University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) is an historically black, land-grant college, founded in 1886 as the Delaware Conference Academy.  The campus is located on 620 acres of land on Maryland’s eastern shore, about one hundred thirty miles southeast of Washington, DC and Baltimore, Maryland.  Currently 3,300 students are enrolled; 93 percent are undergraduates.  Students have various backgrounds and come from thirty states and fifty-five other countries.  

UMES offers major programs leading to the B.A. and B.S. degrees in 26 disciplines in the arts and sciences, professional studies and agricultural sciences. In addition, UMES presents 13 teaching degree programs and eight pre-professional programs, as well as an Honors Program designed in cooperation with the University of Maryland at Baltimore to prepare students for professional school study. The Department of Natural Science has over 500 students and offers undergraduate degrees in Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science and Marine Science.

UMES offers graduate degrees in the following fields: Marine-Estuarine and Environmental Sciences at the M.S. and Ph.D. levels; Toxicology at the M.S. and Ph.D. levels, M.S. in Applied Computer Science, Guidance and Counseling, Agricultural and Extension Education, Physical Education, Physical Therapy and Special Education.

 

Mission Statement

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore, an Historically Black Land Grant University, emphasizes selected baccalaureate programs in the liberal arts and sciences and career fields with particular relevance to its land grant mandate, offering distinctive academic emphases in agriculture, marine and environmental science, hospitality, and technology. Degrees are offered at the master’s and doctoral levels.

 

UMES is committed to providing quality education to persons who demonstrate the potential to become quality students, particularly from among minority communities, while fostering multi-cultural diversity. The University serves education and research needs of government agencies, business and industry, while focusing on the economic development needs on the Eastern Shore.

 

UMES aspires to become an educational model of a teaching/research institution that nurtures and launches leaders. It will continue to enhance its interdisciplinary curriculum, sponsored research, outreach to the community, e.g. the public schools and rural development, and expand its collaborative arrangements both within the system and with external agencies and constituencies.

 

 

University of Maryland Eastern Shore
1 Backbone Rd.
Princess Anne, MD 21853
(410) 651-2200