Navigate Bowie State University's main campus in Bowie, Maryland including academic buildings, administrative offices, student services, and parking zones. Use the interactive campus map to find a specific room or department, plan your walking route between buildings, or orient yourself before your first day on campus. This is the live campus map built on Mappedin and used by BSU students, faculty, staff, and visitors.

About Bowie State University

Bowie State University is a public HBCU (Historically Black College or University) located in Bowie, Maryland, in Prince George's County, approximately 20 miles northeast of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1865, BSU is one of the oldest HBCUs in the United States and the oldest in Maryland, with an enrollment of approximately 6,000 students across undergraduate and graduate programs.

The campus spans several hundred acres and includes academic colleges covering arts and sciences, business, education, and professional studies, alongside a full suite of residential, athletic, recreational, and student life facilities. For a campus this size, navigation is a recurring friction point, particularly for incoming students, families visiting during orientation, prospective students on campus tours, and alumni returning for events.

Bowie State partnered with Mappedin to deploy an interactive campus map that gives every member of the BSU community—students, faculty, staff, and visitors—accurate, real-time building-level navigation.

"We approached Mappedin with a veritable laundry list of requirements and I’m happy to state that they met and exceeded our expectations. As a result, our faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends are all better equipped to navigate our beautiful campus with ease.”

— Maurice A. Tyler, Vice President for IT and CIO, Bowie State University

The BSU map covers indoor and outdoor campus spaces, with room-level detail for key buildings and category-based search for services including the library, health center, dining, and administrative offices.

Why interactive wayfinding matters here

University campuses deal with high-turnover wayfinding challenges that static printed maps can't solve: new student cohorts every semester, orientation days with thousands of first-time visitors, ADA routing requirements, and buildings that reorganize departments without notice.

A live campus map that any administrator can update from a CMS (without a developer or a print run) solves all of these at once. Institutions like Bowie State, Seneca College, and Mohawk College use Mappedin to reduce orientation friction and ensure accessible routes are always current. If your campus is still running on PDFs and printed directories, the gap is costing you.