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Best Education Colleges in Maryland
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This ranking scores 20 institutions on graduation rates, graduate earnings, debt burdens, and social mobility data from Opportunity Insights. Every data point comes from federal sources. No surveys, no opinions.
Social mobility carries the heaviest weight in our algorithm. We use Raj Chetty's Mobility Report Card — built on 30 million anonymized tax records — to measure whether a college changes a family's economic trajectory across generations. Schools that take low-income students and launch them into higher earnings rank higher than schools that admit wealthy students and take credit for their success.
The transparency penalty matters here. Schools that don't report their data get scored lower than schools that do. If an institution won't show you its numbers, we think you should know that before you write them a tuition check.
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Education programs in Maryland ranked by outcomes and program concentration
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Each dot is a ranked school. Up = higher earnings. Right = higher cost. Top-left is the best value.
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Longer bars = higher graduation rate.
Top 3
Loyola University Maryland
Baltimore, MD
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Mount St. Mary's University
Emmitsburg, MD
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Carroll Community College
Westminster, MD
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Loyola University Maryland
Baltimore, MD · 3,869 students · Private nonprofit
Mount St. Mary's University
Emmitsburg, MD · 1,768 students · Private nonprofit
Carroll Community College
Westminster, MD · 1,990 students · Public
Cecil College
North East, MD · 1,363 students · Public
Towson University
Towson, MD · 16,136 students · Public
Goucher College
Baltimore, MD · 964 students · Private nonprofit
Hood College
Frederick, MD · 1,194 students · Private nonprofit
Harford Community College
Bel Air, MD · 3,696 students · Public
Anne Arundel Community College
Arnold, MD · 8,997 students · Public
Washington Adventist University
Takoma Park, MD · 452 students · Private nonprofit
McDaniel College
Westminster, MD · 1,617 students · Private nonprofit
Stevenson University
Owings Mills, MD · 3,102 students · Private nonprofit
Garrett College
McHenry, MD · 411 students · Public
Wor-Wic Community College
Salisbury, MD · 2,169 students · Public
Salisbury University
Salisbury, MD · 6,057 students · Public
Frostburg State University
Frostburg, MD · 2,909 students · Public
Bowie State University
Bowie, MD · 5,043 students · Public
Morgan State University
Baltimore, MD · 9,019 students · Public
Coppin State University
Baltimore, MD · 1,844 students · Public
Chesapeake College
Wye Mills, MD · 1,320 students · Public
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David Krug
Co-Founder, CollegeRanker
David Krug is the co-founder of CollegeRanker and a data systems architect focused on making institutional research accessible to families. He builds the data pipelines and ranking algorithms that power CollegeRanker, drawing from federal datasets and Raj Chetty's Opportunity Insights research to measure what traditional rankings ignore: whether a college actually changes a family's economic trajectory.
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