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| Motto | Prodesse Quam Conspici (Latin) |
|---|---|
Motto in English | "To accomplish without being conspicuous"[1] |
| Type | Publicresearch university |
| Established | February 2, 1809; 216 years ago (1809-02-02) |
Parent institution | University System of Ohio |
| Accreditation | HLC |
Academic affiliations | |
| Endowment | $813.3 million (FY2024)[2] |
| President | Gregory Crawford[3] |
| Provost | Elizabeth Mullenix[4] |
Academic staff | 1,106 (fall 2023)[5] |
| Students | 18,618 (fall 2023)[5] |
| Undergraduates | 16,478 (fall 2023)[5] |
| Postgraduates | 2,140 (fall 2023)[5] |
| Location | , United States 39°30′43″N84°44′05″W / 39.511905°N 84.734674°W /39.511905; -84.734674 |
| Campus | Fringe town[6], 2,138 acres (8.65 km2) |
| Other campuses | |
| Newspaper | The Miami Student |
| Colors | Red and white[7][8] |
| Nickname | RedHawks |
Sporting affiliations | |
| Mascot | Swoop the RedHawk |
| Website | miamioh |
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Miami University (informallyMiami of Ohio or simplyMiami) is apublicresearch university inOxford, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1809, it is the second-oldestuniversity in Ohio and the tenth-oldest public university in the United States.[9] It is named for its location near theMiami Valley, in turn named after theMiami people. The university enrolls over 18,000 students in Oxford and also hasregional campuses in nearbyHamilton,Middletown, andWest Chester. Miami also operates the internationalDolibois European Center inDifferdange, Luxembourg.
Miami University provides aliberal arts education with an emphasis onundergraduate studies. It consists of seven colleges and schools, including the College of Arts and Science;Farmer School of Business; College of Creative Arts; College of Education, Health and Society; and College of Engineering and Computing. The campus also includes theRichard and Carole Cocks Art Museum,Karl Limper Geology Museum, andWilliam H. McGuffey House. Miami is a member of theUniversity System of Ohio and isclassified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".[10][11]
Miami University has a long tradition ofGreek life; it is known as the "Mother of Fraternities" for the five Greek-letter organizations founded on its campus, and approximately one-third of undergraduates participate in the Greek community. Miami's athletic teams compete in theNCAA Division I and are collectively known as theMiami RedHawks. They compete in theMid-American Conference in all varsity sports exceptice hockey, which competes in theNational Collegiate Hockey Conference. The university is also known as the "Cradle of Coaches" due to several prominent NCAA and professional sports coaches having started their careers at the school.
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The foundations for Miami University were first laid byan Act of Congress signed by PresidentGeorge Washington, stating an academy should be northwest of theOhio River in theMiami Valley.[12] The land was to be within theSymmes Purchase; landownerJohn Cleves Symmes purchased it from the government with the stipulation that he set aside land for an academy.[13] Two days after Ohio achieved statehood in 1803, Congress granted one township to theOhio General Assembly to build a college.[13] Because all the townships within the Symmes Purchase had already been platted by that time, the General Assembly selected a township along Four Mile Creek in theCongress Lands West of Miami River during the summer of 1803.[13] On February 2, 1809, the state legislature passed "An Act to Establish the Miami University", formally creating a board of trustees.[13]Oxford, Ohio, was platted within theCollege Township in 1810.[14]
The university temporarily halted construction due to theWar of 1812.[13]Cincinnati tried—and failed—to move Miami to the city in 1822.[13] Miami created agrammar school in 1818 to teach frontier youth, but it was disbanded after five years.[13] Though financed by means of a government land grant, Miami University initially was inaugurated and operated byPresbyterians, with explicit legislative encouragement for religious education having been enshrined in theNorthwest Ordinance.[15]Robert Hamilton Bishop, a Presbyterian minister and professor of history, was appointed to be the first president of Miami University in 1824, stating in his inaugural speech that all teaching at Miami University should be based in theBible.[13][16]
The first day of classes at Miami was on November 1, 1824.[13] At its opening, there were 20 students and two faculty members in addition to Bishop.[13] The curriculum includedGreek,Latin,algebra,geography, andRoman history; the university offered only aBachelor of Arts. An "English Scientific Department" was started in 1825, which studied modern languages,applied mathematics, andpolitical economy. It offered a certificate upon completion of coursework instead of a diploma.[13] The school provided public prayers twice a day and required all students to partake in a public worship every Sunday.[17]
