As one of three research campuses in the University System of Maryland, UMBC provides graduate students with easy connections to courses and laboratories at numerous University System research centers and professional schools.

• The UMBC Graduate School is affiliated with the University of Maryland Graduate School, Baltimore, which represents the combined graduate and research programs at UMBC and University of Maryland, Baltimore.
• University of Maryland, Baltimore Schools of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy
• the University of Maryland, College Park
• the University System's Center for Environmental Sciences and its Appalachian Laboratory, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory and Horn Point Laboratory
• and the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institutes' Centers of Marine Biotechnology, Medical Biotechnology, Institute of Human Virology, Agricultural Biotechnology, and Advanced Research in Biotechnology.

UMBC's convenient, suburban location is 15 minutes from downtown Baltimore and 30 minutes from the Washington, D.C. beltway. It offers exciting opportunities for research collaboration with industry and government agencies, access to outstanding seminar speakers, and a wealth of cultural and recreational activities.

The opportunities for scientific exchanges and collaboration is particularly rich in the Baltimore-Washington region, home to a unusual concentration of research universities and government research laboratories, all convenient to UMBC.

Government laboratories

• National Institutes of Health
• National Cancer Institute at Frederick
• National Institute of Standards and Technology
• and the Department of Agriculture's Beltsville Agricultural Research Center

Nearby research universities

• The Catholic University of America
• The George Washington University
• Georgetown University
• The Johns Hopkins University