University of Maryland Rankings:Global Rankings, National Rankings & Subject-Wise Rankings

University of Maryland, Baltimore Overall Rankings 2026

Four ranking bodies publish a current position for the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and they place it across a wide 663-position band from #138 (Collegedunia) to the #801 lower edge of the QS band. The width of that band, not the headline number, is the first thing an Indian applicant should read off this table.

The 491-position spread between U.S. News (#310) and the lower edge of the QS band (#801) is not noise. QS gives heavy weight to academic opinion polls and the ratio of students to teachers, while U.S. News and ARWU lean on research citations, NIH funding and clinical research output, where UMB’s six health-science professional schools post very strong numbers. The result: one university that reads mid-pack on QS, mid-400s on ARWU and clearly stronger on U.S. News and Collegedunia.

University of Maryland, Baltimore Rankings: Bottom Line for Indian Students

For an Indian applicant comparing UMB with the closest home-country alternative, the story is cleanest in U.S. News and the ARWU subject lists, where UMB out-ranks AIIMS New Delhi by a wide margin on the global pool. The signal for an Indian applicant lives in five rows.

University of Maryland, Baltimore QS World University Rankings 2027

QS, which ranks universities on academic opinion polls, employer feedback, research citation counts and the ratio of students to teachers, places University of Maryland, Baltimore at #801-850 in QS 2027. The most recent two editions show a flat band, which means UMB has neither gained nor lost ground in the QS system over the latest cycle.

A flat #801-850 band is the expected QS outcome for a university with no undergraduate liberal-arts college, no engineering school and a small student-faculty count. UMB’s three bachelor’s programs and 32 master’s tracks together enrol roughly 6,800 students across six professional schools, which limits the survey-respondent pool QS uses for its academic opinion polls. For Indian applicants targeting pharmacy, nursing, dentistry or social work, the subject and graduate school ranks below carry far more decision weight than the QS world band.

Key insight: A flat QS band over consecutive editions is itself a signal: it tells Indian applicants the institution is stable in its peer cohort and the rank is not under threat from method revisions. The #801-850 band places UMB at the 60th percentile of the 1,401-university QS pool.

Collegedunia Study Abroad Rankings of University of Maryland, Baltimore

The Collegedunia Study Abroad list, which ranks universities by their fit for Indian study-abroad applicants, places UMB inside the global top-140 and the US top-55. Both ranks position UMB clearly above its QS world band because the Collegedunia system gives weight to Indian-applicant signals such as acceptance rate, scholarship access and subject strength that the global rankings under-count for a professional-school university.

The Collegedunia-to-QS gap is sharp: at #138 globally on Collegedunia versus #801 at the QS lower edge, the Collegedunia Study Abroad system reads UMB as roughly 5.8 times more applicant-relevant than the raw QS rank suggests. The #52 USA position keeps UMB inside the top 15% of all US universities Collegedunia tracks for Indian study-abroad applicants in 2026.

India-relevance: The 663-rank gap between Collegedunia (#138) and QS lower edge (#801) is the second-largest cross-body gap on the UMB rank card, and it is the most useful one for Indian applicants because it isolates the rank that weights Indian-applicant fit.

University of Maryland, Baltimore ARWU (Shanghai) Rankings

UMB has dropped one band on ARWU in 2025 after holding the same band for four consecutive editions. The Shanghai ARWU system, which scores universities mainly on research output (Nobel and Fields prize alumni and staff, highly cited researcher counts, and Nature and Science papers), places UMB at #401-500 in ARWU 2025.

The 2025 band drop is the first ARWU movement on the UMB record over the latest five editions: a four-year flat line at #301-400 followed by a one-band slip to #401-500. The 100-position band shift is small in absolute terms for an institution at this depth in the ARWU pool, but it places UMB outside the global top-400 for the first time since 2021. The shift does not affect alumni brand: a 2024 UMB graduate’s credential still carries the weight of a top-400 ARWU institution.

Trend signal: The five-year UMB band average works out to #321-420 against the ARWU pool of 1,000 ranked universities, which keeps the university inside the global top 42% of research-intensive institutions. The 2025 slip needs the 2026 edition to confirm a real trend; one-band moves at this depth in the pool are often method-driven and reverse the next cycle.

University of Maryland, Baltimore U.S. News Best Global Rankings

U.S. News, which ranks universities on global research reputation, publication counts, citations and international research collaboration, places UMB at #310 (tied) in Best Global Universities 2025-2026. This is the strongest of UMB’s four overall ranks and puts the university inside the global top 12% of the 2,604-institution pool U.S. News tracks.

The #310 U.S. News rank sits 491 places ahead of UMB’s QS band lower edge and 91 places ahead of UMB’s ARWU band lower edge, which reads the U.S. News system as the most favourable global ranking for the university. The result matches expectation: U.S. News weights research output and NIH funding heavily, and UMB’s six health-science professional schools score very strong on both. The rank also carries weight inside India because Indian medical and pharmacy recruiters track U.S. News rankings when validating foreign degrees.

