University of Miami

This article is about the university in Florida. For the university in Ohio, see Miami University.

University of Miami

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Latin: Universitas Miamiensis
Motto	Magna est veritas (Latin)
Motto in English	Great is the truth
Type	Private research university
Established	April 8, 1925 (April 8, 1925)
Accreditation	SACS
Academic affiliations	ICUF NAICU SURA ORAU Sea-grant Space-grant
Endowment	$1.39 billion (2021)
Budget	$3.9 billion (2020)
President	Julio Frenk
Provost	Jeffrey Duerk
Academic staff	3,226
Administrative staff	13,620
Students	17,811
Undergraduates	11,090
Postgraduates	6,504
Location	Coral Gables, Florida , United States
Campus	Small city, 453 acres (1.83 km2) (total)
Newspaper	The Miami Hurricane
Other campuses	Miami
Colors	UM Orange      UM Green
Nickname	Hurricanes
Sporting affiliations	NCAA Division I FBS – ACC
Mascot	Sebastian the Ibis
Website	www.miami.edu
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The University of Miami (UM, Miami, U of M, and The U) is a private research university in Coral Gables, Florida. As of 2020, the university enrolled 17,811 students in 12 colleges and schools across nearly 350 academic majors and programs, including the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine in Miami's Health District, the law school on the main campus, and the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science on Virginia Key with research facilities in southern Miami-Dade County.

The University of Miami offers 138 undergraduate, 140 master's, and 67 doctoral degree programs. Since its founding in 1925, the university has attracted students from all 50 states and 173 foreign countries. With 16,479 faculty and staff as of 2021, the University of Miami is the second largest employer in Miami-Dade County. 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) south of downtown Miami, the core of the Miami metropolitan area, the nation's ninth largest and world's 34th largest metropolitan area with a population of 6.158 million people.

University of Miami faculty include a sizable number of notable academics across nearly all disciplines, including four Nobel Prize winners. The university is classified among "Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity". The University of Miami's research expenditures in 2021 were $375 million, making it the 71st largest research university in the nation. Its undergraduate academic admissions standards are ranked the highest among Florida's 171 universities and colleges, and the university's library system ranks among the top 50 research libraries in North America with over four million volumes, including exceptional holdings in Cuban heritage and music.

The University of Miami's intercollegiate athletic teams are collectively known as the Miami Hurricanes and compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The University of Miami's football team has won five national championships since 1983 and its baseball team has won four national championships since 1982.

History

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Lake Osceola on the University of Miami campus with the Miami skyline in the background, May 2022

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The iconic U statue, which stands nearly seven feet high and weighs nearly 1,000 pounds, on the University of Miami campus, March 2020

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Miami Herbert Business School, one of the nation's top-ranked business schools, on the University of Miami campus, September 2020

Lowe Art Museum on the University of Miami campus, October 2015

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The main gate entrance to the University of Miami campus, May 2022

Leadership

Bowman Foster Ashe (1926 to 1952)

In 1925, the University of Miami was chartered by a group of citizens who sought to offer "unique opportunities to develop inter-American studies, further creative work in the arts and letters, and conduct teaching and research programs in tropical studies". They believed that a local university would benefit the Miami metropolitan area and were optimistic that the university would be a beneficiary of future financial support, largely because South Florida was experiencing its now historic land boom of the 1920s. During this era of Jim Crow laws, there were three large state-funded universities in Florida for white males, white females, and black coeds (the University of Florida in Gainesville and Florida State University and Florida A&M University, both in Tallahassee). Like most private universities of the time, the University of Miami was founded as a coeducational institution but not yet open to Black students.

The university began in earnest in 1925 when George E. Merrick, the founder of Coral Gables, granted 160 acres (0.6 km²) and nearly $5 million ($67.5 million, adjusted for current inflation) for the university's founding. These contributions were land contracts and mortgages on real estate that had been sold in the city. The university was chartered on April 8, 1925 by the Circuit Court for Dade County. But by the fall of 1926, when the first class of 372 students enrolled at the new university, the land boom had collapsed and hopes for a speedy recovery were dashed further by a major hurricane. For the next 15 years, the university struggled to remain solvent. The first building on campus, now known as the Merrick Building, was left half built for over two decades due to economic difficulties. In the meantime, classes were held at the nearby Anastasia Hotel in Coral Gables, with partitions separating classrooms, giving the university the early nickname of "Cardboard College."

