Graduate studies began at the Baltimore campus of the University of Maryland in 1917.  The University of Maryland Graduate School Baltimore (UMGSB) offers 27 master's and doctoral programs in health, physical, biomedical, medical, and social sciences. The Graduate School offers dual degrees with the University's professional schools including PhD/MD, PhD/PharmD and PhD/DDS degree programs, and coordinates interinstitutional studies in biochemistry, gerontology, and toxicology with other University System of Maryland graduate programs.

All doctoral students are actively engaged in research with faculty members to address some of society's most pressing problems and biomedical research's most challenging questions in basic and translational research.  These efforts, supported by over $450 million in research grants and contracts in fiscal year 2008 are undertaken collaboratively with the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the University of Maryland Medical Center, the Veterans Affairs Medical center, the Institutes for Human Virology, the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, and others.

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OUR MISSION

The mission of the Graduate School is to support, promote, and facilitate excellence in graduate education at UMB.  We fulfill this in concert with UMB’s Schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Social Work by development and application of university-wide standards and policies for graduate programs, faculty and students.