The University of Southern Maine (often shortened to USM) is a multi-campus university component of the University of Maine System, with three campuses, in Portland, Gorham, and Lewiston-Auburn College in Lewiston.

Among the seven units of the University of Maine System, USM has the highest total number of enrolled students (without regard to full- or part-time status) at 11,382 as of the 2004-5 academic year with an average age of 28.3.

USM had its founding in Gorham in 1878, and up to 1968 was known as the University of Maine-Portland (or UMP) and also as the University of Maine at Portland-Gorham (Po-Go-U). USM is a major educational contributor in the overall growth and improvement of economic, civic, and cultural life in southern Maine. USM offers baccalaureate and master's degree programs as well as a doctoral degree in Public Policy.

Actor Tony Shalhoub graduated from USM in 1977.

External links

• http://www.usm.maine.edu/
• http://www.maine.edu/

Universities and colleges in Maine | Space-grant universities