Beautiful campus and great school of course. Sadly, things are quiet now with COVID and may businesses are closed around campus.
We are doing our best get back to some form of normalcy it's still an up hill battle
Great location with very clean and easy set up to find what you need. Current covid conditions has staff wearing gloves, no trying on close and fiber glass barriers at cash registers. I did a recent in store pick up the other day and the process was so easy. Only downside here is parking. It can be hard to find or you have to pay
Top ranking educational institution the people are friendly and its diverse
I had the best two years of my life at University of Maryland. UMD gave me all opportunities to succeed, great research school and average tuition costs. Diverse student population and very close to DC. Surrounded by lots of companies in DC, Maryland and Northern Virginia which is a great advantage.
Beautiful research university with a safe campus. The majority of professors are highly qualified and quite knowledgeable in their respective fields of study. Students have plenty of opportunities to conduct research and get academic assistance. Many of the facilities have been built within the past 10 years and older ones are, for the most part, well maintained. The cost of in-state tuition is dramatically lower than that of other schools, not just in Maryland but in the entire country. However, the price does not reflect the quality of the education, which is very high and increasing annually. Depending on the program--especially in the STEM fields--this school ranks with the likes of Michigan, UCLA, Purdue, and others. The University of Maryland truly offers a high quality secondary education on a constantly updated, already gorgeous campus in the Washington Metro Area. The relatively affordable price for in-state students is a unique bonus that few other schools--if any--of the same caliber can match. And, of course, it's proximity to Washington, D.C. and accessibility to public transit allows students and faculty to take advantage of the many opportunities for learning, research, entrepreneurship, touring, and relaxing that the nation's capital has to offer!
Great school in general, but there are almost no African-American or African people here. Sigh.
Racist University. Total/Complete waste of time. All the school truly cares about is your money (aka Tuition) and how they can milk you dry. They could care less about your future and it's worse if you're a minority! They hire some really bad Professors. For instance: Alice Mignerey--she is never prepared and has no idea what she is teaching, Atkinson-- Community Health Professor; who talks about her mother and family 75% of each lecture, through out the semester, Dr. Daughters- Controlling Stress and Tension; her class is so stressful and makes you feel very tense. Trust me, you WILL be stressed out taking that course! Alot of the people in that office of Student Conduct, are as racist as they come starting with Andrea Goodwin.
Beautiful big campus, even though the surrounding area is pretty bad and dangerous. I enjoyed my time studying and living on campus there.
Beautiful campus, great workout facilities, and plenty of places to grab good food.
Went to 5 floors of bathrooms looking for one decently warm shower. Every single one of them were cold along with the water in a bunch of them smelling like it came straight from a sewer. Not only this but for the showers they have "curtains" to separate one another with literally no room to get dressed undressed or put anything at all near your shower so have fun streaking, taking cold showers, possibly smelling worse after the shower because of some of the rancid water, and of course getting no privacy what so ever in the showers. Oh and don't hope for the bathroom door to lock because it's just a handle to open it on either side in all 5 floors I checked. Really thinking I may wash my self in the creek as it would be better suited and equivalent to the privacy I would get for the task and it would probably not be as cold. On a better note, the dorms are kinda nice, in terms of size, for two people. However there are WAY better colleges out there and I wouldn't recommend this one to literally anyone. Even the community college back home has better facilities than this. Which is sad because this one apparently has two zip codes due to being so large. If you do have to come to this university for whatever reason, avoid Cumberland as best you can idk how this building's facilities are up to code/legal.
The potential to learn here is endless. That being said it has it's flaws and one of them being is traffic flow. The campus seems to cater to more of a walking and biking environment, which I had no problem with, except they should change their design of the roads and walkways themselves . What I mean is to create walk way bridges over the roads so vehicle traffic is constant and reduces over all campus traffic. Their is simple bridge walkway designs like that in the Boston area, it helps with the flow of traffic. Next is bicycles, they are a vehicle by law, but don't follow the rules of the road which makes it dangerous for other drivers and especially for the individual on the bike. It also makes an individual walking not as safe, as they could be hit by a bicyclist, believe me I know, for I have been almost have been hit myself. Lastly the University needs to address the plaque of crime around the campus and maybe have check points that only students or prospect students are entering the campus. The campus is private and the roads on the campus are private as well so the campus has authority to do so. I believe that will help curve crime on campus.
The air in the campus is so sweet. They gave you a citation due to their garbage parking payment system. I'll be shame if I or my child join this university.
support and defend the value of US and the world: freedom and low pollution, fight against evil dictator and regime in china, not a puppy of china, dont just care the money from china, different from most of the university of US
The campus and the town of College Park is dangerous and ridden with crime. This morning some random guy got stabbed by a student and died. I get alerts almost every day about a robbery or burglary in a dorm, some are armed. A noose was found in a frat house. There are homeless drunkards walking in and out. And yet they want to make this place a sanctuary to harbor illegal immigrants?
Also, the faculty is full of bureaucrats who are ignorant of their own school. They don't know answers to simple question about their own campus. This university is just a corporate bureaucracy full of militant politically correct students and racist professors who hate white people and stupid frat boys and sorority sisters being obnoxious, located in a dangerous town. Fix this place, please.
Education is far and above any that my colleagues have received anywhere else. However, the administrative misdirection and unresponsive nature of the graduate school administration appears to be insurmountable. I have been trying to switch my graduate program for 3 years and the graduate school has lost paperwork, denied the existence of a program they have paperwork for (dual degree enrollment) and students currently enrolled in (there are several I know personally) and been unresponsive to all means of communication. I love the university and the experiences that I had there for during my time. The school and atmosphere are great and I would do it all over again if I had the opportunity and would give that experience 5-stars.