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UMBC’s a great public school – my understanding is that they do a great job graduating students from working-class backgrounds, or people of color. I don’t have the stats handy but they sound impressive.

UMBC is also a chess powerhouse. They have won the national collegiate championship a record six times, and went to every final four from 2001 through 2015.

UMBC is cool school to root for, a moderately priced public university with real ambitions. USN&WR ranked them first among "Up and Coming Universities" in 2014 and last year ranked them #7 among "Most Innovative National Universities" (Stanford was second.)

[DC 86]

UMBC’s a great public school – my understanding is that they do a great job graduating students from working-class backgrounds, or people of color. I don’t have the stats handy but they sound impressive.

UMBC is also a chess powerhouse. They have won the national collegiate championship a record six times, and went to every final four from 2001 through 2015.

UMBC is cool school to root for, a moderately priced public university with real ambitions. USN&WR ranked them first among "Up and Coming Universities" in 2014 and last year ranked them #7 among "Most Innovative National Universities" (Stanford was second.)