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| Motto | Magna est veritas (Latin) |
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Motto in English | "Great is the truth" |
| Type | Privateresearch university |
| Established | April 8, 1925; 100 years ago (1925-04-08) |
| Accreditation | SACSCOC and 26 others[1] |
Academic affiliations | |
| Endowment | $1.59 billion (2024)[1] |
| Budget | $5.7 billion (2024)[1] |
| President | Joe Echevarria |
| Provost | Guillermo Prado |
Academic staff | 3,605 (fall 2024)[1] |
Administrative staff | 17,403 (fall 2024)[1] |
| Students | 19,852 (fall 2024)[1] |
| Undergraduates | 12,913 (fall 2024)[1] |
| Postgraduates | 6,602 (fall 2024)[1] |
| Location | , Florida ,United States 25°43′18″N80°16′45″W / 25.7216°N 80.2793°W /25.7216; -80.2793 |
| Campus | Small city[4], 453 acres (1.83 km2) (total)[3] |
| Newspaper | The Miami Hurricane |
| Colors | Orange, white and green[5] |
| Nickname | Hurricanes |
Sporting affiliations | |
| Mascot | Sebastian the Ibis |
| Website | miami |
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TheUniversity of Miami (UM,UMiami,Miami,U of M, andThe U[6][7]) is aprivateresearch university inCoral Gables, Florida, United States. As of 2024[update], the university enrolled 19,852 students[1] in two colleges and ten schools across over 350academic majors and programs, including theMiller School of Medicine inMiami's Health District, thelaw school on the main campus, theRosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science onVirginia Key, and additional research facilities in southernMiami-Dade County.[8]
The University of Miami offers 151 undergraduate, 149 master's, and 68 doctoral degree programs.[1] With over 20,000 faculty and staff as of 2024, the University of Miami is the second-largest employer in Miami-Dade County.[9] The university's main campus in Coral Gables spans 240 acres (0.97 km2), has over 5,700,000 square feet (530,000 m2) of buildings, and is located 7 miles (11 km) southwest ofdowntown Miami, the heart ofthe nation's ninth-largest andworld's 65th-largest metropolitan area. It is the 69th-largest research university in the nation with annual research expenditures of $492 million in 2024.[1]
As of 2024,[update] the University of Miami has 235,013 alumni from all 50 states and 174 foreign nations.[1] University of Miami faculty include anumber of notable academics across nearly all disciplines, including fourNobel Prize recipients. The university isclassified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and is a member of theAssociation of American Universities.[10][11]
The University of Miami's intercollegiate athletic teams are collectively known as theMiami Hurricanes and compete inDivision I of theNational Collegiate Athletic Association.[12] Itsfootball team has won five national championships since 1983,[13] and itsbaseball team has won four national championships since 1982.[14]
In 1925, the University of Miami was founded by a group of citizens who sought to offer "unique opportunities to developinter-American studies, further creative work in thearts and letters, and conduct teaching and research programs intropical studies", according to the university's founding charter.[17] They believed that a local university would benefit theMiami metropolitan area and were optimistic that the university would be a beneficiary of future financial support, especially sinceSouth Florida was benefiting from the historic1920s land boom.[17] During this era ofJim Crow laws, there were three large state-funded universities in Florida for white male students, white female students, and black students: theUniversity of Florida inGainesville andFlorida State University andFlorida A&M University, both inTallahassee. Like most private universities of the time, the University of Miami was founded as acoeducational institution but not yet open to Black students.
In 1925,George E. Merrick, founder ofCoral Gables, granted 160 acres (0.6 km2) and nearly $5,000,000[18] ($89.6 million, adjusted for current inflation) for the university's founding.[19] The contributions included land contracts and mortgages on real estate that had been sold in the city.[20] The university was formally chartered April 8, 1925[21] by the Circuit Court for Dade County.[22] But by 1926, as the first class of 372 students enrolled at the new university,[23] the land boom had collapsed and hopes for a speedy recovery were dashed by theGreat Miami Hurricane of 1926.[24] For the next 15 years, the university struggled financially, bordering on insolvency. The first building on campus, now known as the Merrick Building, was left half built for over two decades due to the economic difficulties,[24] requiring that classes be held off-campus at the nearby Anastasia Hotel in Coral Gables. Partitions separated the classrooms, giving the university the early but long since discarded nickname Cardboard College.[24][25][26]
In 1929, University of Miami founding member William E. Walsh and other members of the university's board of regents resigned following the widespread collapse of Florida's economy. The university's plight was so severe that students went door to door in Coral Gables collecting funds to keep it open.[25] A reconstituted ten-member board chaired by the university's first presidentBowman Foster Ashe included Merrick,David Fairchild,James Cash Penney, and others. In 1930, several faculty members and more than 60 students entered the University of Miami when theUniversity of Havana closed amidst political unrest inCuba.[24] While helpful to the University of Miami's early development, it still was not enough, and the university was forced to seek bankruptcy protection two years later, in 1932.[24][27]
The troubles, however, were short-lived. In July 1934, the University of Miami was reincorporated and a board of trustees was installed, replacing the board of regents. By 1940, community leaders were replacing faculty and administration as trustees.[22] During Ashe's presidency, the university grew considerably, adding theSchool of Law (1928),[28] the School of Business (1929, renamed theMiami Herbert Business School in 2019), the School of Education (1929), the Graduate School (1941), the Marine Laboratory (1943, renamed theRosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science in 2022), the School of Engineering (1947), and theSchool of Medicine (1952).[24]
DuringWorld War II, the University of Miami was one of only 131 colleges and universities nationally to participate in theV-12 Navy College Training Program, which offered students a path to commissioning as aU.S. Navy officer.[29]
In 1952,Jay F. W. Pearson, one of Ashe's long-time assistants, was appointed the University of Miami's second president.[30] A charter faculty member andmarine biologist,[30] Pearson held the university's presidency for a decade, until 1962.[17] Under Pearson's leadership, the University of Miami began awarding its firstPh.D. degrees, and student enrollment increased substantially, exceeding 4,000.[17][31]
From 1961 until 1968, the university leased buildings on its south campus to theCentral Intelligence Agency that were used inJMWAVE, acovert operation and intelligence gathering operation againstFidel Castro'scommunist government in Cuba.[32] The university no longer owns land at the south campus.