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Miami students purchased aprinting press and in 1827 published their first periodical,The Literary Focus. It promptly failed, but it laid the foundation for the weeklyLiterary Register.The Miami Student, founded in 1867, traces its foundation back to theLiterary Register and claims to be the oldest college newspaper in the United States.[13] A theological department and a farmer's college were formed in 1829; the farmer's college was not anagricultural school, but a three-year education program for farm boys.William Holmes McGuffey joined the faculty in 1826 and began his work on theMcGuffey Readers while in Oxford.[13] By 1834 the faculty had grown to seven professors and enrollment was at 234 students.[13] Eleven students were expelled in 1835, including one for firing a pistol at another student. McGuffey resigned and became president ofCincinnati College, where he urged parents not to send their children to Miami.[13]
Alpha Delta Phi opened its chapter at Miami in 1833, making it the firstfraternity chapter west of theAllegheny Mountains. In 1839,Beta Theta Pi was created; it was the first fraternity formed at Miami.[13]
In 1839 Old Miami reached its enrollment peak, with 250 students from 13 states; onlyHarvard,Yale, andDartmouth were larger.[13] President Bishop was forced to resign by the board of trustees in 1840 due to the failure of his appeals for unity in face of theOld School–New School controversy, which had caused factions to rise against each other trying to take over the university's administration. Old School adherents won out by focusing on hisanti-slavery beliefs, lenient disciplinary methods, and an agreement he had struck with the New SchoolLane Seminary, allowing students of both institutions to learn at the other. He was replaced as president byGeorge Junkin, former president ofLafayette College, a strict Old School adherent with strong anti-Methodist andpro-slavery[18] views; Junkin resigned in 1844, having proved to be unpopular with students.[19][13] By 1847, enrollment had fallen to 137 students.
Students in 1848 participated in the "Snowball Rebellion". Defying the faculty's stance against fraternities, students packed Old Main, one of Miami's main classrooms and administrative buildings, with snow and reinforced the snow with chairs, benches and desks from the classroom.[13] Those who had participated in the rebellion were expelled from the school and Miami's student population was more than halved. By 1873, enrollment fell further to 87 students. The board of trustees closed the school in 1873 and leased the campus for a grammar school.[13] The period before its closing is referred to as "Old Miami".[13]
The university reopened in 1885, having paid all of its debts and repaired many of its buildings; there were 40 students in its first year. Enrollment remained under 100 students throughout the late 1800s. Miami focused on aspects outside of the classics, includingbotany,physics, andgeology departments.[13] With its reopening a change in religious policy occurred, the school no longer required faculty to be ordained Presbyterian ministers.[20] In 1888, Miami began inter-collegiate football play in a game against the University of Cincinnati.[13] By the early 1900s, the state of Ohio pledged regular financial support for Miami University and enrollment reached 207 students in 1902. The Ohio General Assembly passed the Sesse Bill in 1902, which mandatedcoeducation for all Ohio public schools. Miami lacked the rooms to fit all of the students expected the next year, and Miami made an arrangement with theOxford College for Women to rent rooms. In the same year, David McDill became Miami's first non-Presbyterian president, stressing its non-denominational, but Christian nature during his inauguration. By 1905 faculty personnel belonging to Presbyterian churches constituted 13 out of 27 positions, still a relative but no longer an absolute majority.[21]
In 1902, the Ohio legislature also authorized the establishment of the Ohio State Normal School "to provide proper theoretical and practical training for all students desiring to prepare themselves for the work of teaching." The normal school was Miami's first professional college and would evolve into the College of Education, Health, and Society. Miami's firstAfrican-American student, Nelly Craig, graduated from the Ohio State Normal School in 1905.[12] Hepburn Hall, built in 1905, was the first women's dorm at the college. By 1907, the enrollment at the university passed 700 students and women made up about a third of the student body.[13]Andrew Carnegie pledged $40,000 to help build a newlibrary for the university.[13] The McGuffey Laboratory School opened in 1910 and was soon housed with the teacher preparation students in the newMcGuffey Hall, completed in 1917 and named to honor former professor William Holmes McGuffey.
