists has no published figure, which is a fact about the list and never a zero.
J-1 physicians. Maryland hosted 441 J-1 physicians in graduate medical education in 2025. That list is published for the top twelve states only, so a state missing from it has no published figure.
In-state against out-of-state
Public four-year institutions, FY2024. Every foreign student pays the out-of-state rate, so this is the price attached to the non-resident column everywhere else on this page.
| Measure | In-state | Out-of-state |
|---|---|---|
| Share of tuition revenue | 55.7% | 37.2% |
Out-of-state is not the same as foreign. SHEEO counts international students and domestic students from other states in one column. This shows what a non-resident pays, never how many of them are foreign. Figures are net tuition and fee revenue per full-time-equivalent student — what the institution actually collected after its own aid, not the published price. Public four-year institutions only; medical FTE excluded. SHEEO records that Maryland could not provide a complete enrolment breakout for this year.
Every institution
Largest first by total enrolment. A dash means the institution awards none of that degree, or that no federal research money was matched to it.
| Institution | City | Control | Enrolled | Graduate | Master’s | Non-res | Doctorates | Non-res | Federal R&D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Maryland Global Campus | Adelphi | public | 60,084 | 9,291 | 7,447 | 248 | — | — | — |
| University of Maryland-College Park | College Park | public | 40,813 | 10,205 | 5,585 | 2,790 | 3,024 | 1,259 | $1.54bn |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore | private nonprofit | 30,362 | 24,273 | 17,245 | 4,971 | 3,051 | 1,045 | $4.13bn |
| Towson University | Towson | public | 19,527 | 3,010 | 898 | 144 | 69 | 31 | $19.2m |
| Montgomery College | Rockville | public | 17,780 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| University of Maryland-Baltimore County | Baltimore | public | 14,148 | 3,658 | 4,282 | 2,721 | 491 | 191 | $150.9m |
| Morgan State University | Baltimore | public | 9,808 | 1,508 | 269 | 101 | 355 | 82 | $55.5m |
| Salisbury University | Salisbury | public | 7,030 | 749 | 75 | 6 | 27 | 2 | $14.4m |
| University of Maryland, Baltimore | Baltimore | public | 6,667 | 5,689 | 115 | 14 | 388 | 73 | — |
| Bowie State University | Bowie | public | 6,408 | 1,120 | 280 | 62 | 89 | 10 | $3.7m |
| Harford Community College | Bel Air | public | 5,108 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Loyola University Maryland | Baltimore | private nonprofit | 5,107 | 1,120 | 313 | 5 | 6 | 0 | $1.4m |
| College of Southern Maryland | La Plata | public | 4,984 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| United States Naval Academy | Annapolis | public | 4,465 | — | — | — | — | — | $10.6m |
| Frostburg State University | Frostburg | public | 4,075 | 731 | 175 | 19 | 64 | 0 | — |
| Stevenson University | Owings Mills | private nonprofit | 3,507 | 479 | 126 | 1 | — | — | — |
| University of Baltimore | Baltimore | public | 3,101 | 1,809 | 333 | 17 | 48 | 5 | $5.8m |
| McDaniel College | Westminster | private nonprofit | 2,882 | 1,217 | 23 | 0 | — | — | — |
| University of Maryland Eastern Shore | Princess Anne | public | 2,844 | 611 | 62 | 9 | 92 | 17 | $13.4m |
| Mount St. Mary's University | Emmitsburg | private nonprofit | 2,499 | 626 | 105 | 4 | — | — | — |
| Coppin State University | Baltimore | public | 2,101 | 291 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
| Hood College | Frederick | private nonprofit | 2,078 | 869 | 451 | 209 | 57 | 1 | — |
| Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore | private nonprofit | 1,861 | 537 | 52 | 5 | — | — | — |
| Notre Dame of Maryland University | Baltimore | private nonprofit | 1,836 | 1,150 | 7 | 0 | 97 | 3 | — |
| SANS Technology Institute | North Bethesda | private for-profit | 1,771 | 1,080 | 336 | 25 | — | — | — |
| St. Mary's College of Maryland | St. Mary's City | public | 1,587 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Goucher College | Baltimore | private nonprofit | 1,500 | 536 | 40 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Strayer University-Maryland | Baltimore | private for-profit | 1,445 | 268 | 50 | 2 | — | — | — |
| Capitol Technology University | Laurel | private nonprofit | 902 | 636 | 222 | 9 | 461 | 26 | — |
| Washington Adventist University | Takoma Park | private nonprofit | 695 | 90 | 97 | 9 | — | — | — |
| Maryland University of Integrative Health | Laurel | private nonprofit | 646 | 646 | — | — | — | — | — |
| St. John's College | Annapolis | private nonprofit | 578 | 90 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ner Israel Rabbinical College | Pikesville | private nonprofit | 449 | 157 | — | — | 5 | 0 | — |
| University System of Maryland | Baltimore | public | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Degrees are pooled over 2021–2025. Enrolment and federal money are the most recent year in the file. “Non-res” means a student here on a temporary visa, almost always F-1 or J-1. A green card holder is not counted in it.