In 1961, the university dropped its policy of racial segregation and began admitting Black students and allowing their full participation in student activities and athletic teams.[31][33][34] Five years later, in 1966, Ray Bellamy, a Black student at the University of Miami, became the first major Black college athlete in theDeep South to receive an athletic scholarship.[35]
Until the early 1970s, as was widespread practice at colleges and universities nationally, the university regulated female student conduct more strictly than that of male students, including employing a staff under the Dean of Women charged with watching over female students. Under Pearson, however, the university began incrementally liberalizing these policies. In 1971, he consolidated the separate Dean of Men and Dean of Women positions in one.[36] The same year, the university established a Women's Commission, which issued a 1974 report on the status of women on campus,[37] leading to the university's first female commencement speaker,[38] day care, and the launch of a Women's Study minor. Following enactment ofTitle IX in 1972 and over a decade of litigation, University of Miami organizations, including honorary societies, were opened to women's participation and inclusion. The Women's Commission also secured more equitable funding for women's sports.[39] In 1973, Terry Williams Munz became the first woman in the nation awarded an athletic scholarship when she accepted a University of Miami golf scholarship.[40]
Henry King Stanford, then president ofBirmingham–Southern College, was appointed the University of Miami's third president in 1962.[41] Stanford led an increased emphasis on the university's research, reorganization of its administrative structure, and construction of new campus facilities. New research centers established under Stanford included the Center for Advanced International Studies (1964), the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Evolution (1964), the Center for Theoretical Studies (1965), and the Institute for the Study of Aging (1975). In 1965, the University of Miami also began actively recruiting international students.[24] Beginning with the 1968 football season, Stanford barred playing of "Dixie" by theuniversity's band.[24]
In 1981,Edward T. Foote II, then dean ofWashington University School of Law, was appointed the University of Miami's fourth president.[42] Under Foote's leadership, the university focused on attracting high-quality faculty and students, and consciously limited or reduced undergraduate admissions as part of its strategic plan. Foote also oversaw the conversion of on-campus student housing into residential colleges[43] and the university launch of its largest fundraising campaign to date, a five-year, $400 million campaign that began in 1984 and exceeded that goal, raising $517.5 million. Foote established three new schools: the School of Architecture, the School of Communication, and the School of International Studies.[44]
During Foote's tenure, the university's endowment increased nearly ten-fold, growing from $47.4 million in 1981 to $465.2 million in 2000.[45]
In November 2000, Foote was succeeded byDonna Shalala, formerchancellor of theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison from 1988 to 1993 andU.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services from 1993 to 2001, who was appointed the University of Miami's fifth president.[46] Under Shalala, the University of Miami built new libraries, dormitories, symphony rehearsal halls, and classroom buildings. The university's academic quality continued improving, a trend that began in earnest under Foote.[47]
Roughly a year into Shalala's presidency, on November 5, 2001, an 18-year-old University of Miami fraternity pledge drowned while attempting to swim acrossLake Osceola, the campus lake, while intoxicated. Police reports later cited the student's dangerously highblood alcohol content in conjunction with dropping water temperatures and exhaustion as primary factors in his death, and two fraternity members who accompanied him were criminally charged with "negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of duty to aid and/or rescue."[48][49]
In 2002,[50] the University of Miami launched a new and even more ambitious multi-year fundraising campaign that ultimately raised $1.37 billion,[51] the most ever raised by any university or college in Florida history as of 2008.[52] From these proceeds, over half, $854 million, was allocated to construct and improve theUniversity of Miami's Leonard M. School of Medicine medical campus.[51] In November 2007, the University of Miami acquired Cedars Medical Center in Miami'sHealth District, renaming it University of Miami Hospital and giving the Miller School of Medicine its first dedicated in-house teaching hospital rather than having to rely on academic affiliations with area hospitals.[53]
In 2003, Shalala controversially chose to close the University of Miami'sNorth-South Center, a university research organization dedicated to the study of contemporary issues inLatin America and theCaribbean. The North-South Center was established by theU.S. Congress in 1984. It had secured a partnership with theRand Corporation and was, as theAssociated Press reported in 2003, "a respected public policy think tank specializing in Latin American and Caribbean issues including trade and economic policy, migration, security, public corruption, and the environment."[54]
On September 30, 2004, the University of Miami hosted one of three nationally televisedU.S. presidential debates between presidential candidatesGeorge W. Bush andJohn Kerry during the2004 presidential election. The debate, moderated byJim Lehrer ofPBS NewsHour, was held on the University of Miami campus inside theWatsco Center. It drew 62.5 million viewers.[55]