In 1929, the University of Miami's founding member William E. Walsh and other members of the university's board of regents resigned in the wake of the collapse of the Florida economy. The University of Miami's plight was so severe that students went door to door in Coral Gables collecting funds to keep it open. A reconstituted ten-member board was chaired by the university's first president Bowman Foster Ashe (1926–1952) and included Merrick, Theodore Dickinson, E.B. Douglas, David Fairchild, James H. Gilman, Richardson Saunders, Frank B. Shutts, Joseph H. Adams, and J. C. Penney. In 1930, several faculty members and more than 60 students entered the University of Miami when the University of Havana closed due to political unrest in Cuba. But none of it proved enough, and the university filed for bankruptcy in 1932.

The University of Miami survived the early turmoil, however. In July 1934, the University of Miami was reincorporated and a board of trustees replaced the board of regents. By 1940, community leaders were replacing faculty and administration as trustees. During Ashe's presidency, the University of Miami grew considerably, adding the School of Law (1928), the School of Business (1929), the School of Education (1929), the Graduate School (1941), the Marine Laboratory (1943, renamed the Rosenstiel School in 1969), the School of Engineering (1947), and the School of Medicine (1952).

During World War II, the University of Miami was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program, which offered students a path to commissioning as a U.S. Navy officer.

Jay F. W. Pearson (1952 until 1962)

In 1952, Jay F. W. Pearson, one of Ashe's long-time assistants, was appointed the University of Miami's second president. A charter faculty member and a marine biologist by trade, Pearson retained the position until 1962. Under Pearson's leadership, the University of Miami began awarding its first doctorate degrees and saw student enrollment increase substantially to over 4,000.

From 1961 until 1968, the University of Miami leased buildings on its south campus to serve as the covert headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency's JMWAVE operation against Fidel Castro's government in Cuba. 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. African Americans were also allowed full participation in student activities and sports teams. In 1966, the University of Miami signed Ray Bellamy, an African American, to a scholarship, making the University of Miami the first major college in the Deep South with a Black football player on scholarship.

Historically, as was common at the time at most universities and colleges, the university regulated female student conduct more than men's conduct with a staff under the Dean of Women watching over female students. Under Pearson, the university combined the separate Dean of Men and Dean of Women positions in 1971. In 1971, the University of Miami formed a Women's Commission, which issued a 1974 report on the status of women on campus. The result was the University of Miami's first female commencement speaker, day care, and the launch of a Women's Study minor. Following the enactment of Title IX in 1972 and decades of litigation, University of Miami organizations, including honorary societies, were opened to women's participation and inclusion. The Women's Commission also sought more equitable funding for women's sports. In 1973, Terry Williams Munz became the first woman in the United States awarded an athletic scholarship when she accepted a golf scholarship from the University of Miami.

Henry King Stanford (1962 until 1981)

Henry King Stanford became the University of Miami's third president in 1962. The Stanford presidency saw increased emphasis on research, reorganization of administrative structure and the construction of new campus facilities. Among the new research centers established were 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). Under Stanford, in 1965, the University of Miami also began to actively recruit international students. With the start of the 1968 football season, Stanford also barred the playing of "Dixie" by the university's band.

Edward T. Foote II (1981 until 2000)

In 1981, Edward T. Foote II became the University of Miami's fourth president. Under Foote's leadership, on-campus student housing was converted into a system of residential colleges and Foote initiated a five-year $400 million fundraising campaign for the University of Miami that began in 1984 and ultimately raised $517.5 million. Under Foote, the University of Miami's endowment expanded almost ten-fold under his leadership from $47.4 million in 1981 to $465.2 million in 2000.

Donna Shalala (2000 until 2015)

See also: 2011 University of Miami athletics scandal, The North-South Center, and University of Miami Justice for Janitors campaign

Foote was succeeded by Donna Shalala, who was named the University of Miami's fifth president in November 2000. Under Shalala, the University of Miami built new libraries, dormitories, symphony rehearsal halls, and classroom buildings. The university's academic quality and the academic quality of its incoming students also continued improving, a trend that began in earnest under Foote.

