Annual Reports, Fast Facts & Rankings

UMD INFO Annual Report Jul 2022 – Jun 2023 (Flip Book or PDF)

UMD INFO Annual Report Jul 2021 – Jun 2022 (Flip Book or PDF)

UMD INFO Annual Report Jul 2020 – Jun 2021 (Flip Book or PDF)

UMD INFO Annual Report Jul 2019 – Jun 2020 (Flip Book or PDF)

 

Fast Facts

 
2500+ Students from 63 Countries
 
45% Female Student Body
 
30% of Students from Underrepresented Groups
 
Located just outside Washington, DC
 
46 Active Research Grants
 
2 ACM Fellows
 
2 LJ/ALISE Excellence in Teaching Awardees
 
12 NSF, IMLS or DARPA Career Grants

National Rankings

 
#2 in USA
Master of Library and Information Science Online
(TheBestSchools.org)
 
#4 in USA
Master of Library and Information Science
(US News & World Report)
 
#6 in USA
Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction
(EduRank)
 
#5 in USA
University of Maryland for Student Entrepreneurship
(Princeton Review)

Faculty & Staff Honors

UMD Research Communicator Impact Award
Jen Golbeck (2015)

LJ/ALISE Excellence in Teaching Award
Paul Jaeger (2015)

Library Journal Mover and Shaker Award
Anne Weeks (2016)

Emmett Leahy Award
Richard Marciano (2017)

UMD CMNS Distinguished Research Scientist Award
Catherine Plaisant (2017)

ACM Distinguished Member Status
Niklas Elmqvist (2018)

LJ/ALISE Excellence in Teaching Award
Renee Hill (2018)

ACM Distinguished Member Status
Jen Golbeck (2018)

Inaugural Rachel Olivero Accessibility Innovation Award (NFB MD)
Jonathan Lazar (2019)

Library Journal Mover and Shaker Award
Mega Subramaniam (2019)

Society of American Archivists (SAA) Council Exemplary Service Award
Michael J. Kurtz (2019)

YALSA Outstanding Achievement Award
Mega Subramaniam (2020)

UMD BBI Virtual Seed Grant Symposium Awardee
Katie Shilton (2020)

2021 Library Journal Movers and Shakers
Jennifer Sturge (2021)

2020 SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award
Catherine Plaisant (2021)

2020 ACM SIGACCESS Award (Special Interest Groups on Accessible Computing) for Outstanding Contributions to Computing and Accessibility)
Jonathan Lazar (2021)

Student’s Choice Teaching Award
Ryan O’Grady and M. R. Sauter (2021)

The Instructional Innovation Award
Stacy Surla (2021)

UMD Graduate School Faculty Mentor of the Year Awards for 2021
Amanda Lazar (2021)

ALISE/Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Competition Award
Mega Subramaniam and Shandra Morehouse (2021)