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UMES(University of Maryland Eastern Shore)

School colors: Maroon and gray

SSC Rotunda at UMES campus
Honors Lane, 2013-09-17 12:54:45, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Princess Anne, Maryland · Founded 1886

Public · Four-year · ~2,800 students

wwwcp.umes.edu · official site

Founding

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore opened on September 13, 1886, as the Delaware Conference Academy under the Methodist Episcopal Church. It began as a branch of Baltimore's Centenary Bible Institute, which became Morgan College in 1890.

Source: UMES History, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, read 2026-09-14.

What the school says about itself

On the record
  • The University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) is the state's 1890 Land-Grant University and a premier doctoral-granting institution with high research activity on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Source, read 2026-09-17.

On the official record

Campus address
J.T. Williams Hall, Princess Anne, MD 21853-1299
Control
Public
Students
~2,800 students
Directory id
163338
OPE id
00210600
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
J.T. Williams Hall, Princess Anne, MD. See it on the Ledger map.
Where this location comes fromCampus location from IPEDS 2024-25This campus location comes from the federal IPEDS 2024-25 record, used as published, so the pin on the map is the campus.IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 collection, file dated 2025-09-21, retrieved 2026-09-14: coordinate 38.207386, -75.686852 as published. The Census Bureau geocoder returned No Match for the address on file, which no longer decides placement.

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Sources

  1. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 provisional data collection. Unit id 163338. https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/HD2024.zip. File dated 2025-09-21.
  2. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education. Higher Education Programs Eligibility Matrix, sheet 'HBCU', dated 2026-06-08. https://www.ed.gov/media/document/fy-2026-higher-education-programs-eligibility-matrix-june-8-2026-114185.xlsx.
  3. UMES History, University of Maryland Eastern Shore. https://www.umes.edu/about/umes-history/. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 2,844 total, Fall 2023 (2,233 undergraduate, 611 graduate). IPEDS Fall Enrollment 2023, derived variables (DRVEF2023). https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/DRVEF2023.zip. File dated 2024-09-30, read 2026-09-17.
  5. Graduate Studies, University of Maryland Eastern Shore. https://www.umes.edu/grad/. Read 2026-09-17.
  6. School colors: Maroon and gray. Values as stated. University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Wikipedia (revision 1373466176). Read 2026-09-16.
  7. Photograph: Honors Lane, 2013-09-17 12:54:45, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SSC_Rotunda_at_UMES_campus.jpg. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  8. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

Enrollment is the official 2023 count, rounded. Tap a school for its source.

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