In February 2006, University of Miami custodial workers, who were contracted to the university through aBoston-based company, alleged unfair labor practices, substandard pay, lack of health benefits, and workplace safety concerns. Theylaunched a strike that drew support from several University of Miami students, who began a hunger strike and on-campus vigil in support of it. The strike settled May 1, 2006 when a card countunion vote was permitted and led to establishment of the first collective bargaining unit in the university's history.[56][57][58] The university raised wages for its custodial workers from $6.40 to $8.35 per hour and provided health insurance.[59]
In 2008 and 2009, partly stemming from theGreat Recession, the university endowment experienced a loss of 26.8% of its capital and additional associated losses from diminished endowment income. The university responded by tightening expenditures.[60][61] Damage from the endowment's negative performance was limited, however, because the university receives over 98 percent of its operating budget from non-endowment sources.[60] In 2011, the university was ranked the nation's most fiscally responsible nonprofit organization in aCharity Navigator report published in collaboration withWorth magazine.[62]
On April 13, 2015, the University of Miami announced the appointment ofJulio Frenk, former dean ofHarvard University School of Public Health and formerSecretary of Health for thegovernment of Mexico, as the university's sixth president.[63] On March 10, 2016, the University of Miami hosted the2016 Republican presidential primary'stwelfth and final debate atBankUnited Center on the university campus, which aired nationally onCNN and drew 11.9 million viewers.[64]
On June 12, 2024, theUniversity of California, Los Angeles announced that Frenk would be joining UCLA as the university'schancellor on January 1, 2025.[65] The same day, the University of Miami announced that the university's chief executive officer, Joe Echevarria, had been appointed acting president of the University of Miami "effective immediately."[66] On June 19, 2023, the University of Miami student newspaper,The Miami Hurricane, labeled Frenk's departure "shocking", and criticized his leadership. "Frenk was rarely a prominent influence on UM's campus," the student newspaper reported.[67]
Under Frenk's nine years of leadership of the University of Miami, the university slipped notably onU.S. News & World Report's ranking of national universities, which ranked the university 48th in the nation upon his arrival in 2015[68] and 67th in the nation upon his departure in 2024.[69]
On October 18, 2024, the University of Miami Board of Trustees appointed Joe Echevarria, former chief executive officer ofDeloitte and the university's interim president since June 12, 2024, as the seventh president of the University of Miami.[70]
The University of Miami's main campus spans 240 acres (0.97 km2)[71] inCoral Gables, 7 miles (11 km) southwest ofDowntown Miami. Most of the university's academic programs are based on its main Coral Gables campus, which houses eight schools and two colleges, including theFrost School of Music,Herbert Business School, and theUniversity of Miami School of Law. The campus has over 5,900,000 sq ft (550,000 m2) of building space valued in excess of $657 million.[72]Lake Osceola, a man-made freshwater lake developed in the late 1940s, is located at the center of campus.
The university's campus theater,Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, is named for University of Miami alumnusJerry Herman, a composer and lyricist responsible for some ofBroadway's most successful productions, includingHello Dolly!,La Cage aux Folles, and other Broadway hits.[73]
TheJohn C. Gifford Arboretum, a campusarboretum andbotanical garden, is located on the northwest corner of the main Coral Gables campus.[74] The Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center at the University of Miami's School of Architecture holds periodic architecture and design exhibitions.[75][76]
Transportation to the Coral Gables campus is provided byMiami Metrorail, whoseUniversity Station stop is within walking distance of the campus.[77] The Metro connects the University of Miami toDowntown Miami,Brickell,Coconut Grove,Civic Center,Miami International Airport, and other Miami neighborhoods. The University of Miami's Coral Gables campus is about a 15-minute train ride from Downtown and Brickell.[78] The Hurry 'Canesshuttle bus service operates two routes on campus, including to University Station, and weekend routes to various off-campus stores and facilities during the academic year; an additional shuttle route provides service to theRosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science campus onVirginia Key andVizcaya Station. The university also has aZipcar service.
In February 2018, rap artistDrake filmed substantial portions of the music video for his song "God's Plan" on the University of Miami campus.[79][80]
The University of Miami's main campus inCoral Gables houses 4,590 enrolled students, 89 percent of whom are freshman.[1] The university's on-campus housing consists of five residential colleges and one apartment-style housing area available only to undergraduate degree-seeking students. The residential colleges are divided into two dormitory-style residence halls and three suite-style residence halls: The first, McDonald and Pentland Towers of Hecht Residential College[81] (demolished in 2022) and the Walsh and Rosborough Towers of Stanford Residential College,[82] (demolished in 2024) are commonly referred to as the "Freshman Towers". The removal of these two dorms makes way for Centennial Village, which opened its first phase to students in the fall of 2024. Phase 2 is set to open in the fall of 2026. The second, Eaton Residential College, which originally housed only women,[83] and Mahoney/Pearson Residential Colleges[84][85] have suite-style housing with double-occupancy rooms connected by a shared bathroom.
