17th
in the nation
best graduate programs
U.S News & World Report, 2022
- 60 Tenured/tenure-track
- 23 Research/instructional
- 40 Affiliate/adjunct
Faculty Fellows
- 18 ACM
- 18 IEEE
- 8 AAAS
- 7 AAAI
- 3 SIAM
Student Programs
Worldwide Leaders in CS Research
- 10th Nationally*
- 12th Worldwide*
- 11th on csrankings.org
*based on guide2research.com h-index and DBLP values
Department Chair
Matthias Zwicker
Professor, Elizabeth Iribe Chair for Innovation, Phillip H. and Catherine C. Horvitz Professor of Computer Science
Most Popular Undergraduate Major on Campus
Undergraduate Majors and Specializations
- Computer Science with Specializations in:
- Immersive Media Design
OVER $30 MILLION
annual sponsored research funding
for computer science & umiacs
- Algorithms & Theory
- AI & Robotics
- Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
- Computer Vision & Machine Perception
- Cybersecurity & Cryptography
- Databases & Big Data
- Graphics, Visualization, and VR/AR
- High Performance & Scientific Computing
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Information Retrieval and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- IoT & Wearables Technology
- Machine Learning & Data Science
- Natural Language Processing
- Programming Languages & Software Engineering
- Quantum Computing
- Systems & Networking
Affiliated Research Centers
- University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS)
- Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
- Center for Automation Research
- Center for Machine Learning
- Computational Linguistics And Information Processing at Maryland
- Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory
- Institute for Systems Research
- Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science
- Maryland Cybersecurity Center