Enrollment in 1923 was at 1,500 students and had reached 2,200 students by the early 1930s. In 1928, Miami founded the School of Business Administration and acquired the Oxford College for Women.[13] The next year, the School of Fine Arts was established. The conservative environment found on campus called for little change during the problems of theGreat Depression and only about 10 percent of students in the 1930s were on government subsidies.[13] DuringWorld War II, Miami changed its curriculum to include "war emergency courses", a Navy Training School took up residence on campus, and the population of the university consisted of a majority of women.[13] Due to theG.I. Bill, enrollment at Miami had grown to 5,000 by 1952.[13]
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In 1954, Miami created a common curriculum for all students to complete to have a base for their other subjects. By 1964, enrollment reached nearly 15,000.[13] To accommodate the growing number of students, Miami University opened its first regional campuses atMiami University Middletown in 1966 andMiami University Hamilton in 1968.[13] TheDolibois European Center was also established in 1968 inLuxembourg City, which would move toDifferdange Castle in 1997; it is home to astudy abroad program where students live with Luxembourgish host families and study under Miami professors.[13]
On April 15, 1970, a student sit-in atRowan Hall, home of Miami'sNaval ROTC program, in opposition to theVietnam War resulted in 176 students being arrested.[22]Edgar W. King Library was completed in 1972. In 1974, theWestern College for Women in Oxford was sold to Miami, and PresidentPhillip Shriver oversaw the creation of an interdisciplinary studies college known as theWestern College Program.[13][23]
Responding to theMiami Tribe of Oklahoma, trustees changed the athletic teams nickname from the "Redskins" to the "RedHawks" in 1997.[24] The School of Engineering and Applied Science was created in 1999.[24] In 2009, theU.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring Miami University for its 200th anniversary.[25] In the same year, theFarmer School of Business building was completed on the East Quad and theMiami University Voice of America Learning Center opened inWest Chester, Ohio.[26] In 2014, the Armstrong Student Center was completed to replace theShriver Center, which was repurposed. All campuses were closed in March 2020 due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, reopening partially that fall. Miami established the Honors College, its firstresidential college, the following year.[27] The Clinical Health Sciences and Wellness Facility opened in 2023 to combine clinical and academic health departments and services.[28] The McVey Data Science building opened in 2024,[29] funded by alumnusRichard McVey to house departments in computer science, statistics and analytics.[30]
Miami University's main campus is inOxford, Ohio, acollege town in theMiami Valley about 30 miles (48 km) northwest ofCincinnati and 35 miles (56 km) southwest ofDayton. Over 70% of Oxford's residents are enrolled in college or graduate school.[31] Campus development began in 1818 with Franklin Hall, followed byElliott Hall in 1825, which remains the university's oldest standing building and residence hall.[13][32] The campus is noted for itsGeorgian Revival architecture and picturesque layout, described by poetRobert Frost as "the most beautiful campus that ever there was". The Oxford campus spans 2,138 acres (865 ha)[32][33] and includes four museums: theRichard and Carole Cocks Art Museum,Karl Limper Geology Museum, Hefner Museum of Natural History,[34] andWilliam Holmes McGuffey Museum.
The historic core of the campus centers around the intersection of South Campus Avenue and East High Street, marked by thePhi Delta Theta Gates and Slant Walk path. This area is known as the "Academic Quad" and includes prominent academic buildings such asHall Auditorium,McGuffey Hall,Alumni Hall,Bishop Hall andOgden Hall, all built between 1909 and 1924.Harrison Hall andKing Library are also on the Academic Quad. Eastward along East Spring Street lie Irvin Hall, Kreger Hall, and the ArmstrongStudent Center. Surrounding Bishop Woods at the center of campus are several academic buildings, including Hughes Laboratories,Laws Hall, Shideler Hall, andUpham Hall.[35]
North of East High Street is the McVey Data Science Building and College of Engineering and Computing, comprisingBenton Hall and Garland Hall.[35] Clustered around North Patterson Avenue arePearson Hall, the Psychology Building, and theFarmer School of Business.[35] The latter, housed in a 210,000-square-foot (20,000 m2) building designed byRobert A.M. Stern Architects andMoody Nolan, was the firstLEED-certified building on campus.[36] South of East Spring Street are additional academic buildings spread across four streets, including the Clinical Health Sciences and Wellness Facility,Williams Hall, theShriver Center, theCenter for Performing Arts, andBachelor Hall. Western Campus, accessed via South Patterson Avenue, features Boyd Hall,Hoyt Hall,Peabody Hall, and Presser Halls.[35]
Miami's campus includes several historic landmarks. TheDewitt Log Homestead was built in 1805. Owned by the university, it is the oldest surviving structure inOxford Township.[37] On the main campus,Elliott and Stoddard Halls, built in 1825 and 1836, are the oldest buildings.[38]Langstroth Cottage was built in 1856 and is aNational Historic Landmark. It was the home ofL. L. Langstroth, who studied and bred honey bees.[39] TheWilliam H. McGuffey House is another National Historic Landmark. Built in 1833, it was the home of author and professorWilliam Holmes McGuffey and believed to be the site where he wrote the first fourMcGuffey Readers.[40] TheWestern Female Seminary Historic District denotes the Romanesque and Colonial Revival architecture of the former Western College campus. This campus also hosted orientation sessions forFreedom Summer volunteers in June 1964, a significant campaign of thecivil rights movement.[41][42] The formerOxford Female Institute in uptown Oxford served as a university dorm until 2001 and has since been leased as the Oxford Community Arts Center.