In addition to these five residential colleges, the university campus includes a student residential area called University Village,[86] which consists of seven buildings with apartment-style annual contract housing including fully furnished kitchen facilities. University Village is available only to juniors and seniors; until 2009, it had also been open to graduate andSchool of Law students.[87][88]
Lakeside Village, a residential complex of 25 interconnected buildings, provides student housing for 1,115 sophomores, juniors, and seniors.[89]
The University of Miami'sMiller School of Medicine campus, located on Northwest 10th Avenue inMiami'sHealth District, has 1,681 full-time faculty and 785 students as of 2024.[91] The campus includes 70 acres (280,000 m2) within the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Medical Center's 153 acres (620,000 m2) complex. As of 2024, two of its medical programs,Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (first in the nation) andneurology/neurosurgery (25-best in the nation), are nationally ranked.[1]
The medical center includes three University of Miami-owned hospitals: University of Miami Hospital, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital.Jackson Memorial Hospital, Holtz Children's Hospital, and Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center are based on the medical center and maintain affiliations with the University of Miami but are not owned by the university.[92] The heart of the School of Medicine campus, the original City of Miami Hospital that opened in 1918, is known colloquially as "The Alamo", and has been named to theNational Register of Historic Places.[91][93]
In 2006, the University of Miami opened a 300,000 sq ft (28,000 m2), 15-story Clinical Research Building and Wellness Center.[91] In 2007, the university purchased Cedars Medical Center and renamed it University of Miami Hospital. Situated in Miami's Health District, the hospital is close to Jackson Memorial Hospital, which is used by University of Miami medical students and faculty to provide patient care.[94]
In 2009, aLEED-certified nine-story biomedical research building, a 182,000 sq ft (16,900 m2) laboratory, and an office facility were opened to house the University of Miami's Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute and itsJohn P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics.[95] The University of Miami has completed a 2,000,000 sq ft (190,000 m2) Life Science Park adjacent to the university's medical campus that houses medical offices and laboratories.[96][97] The University of Miami's medical campus is connected to the university's main campus by theMetrorail with direct stations atUniversity Station for the main Coral Gables campus andCivic Center Station for the medical campus.
The University of Miami'sRosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science maintains its 18 acres (73,000 m2) campus on theBiscayne Bay waterfront onVirginia Key. It is the only subtropical marine and atmospheric research institute in the continental United States. The school is home to the world's largesthurricane simulation tank.[98][99] TheAtlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, a federal research laboratory, maintains its headquarters next to the Rosenstiel School campus onRickenbacker Causeway and collaborates on various academic projects with the Rosenstiel School.
The school maintains the Barbados Atmospheric Chemistry Observatory (BACO), a research facility on the eastern end ofBarbados in theCaribbean. The facility researches the summertime transport of dust particles from theSahara inNorth Africa across theAtlantic Ocean to theCaribbean Basin andSouth America.[100]
The school's origins date back to 1945 when construction began onRickenbacker Causeway to make Virginia Key accessible by car. During the causeway's construction,Miami-Dade County offered the university a part of the island adjacent toMiami Seaquarium in exchange for it agreeing to assume operational management of the aquarium.[101] In 1951, however, the aquarium's construction was delayed following the failure of a bond referendum designed to fund it, and the university instead chose to begin leasing the land from the county. In 1953, the university built classroom and lab buildings on a 16-acre (6.5 ha) campus to house what would become the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS). Additional buildings were added in 1957, 1959, and 1965.[101]
From 1947 to 1959, the State of Florida funded the University of Miami Marine Lab on Virginia Key until the state completed construction of its own marine laboratory inSt. Petersburg.[101]
Since 1951, the school has published theBulletin of Marine Science, apeer-reviewedscientific journal onecology,fisheries management,geology,geophysics,marine biology,oceanography,meteorology, and related topics.
In 2009, the University of Miami received a $15 million federal grant to help construct a 56,500 square feet (5,250 m2) Marine Technology and Life Sciences Seawater Research Building on the Rosenstiel School campus.[102]
In 1946, following theU.S. military's deactivation ofRichmond Naval Air Station in southwestern Miami, the University of Miami acquired the 12 mi (19 km) facility to accommodate its vast increase in post-World War II students. The property included classrooms, housing, and other amenities capable of accommodating approximately 1,100 students. Two years later, in 1948, the property was repurposed by the University of Miami as a research facility.[103] In the 1960s, the university opted to lease some of its buildings to theCentral Intelligence Agency. Another section of the property, established in 1948, was called South Campus and included a 350 acres (1,400,000 m2) plot used for university-sponsored agricultural and horticultural research.[23][103] For 20 years, the University of Miami used radioactiveisotopes in biological research on the South Campus and buried these radioactive materials, including animals eradicated in research, on the site. In August 2006, the University of Miami agreed to reimburse theU.S. Army Corps of Engineers $393,473 for clean up costs at the site made available under the1980 Superfund law.[104] Six buildings on the site provide 63,800 sq ft (5,930 m2)[92] and currently house the Global Public Health Research Group, Miami Institute for Human Genomics, and Forensic Toxicology Laboratory.[105] The University of Miami once considered building a south campus on the property but instead opted in 2014 to sell the 80 acres of land.[106]
The Richmond campus is a 76 acres (310,000 m2) site that was formerly theUnited States Naval Observatory Secondary National Time Standard Facility, which already had buildings and a 20M antenna used forlong interferometry.[107] The University of Miami's Rosenstiel School'sCenter for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing and Richmond Satellite Operations Center (RSOC) maintain their research facilities on part of this campus.
