Educational InstitutionsEducational Organization

University of Southern Maine

The University of Southern Maine (USM) is a public university with campuses in Gorham and Portland, Maine, United States. It is the southernmost university in the University of Maine System. It was founded as two separate state universities, Gorham Normal School and Portland University. The two universities, later known as Gorham State College and the University of Maine at Portland, were combined in 1970 to help streamline the public university system in Maine and eventually expanded by adding the Lewiston campus in 1988.

Identifiers

OPEID6 Six-digit base OPE ID (without the two-digit branch suffix)
2054
OPEID Office of Postsecondary Education Identifier, used for federal financial aid program participation
205400
IPEDS UNITID Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System identifier assigned by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
161554
DAPIP ID Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs identifier from the U.S. Department of Education
119711

Location

Portland, ME, 4103

43.662863, -70.274247

Accreditation

New England Commission on Higher Education

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