The Meyerhoff Scholars Program is a program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) designed to prepare minority students for academic careers in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines.
The program has served as a model for developing and supporting minority students pursuing academic careers.
In the program's first year, it admitted only male African American students; female African American students were admitted in the program's second year.
In 1997, the program opened to students of all races who were interested in supporting the advancement of minorities in academia,[2] following the 1995 U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling the Benjamin Banneker Scholarship Program, another UMBC scholarship which had been only open to African American students, unconstitutional.
[3] The Meyerhoff Scholars Program is noted for its success in increasing the representation of minority students in STEM.