In the early hours of November 5, 2001, an 18-year-old University of Miami fraternity pledge drowned while attempting to swim across Lake Osceola, the campus lake, while intoxicated. Swimming in Lake Osceola, which was already prohibited by the university, was subsequently made punishable by expulsion. Police reports later cited the student's dangerously high blood alcohol content in conjunction with dropping water temperatures and exhaustion as the 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."

In 2002, the University of Miami launched a new multi-year fundraising campaign that ultimately raised $1.37 billion, the most money raised by any college in Florida history as of February 8, 2008. From those proceeds, $854 million was allocated to construction of the University of Miami's Leonard M. School of Medicine medical campus. On November 30, 2007, the University of Miami acquired the Cedars Medical Center in Miami's Health District and renamed it University of Miami Hospital, giving the Miller School of Medicine an in-house teaching hospital rather than having to rely on academic affiliations with area hospitals.

In 2003, Shalala closed the University of Miami's North-South Center, which was established by the U.S. Congress in 1984, had secured a partnership with the Rand Corporation, and had become, as Associated 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."

On September 30, 2004, the University of Miami hosted one of the three nationally televised U.S. presidential debates between presidential candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry during the 2004 presidential election. The debate, which was moderated by Jim Lehrer of PBS NewsHour, was held in the University of Miami's Watsco Center and was viewed by 62.5 million people.

In 2005, the University of Miami introduced a sustainability initiative, called "Green U" initiative, which includes LEED certification for buildings and the use of biofuels by the campus bus fleet.

On February 28, 2006, the University of Miami's custodial workers, who were contracted to the university by a Boston-based company, alleged unfair labor practices, substandard pay, lack of health benefits, and workplace safety and began a strike, which was supported by University of Miami students who began a hunger strike and on-campus vigil in support of the workers. The strike was settled on May 1, 2006, with a card count union vote that led to the establishment of the University of Miami's first collective bargaining unit in the university's history. The university raised wages for its custodial workers from $6.40 to $8.35 per hour and provided health insurance.

In October 2006, the University of Miami established the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy.

In 2008 and 2009, an economic slowdown led to a 26.8 percent loss in the university's endowment and an associated reduction in its endowment income, and the university responded by tightening expenditures. However, damage from the endowment's negative performance was limited because the University of Miami receives more than 98 percent of its operating budget from other sources. In 2011, despite the endowment's performance, the University of Miami was ranked the nation's most fiscally-responsible nonprofit organization by Worth magazine in a report issued in collaboration with nonprofit watchdog Charity Navigator.

In 2010, the university launched the R.J. Dunlap Marine Conservation Program to educate students on the importance of protecting the marine environment.

Julio Frenk (2015 until present)

On April 13, 2015, the University of Miami announced the appointment of Julio Frenk, the former dean of the Harvard University School of Public Health and former Secretary of Health for the government of Mexico, as the university's sixth president.

Campus

Coral Gables campus

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Shalala Student Center looking over Lake Osceola on the University of Miami campus, September 2020

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Lakeside Village, a University of Miami residential complex of 25 interconnected buildings, with Lake Osceola in the foreground, September 2020

See also: Frost School of Music, Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, John C. Gifford Arboretum, Lake Osceola (Coral Gables), Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami Patti and Allan Herbert Business School, and University of Miami School of Law

The University of Miami's main campus spans 240 acres (0.97 km²) in Coral Gables, 5 miles (8.0 km) south of downtown Miami. Most of the University of Miami's academic programs are based on the main campus in Coral Gables, which houses seven schools and two colleges, including the University 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. Lake Osceola, a man-made freshwater lake developed in the late 1940s, is located at the center of campus.

The University of Miami's campus theater is the Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, named for University of Miami alumnus Jerry Herman, composer and lyricist of Hello Dolly!, La Cage aux Folles, and other Broadway theatre hits.

The John C. Gifford Arboretum, a campus arboretum and botanical garden, is located on the northwest corner of the main Coral Gables campus. The Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center at the University of Miami's School of Architecture holds periodic architecture and design exhibitions.

Transportation to the Coral Gables campus is served by the Miami Metrorail at University Station. The Metro connects the University of Miami to downtown 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. The Hurry 'Canes shuttle bus service operates two routes on campus (as well as to University Station) and weekend routes to various off-campus stores and facilities during the school year; an additional shuttle route provides service to the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science campus on Virginia Key and Vizcaya station. The university also has a Zipcar service.

