The University of Maryland Eastern Shore has a tradition of welcoming international students to the institution.
In the 1890-91 catalog of Morgan College, which oversaw then Delaware Conference Academy, four students with the surname Bean from Bermuda, West Indies, were listed as students enrolled at Princess Anne. Two who apparently were brothers — Washington I. and Edward H. — went on to become Methodist Episcopal ministers on the Delmarva Peninsula and are laid to rest next to each other at the John Wesley cemetery on the outskirts of Princess Anne.
In the early 20th century, another document from Morgan College in Baltimore, which oversaw its branch campus on the lower Eastern Shore, shows that a foreign student was enrolled in Princess Anne Academy.
Selenda Malinda Parker of Monrovia, Liberia, was among 16 named as June 1923 graduates from what also was referred to as “the Eastern Branch of the University of Maryland (Preparatory and Normal Courses).” Her theme listed in the graduation program for what was then a prep school was “Africa’s Need of an Industrial Education.”
A Feb. 25, 1905 newspaper article published in the Worcester (Md.) Democrat * reported that Dennis Mohona from (near Cape Town) South Africa enrolled in Princess Anne Academy the previous month, boosting the number of students to “164 pupils.”
Fifty-three nations are represented in the ranks of the faculty and 4,500-member student body at UMES during its 125th academic year.
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| Algeria | Gambia | Pakistan |
| Antigua | Germany | Philippines |
| Barbados | Ghana | Puerto Rico |
| Belarus | Guinea | Romania |
| Bolivia | Guyana | Russia |
| Bulgaria | Haiti | Senegal |
| Canada | Hungary | Sierra Leone |
| Central African Republic | India | Sri Lanka |
| Chad | Israel | Sudan |
| China | Jamaica | Tanzania |
| Colombia | Kenya | Togo |
| Congo | Korea | Trinidad & Tobago |
| Dominican Republic | Liberia | Uganda |
| Ecuador | Malawi | Ukraine |
| El Salvador | Mexico | Venezuela |
| England | Morocco | Yemen |
| Eritrea | New Zealand | Zambia |
| Ethiopia | Nigeria |
(*) – Library of Congress / Chronicling America database.
