Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich joined education leaders and government officials from around Maryland recently to help dedicate the fourth academic building of The Universities at Shady Grove (USG)—a $175 million, state-of-the-art Biomedical Sciences and Engineering (BSE) education facility.
USG is a regional campus of the University System of Maryland that offers degree programs from nine different Maryland public universities. It offers approximately 80 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, all on one campus in Rockville. Students who attend USG pursue and earn their degrees directly from the partner universities that offer the programs on the campus.
The BSE is a six-level, 220,000-square-foot facility that doubles the footprint of the campus. It will enable USG to increase enrollment from its current 3,000-plus students to more than 7,500, over the next several years.
The new BSE building will provide USG with the opportunity to expand educational offerings and degrees in the STEM fields, including new programs from University of Maryland-Baltimore County in life sciences, cybersecurity and engineering; from the University of Maryland-College Park, including the Clark School of Engineering; and from the School of Dentistry at the University of Maryland-Baltimore.
One of the unique features of the BSE will be a community dental clinic operated by the School of Dentistry. Equipped with 24 operatory stations, the clinic will provide comprehensive dental care to community patients. Patient care will be provided by faculty-supervised dental students and dental hygiene students.
More information about the new BSE building at USG is available here.