In 2018, rap artist Drake filmed the music video for his song "God's Plan" at the University of Miami.

Student housing

UM residence halls	Year built	Room capacity
Eaton Residential College	1954	400
Mahoney Residential College	1958	700
Pearson Residential College	1962	700
Hecht Residential College	1968	850
Stanford Residential College	1968	850
University Village	2006	800
Lakeside Village	2020	1,115
Total		5,415

The University of Miami's main campus in Coral Gables houses 5,415 enrolled students. This group is disproportionately freshmen (89 percent of new freshmen live on campus compared with 39 percent of all degree undergraduates). 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 McDonald and Pentland Towers of Hecht Residential College and the Walsh and Rosborough Towers of Stanford Residential College are commonly referred to as the "Freshman Towers". Eaton Residential College, which originally housed only women, and the Mahoney/Pearson Residential Colleges have suite-style housing with every two double-occupancy rooms connected by a shared bathroom.

In addition to these five residential colleges, the University of Miami campus also has a student residential area called University Village, which consists of seven buildings with apartment-style annual contract housing with fully furnished kitchen facilities. The University Village is only open to juniors and seniors, but was previously open to graduate students and students of the School of Law until July 31, 2009; after this date, there has been no housing available for any graduate students on the Coral Gables campus. The University of Miami also has a series of fraternity houses, opposite the intramural fields on San Amaro Drive, dubbed "Fraternity Row". Sororities are housed in on-campus suites, which do not serve as residences to members.

The Lakeside Village, a residential complex of 25 interconnected buildings, provides student housing for 1,115 sophomores, juniors and seniors. This $153 million project was completed in August 2020.

Medical school campus

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Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, the primary teaching hospital of the University of Miami's Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine and the largest hospital in the United States with 1,547 beds

Main article: Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine

See also: Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Jackson Memorial Hospital, John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, and University of Miami Division of Surgical Neurooncology

The University of Miami's Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine campus, located on Northwest 10th Avenue in Miami's Health District, trains 1,000 students annually in various health-related programs. The campus consists of 70 acres (280,000 m²) within the 153 acres (620,000 m²) of the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Medical Center complex.

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 the Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center are also a part of the medical center and are affiliated with the University of Miami but are not owned by the university. The heart of the School of Medicine campus is "The Alamo", the original City of Miami Hospital, which opened in 1918 and now is on the National Register of Historic Places.

In 2006, the University of Miami opened a 300,000 sq ft (28,000 m²), 15-story Clinical Research Building and Wellness Center. In 2007, the university purchased Cedars Medical Center and renamed it University of Miami Hospital. Situated in the Miami Health District, the hospital is close to the Jackson Memorial Hospital, which is used by University of Miami medical students and faculty to provide patient care.

In 2009, a LEED-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 the Miami Institute for Human Genomics. 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 office space and laboratories. The University of Miami's medical campus is connected to the university's main campus by the Miami Metrorail with direct stations at University Station for the main Coral Gables campus and Civic Center Station for the medical campus.

Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science campus

The Applied Marine Physics Building at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science on Virginia Key, September 2007

Main article: Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science

See also: Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, and Little Salt Spring

The University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, which comprises 18 acres (73,000 m²) on the Biscayne Bay waterfront on Virginia Key, is the only subtropical marine and atmospheric research institute in the continental United States. The school is also home to the world's largest hurricane simulation tank. The Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, a federal research laboratory, is headquartered next to the Rosenstiel School campus on Rickenbacker Causeway.

The school also maintains a research facility on the eastern end of Barbados, the Rosenstiel School's Barbados Atmospheric Chemistry Observatory (BACO), that documents the summertime transport of Saharan dust particles across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean Basin and South America.

The school's origins date back to 1945 when construction began on Rickenbacker Causeway to make Virginia Key accessible by car. During the Causeway's construction that year, Miami-Dade County offered the university a part of the island adjacent to Miami Seaquarium in exchange for it agreeing to operate the aquarium. However, the aquarium construction was delayed when a bond referendum failed, so the university leased the land in 1951. 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. From 1947 to 1959, the State of Florida funded the University of Miami Marine Lab on Virginia Key until the state built a separate marine laboratory in St. Petersburg. In 2009, the University of Miami received a $15 million federal grant to help construct a new $43.8 million, 56,500 square feet (5,250 m²) Marine Technology and Life Sciences Seawater Research Building on its Rosenstiel School campus.