How few institutions this is
Of the 34 institutions in Maryland, 16 award a research doctorate at all, and the largest two award 73.0% of them. A state’s graduate pipeline is a much smaller thing than its list of colleges.
| Institution | Research doctorates | Non-resident | Share | Share of the state’s doctorates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins University | 3,051 | 1,045 | 34.3% | 36.7% |
| University of Maryland-College Park | 3,024 | 1,259 | 41.6% | 36.3% |
| University of Maryland-Baltimore County | 491 | 191 | 38.9% | 5.9% |
| Capitol Technology University | 461 | 26 | 5.6% | 5.5% |
| University of Maryland, Baltimore | 388 | 73 | 18.8% | 4.7% |
| Morgan State University | 355 | 82 | 23.1% | 4.3% |
| Notre Dame of Maryland University | 97 | 3 | 3.1% | 1.2% |
| University of Maryland Eastern Shore | 92 | 17 | 18.5% | 1.1% |
| Bowie State University | 89 | 10 | 11.2% | 1.1% |
| Towson University | 69 | 31 | 44.9% | 0.8% |
| Frostburg State University | 64 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.8% |
| Hood College | 57 | 1 | 1.8% | 0.7% |
| University of Baltimore | 48 | 5 | 10.4% | 0.6% |
| Salisbury University | 27 | 2 | 7.4% | 0.3% |
| Loyola University Maryland | 6 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.1% |
| Ner Israel Rabbinical College | 5 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.1% |
The foreign share of graduate students, where the survey reaches
The NSF Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates asks institutions directly, and it covers 13 of the 34 institutions in Maryland. It is a different measure from the degree counts above: enrolled students rather than degrees awarded.
| Institution | Doctoral students foreign | Master’s students foreign |
|---|---|---|
| Towson University | 69.5% | 17.5% |
| Bowie State University | 64.3% | 41.5% |
| University of Maryland-College Park | 49.8% | 55.8% |
| University of Maryland-Baltimore County | 47.9% | 67.8% |
| Morgan State University | 43.3% | 23.8% |
| Johns Hopkins University | 39.9% | 63.3% |
| University of Maryland Eastern Shore | 33.3% | 15.6% |
| University of Maryland, Baltimore | 32.2% | 65.6% |
| University of Maryland Global Campus | —% | 1.8% |
| Salisbury University | —% | 0.0% |
| Frostburg State University | —% | 2.1% |
| University of Baltimore | —% | 2.8% |
| Hood College | —% | 67.0% |
Towson University
The highest foreign share of doctoral students in the state, at 69.5%. It is not the largest institution here and it is not the one with the most federal money. Size and share are different questions, and a state page that ranked only by size would not show this.
What the state itself puts in
State appropriations per full-time-equivalent student, from the SHEEO finance survey, against the change in the foreign share of graduate enrolment over the same window.
| Measure | First year | Last year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| State appropriations per FTE student | $10,199 | $13,859 | +35.9% |
| Foreign share of graduate enrolment | 9.3% | 18.5% | +9.2 pts |
These two rows move for their own reasons. Nothing here shows that one caused the other, and the page does not say it did.
