University of Maryland Baltimore County

Institution of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), a public research university with 45 years of age, is headquartered in Maryland, United States. After carefully examining the university rankings, we can conclude that UMBC has been ranked by the majority of ranking publishers in the top 800 universities in the world. The position of UMBC has steadily slipped in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (Shanghai Ranking), from 301-400 in 2016 to 601-700 in 2021. From 2017 to 2019, ARWU continuously placed UMBC between positions 501 and 600. This shows that UMBC has fallen short on key metrics like professor calibre and research productivity.
 

Similar to this, Maryland's ranking in QS (Top universities) has fallen from 441st in 2016 to 751-800 in 2022. UMBC has received a more than 200 point drop from QS. It shows that UMBC has underperformed in key areas like scholarly reputation, faculty to student ratio, and faculty citations per article. Additionally, UMBC's ranking in Times Higher Education (THE) dropped from 401–500 in 2017 to 601–800 in 2022. We can see that all of the major publishers have lowered UMBC's standing if we closely examine their university rankings.

UMBC's ranking with Times Higher Education (THE) increased from 301–400 in 2021 to 251-300 in 2022. This represents a significant 100-point improvement. In their Chemical Engineering PG ranking for 2021, US News ranked UMBC as 84th. In their Computer Engineering PG ranking for 2022, US News also placed UMBC at 92nd place.

UMBC is ranked 119th for 2022 in the Electrical Engineering PG ranking by US News. Additionally, UMBC is ranked 101st in the Mechanical Engineering PG list by US News. From 2019 to 2022, THE regularly ranked UMBC between positions 401 and 500 in its PG Computers ranking.