What is PROMISE?

PROMISE is Maryland's Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate. It is a multi-campus AGEP (pronounced "A-GEP"),
an alliance of the three public research universities in Maryland:

• University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
• University of Maryland College Park (UMCP)
• University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB)

Led by UMBC, PROMISE: Maryland's AGEP is dedicated to the increasing the number and diversity of Ph.D. graduates,
particularly in the sciences and engineering who go on to academic careers

Broadly, students can participate in PROMISE regardless of their status (full-time, part-time), ethnicity, discipline,
or source of funding. Narrowly, students who are underrepresented will be strongly supported as they utilize the services and resources of PROMISE;
these students can be encouraged to consider PROMISE to be one of their major mechanisms of support.