The John E. Dolibois European Center is an overseas campus of the university inLuxembourg. It enrolls around 125 students each semester from Miami and other American universities. Located in the city ofDifferdange, it offers courses with university faculty typically in architecture, business, French, German, history, and political science.[43] Students live in homestays with Luxembourgish host families and are encouraged to travel in Europe through university-led study programs and in their free time.[44] It was established in 1968 and named after Miami alumnusJohn E. Dolibois, formerUnited States Ambassador to Luxembourg.[45]
Miami University has threesatellite campuses, all located within 25 miles (40 km) of the Oxford campus inButler County, Ohio. Founded in 1966,Miami University Middletown was the first regional campus in Ohio.[46]Miami University Hamilton was established in 1968, and theMiami University Voice of America Learning Center in West Chester was established in 2009 to house the Farmer School of BusinessMaster of Business Administration program.[47]
Miami's regional campuses are non-residential and offer a handful ofbachelor's degrees,associate degrees, onecertificate program, as well as beginning coursework for most four-year degrees, and the Master of Business Administration andMaster of Education programs at Oxford. Combined, Miami's regional campuses enroll approximately 3,500 students.[48] Middletown and Hamilton compete in independent sports as members of theOhio Regional Campus Conference, competing under the monikers "Middletown ThunderHawks" and "Hamilton Harriers".
Miami University has seven primary academic divisions, which include five undergraduate colleges in addition to a residentialhonors college:
Miami is part of the publicUniversity System of Ohio. It is governed by aboard of trustees which oversees the administration of the university and holds subcommittees on investment, finance and audit, and academic and student affairs.[49] This includes oversight on programs offered by the university and financial expenditures. The board has 17 members; nine are voting members appointed by thegovernor of Ohio, six are university alumni who reside outside of Ohio, and two are enrolled students.[50]
Theoffice of the president oversees fiscal and business operations, working with the Board of Trustees to set the university's direction and priorities while also serving as a figurehead and liaison.[51] Gregory P. Crawford, the 22nd president, has held the role since 2016, following his tenure as vice president and associate provost at theUniversity of Notre Dame.[52] Other administrative departments include that of theprovost and academic affairs, which includes the deans of each of the academic colleges and the Dolibois European Center, as well as finance, student life, university advancement, information technology, and enrollment.[53]
As of the end offiscal year 2023, Miami University'sfinancial endowment was $739 million.[54]
Miami University is a large, primarily residential teaching university with a focus onundergraduate studies.[55] The university offers more than 100 majors,[56] 48 minors,[57] and 11 co-majors. In the 2022–2023 academic year, the most popular majors werefinance,marketing,psychology,computer science, andbiology.[58]
Miami offersmaster's degrees in more than 50 areas of study anddoctoral degrees in 12, the largest of which are doctoral degrees in psychology. To enroll in graduate courses, students must first be accepted into the Graduate School and then into the department through which the degree is offered.[59] Although tuition for the Graduate School is roughly the same as for an undergraduate degree, most of the graduate programs offer graduate assistantships as well as tuition waivers.
As of 2024, Miami's annualtuition was $18,162 for Ohio residents and $40,822 for out-of-state residents.[60] Its in-state tuition rate is the highest of all public universities within the University System of Ohio.[61]
| Undergraduate admissions statistics | |
|---|---|
| Admit rate | 70.4% (  −21.6) |
| Test scoresmiddle 50%[i] | |
| SAT Total | 1220–1390 |
| ACT Composite | 25–31 |
| High schoolGPA | |
| Average | 3.62–4.22 |
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Miami University extends offers of admission to applicants after holistic review that includes examination of academic rigor and performance, admissions test scores, personal essays, and recommendations.[63] Admission to Miami University is classified as "more selective" by theCarnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education andU.S. News & World Report.[64][65]The Princeton Review gives Miami University an "Admissions Selectivity Rating" of 88 out of 99.[63]
For first-year undergraduates enrolled in fall 2025, Miami University received 42,751 applications and accepted 30,102 (70.4%). Of the 42.8% of admitted students who submitted ACT or SAT test scores, the middle 50% ranges (25th percentile–75th percentile) were 25–31 and 1220–1390, respectively.[62]
Miami University's freshmanretention rate is 89.2%, with 83% going on to graduate within six years.[66] Miami University is a college-sponsor of the National Merit Scholarship Program and sponsored 21 Merit Scholarship awards in 2020. In the 2020–2021 academic year, 28 freshman students wereNational Merit Scholars.[67]
| 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applicants | 29,990 | 26,844 | 27,247 | 30,126 | 30,255 | 29,771 |
