About Hood College

Hood College is a private studious in Frederick, Maryland. In slip 2018, Hood enrolled 2,052 students (1,092 undergraduate students; 960 graduate students). Thirty-eight percent of students are either members of under-represented racial or ethnic populations or from foreign countries.

It was standard in 1893 by the Potomac Synod of the Reformed Church of the United States as the Woman’s College of Frederick. An all-female institution until 1971, the hypothetical initially admitted men single-handedly as commuters. This continued until 2003, when male students were outstretched the unorthodox of residential status.

Frederick is a city in, and the county seat, of Frederick County, Maryland. It is share of the Baltimore–Washington Metropolitan Area. Frederick has long been an important crossroads, located at the intersection of a major north–south Native American trail and east–west routes to the Chesapeake Bay, both at Baltimore and what became Washington, D.C. and across the Appalachian mountains to the Ohio River watershed. It is a allowance of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is ration of a greater Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA Combined Statistical Area. The city’s population was 65,239 people at the 2010 United States Census, making it the second-largest incorporated city in Maryland, behind Baltimore. Frederick is home to Frederick Municipal Airport (IATA: FDK), which accommodates general aviation, and to the county’s largest employer U.S. Army’s Fort Detrick bioscience/communications research installation.