As part of its campus-wide free shuttle service, the University of Miami operates a route from the main Coral Gables campus to the Rosenstiel School, which includes stops at the Vizcaya station on weekdays.

South and Richmond campuses

Main article: Naval Air Station Richmond

Further information: JMWAVE

In 1946, the University of Miami acquired the former Richmond Naval Air Station in southwestern Miami, 12 mi (19 km) south of the main campus in order to accommodate the post-war increase in students. The campus was acquired immediately following World War II and provided classrooms, housing, and other amenities for about 1,100 students (mostly freshmen) for two academic years. In 1948, it was repurposed by the University of Miami as a research facility. In the 1960s, some of the buildings were leased to the Central Intelligence Agency. The South Campus Grove was a 350 acres (1,400,000 m²) plot for agricultural research and horticultural studies that was established in 1948. For 20 years, the University of Miami used radioactive isotopes in biological research on the South Campus, and buried materials included irradiated animals on the site. In August 2006, the University of Miami agreed to reimburse the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers $393,473 for clean-up costs under the 1980 Superfund law. Its six buildings provide 63,800 sq ft (5,930 m²) to currently house the Global Public Health Research Group, Miami Institute for Human Genomics, and Forensic Toxicology Laboratory). The University of Miami once planned to build a south campus on the property but opted in 2014 to sell the 80 acres of land instead.

The Richmond campus is a 76 acres (310,000 m²) site that was formerly the United States Naval Observatory Secondary National Time Standard Facility, which already had buildings and a 20M antenna used for Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). The University of Miami's Rosenstiel School's Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing and Richmond Satellite Operations Center (RSOC) have research facilities on part of the new campus.

Libraries

Walkway leading to the Otto G. Richter Library on the University of Miami campus, April 2006

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The Richter Library (in background) with University Foote Green and the U Statue (in foreground) on the University of Miami campus, November 2020

The University of Miami's libraries collectively hold over four million volumes, over four million microforms, over 1.3 million electronic books, 138,402 active serials titles, 137,723 electronic journals, and 210,000 audio, film, video, and cartographic materials. The University of Miami's libraries have a staff of 71 librarians, 33 professional staff, and 76 support staff.

Four of the University of Miami's libraries are located on Coral Gables campus, including the Otto G. Richter Library (the university's primary inter-disciplinary library), the Architecture Research Center at the School of Architecture, the Judi Prokop Newman Information Resource Center at the School of Business, and the Marta and Austin Weeks Library at the Frost School of Music.

The School of Medicine's main library, the Louis Calder Memorial Library, is located on Northwest 10th Avenue on the medical campus in the Miami Health District. The medical school also has specialized libraries in ophthalmology (the Mary and Edward Norton Library) and in psychiatry (Pomerance Library). The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Library is based on the Rosentiel School's campus on Virginia Key.

Otto G. Richter Library houses collections that serve the arts, architecture, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences. It is a depository for federal and state government publications. Rare books, maps, manuscript collections, and the University of Miami Archives are housed in the library's Special Collections Division and in the Cuban Heritage Collection.

In January 2017, the Jay I. Kislak Foundation announced that it was making a substantial donation of rare books, maps, and manuscripts to the university's libraries and to Miami Dade College. The University of Miami renovated a former lecture hall, now the Kislak Center at the University of Miami, to house the foundation's donated collection along with the existing special collections and university archives. The Kislak Foundation collection includes Christopher Columbus' earliest published copies of his letter on the first voyage aboard the Niña, which Columbus authored on February 15, 1493.

Academics

See also: Frost School of Music, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami Patti and Allan Herbert Business School, and University of Miami School of Law

There are currently 2,697 full-time faculty members at the University of Miami with 98 percent of regular faculty holding doctorates or terminal degrees in their respective specialties. The University of Miami's student-faculty ratio is 12:1.

Accreditations

The University of Miami is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the Florida Department of Education with programmatic accreditation from 22 accrediting bodies, including the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the American Bar Association, the American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation, the American Physical Therapy Association Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education, the American Psychological Association, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education, Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, the Council on Education for Public Health, EFMD Quality Improvement System, Liaison Committee on Medical Education, National Association of Schools of Music]], and the Society for Simulation in Healthcare.

