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United States Naval Academy
The United States Naval Academy, founded in 1845, trains midshipmen to become commissioned officers in the US Navy and Marine Corps, and admission requires a nomination from a member of Congress or another authorized official, a selection process shared with the country's other federal service academies rather than a traditional civilian admissions process. The academy's historic Annapolis campus, known as "the Yard," sits directly on the Severn River where it meets the Chesapeake Bay, and its Beaux-Arts chapel, with a crypt containing the remains of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, is one of the most architecturally significant buildings on any American military campus. Tuition, room, and board are fully covered for all midshipmen in exchange for a post-graduation service commitment, and the demanding daily schedule combines a full engineering-heavy academic course load with military training, physical fitness requirements, and leadership development from the first day of Plebe Summer onward. The academy's football rivalry with West Point, contested annually in the Army-Navy Game, is one of the most storied rivalries in college sports, and the academy's combination of rigorous engineering-focused academics and direct commissioning into naval or Marine Corps service has made it one of the most selective undergraduate institutions in the country by admission rate.
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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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