The University of Miami maintains one of the nation's largest university library systems, which currently consists of over four million volumes, over four millionmicroforms, over 1.6 million electronic books, 165,658 active serials titles, 165,045 electronic journals, and 218,797 audio, film, video, and cartographic materials across eight libraries as of 2024. The University of Miami's libraries have a staff of 71 librarians, 33 professional staff, and 76 support staff.[1]
Four of the University of Miami's libraries are located on the Coral Gables campus: Otto G. Richter Library, the university's primary interdisciplinary library, the Architecture Research Center at the School of Architecture, the Judi Prokop Newman Information Resource Center at theHerbert Business School, and the Marta and Austin Weeks Library atFrost School of Music.
TheMiller School of Medicine's main library, Louis Calder Memorial Library, is located on Northwest 10th Avenue on the medical campus in theMiami Health District. The medical school also maintains and manages two specialized medical libraries, The Mary and Edward Norton Library focused onophthalmology and the Pomerance Library focused onpsychiatry. The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Library is based on theRosentiel School's campus onVirginia Key.[108]
Otto G. Richter Library, the largest of the university's libraries on the Coral Gables campus, houses art, architecture, humanities, social sciences, and science collections. The Richter Library also serves as a depository forfederal and state government publications.[109] Rare books, maps, manuscript collections, and the University of Miami Archives are housed in the library's Special Collections Division. The Richter's Cuban Heritage Collection, which specializes inCuba-related collections, maintains the world's largest Cuba-related holdings outside of Cuba.[110]
In January 2017, the Jay I. Kislak Foundation announced it was making a substantial donation of rare books, maps, and manuscripts to the university's libraries. In preparation for the extensive donation, the University of Miami renovated a former lecture hall, now called the Kislak Center at the University of Miami, to house the works and the university's existing special collections and archives. Among the vast holdings in the university's Kislak Center areChristopher Columbus' original published copies ofhis letter on the first voyage aboard theNiña, which Columbus authored on February 15, 1493.[111]
The University of Miami currently employs 2,850 full-time faculty members with 99 percent of them holding eitherdoctorates or terminal degrees in their respective specialties. The university's student-faculty ratio, as of 2024, was 12:1.[1]
The University of Miami is a broadly accredited academic institution, including by theSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools and theFlorida Department of Education and 26 additional programmatic accrediting bodies, includingAccreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education,American Bar Association,American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation,American Physical Therapy Association Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education,American Psychological Association,Association of MBAs (AMBA),Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (ACSB International),Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education,Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education,Council on Education for Public Health,EQUIS,Liaison Committee on Medical Education,National Association of Schools of Music, andSociety for Simulation in Healthcare.[1]
The university is a member ofAmerican Association of Colleges and Universities,American Association of University Women,American Council of Learned Societies,American Council on Education, Florida Association of Colleges and Universities,Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida, andNational Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.[112]
In September 2022,Miami Herbert Business School was awarded AMBA accreditation, securingtriple crown accreditation status, which includes accreditation by each of the nation's three business-oriented academic accrediting bodies: ACSB International, AMBA, and EQUIS. Less than one percent of the world'sbusiness schools have been recognized with accreditation from all three of these academic accrediting bodies.[113]
| 2023[114] | 2022[115] | 2021[116] | 2020[117] | 2019[118] | 2018[119] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applicants | 48,286 | 49,167 | 42,244 | 40,131 | 38,919 | 34,279 |
| Admits | 8,940 | 9,311 | 12,036 | 13,280 | 10,557 | 11,020 |
| Enrolls | 2,328 | 2,371 | 2,766 | 2,358 | 2,203 | 2,366 |
| Admit rate | 18.5% | 18.9% | 28.5% | 33.1% | 27.1% | 32.1% |
| Yield rate | 26.0% | 25.5% | 23.0% | 17.8% | 20.9% | 21.5% |
| SAT composite* | 1340-1450 (32%†) | 1330–1450 (35%†) | 1310–1450 (31%†) | 1260–1400 (55%†) | 1280–1420 (57%†) | 1250–1430 (51%†) |
| ACT composite* | 30–33 (21%†) | 30–33 (22%†) | 30–33 (24%†) | 28–32 (40%†) | 29–32 (38%†) | 29–32 (43%†) |
| * middle 50% range † percentage of first-time freshmen who chose to submit | ||||||
Admission to the University of Miami is highly competitive, and, among Florida's 171 universities and colleges, the most selective.[120] As of fall 2024, 37% of incoming freshman graduated in the top 5% of their class and 58% graduated in the top 10%.[1]
For the Class of 2027, enrolled in fall 2023, the University of Miami received 48,286 applications and accepted 8,940, or 18.5% of its applicants. Of those accepted, 2,328 enrolled for ayield rate, or percentage of accepted students who choose to attend the university, of 26.0%.[121][122][123][124]
Among the Class of 2028 enrolled as of fall 2024, the meanSAT score was 1400 and the meanACT score was 31.[1] The average GPA was 3.8 on a 4.0 scale.