The university is a member of the American Association of University Women, the American Council on Education, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the Florida Association of Colleges and Universities, the Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida, and the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.

Admissions

Undergraduate New Freshman Statistics for Enrolled Students

	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016
Applicants	42,245	40,121	38,919	34,279	30,634	32,525
Admits	12,037	13,281	10,557	11,020	10,936	12,266
Admit Rate	28.5%	33.1%	27.1%	32.1%	35.7%	37.7%
SAT range	1310-1450	1260-1400	1280-1420	1250–1430	1220–1410	1210–1390
ACT range	30-33	28-32	29-32	29–32	28–32	28–32

The University of Miami has the most selective application process of any university or college in the state of Florida. For Fall 2021, the university received 42,245 undergraduate applications and reported an acceptance rate of 28.5%. In 2021, the middle 50% SAT score for University of Miami students was 1310–1450 and the middle 50% ACT score was 30–33.

The University of Miami attracts students from around the world and nation. In 2019, 23 percent of University of Miami undergraduates were from the Miami metropolitan area, 10 percent were from other parts of Florida, 51 percent were from other U.S. states, and 15 percent were international students. Graduate students were composed of 42 percent from the Greater Miami area, 11 percent from other parts of Florida, 28 percent from other U.S. states, and 19 percent were international students. As of November 2020, University of Miami ranks eleventh nationally in combined diversity across racial, geographic, gender and age factors.

As of 2012, the university reported that 70 percent of undergraduates graduated within four years, 80 percent graduated within five years, and 82 percent graduated within six years. Male student athletes and female student athletes have graduation rates of 56 percent and 67 percent, respectively, within six years.

Student body composition as of May 2, 2022

Race and ethnicity	Total
White	42%	42
Hispanic	23%	23
Foreign national	13%	13
Black	9%	9
Other	7%	7
Asian	5%	5
Economic diversity
Low-income	13%	13
Affluent	87%	87

Organization

The University of Miami is led by a board of trustees composed of 48 elected members, three alumni representatives, 23 senior members, four national members, six ex officio members, 14 emeriti members, and one student representative. Ex officio members serve by virtue of their positions in the university and include the president of the university, the president and immediate past president of the citizens board, and the president, president-elect and immediate past president of the university's alumni association. Since 1982, the board has eleven visiting committees, which include both trustees and outside experts, to help oversee the university's academic units.

University of Miami president Julio Frenk, who also serves as the university's chief executive officer, had a 2015 salary of $1.14 million. Each of the University of Miami's 12 schools and colleges within the university are headed by a dean.

Undergraduate and graduate

• College of Arts and Sciences
• College of Engineering
• Frost School of Music
• Herbert Business School
• Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
• School of Architecture
• School of Communication
• School of Education and Human Development
• School of Nursing and Health Studies

Graduate only

• The Graduate School
• Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
• University of Miami School of Law

In addition, the University of Miami has a division of continuing and international education and a program in executive education as part of its Miami Herbert Business School.

A partnership with nearby Florida International University allows students from both schools to take graduate classes at either university, affording graduate students at both universities a wider range of course selections.

The University of Miami offers a startup ecosystem, The Launch Pad, for its students, which assists students of all majors in finding help with starting, building and scaling their own business. The program also offers legal assistance for student businesses in coordination with the University of Miami School of Law. The 'Cane Angel Network is the university's angel investor network, which allows university-affiliated investors to fund entrepreneurs with ties to the university.

The Miller School of Medicine offers separate PhD and MD/PhD programs in several biomedical sciences. The University of Miami Department of Community Service, staffed by volunteer medical students and physicians from the university's medical school, provides free medical and other community services in Miami and surrounding communities.

Attendance costs

2018–2019 tuition

School	Tuition	Total cost
Undergraduate	$50,226	$68,458
Graduate school	$37,624	$64,776
Law school	$52,390	$80,168
Medical school (in-state Florida 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.

Rankings

In its 2022 edition of "America's Best Colleges," U.S. News & World Report ranks the University of Miami 55th among all national universities. Also in 2022, U.S. News ranked the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine as the 45th best medical school for research in the nation. In 2021, U.S. News ranked the School of Law as the 72nd best law school in the nation.