| Admits | 26,571 | 24,684 | 23,248 | 22,459 | 20,635 | 19,463 |
| Admit rate | 88.6 | 92.0 | 85.3 | 74.6 | 68.2 | 65.4 |
| Enrolled | 4,519 | 3,824 | 4,309 | 3,936 | 3,822 | 3,799 |
| Yield rate | 17.0 | 15.5 | 18.5 | 17.5 | 18.5 | 19.5 |
| ACT composite* (out of 36) | 24–30 | 24–30 | 26–31 | 26–31 | 26–31 | 26–31 |
| SAT composite* (out of 1600) | 1180–1350 | 1160–1350 | 1210–1390 | 1200–1380 | 1190–1380 | — |
| * middle 50% range |
The College of Arts and Science is the oldest and largest college at Miami, with almost half of the undergraduate student body enrollment. It offers 70 majors covering a broad range of areas of study across thehumanities,natural sciences, andsocial sciences, as well aspre-law,pre-medical andinterdisciplinarity programs.[73] The curriculum emphasizes creativity, research, and global perspectives.[74] 10 of the 12 doctoral degrees offered by Miami are provided through the College of Arts and Science.[75]
Miami's Farmer School of Business is a nationally recognized school of business that offers nine majors. The school also offers graduateMBA,accountancy, andeconomics degrees. It is named after Miami University alumni and benefactorsRichard T. Farmer, founder ofCintas, and his wife Joyce Barnes Farmer.[76]
Miami's College of Creative Arts offers 14 majors through its five departments: architecture and interior design, art, emerging technology in business and design, music, and theatre. Each department has its own portfolio or audition admission requirements, which are separate from the standard admissions requirements for the university. Art and music majors choose concentrations within their programs.[77][78]
The College of Education, Health and Society offers 20 undergraduate majors[79] spanning six departments, which include educational leadership, educational psychology, family science and social work, kinesiology and health, sports leadership and management, and teacher education.[80] As of fall 2009, nearly 3,500 full-time and part-time undergraduates were enrolled in the school.[79]
The College of Engineering and Computing offers 10 accredited majors at the Oxford campus,[81] and moved into a new $22 million engineering building in 2007.[82] The college has five departments, including chemical, paper, and biomedical engineering; computer science, cybersecurity, and software engineering; electrical and computer engineering; mechanical and manufacturing engineering; and interdisciplinary programs. The school also offers four master's degrees incomputer science,chemical engineering, computational electrical and computer engineering, andmechanical engineering.[83]
The Miami University Honors College was established in 2021, replacing the former university honors program on campus.[27] Around 400 students are admitted to the Honors College every year and are required to produce publishable research. Based inPeabody Hall on the Western Campus, the Honors College is Miami's onlyresidential college and fosters one-on-one interaction with faculty-in-residence.[84]
Edgar W. King Library is the primaryacademic library at Miami. It opened as an undergraduate library when the south section was completed in 1966; it became the main library when the north section was completed in 1972. King Library is home to Miami University Libraries' humanities, government, law, and social sciences collections as well as theWalter Havighurst special collections and university archives. It additionally houses King Café, centers for academic writing, information management and digital scholarship, and alibrary makerspace.[85]
In addition to King Library, the university's library system also includes the Wertz Art and Architecture Library inAlumni Hall, the Rentschler Library atMiami University Hamilton and the Gardner-Harvey Library atMiami University Middletown.[86] Prior to the construction of King Library, Alumni Hall was the main university library.
TheMiami University Press was established in 1992 and specializes in works of poetry, fiction, and those that detail the history of Miami University.[87][88][89]
| Academic rankings | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Forbes[90] | 239 |
| U.S. News & World Report[91] | 143(tie) |
| Washington Monthly[92] | 283 |
| WSJ/College Pulse[93] | 227 |
| Global | |
| QS[94] | 1201–1400 |
| U.S. News & World Report[95] | 1354(tie) |
| National Program Rankings[96] | |||
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| Program | Ranking | ||
| Biological Sciences | 158 | ||
| Chemistry | 150 | ||
| Clinical Psychology | 115 | ||
| Earth Sciences | 83 | ||
| Economics | 102 | ||
| Education | 73 | ||
| Engineering (no doctorate) | 23 | ||
| English | 90 | ||
| Fine Arts | 158 | ||
| Psychology | 124 | ||
| Social Work | 172 | ||
| Speech-Language Pathology | 74 | ||
In its 2025 rankings,U.S. News & World Report ranked the university's undergraduate program 136th (tied) among 436 national universities, and 69th among public national universities.U.S. News also ranks Miami University tenth for undergraduate teaching.[97]
Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine listed Miami as one of the "100 Best Values in Public Colleges" for 2015, ranking Miami 55th nationally. Miami University has appeared on the list since it was first published in 1998.Forbes ranked Miami 155th in the United States among all colleges and universities and listed it as one of "America's Best College Buys".[98]
