The University of Baltimore was founded in 1925 as a private institution by civic
leaders who wanted to provide low-cost, part-time evening study in business and law
for working adults. Its first site was at the southeast corner of St. Paul and Mt.
Vernon Place.
The campus soon moved north to Howard St., and it later migrated further north in
midtown to its present location on Mt. Royal Ave. A Junior College opened in 1937,
joining the Schools of Business and Law, and evolved into a four-year Liberal Arts
College from 1959 to 1961.
In 1975, UBalt became a public institution and an upper-division university and began
eliminating its freshman and sophomore classes, inter-collegiate athletics and other
extracurricular activities such as the yearbook. In 1982, the business school became
the Robert G. Merrick School of Business and the liberal arts college became the Yale
Gordon College of Liberal Arts.
In 1988, UBalt fell under the governance of the Maryland Board of Regents, and became
a part of what is now known as the University System of Maryland. Lower-division students
returned in 2007 and the College of Public Affairs was established in 2010.