dents take the test. On Advanced Placement (AP)
exams, 72% of Maryland students received scores
required for college credit.

Public School Special Programs. In the 1992-93
school year, some 88,480 students with disabilities
received special education services to facilitate
learning. Services range from assistance for part or
all of a regular school day, to specialized services for
students in separate facilities, hospitals, or home-
bound programs. Prekindergarten programs served
16,082 four-year olds; 131,759 students partici-
pated in vocational-technical educational pro-
grams. Gifted and talented programs were
conducted by the State, on a tuition basis, at 13
summer centers for 2,000 students who qualified
academically, met geographical distribution re-
quirements, and were able to meet the cost. In
correctional institutions, 2,489 inmates completed
educational programs: 888 earned literacy certifica-
tions; 677 received high school diplomas; 1,565
completed vocational programs; and 96 received
postsecondary degrees in 1993.

Public School Resources. An interactive computer
network soon will link the State's more than 200
high schools and 56 colleges via fiber-optic cable.
The network, called 'Advantage: Maryland," is
unique in the United States. Maryland students can
draw upon the cultural resources of not only An-
napolis and Baltimore but also those of the nation's
capital, Washington, DC.

Higher Education. Maryland has a three-part sys-
tem of public higher education that consists of 18
community colleges; 2 four-year colleges and uni-
versities (St. Mary's College of Maryland, a liberal
arts institution, and Morgan State University); and
11 campuses of the University of Maryland System.

Among independent postsecondary institutions are 4
two-year colleges; 22 four-year colleges and universi-
ties; and approximately 206 proprietary schools. The
U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis is a federal institu-
tion. Postgraduate professional degree programs are
offered in medicine by the University of Maryland at
Baltimore and The Johns Hopkins University; in den-
tistry by the University of Maryland at Baltimore; and
in law by the University of Maryland at Baltimore and
the University of Baltimore.

Some 268,560 students, in 1992, continued their
education in undergraduate and graduate postsecon-
dary academic programs in the State. Of these, public
community colleges, four-year colleges and universities
enrolled 228,022 students. State residents made up
89.1% of 201,072 undergraduates and 67.4% of
26,950 graduate students. Private colleges and univer-
sities enrolled another 40,538 students: 24,012 under-
graduates (57.9% from Maryland); and 16,526
graduate students (71.2% from Maryland).

University of Maryland System encompasses eleven
campuses: University of Maryland at Baltimore;
University of Maryland College Park; Bowie State
University; Towson State University; University of
Maryland Eastern Shore; Frostburg State Univer-
sity, Coppin State College; Salisbury State Univer-
sity; University of Baltimore; University of
Maryland University College; and University of
Maryland Baltimore County, with University of
Maryland College Park designated the "flagship"
institution for the System. In addition, the System
includes three major research and educational com-
ponents: the Maryland Institute for Agriculture
and Natural Resources, the Center for Environ-
mental and Estuarine Studies, and the Maryland
Biotechnology Institute.

University of Maryland System
Undergraduate Enrollment, Fall 1993
Bowie State University ................ 2,179
Coppin State College ................ 2,162
Frostburg State University ............ 4,171
Salisbury State University ............. 4,296
Towson State University .............. 9,247
University of Baltimore ................ 1,096
University of Md. Baltimore County..... 6,476
University of Md. College Park....... 19,340
University of Md. Eastern Shore. ....... 2,121
University of Md. University College ..... 868

LIBRARIES & ARCHIVES

Libraries, 1992. Twenty-four public library systems,
one in each county and Baltimore City, include 190
public libraries and 18 bookmobiles, with total
collections of 12.5 million items. School library
media centers are located in 1,187 elementary, mid-
dle and secondary schools, with total collections of
over 11.8 million items. Sixty-three college and
university libraries have collections numbering 12.4
million items.

The Maryland State Library Network serves over 400
libraries throughout the State, primarily through in-
terlibrary loan of materials and information. The Net-
work is composed of the State Library Resource
Center (Enoch Pratt Free Library, Central Building in
Baltimore City); three Regional Library Resource
Centers (Eastern Shore, Southern Maryland, Western
Maryland); four academic libraries that lend special-
ized materials and information; and more than 125
libraries that fill interlibrary loan requests from their
collections. Libraries and their users locate needed
items through the statewide union catalog, MICRO-
CAT/ULPM, which describes holdings of 100 librar-
ies on microfiche and in electronic formats.

Maryland residents may register with and borrow
materials from any public library in the State. Infor-
mation and materials found through the Network
may be transferred electronically, sent by delivery