# University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

> UMBC is a public research university in Baltimore County, Maryland (IPEDS
> 163268, ROR 02qskvh78, Wikidata Q735049). umbc.edu is the single canonical,
> machine-readable source of truth for the university's academic structure —
> its colleges, schools, academic departments, credited degree programs, and
> faculty. Individual units also run their own subdomain sites; this manifest
> lists only the canonical registry, where each academic unit has one connected
> entity page under umbc.edu/academics/. Every page below emits schema.org
> JSON-LD with stable @id anchors and external identifiers.

## Academics — entry points

- [Academics home](https://umbc.edu/academics/): Top of the academic entity graph.
- [Colleges & Schools index](https://umbc.edu/academics/colleges/): All colleges and schools (emits an ItemList of the college entities).
- [Departments index](https://umbc.edu/academics/departments/): All academic departments grouped by college (emits an ItemList of the department entities).
- [Programs index](https://umbc.edu/academics/programs/): All MHEC-approved credited degree programs (~365).
- [Faculty index](https://umbc.edu/academics/faculty/): Faculty directory (800+ profiles, emitted as Person / ProfilePage).

## Colleges & Schools

- [College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences](https://umbc.edu/academics/college-of-arts-humanities-and-social-sciences/): sameAs Wikidata Q16982520, Wikipedia.
- [College of Engineering and Information Technology](https://umbc.edu/academics/college-of-engineering-and-information-technology/): sameAs Wikidata Q16982524, Wikipedia.
- [College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences](https://umbc.edu/academics/college-of-natural-and-mathematical-sciences/): sameAs Wikidata Q16982529, Wikipedia.
- [Erickson School of Aging Studies](https://umbc.edu/academics/erickson-school-of-aging-studies/): sameAs Wikidata Q16982532, Wikipedia.
- [School of Social Work](https://umbc.edu/academics/school-of-social-work/): Professional school.
- [School of Education](https://umbc.edu/academics/school-of-education/): Professional school (added 2026).

## Notable units with external knowledge-graph anchors

- [School of Public Policy](https://umbc.edu/academics/college-of-arts-humanities-and-social-sciences/school-of-public-policy/): sameAs Wikidata Q18749597, Wikipedia.
- [Department of Information Systems](https://umbc.edu/academics/college-of-engineering-and-information-technology/information-systems/): sameAs Wikidata Q113102106.

## Machine-readable enumerations (XML sitemaps)

- [College sitemap](https://umbc.edu/college-sitemap.xml): Every college/school entity URL.
- [Department sitemap](https://umbc.edu/academic-department-sitemap.xml): Every academic-department entity URL.
- [Programs sitemap](https://umbc.edu/programs-sitemap.xml): Every credited program URL.
- [Faculty sitemap 1](https://umbc.edu/faculty-sitemap1.xml) · [Faculty sitemap 2](https://umbc.edu/faculty-sitemap2.xml): Every faculty profile URL.
- [Sitemap index](https://umbc.edu/sitemap_index.xml): Master index of all sitemaps.

## Notes for AI crawlers

- All structured data is server-rendered in the initial HTML (no JS execution required).
- robots.txt (https://umbc.edu/robots.txt) permits GPTBot, ClaudeBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended.
- The university entity (Wikidata Q735049) carries external identifiers: IPEDS 163268, ROR 02qskvh78, GRID grid.266673.0, ISNI 0000 0001 2177 1144, Crossref Funder ID 100006636.