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The Office of Institutional Research (OIR) is responsible for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data about the College in support of internal decision-making and planning. The office also complies with requests from external agencies. The OIR has one full-time employee, an assistant director, and reports directly to the assistant vice president for academic administration. If you need information that is not contained on this page, please contact Elizabeth Clune, our assistant director of institutional research.

College Facts (2008-2009)

Colors: Royal Blue, Yellow Gold, and White

Mascot: Seahawk

Accreditation: St. Mary’s College is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. The Carnegie Foundation Classification for the College is “Baccalaureate – Arts and Sciences.” SMCM was awarded a Phi Beta Kappa chapter in the fall of 1997.

Typical annual costs: for 2008-2009 for a full-time student living on campus with room and board: $21,829 (Maryland residents) and $32,679 (out-of-state students).

Student organizations in Fall 2008: 110 campus clubs and organizations and 8 national honorary societies (including a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa).

Athletic teams: NCAA Division III teams: Baseball (Men only), Basketball, Field Hockey (Women only), Lacrosse, Soccer, Tennis, Swimming, and Volleyball (women only). In addition, the nationally ranked SMCM Varsity Sailing Team competes in ICSA sponsored events.

Campus:

• Mainly residential with 85% of full-time students living on campus.
• St. Mary’s occupies 47 buildings on a 319-acre campus on the St. Mary’s River.
• The College’s facilities include:
  • a multi-purpose fine arts center
  • a campus community center
  • campus residences
  • an auditorium
  • an NCAA-qualifying swimming pool
  • an outdoor track
  • six tennis courts
  • two gymnasiums
  • a variety of sailboats and other water craft
  • a riverfront boathouse and dock

Student Data:

• As of Fall 2008, the college had 1991 full-time students and 74 part-time.
• The Average SAT scores of full-time, first-year students was 1230, average high school GPA = 3.5.
• Forty-one countries and 40 states are represented among the students.
• Student/Faculty ratio in Fall 2007: 12/1

  Note: The student/faculty ratio is calculated according to the formula used widely in publications such as U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges. It is a ratio of full-time equivalent students (full-time students + one-third of the part-time students) to full-time equivalent faculty (full-time faculty + one-third of the part-time faculty).
  

Additional Study Programs:

• Study abroad
• National Student Exchange
• Teacher education
• Internships
• Cross-disciplinary programs (African and African Diaspora Studies; East Asian Studies; Environmental Studies; the Neurosciences; and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)