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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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University of Maryland, College Park
The University of Maryland, College Park, founded in 1856, is the state's flagship public research university, and its proximity to Washington, DC gives students and faculty unusually direct access to federal agencies, national laboratories, and policy institutions clustered in the surrounding metropolitan area. The university's computer science and engineering programs have built particularly strong reputations, benefiting from research partnerships with NASA's nearby Goddard Space Flight Center and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, both located within a short drive of campus. Maryland's journalism school and its criminology and criminal justice programs, both consistently ranked among the best at any public university, draw directly on the school's proximity to national media outlets and federal law enforcement agencies headquartered in the DC area. The university's Terrapins athletic programs and its move from the ACC to the Big Ten conference in 2014 reflected the broader institutional ambition to raise Maryland's national athletic and academic profile, a shift that's coincided with continued strong federal research funding tied to the university's Washington-area location.
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