In its 2022 rankings of universities and colleges, the collegiate ranking company Niche ranks the University of Miami highly in several categories, including fifth best nationally in kinesiology, physical therapy and sports management, seventh best nationally in criminal justice, eighth best nationally in nursing, 15th best nationally in design, 16th best nationally in music, and 18th best nationally in accounting and finance. In Niche's 2022 rankings of universities and colleges in Florida, the University of Miami ranks first in the state in several categories, including "hardest colleges to get into," "colleges with the best academics," "colleges with the best professors," "top private universities," and "best colleges for nursing." The University of Miami ranks second best in Florida in several categories, including "most diverse colleges," "best colleges for biology," "best colleges for computer science," "best colleges for history," and "best colleges for economics".

In 2018, U.S. News ranked the University of Miami Physical Therapy Department tenth best in the nation and University of Miami's Department of Psychology's Clinical Training Program 25th best in the nation. In 2019, The Princeton Review ranked the university's Department of Interactive Media's Game Design Program 24th best in the world.

In 2016, the National Science Foundation ranked the university 89th out of 431 research institutions in the number of granted doctorate degrees. Also in 2016, the university ranked 62nd out of 902 institutions in total research and development expenditures.

University rankings
National
ARWU	70–95
Forbes	100
U.S. News & World Report	55
Washington Monthly	252
Global
ARWU	201–300
QS	291
Times	201–250

National Program Rankings
Program	Ranking
Biological Sciences	90
Business	72
Chemistry	106
Clinical Psychology	18
Earth Sciences	64
Economics	83
Education	73
Engineering	102
English	99
Fine Arts	124
Health Care Management	20
History	91
Law	72
Mathematics	86
Medicine: Research	45
Medicine: Primary Care	93-123
Nursing–Anesthesia	88
Nursing: Master's	27
Nursing: DNP	31
Physical Therapy	20
Physics	124
Psychology	60
Public Affairs	101
Public Health	56
Sociology	80

Global Subject Rankings
Program	Ranking
Biology & Biochemistry	308
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems	147
Clinical Medicine	97
Engineering	720
Environment/Ecology	210
Geosciences	89
Immunology	178
Molecular Biology & Genetics	142
Neuroscience & Behavior	103
Oncology	163
Plant & Animal Science	295
Psychiatry/Psychology	88
Social Sciences & Public Health	290
Surgery	67

Research

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The F.G. Walton Smith, a research catamaran, at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, May 2022

The University of Miami is classified among "Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity". The university ranks 71st among all universities in the nation in its research and sponsored programs expenditures, which totaled $375 million in 2021.

In fiscal year 2016, the University of Miami received $195 million in federal research funding, including $131.3 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and $14.1 million from the National Science Foundation. Of the $8.2 billion appropriated by Congress in 2009 as a part of the stimulus bill for research priorities at the National Institutes of Health, the Miller School of Medicine received $40.5 million. In addition to research conducted in the individual academic schools and departments, the University of Miami has the following university-wide research centers:

• The Center for Computational Science
• The Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS)
• Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy
• The Miami European Union Center, a European Union Center for Excellence established in a consortium between the University of Miami and Florida International University in 2001 with a grant from the European Commission to promote and research economic, social, and political issues of interest to the European Union.
• The Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies
• The John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics researches possible causes of Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and macular degeneration.
• The Center on Research and Education for Aging and Technology Enhancement (CREATE)
• The Wallace H. Coulter Center for Translational Research

The University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine receives more than $200 million per year 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 UM's Life Science Park, which has an additional 2,000,000 sq ft (190,000 m²) of space adjacent to the medical campus. University of Miami's Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute seeks to understand the biology of stem cells and translate basic research into new regenerative therapies.

As of 2008, the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science receives $50 million in annual external research funding. Their laboratories include a salt-water wave tank, a five-tank conditioning and spawning system, multi-tank Aplysia culture laboratory, controlled corals climate tanks, and DNA profiling equipment. The campus also houses an invertebrate museum with 400,000 specimens and operates the Bimini Biological Field Station in Bimini, an array of oceanographic high-frequency radar along the East Coast of the United States, and the Bermuda aerosol observatory. The university also owns the Little Salt Spring, a site on the National Register of Historic Places, in North Port, Florida where the Rosenstiel School performs archaeological and paleontological research.

