The Baltimore County (UMBC) Campus is lo-
cated in Catonsville at the southeast corner of the
intersection of the Baltimore Beltway and Wil-
kens Avenue. Undergraduate offerings include a
range of programs in the arts, sciences, and hu-
manities, including professional and pre-profes-
sional programs in teacher education, information
systems management, social work, nursing, phar-
macy, dental hygiene, medical technology, physi-
cal therapy, pre-law, pre-dental, pre-medical,
health science and policy, emergency medical ser-
vices, and combined degree programs in medicine,
law, and dentistry. Graduate programs are devel-
oping and include doctorates in applied mathe-
matics, biochemistry, experimental biology, and
policy sciences, as well as masters degrees in ap-
plied sociology, community clinical psychology,
biological and medicinal chemistry, historical
studies, and instructional systems development.

At College Park instruction is offered at under-
graduate and graduate levels in a wide variety of
disciplines. There are the Colleges of Agriculture,
Business and Management, Education, Engineer-
ing, Human Ecology, Journalism, the School of
Public Affairs, Physical Education, Recreation
and Health, and the Schools of Architecture and
Library and Information Services. The schools,
colleges, and departments are within the divisions
of (1) Agricultural and Life Sciences, (2) Mathe-
matical and Physical Sciences and Engineering,
(3) Behavioral and Social Sciences, (4) Arts and
Humanities, and (5) Human and Community Re-
sources.

The Eastern Shore Campus (UMES) is located
at Princess Anne. This campus offers baccalaure-
ate degree programs within three divisions: (1)
Liberal Studies, (2) Professional Studies, and (3)
Experimental Studies. Teaching degree areas and
non-teaching degree areas include agriculture, art
education, biology, business administration,
chemistry, computer science, construction man-
agement technology, elementary education, En-
glish, environmental science, history, industrial
education, hotel/restaurant management, human
ecology, mathematics, music education, physical
education, physical therapy, poultry technology
and management, social sciences education, and
sociology. Minor areas include economics, for-

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eign languages, political science, and physics. The
initial years of nursing and pharmacy are offered
at UMES. There is a master's program in guid-
ance and counseling, a joint master's program
with UMCP in agricultural and extension educa-
tion, and a joint program on the masters and
doctoral level in Marine, Estuarine, and Environ-
mental Sciences.

University College has its administrative head-
quarters and its conferences and institutes center
at College Park. As stated above. University Col-
lege administers the adult and continuing educa-
tion programs of the University of Maryland with
fiscally self-supporting courses and programs of-
fered in the late afternoon and evening on the
several campuses and at off-campus centers
throughout the State of Maryland. University
College also maintains overseas centers for Unit-
ed States military personnel and civilians logisti-
cally supported by U.S. government agencies
abroad in the European, Atlantic, and Far East
Divisions. In addition. University College,
through its Conferences and Institutes Division,
has an extensive series of non-credit adult
courses, seminars, workshops, and institutes.
Since 1972 University College has operated an
"open university" program in cooperation with
the Open University of Great Britain. A new
Master of General Administration program is of-
fered.

Each campus operates one or more summer
sessions.

The Graduate School embraces all of the grad-
uate programs of the University with liaison
among the campuses maintained by a Vice-Presi-
dent for Graduate Studies and Research and
through the President's Advisory Committee for
Graduate Studies and Research.

AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT
STATION

Symons Hall
University of Maryland
College Park 20742 Telephone: 454-3707

The Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station
was established following passage of the federal
Hatch Act in 1887. The Act made available to
the states grants-in-aid for the conduct of re-
search pertaining to agriculture and now both
State and federal funds support these activities.
The administrative headquarters are located on
the College Park Campus, as well as laboratories