Umbc Campus Bookstore

Admittedly, the prices of textbooks in the UMBC bookstore can be quite high. One may be better off shopping online and checking prices elsewhere. The exception to this is if used books are available, which drastically lowers the price charged by the bookstore. Of course, selection will depend on the professor's choice of reading material for the course. However, I have been pleasantly surprised time and again by the quality of the selection. The store is well organized and easy to navigate. It is also a good place to stop for emergency office supplies - but you'll pay lots for them! more

This is the on-campus bookstore of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. It is located in the main commons of the university and is a pretty good place to stop for your textbooks and last minute paper, pens, art supplies, etc. for class. They also have a lot of UMBC paraphenalia from sweatshirts and hats to shorts and towels. This is also a good place to look into buying computer products. I got my laptop through the school store, which allowed me a 10% educational discount. They sell Macs and PCs, ipods, accessories and software, usually at a little discounted price. The textbooks are good to buy here because they have all the ones that you need for any class (although looking up the books you need here and then finding them online for cheaper is usually the best way to save some money). Also, they have seemed to have gotten increasingly worse in terms of buyback. You make barely anything if you try to sell your books back here, unless you are lucky enough that your $150 textbook happened not to have gotten a new edition in the three months you are in class. Try to sell your books back online or through Bookholders in College Park if you can. more