text: , College Park belongs to Maryland's 4th congressional district.
  City-student politics
  University of Maryland students make up about 55% of the population of College Park, but their involvement in the city government is limited. Their turnout in city elections varies between 2% and 15%, compared to the 40% average of the rest of the College Park residents. There are efforts to increase this participation both from the university’s student liaison to the council and council members themselves.
  Students living within the city are eligible to run for city elections and in 2009 Marcus Afzali, a 24-year-old doctoral student in the Department of Government and Politics, was elected to the city council.
  Education
  Colleges and universities
  The University of Maryland, College Park, the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland, is located within the College Park city limits. With over 40,000 enrolled students, it is also the largest campus-based university in both the state and the Washington metropolitan area.
  The headquarters for the University of Maryland Global Campus, the largest online public university in the U.S., are located in Adelphi, MD, right next to the University of Maryland College Park campus. UMGC is the second largest employer in College Park.
  Primary and secondary schools