![]() USG's innovative and pioneering partnership approach to higher education is designed to connect local college students to outstanding career opportunities, while providing regional employers with a highly educated, skilled workforce. The professors, curriculum, and degree are provided by the home university (it does not say USG on your diploma!), but students at the USG campus benefit from small class sizes, increased scholarship opportunities, and an array of customized on-site services and student life - leading to a more personalized, cost-effective, and time-saving path to degree completion. ![]() Students apply directly to the university offering their chosen major, and on the application, they simply select USG as their preferred campus location. Established in 2000, The Universities at Shady Grove (USG) offers select degree programs from nine public Maryland universities on one convenient campus in Montgomery County. Shabbat ends each week with a beautiful seudah shelishit that includes singing and divrei Torah. Every Shabbat afternoon many of the Orthodox students congregate on the Quad, one of the large grassy areas on campus. Additionally, OU-JLIC educators host small groups of students in their homes for Shabbat and yom tov meals. Some students eat Shabbat lunch in their suites and off-campus apartments. After minyan there is a weekly kiddush, followed by lunch at Hillel. There are 160-190 students who daven in the Shabbat morning minyan. Many students (225-275) choose to eat Shabbat dinner with friends in their respective suites. The Orthodox Minyan on Friday night has 270-330 people and 250-300 students eat Friday night dinner at the Hillel. The learning continues over Shabbat with “Ten Minute Torah” before kiddush on Shabbat, a pre-Mincha parshah shiur, and a chaburah during seudah shelishit. A Gemara Iyun Shiur, Rav Kook Chaburah, Mishmar, and Girls’ Cholent and Chill all take place on Thursdays. ![]() Students enjoy Pizza and Parshah on Tuesdays and chaburot in Chassidut and medical ethics on Wednesdays. On Mondays there is a BBQ&A, a barbeque and open Q&A with the OU-JLIC Torah Educators, and a Women’s Nesivos Shalom Chaburah. The week kicks off on Sunday with a Cereal Chaburah following minyan and a morning Starbucks Chaburah. OU-JLIC’s line-up of diverse weekly learning creates learning opportunities for students each day of the week. Freshmen are sent welcome packages and invited to special freshmen events like an ice cream social and sushi making. OU-JLIC offers many programs and events for chagim, such as movie nights, BBQs, Chanukah Deep Fried Everything, Challah Baking and the Women’s Rosh Chodesh events. OU-JLIC at Hillel works closely with Kedma, the Orthodox student organization, to ensure that Orthodox life is rich and accessible. Apartments with kosher kitchens are often passed down from student to student. Maryland Hillel offers a free roommate matching service that pairs Jewish students. Practicing Jews have made their impact on the university at large: residence accommodations are made for Shabbat and holiday observance as are extensions and rescheduling of exams. At the University of Maryland there are currently over 500 students who attended Modern or Centrist Orthodox day schools, and 270-330 students who spent a year in an Orthodox gap year program in Israel. The Orthodox Jewish community at Maryland is one of the largest collegiate communities in the US. There are over 5,000 Jews on the University of Maryland Campus. University of Maryland-College Park, a public research university located approximately eight miles from Washington DC, has an enrollment of 28,400 undergraduate students.
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