The University of Miami attracts students from around the world and nation. As of 2024, 18 percent of University of Miami undergraduates were from theMiami metropolitan area, 10 percent were from other parts ofFlorida, 65 percent were from other U.S. states, and seven percent were international students from outside the United States. Among graduate students, 38 percent were from the Miami metropolitan area, 13 percent were from other parts of Florida, 31 percent were from other U.S. states, and 17 percent were international students.[1] As of November 2020, the University of Miami ranks eleventh nationally in combined diversity across racial, geographic, gender and age factors.[125]
The University of Miami's freshmanretention rate is 93%, with 84% going on to graduate within six years.[126] As of 2015, the university reported that 73 percent of undergraduates graduated within four years, 82 percent graduated within five years, and 84 percent graduated within six years.[127] Male student athletes and female student athletes have graduation rates of 56 percent and 67 percent, respectively, within six years.[128][129]
| Academic Year | Undergraduates | Graduate | Total Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017–2018[130] | 10,832 | 6,171 | 17,003 |
| 2018–2019[119] | 11,117 | 6,214 | 17,331 |
| 2019–2020[118] | 11,307 | 6,504 | 17,811 |
| 2020–2021[117] | 11,334 | 6,475 | 17,809 |
| 2021–2022[116] | 12,089 | 7,007 | 19,096 |
| 2022–2023[115] | 12,504 | 6,898 | 19,402 |
The University of Miami is managed by a board of trustees that includes 48 elected members, three alumni representatives, 23 senior members, four national members, sixex officio members, 14emeriti members, and one student representative.[22] Ex officio members, who serve by virtue of their positions in the university, include the university's current president, the president and immediate past president of the university's citizens board, and the president, president-elect, and immediate past president of the university's alumni association.[22] Since 1982, the board has developed eleven visiting committees, which include both trustees and outside experts to assist in overseeing the university's 12 academic units.[22]
Each of the University of Miami's 12 schools and colleges within the university is managed by a dean.
The University of Miami's also maintains a division of continuing and international education and an executive education program in theHerbert Business School.
Under a partnership with nearbyFlorida International University, students from both schools are permitted to take graduate classes at either university, affording graduate students at both universities a wider range of course selections.[132]
The University of Miami'sstartup ecosystem, called The Launch Pad, assists entrepreneurial University of Miami students of all majors in obtaining assistance in starting, building, and scaling their own business.[133] The program offers startup and business law-related legal assistance for student businesses in coordination with theUniversity of Miami School of Law.[134] The University of Miami also maintains anangel investor network, called Cane Angel Network, that allows university-affiliated investors to fund entrepreneurs with ties to the university.[135]
| Race and ethnicity[136] | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| White | 42% | ||
| Hispanic | 23% | ||
| Foreign national | 13% | ||
| Black | 9% | ||
| Other[a] | 7% | ||
| Asian | 5% | ||
| Economic diversity | |||
| Low-income[b] | 13% | ||
| Affluent[c] | 87% | ||
In addition to itsmedical degree program, the University of Miami'sMiller School of Medicine offers separatePhD[137] and combined MD/PhD degrees in several biomedical sciences.[138] The University of Miami's Department of Community Service, staffed by volunteer medical students and physicians from the medical school, provide free medical and other community services inMiami and surrounding communities.
| School | Tuition | Total cost |
|---|---|---|
| Undergraduate | $50,226 | $68,458 |
| Graduate school | $37,624 | $64,776 |
| Law school | $52,390 | $80,168 |
| Medical school (in-stateFlorida residents) | $40,494 | $69,051 |
| Medical school (non-Florida residents) | $44,107 | $72,664 |
For the 2022–2023 academic year, the University of Miami reports that the estimated total annual cost of attendance for full-time undergraduate students residing on campus is $78,640; the estimated total annual cost of attendance for full-time undergraduate students residing in University Village or off-campus is $83,260; and the estimated total annual cost of attendance for full-time undergraduate students residing with parents or relatives is $69,160.[140]
In its 2023 edition of "America's Best Colleges",U.S. News & World Report ranks the University of Miami 67th among all national universities.[141] Also in 2023,U.S. News ranks theMiller School of Medicine the nation's 44th-best medical school. In its "2023 Best Law Schools" report,U.S. News ranks theSchool of Law the nation's 71st-best law school.[142]
In 2022, theAcademic Ranking of World Universities ranked the University of Miami the ninth-best university in the world foroceanography[143] and the 25th-best university in the world forbusiness administration.[144]
In 2018,U.S. News & World Report ranked the University of Miami Physical Therapy Department the nation's 10th-best physical therapy program[145] and its Department of Psychology Clinical Training Program the nation's 25th best forpsychology.[146]
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The University of Miami isclassified among "Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity"[10] and ranks 67th among all U.S. universities in research and sponsored programs expenditures, which totaled $456 million in 2023.