Miami was named as one of the original eight "Public Ivies" byYale University admissions officer Richard Moll in 1985. It was listed again in a 2001 publication by college guide authors Howard Greene and Matthew Greene.[99]
In March 2014,Bloomberg Businessweek ranked the undergraduate business program for theFarmer School of Business at 23rd among all U.S. undergraduate business schools and was ranked 8th among public schools.[100]Entrepreneur ranked Miami's Institute for Entrepreneurship in its top ten undergraduate programs in the nation.[101]The Wall Street Journal ranked Miami 22nd among state schools for bringing students directly from undergraduate studies into top graduate programs.[102] TheJournal also ranked Miami'saccelerated MBA program ninth globally.[103] Miami's accountancy program received high marks from the Public Accounting Report's rankings of accountancy programs; its undergraduate and graduate programs ranked 17th and 20th respectively.[104]
Miami also receives high marks for its campus.Newsweek rated Miami at 19th in its 2012 list of Most Beautiful Schools and poetRobert Frost described it as "The most beautiful campus that ever there was."[105]
| Race and ethnicity[106] | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| White | 75% | ||
| Foreign national | 9% | ||
| Hispanic | 5% | ||
| Other[a] | 4% | ||
| Black | 4% | ||
| Asian | 3% | ||
| Economic diversity | |||
| Low-income[b] | 13% | ||
| Affluent[c] | 87% | ||
As of 2020, Miami University has a total enrollment of 22,971 admitted students. The Oxford campus encompasses 18,669 students, of which 16,522 are at theundergraduate and 2,147 at thegraduates and professional.[107][108][109] Within offers for admission in fall 2021, 44% of students were fromOhio, with offers for students from all 50U.S. states, theDistrict of Columbia and 122 countries abroad. Miami University encompasses 1,614 international students from 67 countries. Of the regularly enrolled international students, the most represented countries are typicallyChina,Vietnam,India,Nepal, andSouth Korea.[110] With a gender distribution of 49% male students and 51% female students, Miami University's gender disparity between men and women is far below the national average, making it one of the most equally balanced undergraduate institutions in the United States.[111]
For the 2017–18 academic year, Miami had over 600 registered student organizations. These clubs and organizations run the gamut from varsity sports clubs to professional fraternities, from political and religious groups to fashion, theatre and LGBTQ+ organizations. The university recognizes the Associated Student Government (ASG) that represents student interests to faculty, administrators, and the Ohio Legislature. It is the officialstudent government of Miami University.[112] It has anexecutive branch chaired by the student body president with 13 members who work with administrators in all areas of student life as well as academics and alegislative branch made up of 50 senators who voice student concerns, write and vote on legislation on a weekly basis.[113]
TheMiami University Marching Band is the largest student organization on campus, typically fielding around 250 to 275 students. It represents the college at all homefootball games, as well as at various away games,bowl games, parades, and marching band festivals.[114]
Miami University participates in theAmerican Mock Trial Association and has won two National Championship Tournament titles, with the most recent in 2018, where Miami beatYale University in the final round.[115] The school has made 17 top-ten finishes. In the 2019 season, Miami sent two teams to the National Championship Tournament. Miami A earned twelve ballots in their division, just one ballot short of division champions Yale A.[116] Miami earned honorable mentions in 2021 and 2022.[117][118] In 2023, Miami failed to earn a bid to the NCT. This marked the end of the longest-running NCT streak in the American Mock Trial Association; Miami had not missed an NCT since at least 2005.[119]
Miami has sent two competitors to Trial by Combat, a one-on-one competition for outstanding AMTA competitors.[120]
Miami has a variety of media outlets. The student-run newspaper,The Miami Student, claims to have been founded in 1826, which would make it the oldest university newspaper in the United States. However, the first issue is dated May 1867, and the paper refers to itself as "the oldest college newspaper west of the Alleghenies."[121] The Miami Student Magazine is a sister publication to the newspaper. The bi-annual publication includes feature writing and short stories. The undergraduate literature and art magazine,Inklings, is available in print and online.[122] RedHawk Radio (WMSR) is Miami's only student radio station.[123] Miami University Television (MUTV) is available on cable in Oxford, Ohio.[124]UP Magazine is Miami's student-run fashion magazine that publishes an issue each semester and also maintains a blog.[125]
Aside from the university's student newspaper, the university's oldest and longest-running academic student organization is the Miami University Men's Glee Club.[126] Founded in 1907 by professorRaymond H. Burke, composer of Miami's fight song and alma mater, the glee club is among the oldest and largest groups of its kind in the nation.[127] Its roughly 80 singers are selected by audition and perform on campus and around the world.
