St. Mary’s College of Maryland has been recognized as a 2020 Tree Campus Higher Education institution by the Arbor Day Foundation. Tree Campus Higher Education, a national program launched in 2008 by the Arbor Day Foundation, honors colleges and universities and their leaders for promoting healthy trees and engaging students and staff in the spirit of conservation.

For the past 16 years, Washington Monthly College Guide has ranked colleges “based on what they do for the country.” In the rankings recently released, St. Mary’s College of Maryland is ranked 30 among the top Liberal Arts Colleges in the United States.  

St. Mary’s College of Maryland, the National Public Honors College, is ranked as the 6^th best public liberal arts college in the nation in U.S. News & World Report’s “2022 Best Colleges,” released Monday, Sept. 13.

St. Mary’s College of Maryland is one of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduates to earn their college degree, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company profiles and recommends St.

St. Mary’s College of Maryland alumna and adjunct instructor Rie Moore ’19 was recently awarded a Creativity Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) for her project titled "Decaying." The funding will cover expenses associated with creating a prerecorded audio-visual program for piano and violin on the theme of finding beauty in what is decaying.

St. Mary’s College of Maryland is one of the Best Colleges in Maryland according to Niche.com. St. Mary’s College ranks #6 out of the top 10 ranked for Niche’s 2022 list.

Among other rankings, Niche also ranks St. Mary’s College:

Jeffrey Lamar Coleman, professor of English, published "Singing Is Swinging: The Soul Force of Twentieth Century Black Protest Music" in "The Black Intellectual Tradition: African American Thought in the Twentieth Century" (University of Illinois Press, 2021). The book presents essays on the diverse thought behind the fight for racial justice as developed by African American artists and intellectuals, performers and protest activists, institutions and organizations, and educators and religious leaders.

Andrew Cognard-Black, Pandion halieatus Professor of Sociology, is the lead author of a research article in the new issue of the Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council.

India Oates '21 was awarded a $509 Mamie Phipps Clark Research Grant from Psi Chi over the summer of 2021. The award "highlights research projects by Psi Chi students and faculty advisors focusing on diverse populations and issues." Her project, "Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Individuals’ Dehumanizing Beliefs and Experiences" was originally conceived and developed though directed research with Assistant Professor of Psychology Kristina Howansky in the spring 2021 semester.

An article authored by Associate Professor and Chair Kelly Y. Neiles (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) and Professor Katy Arnett (Department of Educational Studies) has been published in the Journal of Chemical Education and selected to be part of the American Chemistry Society’s Editor’s Choice Program.