In addition to research conducted in its individual academic schools and departments, the University of Miami maintains several university-wide research centers, including:
The University of Miami'sMiller School of Medicine receives more than $200 million annually in external grants and contracts to fund 1,500 ongoing projects. The medical campus includes more than 500,000 sq ft (46,000 m2) of research space and the University of Miami's Life Science Park provides an additional 2,000,000 sq ft (190,000 m2) of space adjacent to the university's medical campus in Miami'sHealth District.[95] University of Miami's Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute researches the biology ofstem cells and translates basic research into new regenerative therapies.
The University of Miami houses one of the nation's largest centralized academiccyberinfrastructures. In 2007, the university launched the Center for Computational Science High Performance Computing group. Since then, the group has grown from a zeroHPC cyberinfrastructure to a regional high-performance computing environment that currently supports more than 1,200 users, 220TFlops of computational power, and more than threepetabytes of disk storage.[166]
As of 2008, the University of Miami'sRosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science receives $50 million in annual external research funding.[167] Their laboratories include a saltwater wave tank, a five tank conditioning and spawning system, a multi-tankAplysia culture laboratory, controlled corals climate tanks, andDNA profiling equipment.[168] The campus also houses aninvertebrate museum with 400,000 specimens. The University of Miami operates the Bimini Biological Field Station inBimini district in the westernBahamas, an array ofoceanographic high-frequency radar along theEast Coast of the United States, and aBermuda-based aerosol observatory.[169] The university ownsLittle Salt Spring, aNational Register of Historic Places site,[170] inNorth Port, Florida, where the Rosenstiel School performsarchaeological andpaleontological research.[171]
In 2010, the University of Miami built abrain imaging annex to the James M. Cox Jr. Science Center within the College of Arts and Sciences, which includes afunctional magnetic imaging (fMRI) system and a laboratory where scientists, clinicians, and engineers study fundamental aspects of brain function. Construction of the lab was funded in part by a $14.8 million stimulus grant from theNational Institutes of Health (NIH).[172]
In 2016, the University of Miami received $195 million in federal research funding, including $131.3 million from theU.S. Department of Health and Human Services and $14.1 million from theNational Science Foundation.[173] The University of Miami'sMiller School of Medicine received a record $149.5 million in NIH funding in 2019, making the Miller School of Medicine the world's 39th-largest NIH grant recipient institution and largest NIH grant recipient of any medical school in Florida.[174]
Also in 2016, the university received $161 million in science and engineering funding from the U.S. federal government, making the university the largestHispanic-serving recipient and 56th-largest recipient of federal science and engineering funding. Within the $161 million in funding, $117 million was granted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to the university's school of medicine.[175]
The University of Miami is affiliated with 31social fraternities and sororities.[177] Multicultural fraternities and sororities include six of the nine historically African-American organizations that are collectively known as theDivine Nine,Latino, andAsian-interest fraternities and sororities.[178]
The University of Miami has over 300 registered student organizations,[179] includingAmnesty International,[180]Habitat for Humanity,[181] theIbis yearbook, UMTV (an award-winning cable television channel with nine programs broadcast onComcast Channel 96),[182] UniMiami (aSpanish cable television broadcast),[183] the student-runDistraction Magazine, and thecampus radio stationWVUM, which has broadcast to theMiami metropolitan media market continuously since 1967.[184][185] Since 1929, students have publishedThe Miami Hurricane, which is currently published weekly and has been named to theAssociated Collegiate Press Hall of Fame.[186][187]
The University of Miami's athletic teams are theMiami Hurricanes and are widely referred to as "The 'Canes" or "The U". The Hurricanes are members ofNCAA Division I, the highest level of athletics sanctioned by theNational Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and compete primarily in theAtlantic Coast Conference (ACC).[188] Prior to joining the ACC in 2004, the University of Miami competed in theBig East Conference. The Hurricanes maintain seven NCAA men's athletics teams (baseball,basketball,cross-country,diving,football,tennis, andtrack and field) and ten women's teams (basketball, cross-country, diving, golf,rowing,soccer,swimming, tennis, track and field, andvolleyball).[12]
The University of Miami's mascot, first introduced in 1957, isSebastian the Ibis. The university'smarching band, established in 1933, is calledBand of the Hour.[citation needed]
TheUniversity of Miami football team has won five national championships in1983,1987,1989,1991, and2001[13] and has appeared in theAP Top 25 frequently since the 1980s. University of Miami football alumni include eleven members of thePro Football Hall of Fame, twoHeisman Trophy winners, anddozens of players who have gone on toNFL careers. As of 2024, at least one University of Miami football player has been selected in theNFL draft in 49 consecutive NFL drafts, dating back to 1975.[189] Among all colleges and universities, the University of Miami holds all-time records for mostdefensive linemen (49) and is tied withUSC for mostwide receivers (40) to go on to play at the NFL level.[190]
Beginning in the 1980s with the arrival of former head coachHoward Schnellenberger, the University of Miami football became one of the nation's most high profile and elitecollege football programs and began developing what now is one of the sport's largest and most passionate global fan bases. Since then, it also has developed several of the most famed, flamboyant, and successful players at the NFL level but also, along the way, been subjected to vast scrutiny and some criticism during its rise to national prominence, which featured three national championships in the 1980s followed by scandal-related damage to its recruiting capabilities,[191] a subsequent comeback leading to its2001 national championship, which was followed by a secondscandal-plagued descent.
