2009 Performance Accountability Report Vol. 2 - Maryland Higher ...

UMB budget. The campus has been very aggressive and successful in its ability to attract
additional grants and contracts.
Revenues from grants and contracts and tuition and fees will not be enough to address the
campus’ fiscal imperatives, however. UMB has a relatively small student body and cannot meet
fiscal obligations through increased tuition revenue. Meeting the obligations using other revenue
sources will be limited because grants and contracts are variable and are restricted in nature and
cannot be used to address the basic funding needs of the campus. As mentioned previously, the
funding guidelines have recognized the funding needs of the campus and are expected to provide
additional State general funds in the future.
2009 PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT:
Goal 1 – Evolve and maintain competitive edge as a center of excellence in the life and
health sciences, law and social work and as a campus of professions committed to
addressing complex social issues at local, state, and international levels.
Objective 1.1 – By fiscal year 2010 demonstrate the quality and preeminence of all UMB
professional schools by achieving Top 10 status among public schools.
In fiscal year 2005, with more than $10 million in total awards, the UMB dental school achieved
the rank of 4 th in research-based awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), below only
the University of California San Francisco, the University of Michigan, and the University of
Washington. Only about $6 million of NIH funding was awarded to UMB in fiscal year 2007,
resulting in a rank of 11 th . The ranking of 13 th for fiscal year 2008 based on $6.3 million of NIH
funding should increase in the future as after 36 years in a rapidly aging building, the UMB
Dental School has relocated into a brand new $142 million, 375,000 square foot state of the art
facility. Rankings for fiscal year 2009 will not be available until winter 2010.
A similar ranking based on funding received by the UMB School of Medicine from the NIH is
now being used in preference to a ranking available through the Association of American
Medical Colleges that was not updated on a timely basis. Among public medical schools, UMB
maintained the rank of 15 th for fiscal year 2008, based on $128.8 million of NIH funding.
Rankings for fiscal year 2009 will not be available until winter 2010.
US News and World Report updated all nine law specialty rankings for 2009. The UMB School
of Law’s environmental law ranking improved from 8 th to 6 th and the health law ranking returned
to 2 nd from 3 rd . With a clinical ranking of 8 th UMB continues to have three law specialty
programs ranked in the top ten.
US News did not update nursing rankings for 2009. In 2007, the UMB nursing master’s
program ranked 7 th , up from 10 th when last ranked in 2003. One fewer specialty program was
ranked in the top ten compared to 2003. Rankings for pharmacy and social work were not
updated for 2009. In 2008, the UMB School of Pharmacy was tied with five other schools for
the rank of 9 th . Rankings are based solely on the average of these assessment scores obtained
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