UMBC has officially reached the nation’s highest level of research performance. The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education today announced that UMBC has been placed into the category of doctoral universities with very high research activity, popularly known as Research 1 (or R1).
UMBC is now ranked as one of only 146 R1 institutions nationally, including 107 public and 39 private universities.
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