University of Maine

The University of Maine is the flagship public land-grant university of Maine, in Orono. It was founded in 1865 as the Maine State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts under the Morrill Act and took the University of Maine name in 1897. It is also a sea-grant and space-grant institution. The campus covers about 660 acres along the Stillwater River, a branch of the Penobscot.

Colleges include engineering, liberal arts and sciences, education and human development, natural sciences, forestry and agriculture, and business. Graduate-facing research units include the Climate Change Institute, the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, and the Darling Marine Center on the coast. Forestry, marine sciences, climate history, and engineering are the fields most associated with Orono.

Enrollment is about 11,000 students, with graduate students a minority of that total. International enrollment is a smaller share than at many coastal private universities. Faculty number about 700. Alumni include writer Stephen King and generations of Maine engineers, foresters, and public officials.

Graduate study includes research master's and Ph.D. degrees and some professional master's programs. Doctoral work is supervisor-led in laboratories and field stations. The calendar is semesters, with a long winter. Assistantships and research grants are the main support for thesis students. Orono is a small college town next to Bangor; graduate life is campus-centered, with marine and forestry fieldwork pulling students to the coast and the North Woods.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Maine lists 1 doctoral program, in computer science.