Student Profile
UMUC specializes in distance learning for adult, non-traditional students in Maryland, across the country, and around the world by operating satellite campuses and offering online instruction. The university educates 50,000 active-duty service members at over 130 military installations. In FY 2009, more than 30,000 Marylanders attended UMUC. The USM Board of Regents predicts UMUC's enrollment will increase 48% by 2018.
About three quarters of the undergraduate students attend part-time. Over ninety-two percent of UMUC students are employed full-time. The majority of undergraduate students are female. The median age of stateside undergraduate students is 31. Almost two-thirds of the graduate MBA students are married, half are female, and over a third are minorities. Over a third of UMUC's stateside students were African-American, and this minority group earned over a third of the degrees awarded by the university.
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