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Goucher College
Goucher College, founded in 1885 as a women's college before going fully coeducational in 1986, has built a distinctive national reputation around a mandatory study-abroad requirement — every undergraduate must complete an international travel or study experience to graduate, a requirement Goucher was the first American college to make universally mandatory. The college's small size, around 1,300 undergraduates, and its wooded suburban Baltimore County campus give it an intimate, close-knit liberal arts college feel distinct from the larger public universities elsewhere in the state. Goucher's creative writing and dance programs have built particular strength relative to the college's overall size, and its low-residency MFA programs in creative nonfiction and other fields have drawn writers and students from well beyond the college's traditional undergraduate base. The college's combination of a genuinely mandatory global-education requirement and its small, personalized liberal arts setting has made Goucher a distinctive choice among Maryland's private colleges, particularly for students specifically prioritizing guaranteed international experience as part of their undergraduate education.
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Loyola University Maryland
Loyola University Maryland, founded in 1852 by the Jesuit order, is one of the oldest Catholic universities in the country, and its Baltimore campus has built a solid regional reputation for its business, education, and psychology programs within the broader Jesuit university network. The university's Sellinger School of Business has built a strong reputation in the Baltimore-Washington corridor, and Loyola's relatively small undergraduate enrollment, around 4,000 students, lets it maintain smaller class sizes and closer faculty engagement than the larger public universities in the region. Loyola's men's lacrosse program, which won a national championship in 2012, reflects the broader prominence of lacrosse in Maryland generally, a sport with particularly deep roots in the state relative to most of the rest of the country, and the university's athletic programs draw heavily on that regional lacrosse culture. The university's Jesuit mission, combined with its Baltimore location and solid regional business and education program reputations, has made Loyola a consistent choice for students specifically seeking a mid-sized private Catholic university experience within the Baltimore-Washington region.
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