Key insight: A #310 U.S. News rank places UMB above 88% of the 2,604-university pool. Against AIIMS New Delhi at #897 on the same list, the gap is 587 positions, a meaningful spread for any Indian medical, pharmacy or nursing applicant weighing a UMB credential against a home-country alternative.

University of Maryland, Baltimore Subject Rankings

The UMB ranking story breaks open at the subject level. Across ARWU GRAS 2025 (the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects published by Shanghai Ranking) and U.S. News Best Graduate Schools, the university posts top-25 subject ranks in dentistry, evening law and undergraduate nursing, plus inside-top-30 ranks in pharmacy, the nursing graduate programs and social work.

University of Maryland, Baltimore Dentistry Ranking

UMB’s School of Dentistry posts ARWU GRAS 2025 Dentistry and Oral Sciences rank #22 globally. This is the single highest subject rank on the university’s card and a stronger global brand signal than any of the four overall world ranks UMB carries.

For an Indian dentist planning to study, train or eventually practise in the US, a degree from a top-22 dental school carries direct weight in US licensing pathways and in the Indian private-practice market. The #22 position holds against the ARWU pool of 500 ranked dental institutions, which places UMB inside the global top 5% for dentistry as a subject.

University of Maryland, Baltimore Nursing Rankings

Three of UMB’s four nursing ranks are inside the US national top-20, the densest top-20 cluster of any UMB school across U.S. News and ARWU GRAS.

The DNP at #12 is the strongest of the four nursing ranks and the only UMB graduate program inside the US top-15. Two of the three U.S. News nursing ranks are inside the national top-15, which lines up with the Indian recruiter view that this nursing credential carries the same brand weight as a credential from a leading US private nursing school. For Indian nursing applicants on the BS Nursing, MSN or DNP pathway, this is the clearest brand signal on the UMB rank card.

University of Maryland, Baltimore Pharmacy Ranking

UMB’s School of Pharmacy is ranked #20 nationally in U.S. News 2026 against more than 140 US schools of pharmacy, which places it inside the US top 14% of pharmacy schools.

The 131-position gap between U.S. News (#20 US) and ARWU GRAS (#151-200 global) reflects the different pools each body draws from: ARWU covers 500 pharmacy schools worldwide, while U.S. News covers 140 in the US alone. The MS in Pharmacometrics at this school is one of UMB’s most-applied programs for Indian PG applicants, and the U.S. News #20 rank is the brand signal Indian recruiters track for that decision.

University of Maryland, Baltimore Law Rankings

The Francis King Carey School of Law posts the highest national U.S. News placement of any UMB school, anchored by an Evening Program rank that sits inside the US top-5.

The 59-position gap between Evening Program (#4) and Day Program (#63) inside the same law school shows how heavily U.S. News weights part-time clinical work in its evening law list. For Indian applicants, Health Care Law at #4 is the strategic angle: it pairs directly with UMB’s medicine, pharmacy and public health schools and opens a JD-MD or JD-MPH pathway that is hard to replicate at other US law schools.

University of Maryland, Baltimore Social Work, Public Health and Allied Health Rankings

UMB’s School of Social Work is ranked #24 nationally on U.S. News, the public health program at #55, and the physical therapy program at #50, with all three sitting inside the top 30% of their US peer pools.

Social Work at #24 and Physical Therapy at #50 give Indian applicants two clear allied-health pathways with steady US visa and post-study work routes attached. The 26-position gap between Social Work (#24) and Physical Therapy (#50) reflects program-level U.S. News weighting on accreditation cohort size, not raw program quality.

University of Maryland, Baltimore Rankings: Indian Student Outlook

For Indian applicants, the University of Maryland, Baltimore ranking pattern reads sharpest at the subject level. The single most useful data point is not the QS #801-850 band but the cluster of U.S. News top-25 ranks in nursing, pharmacy, law and social work, paired with the ARWU dentistry rank of #22 globally.

Popular programs for Indian students at UMB, based on past Indian enrollment and the school’s strongest rank signals, cluster around five tracks. Each program lines up with one of UMB’s top-ranked schools.

• MS in Pharmacometrics: Pairs with the School of Pharmacy at U.S. News #20; among the most-applied programs for Indian PG applicants.
• BS Nursing and Doctor of Nursing Practice: Backed by the DNP at U.S. News #12 and undergraduate nursing at #13 nationally.
• MS in Forensic Medicine: Sits under the School of Medicine cluster, with strong NIH research funding behind the program.
• BS in Dental Hygiene: Backed by the School of Dentistry at ARWU GRAS #22 globally, the top subject rank on the UMB card.
• JD and Health Care Law LLM at Carey Law: Carey Law Evening at #4 and Health Care Law at #4 are the strongest law signals on the UMB rank card.

These five program-school pairings produce the India-relevant signal table below, with each row connecting a UMB rank to a concrete take-away for an Indian applicant in 2026.