The Glee Club has performed with major symphony orchestras, among them theCincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Throughout its history, the Glee Club has worked with renowned composers, conductors and singers such asMorten Lauridsen,Martina Arroyo,Max Rudolf,Thomas Schippers,Paul Salamunovich,A.R. Rahman, and most recently Italian tenorAlessandro Brustenghi.[128][127][129] In 2014, the Glee Club performed a Memorial Day service at theNormandy American Cemetery and Memorial, as part of its biannual international tour, and later won the First European Prize with Great Distinction at the Concours Europeen de Chant Choral 2014 (European Choir Competition).[130]
The Glee Club also hosts one men'sa cappella singing group, The Cheezies.[131]
Miami University requires first and second-year students to live on campus.[132]Elliott and Stoddard Halls, built in 1828 and 1835 respectively, are used asdormitories.[133] They are listed on theNational Register of Historic Places.[134] The campus has a total of 46 residence halls, the newest of which opened in 2018.[135][136] The residence halls are organized into eight quads throughout campus.[137]
Residence halls have representatives that participate collectively in theResidence Hall Association and thestudent senate.[138]
Miami has a long tradition of Greek life, beginning in 1832 with the founding of the Miami chapter ofAlpha Delta Phi.[139] Miami is nicknamed theMother of Fraternities for the number of fraternities that started on its campus, including three known as theMiami Triad:Beta Theta Pi (1839),Phi Delta Theta (1848), andSigma Chi (1855). Other Greek organizations founded at Miami includePhi Kappa Tau (1906) andDelta Zeta (1902).[139]
As of the fall of 2017, there were 2,556 sorority members and 1,544 fraternity members.[140] Miami hosts about 50 different fraternities and sororities governed by three different student governing councils.[141] In 2004, Miami University's office of Greek affairs was endowed with a $1 million gift from alumnus Cliff Alexander, a member ofSigma Nu.[142]
In the 2017 fall semester, the Greek community recorded 11,847 service hours and raised $96,839 forphilanthropic causes.[143] The university has suspended various chapters of Greek organizations for disorderly conduct,hazing, and alcohol violations.[144][145][146][147]
The university's student body has two notablesuperstitions. Stepping on the large copper replica of the university's seal byUpham Hall is believed to bring bad results for a student's exams; inversely, it is considered good luck to rub the heads of the copper turtles supporting theDelta Delta Delta sundial before exams.[148]
When two students meet at Miami, enter into a relationship, and then get married, they are called "Miami Mergers". Couples are encouraged to register with the university's alumni association, which has sent Miami Mergers an annualValentine's Day card since 1973. In 2022, 14,406 Miami Merger couples received a Valentine's Day card from the association.[149] Another campus superstition is that couples who kiss under the arch of Upham Hall at midnight will become Miami Mergers.[148]
Green Beer Day is an unofficial day-longparty near the Miami University campus where celebrants drink green-dyed beer on the Thursday before Miami'sspring break. It was established in the early 1980s by local bar owners.[150][151] Green Beer Day has been called one of the university's "biggest traditions", although it is not sanctioned by the university, which has worked to combat binge drinking in preparation for the event.[152][153][154]
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Miami'sNational Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)Division I sports teams are called theRedHawks; the program offers 18varsity sports for men and women. They compete in theMid-American Conference (MAC) in all varsity sports except ice hockey, which competes in theNational Collegiate Hockey Conference. Miami's athletic teams had several names before 1928, when Miami Publicity Director R.J. McGinnis coined the nickname "Redskins". In 1996, theMiami Tribe of Oklahoma, which works with the university on Native American relations,[155] withdrew its support for the nickname. The board of trustees voted to change the nickname to the RedHawks in 1997.[156][157] The current athletic director isDavid Sayler, who was hired to the position in December 2012.[158]
Miami University fosters a complementary relationship withOhio University, highlighted by theBattle of the Bricks.
Miami is nicknamed the "Cradle of Coaches" for the coaches that have trained through theMiami RedHawks football program, includingCollege Football Hall of Fame inducteesPaul Brown,Carmen Cozza,Weeb Ewbank,Ara Parseghian,Earl Blaik,Woody Hayes,Bo Schembechler, andJim Tressel. Two former players,John Harbaugh andSean McVay, coached their respective teams to victories inSuper Bowl XLVII andSuper Bowl LVI, with McVay becoming the youngest head coach to win the Super Bowl at age 36.[159] Former Miami quarterbackBen Roethlisberger became a two-timeSuper Bowl winning quarterback for thePittsburgh Steelers. Miami's football team plays inYager Stadium; they formerly played in the now demolishedMiami Field. The current head coach isChuck Martin, who was named head coach on December 3, 2013. The RedHawks compete each year against theCincinnati Bearcats for theVictory Bell, a tradition that dates back to 1888. TheBattle of the Bricks is also played annually against theOhio Bobcats. The RedHawks are 8–7 all-time inbowl games and have secured 23 conference titles as of the 2023 season.[160]
TheMiami RedHawks men's basketball team has appeared in 17NCAA basketball championship tournaments, reaching theSweet Sixteen four times, most recently in1999. Notable former student-athletes have includedRandy Ayers,Ron Harper,Wally Szczerbiak, andWayne Embry. The team competes inMillett Hall and is coached byTravis Steele.