Much of the program's dramatic history from the 1980s is captured in a widely viewed December 12, 2009,ESPN documentary,The U, which drew 2.3 million viewers, then making it the most watched documentary in ESPN history. A 2014 sequel,The U Part 2, picked up whereThe U left off, covering the University of Miami as it launched a comeback from these 1980s scandals leading up to its 2001 national championship team, widely considered one of the best, and possibly the best team, in college football history,[192] followed by yet a second series of widespread scandals that cost scholarships and inflicted multi-year damage on the program's competitiveness.[193]
The Hurricanes play their home games atHard Rock Stadium inMiami Gardens.[194] In 2007, the university signed a 25-year contract for the team to play at Hard Rock Stadium through 2033.[195] Prior to moving to Hard Rock Stadium, from 1937 through 2007, the Hurricanes played their home football games at theMiami Orange Bowl inLittle Havana.
Like its football program, theUniversity of Miami baseball team has proven one of the most successful in the nation over the past four decades, winning four national championships in1982,1985,1999, and2001. Multiple Miami Hurricanes baseball players have gone on to professional careers inMajor League Baseball.[196][197][198]
The Hurricanes' baseball team plays their home games atAlex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field, an on-campus baseball stadium named forNew York Yankeesthird basemanAlex Rodriguez, who contributed $3.9 million toward the stadium's renovation.[199]
TheUniversity of Miami's men's basketball team has reached the Sweet 16 of theNCAA Division I men's basketball tournament five times (1999–2000, 2012–2013, 2015–2016, 2021–2022, and 2022–2023), the Elite Eight twice (2021–2022 and 2022–2023), and the Final Four once (2022–2023).[200] Several Miami Hurricanes men's basketball players have gone on to play in theNBA.
In2022–23, theUniversity of Miami's women's basketball team reached the NCAA Elite Eight of theNCAA Division I women's basketball tournament for the first time in program history. Several of its players have gone on to play in theWNBA.
Both basketball teams play their home games atWatsco Center, an 8,000-capacity indoor stadium on the University of Miami campus.
Players from the University of Miami's tennis program have gone on to amateur and professional accomplishments, includingIsrael team playerMaya Tahan,Wimbledon Singles championRod Mandelstam,Pan American Games Doubles gold medal winnerRonni Reis,NCAA Women's Singles championAudra Cohen,Wimbledon Doubles championDoris Hart, three-time NCAA Singles championPancho Segura, and former professional tennis playersMonique Albuquerque,Julia Cohen,Gardnar Mulloy,Ed Rubinoff,Michael Russell,Jodi Appelbaum-Steinbauer, andTodd Widom.
TheUniversity of Miami women's soccer team and both its men's and women's track and field teams host their home meets inCobb Stadium, which opened in 1999 on San Amaro Drive on the University of Miami campus.[201]
Since its 1925 founding,several University of Miami alumni have gone on to globally-recognized accomplishment and influence in their respective fields. Among them are formerHonduran presidentPorfirio Lobo Sosa, formerPeruvian presidentFernando Belaúnde, formerBelize prime ministerDean Barrow, formerIceland prime ministerBjarni Benediktsson, economist and formerBahamas Central Bank governorWendy Craigg, formerPeruvian vice president and ministerMercedes Aráoz,Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and writing professorDonald Justice, actorDwayne "The Rock" Johnson,Grammy Award-winning musiciansGloria Estefan,Bruce Hornsby,Enrique Iglesias,Jaco Pastorius, andJon Secada, chief executive officers of various companies, public officials, heads of governmental agencies, scientists, academics, media personalities, authors and writers, and multiple professional athletes inMajor League Baseball, theNBA, and theNFL, including elevenNFL Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees.
University of Miami faculty include or have included anumber of notable academics, including fourNobel Prize recipients and globally-recognized experts across nearly every academic discipline. Among them are physicistPaul Dirac, biochemistsRobert F. Furchgott andEarl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., writersPaul Holdengräber andJuan Ramón Jiménez, former U.S. ambassador to the United NationsPeter Burleigh, sinologistEdward L. Dreyer, international affairs expertLeon Gouré, historiansMary Lindemann andJoan R. Piggott, economistNeil Wallace, finance and business management expertHenrik Cronqvist, former U.S. Secretary of Health and ServicesDonna Shalala, healthcare policy and management expertJohn Quelch, audio engineerBill Porter, artist and architectBonnie Seeman, architectElizabeth Plater-Zyberk, sociologistLowell Juilliard Carr,constitutional law expertJohn Hart Ely,administrative law expertPaul R. Verkuil, musiciansJaco Pastorius andPat Metheny, artistWalter Darby Bannard, philosopherColin McGinn, and others.
Maybe we'll see 'the U' in a BCS Bowl Game next year.
This was a generation that grew up rooting for Miami, the school known as 'The U,' which won 34 straight games from 2000–02.
Next fall, incoming freshman athletes will draw for residential college rooms
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