Welcome to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) School of Graduate Studies website.
We encourage you to explore your interest and need for graduate study.
Carol Aslanian speaking of graduate study in her book on Adult Students Today (College Board, 2001), states that "transitions from one life role to another lead adults to seek new knowledge… credentials and skills needed for jobs or careers -- getting them, keeping them and changing them" (p. 96).
Maintaining job skills, pursuing current job or career advancement, seeking new job or career opportunity, continuing education to meet licensure or certification requirements, and personal enrichment all necessitate new and life-long learning.
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) is the doctoral degree granting University on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and one of eleven degree-granting campuses of the University System of Maryland. UMES is a comparatively small, but growing residential university of over 3,800 undergraduate and graduate students, with a teaching and research mission consistent with its legacy as an 1890 Historically Black Land Grant institution. UMES offers three types of master's degrees among ten graduate programs, and three types of doctoral degrees among six programs.
UMES emphasizes its commitment to equal educational opportunity, and strives to provide educational, research and public service programs to the state and region.
Graduate course offerings are tailored to both full- and part-time students. A number of graduate programs offer evening courses (e.g., Applied Computer Science, Career and Technology Education, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Guidance and Counseling, Special Education, the Master of Arts in Teaching). The doctoral programs in Organizational Leadership and Education leadership are offered as an accelerated, intensive weekend program format.
We invite you to peruse our campus and graduate websites for additional information on UMES, our graduate degree programs and the graduate admissions process for degree seeking and non-degree seeking students.