Miami RedHawks men's ice hockey team started in 1978 coached by Steve Cady.[161] The RedHawks made theNCAA national title game in 2009, but lost in overtime to theBoston University Terriers after leading much of the game.[162] They have made 12 appearances in the NCAA tournament. The men's ice hockey team plays at theGoggin Ice Center as part of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference.
TheMiami University Synchronized Skating Team team began in August 1977 as a "Precision Skating Club" at Goggin Ice Center.[163] The program achieved varsity status by 1996.[164] The Miami University seniorsynchronized skating team are the 1999, 2006, and 2009 U.S. national champions.[164][165][166] Miami won a silver medal at the 2007 World Championships, the first medal ever won byTeam USA for synchronized skating.[167] The collegiate-level team has won 18 national titles; Miami created a junior-varsity level team beneath the senior level.[164]
At one time Miami had a competitive wrestling program, but eliminated the wrestling program, along with men's golf and tennis, in 1999 to better comply withTitle IX regulations.[168] Several members of the cut teams sued the university president, athletic director, and board of trustees, alleging that the removal of the teams violated theirFourteenth Amendment and Title IX protections.[168] Enlisting the help of theCenter for Individual Rights, the students took their case to theUnited States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, where a district judge denied their claims. The students appealed to theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, where two judges affirmed the district court's ruling.[168]
Miami alumni are active through various organizations and events such as Alumni Weekend.[169] The Alumni Association has active chapters in over 50 cities.[170] A number of Miami alumni have made significant contributions in the fields of government, law, science, academia, business, arts, journalism, and athletics, among others.
Benjamin Harrison, the 23rdpresident of the United States, graduated from Miami University in 1852.[171]Chung Un-chan, the 36thprime minister of South Korea, received a master's degree in economics from Miami in 1972.[172]Paul Ryan, the 54thspeaker of the United States House of Representatives, graduated from Miami in 1992.[173] Fivegovernors of Ohio are Miami alumni:William Dennison Jr.,Charles Anderson,James E. Campbell,Andrew L. Harris, andMike DeWine, who also served as a U.S. Senator from Ohio.[174][175][176][177] Other notable political alumni include current U.S. SenatorMaria Cantwell of Washington,[178] former senatorsCalvin S. Brice,Oliver P. Morton,George E. Pugh, andJohn B. Weller, along with numerous federal representatives, state governors, legislators, and ambassadors.Sidney Souers, a Miami graduate, was the first director of theCentral Intelligence Agency.[179]
Rita Dove, aPulitzer Prize winner and the first African-AmericanUnited States Poet Laureate, graduatedsumma cum laude from Miami.[180]Political satirist and journalistP.J. O'Rourke graduated from Miami in 1969.[181]
Prominent alumni in business includeBrian Niccol, chairman and chief executive officer ofStarbucks[182] and former CEO ofChipotle Mexican Grill;[183]Marne Levine, former chief business officer atFacebook and chief operating officer atInstagram;[184]C. Michael Armstrong, former chairman/CEO ofAT&T, former chairman/CEO ofHughes Aircraft Co., and former chairman of thePresident's Export Council;Arthur D. Collins, Jr., former chairman/CEO ofMedtronic;[185] andRichard T. Farmer, founder/CEO emeritus ofCintas.[186]
In sports,Chris Rose is a studio host with theMLB Network andNFL Network.John Harbaugh, head coach of theBaltimore Ravens, andSean McVay, head coach of theLos Angeles Rams, both played football for Miami.Paul Brown, the partial founder of both theCleveland Browns and theCincinnati Bengals and a head coach for both teams graduated from the class of 1930.[187] Miami alumni that play in professional sports leagues includeDan Boyle of theNHL,[188]Andy Greene of theNHL,[189]Ryan Jones of theNHL,[190]Alec Martinez of theNHL,[191]Reilly Smith of theNHL,[192]Jeff Zatkoff of theNHL,[193]Hayley Williams of theRussian Women's Hockey League,John Ely of theMLB,[194]Adam Eaton of theMLB,[195] golferBrad Adamonis,[196]Milt Stegall of theCFL,[197] 2002NBA All-StarWally Szczerbiak,[198] andNFL playersBrandon Brooks,Quinten Rollins,Zac Dysert, and two-time Super Bowl-winning quarterbackBen Roethlisberger.[199]
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