Department by department
The dissertation corpus reaches 1 institution in this state, covering 30 departments. 7 of them are majority non-resident.
| Institution | Department | Doctorates | Non-resident | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U Maryland | Electrical and Electronics Engineering | 301 | 242 | 80.4% |
| U Maryland | Computer and Information Sciences, General | 111 | 77 | 69.4% |
| U Maryland | Computer Science | 135 | 89 | 65.9% |
| U Maryland | Chemical Engineering | 62 | 40 | 64.5% |
| U Maryland | Civil Engineering, General | 154 | 95 | 61.7% |
| U Maryland | Mechanical Engineering | 247 | 140 | 56.7% |
| U Maryland | Statistics, General | 38 | 21 | 55.3% |
| U Maryland | Biophysics | 28 | 13 | 46.4% |
| U Maryland | Applied Mathematics, General | 94 | 43 | 45.7% |
| U Maryland | Chemical Physics | 27 | 12 | 44.4% |
| U Maryland | Engineering, Other | 35 | 15 | 42.9% |
| U Maryland | Mathematics, General | 86 | 36 | 41.9% |
| U Maryland | Biochemistry | 48 | 19 | 39.6% |
| U Maryland | Physics, General | 245 | 96 | 39.2% |
| U Maryland | Chemistry, General | 140 | 53 | 37.9% |
| U Maryland | Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology | 17 | 6 | 35.3% |
| U Maryland | Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology, General | 59 | 20 | 33.9% |
| U Maryland | Astronomy | 43 | 14 | 32.6% |
| U Maryland | Biology/Biological Sciences, General | 130 | 41 | 31.5% |
| U Maryland | Geology/Earth Science, General | 33 | 10 | 30.3% |
| U Maryland | Information Science/Studies | 20 | 6 | 30.0% |
| U Maryland | Epidemiology | 17 | 5 | 29.4% |
| U Maryland | Materials Engineering | 84 | 23 | 27.4% |
| U Maryland | Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering, General | 116 | 27 | 23.3% |
| U Maryland | Neuroscience | 56 | 12 | 21.4% |
| U Maryland | Biological and Physical Sciences | 89 | 18 | 20.2% |
| U Maryland | Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering | 92 | 18 | 19.6% |
| U Maryland | Entomology | 20 | 3 | 15.0% |
| U Maryland | Educational Psychology | 55 | 7 | 12.7% |
| U Maryland | Psychology, General | 84 | 9 | 10.7% |
From the dissertation corpus, which is built from what universities publish about their own graduates. It covers the institutions on this site, not every institution in the state, so it is a floor.
What is not published for a state this size
Two of the measures this site uses elsewhere do not exist at this scale, and the reason is the same in both cases: the agency publishes a ranked extract rather than the whole file.
- Practical training is not published here. SEVP releases the top 100 and top 200 schools for OPT and STEM OPT, not every school. An institution outside those lists has no published figure at all. Its absence is a fact about the list, not about the institution, and it must never be read as a zero.
- Student visa counts are not published by state. DHS reports SEVIS records nationally and names a few states per region in its commentary. For most states it publishes a percentage change and no count, so the number of foreign students physically in a state cannot be read off the federal release.
- Enrolment is the measure that does exist. IPEDS asks every institution directly, which is why this page is built from it. It counts students enrolled, not visas issued, and the two are different questions.
Method and limits
- Non-resident means here on a temporary visa. IPEDS defines it as a person “who is not a citizen or national of the United States and who is in this country on a visa or temporary basis and does not have the right to remain indefinitely.” A green card holder is therefore never counted here. Neither is a refugee or an asylee. Those students are reported in the race and ethnicity categories alongside citizens. For students the category is overwhelmingly F-1 and J-1.
- It is not ethnicity and not country of origin. A US-born citizen of any background is never non-resident. The status is recorded when the student enrols, for the enrolment figures, and when the degree is awarded, for the degree counts. These files cannot be split any other way.
- Degrees are pooled over 2021–2025, because a single year at a small institution moves on one student.
- Enrolment and awards are different measures and will not agree. One counts people on a given day; the other counts degrees conferred over five years.
- Federal money is matched to a campus, and a system that reports centrally can carry money its branches spend.
- This page shows composition, not displacement. It records who received the degrees. It does not show that anyone was kept out, and nothing here should be read that way.
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institution_profiles.json,
state_funding_and_enrolment.json
and university_distribution.json.
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