UNIVERSITY OF MAINE
• Founded in 1865. • Ranked in the top 15% of America’s Colleges by Forbes Magazine. • Enrollment: 11,168; 8,911 undergraduate (fall 2011). • More than 90 majors and academic programs. • Maine’s only Division I athletics program. • Students from 44 U.S. states and territories, and 84 countries (fall 2011). • More than 200 student clubs and organizations. • 15:1 student-faculty ratio. • Median undergraduate class size: 19. • The student retention from first to second year is 78 percent, with majors in the Maine Business School, the College of Engineering and the College of Education and Human Development reaching roughly 83 percent. • For Maine residents, annual tuition, fees, room and board cost about $19,500, and for nonresidents, about $35,250 in 2011-12. 4 • www.GoBlackBears.com
• UMaine, sited on 660 acres on Marsh Island, consists of 37 academic buildings, 30 administrative buildings, 18 residence halls, 18 specific laboratory facilities, 14 Greek life houses, 4 dining facilities and 10 sports facilities. • The University of Maine has five research farms in the state — Aroostook Farm in Presque Isle; Blueberry Hill Farm in Jonesboro; Rogers Farm in Stillwater; Highmoor Farm in Monmouth; and J.F. Witter Teaching and Research Center in Old Town — and a marine sciences research facility, the Darling Marine Center in Walpole, Maine. • University of Maine Cooperative Extension has 16 offices serving all Maine counties and the UMaine campus; operates four Marine Extension Team facilities in partnership with Maine Sea Grant; and operates three 4-H camps. • UMaine’s campus was designed by legendary landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, who also designed Central Park in New York City and the White House grounds in Washington, D.C. • In 2003, the entire UMaine campus was designated as an arboretum. • There are 15 miles of running, biking and cross-country skiing trails on campus.