1999 U.S. News & World Report Graduate
School Rankings
1999 U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings place the CMPS departments of Computer Science, Physics and Mathematics at the top of east coast public universities.
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Applications for freshmen entering Maryland this fall are up 12 percent from last year and the quality of students who will begin in the fall will exceed the high quality of last year's class. Maryland now has the state's largest concentration of academically-talented students with more than a third of them enrolled in Honors, College Park Scholars, or Gemstone programs.
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From
Research Doctorate Programs in the United States, a 1995
report of the National Research Council:
The University of Maryland, College Park is in the top 20 institutions nationwide in Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics and Astronomy.
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"The College
of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences is the premier college
in the university, based on the excellence of its graduate programs,
including three programs (Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics)
ranked among the top 10 public universities nationwide." |
Part of the Supercomputer Institute
The University of Maryland is a partner institution in the National Science Foundation supercomputer initiative. With the University of California - San Diego coordinating this project to build a national technology grid, Maryland is one of 37 leading academic and research institutions participating.
The project teams applications scientists and computer scientists to support dramatic scientific advances in a wide range of disciplines through development and application of new computer software and hardware techniques.
