Peer Institutions

UMB maintains a group of peer institutions to benchmark academic programs and inform state funding and performance comparisons. Because UMB’s mix of professional schools is unique among public academic health centers, peer institutions are selected based on comparable program offerings across key disciplines.

Peer groups have evolved over time. In 1999, five public institutions were selected as peers for funding and performance comparisons, with three additional universities added for law school benchmarking. In 2014, the Maryland Higher Education Commission designated 21 public institutions as peers for state funding comparisons, and in 2015 UMB selected 10 of these institutions as performance peers for more focused benchmarking.

Institution	State	IPEDS ID	Medicine	Dentistry	Pharmacy	Nursing	Social Work	Law
University of Maryland, Baltimore	MD	163259	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
The Ohio State University	OH	204796	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
University at Buffalo, SUNY	NY	196088	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
University of California, Los Angeles	CA	110662	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No^a	Yes
University of California, San Francisco	CA	110699	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^b	No	No
University of Cincinnati	OH	201885	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	MN	174066	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No^c	Yes
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	NC	199120	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
University of Pittsburgh	PA	215293	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
University of Virginia	VA	234076	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
University of Washington, Seattle	WA	236948	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

a UCLA Department of Social Welfare is within Luskin School of Public Affairs.

b The UCSF School of Nursingcurrently does not have an undergraduate BSN program.

c University of Minnesota, Twin Cities MSW program is within College of Education and Human Development.

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Institution	State	IPEDS ID	Medicine	Dentistry	Pharmacy	Nursing	Social Work	Law
Northeast Ohio Medical University	OH	204777	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No
Pennsylvania State University, Hershey Medical Center	PA	214616	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
State University of New York at Stony Brook	NY	196088	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center (Brooklyn)	NY	196255	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No
State University of New York Upstate Medical University (Syracuse)	NY	196307	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No
University of California, Davis	CA	110644	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes
University of California, Irvine	CA	110653	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes
University of California, San Diego	CA	110680	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No
University of Massachusetts Medical School (Worcester)	MA	166708	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey ^d	NJ	187222	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Virginia Commonwealth University	VA	234030	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

d In July 2013, most schools and units of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey transferred to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and are now part of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences.

Peer Institution	Medicine	Dentistry	Pharmacy	Nursing	Social Work	Law
U. of Maryland, Baltimore	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
U. of Alabama at Birmingham	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
U. of California, San Francisco	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes*	No	No
U. of Illinois at Chicago	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Additional institutions used for law comparisons:

Note: *The UCSF School of Nursing currently does not have an undergraduate BSN program.

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