University of Maryland Baltimore

The University of Maryland, Baltimore, was founded in 1807 as the Maryland College of Medicine. In 1812, it was rechartered as the University of Maryland and given the authority to establish additional faculties in law, divinity, and arts and sciences. The faculty of law was founded in 1816, though it operated intermittently until 1868. The faculty of arts and sciences known as the Baltimore College for undergraduates also operated intermittently in the early 19th century. From 1907 to 1920, St. John's College in Annapolis functioned as the University of Maryland's faculty of arts and sciences; this loose federation was dissolved in 1920 when the Maryland State College , (the former Maryland Agricultural College ), founded 1856, as the state's land grant college , became part of a larger University of Maryland with the graduate level professional schools on the westside of downtown Baltimore. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] In 1970, the General Assembly of Maryland (state legislature) established a five-campus University of Maryland network comprising the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) (professional graduate level schools); University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) (between Arbutus and Catonsville in southwest Baltimore County ); University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) (flagship university); University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) (at Princess Anne in Somerset County ); and the University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) (extension and foreign programs) with a system-wide president located in College Park and a chancellor in charge of each campus; in 1988 this institution was merged with the State University and College System of Maryland (of former normal and state teachers colleges, now wider liberal arts schools since the 1960s) to form the new University System of Maryland . [ 16 ]

School of Dentistry Main article: University of Maryland School of Dentistry The University of Maryland School of Dentistry was the first dental school in the world. [ 3 ] Founded in 1840 as the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery (BCDS), it was chartered by an act of the Maryland General Assembly. Its principal founders were Drs. Horace H. Hayden and Chapin A. Harris. It was the first school in the world to offer a science-based curriculum in dentistry. [ 17 ] It currently ranks among top 10 in the nation to receive NIH research funding. The school moved to a new building in October 2006. The new building, located adjacent to the old one on Baltimore Street, offers some of the newest facilities and technologies in the world for education and patient care. The cost of construction and equipment was over US$140 million, the highest spent by the state of Maryland on an academic building.

Main article: University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law The University of Maryland School of Law opened in 1816 as the "Maryland Law Institute" "in a spacious and commodious building on South Street, near Market street." (later renamed East Baltimore Street) [ 18 ] It is the third-oldest law school in the nation. [ 19 ] It was founded by David Hoffman, who authored a comprehensive course of legal study that had a lasting influence on other law school programs around the country and led to the development of legal ethics programs and responsibilities. [ 20 ] The law school moved to a new building of English Tudor Revival architecture replacing its earlier modernistic structure on the same site at the northwest corner of West Baltimore and North Paca Streets in 2002, adjacent to the site to the north of the old Westminster Presbyterian Church and old Western Burying Grounds facing West Fayette and North Greene Streets (first laid out in 1787, on which the later church was built on top of resting on brick arched piers in 1852), the cemetery where the famous poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) is buried. It is the only law school in the United States with a famous author buried on its campus. The former restored church building, now known as Westminster Hall is used for campus events and lectures and is often requested for wedding and other social ceremonies. The University of Maryland School of Law was ranked 48th among law schools according to the 2017 edition of U.S. News & World Report law school rankings and was also ranked among the top 10 programs for health law, clinical law and environmental law. The School of Law's students' undergraduate median GPA is a 3.47 and median Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) score is a 158. It admits 52.4% of applicants. [ 21 ] The law school takes about 225 full-time day students and about 50 evening students per year.

[ 22 ] The current dean of the School of Law is Renée Hutchins, a leading expert on the Fourth Amendment and criminal appellate practice. [ 23 ]