The University of Miami built a brain imaging annex to the James M. Cox, Jr. Science Center within the College of Arts and Sciences, which includes a functional 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 in stimulus money grant from the National Institute of Health.

In 2016, the university received $161 million in science and engineering funding from the U.S. federal government, the largest Hispanic-serving recipient and 56th overall. Within the $161 million in funding, $117 million was granted through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and was used largely for the medical campus.

The University of Miami maintains one of the largest centralized academic cyber infrastructures in the country. In 2007, the university launched the Center for Computational Science High Performance Computing group. Since then, the group has grown from a zero HPC cyberinfrastructure to a regional high-performance computing environment that currently supports more than 1,200 users, 220 TFlops of computational power, and more than three petabytes of disk storage.

Student life

The distinctive Seminole patchwork jackets worn by members of the University of Miami's Iron Arrow Honor Society, the highest honor bestowed by the university.

See also: Iron Arrow Honor Society, Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, The Miami Hurricane, University of Miami Rugby Football Club, and WVUM

The University of Miami is affiliated with 31 fraternities and sororities. Six of them (Alpha Epsilon Pi, Lambda Chi Alpha, Pi Kappa Alpha, Pi Kappa Phi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Sigma Chi) have houses on campus. Others have suites, including Alpha Sigma Phi, Beta Theta Pi, Kappa Sigma, Sigma Alpha Mu, and Sigma Phi Epsilon. Multicultural fraternities and sororities include six of the historically African-American organizations known as the Divine Nine and Latino and Asian-interest fraternities and sororities.

As of 2022, the University of Miami has 356 student organizations, including Amnesty International, Habitat for Humanity, the Ibis yearbook, UMTV (an award-winning cable television channel with nine programs that broadcasts on Comcast Channel 96), UniMiami (a Spanish cable television broadcast), the student-run Distraction Magazine, and the campus radio station WVUM, which has broadcast to the Greater Miami media market continuously since 1967. Since 1929, students have published The Miami Hurricane newspaper twice-weekly, which has been named to the Associated Collegiate Press Hall of Fame.

The University of Miami has several student honor societies. Founded in 1926, the Iron Arrow Honor Society (which also inducts select faculty, staff, and alumni) is the highest honor awarded by the university. The university maintains a chapter of Mortar Board. In 1959, Order of Omega was founded at the university, ultimately blossoming into a national honor society in addition to its ongoing founding chapter at the University of Miami. It is now a national honorary for fraternity and sorority members with a chapter continuing at the University of Miami.

The university has appointed individuals in various departments to handle students' problems and complaints called "troubleshooters", and it has an ombudsman to mediate complaints that cannot be resolved by the troubleshooters. Since 1986, UM has an honor code governing student conduct.

Athletics

University of Miami mascot Sebastian the Ibis makes the signature "The U" hand gesture, December 2007

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Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, the home field for the five-time national champion Miami Hurricanes football team, January 2020

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Jimmy Johnson and the 1987 Miami Hurricanes football team present Ronald Reagan with a University of Miami jersey at The White House after winning their second national championship, January 1988

Watsco Center, which opened in 2003 on the University of Miami campus, is the home arena of the University of Miami's men's and women's basketball teams, May 2009

Main article: Miami Hurricanes

See also: 2011 University of Miami athletics scandal, Band of the Hour, Miami Hurricanes baseball, Miami Hurricanes football, Miami Hurricanes men's basketball, Miami Hurricanes women's basketball, Miami Hurricanes women's soccer, and University of Miami Alma Mater

The University of Miami's athletic teams are the Miami Hurricanes, often referred to as "The 'Canes" or "The U." The Hurricanes are members of NCAA Division I, the highest level of athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and compete primarily in the Atlantic Coast Conference) (ACC). Prior to joining the ACC in 2004, the University of Miami competed in the Big East Conference. The Hurricanes maintain seven NCAA men's teams (baseball, basketball, cross-country, diving, football, tennis, and track and field) and ten women's teams (basketball, cross-country, diving, golf, rowing, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and field, and volleyball).

The University of Miami's mascot, first introduced in 1957, is Sebastian the Ibis. The university's 179 member marching band, established in 1933, is the Band of the Hour.

Football

Main article: Miami Hurricanes football

See also: Catholics vs. Convicts (film), FIU–Miami football brawl, Hard Rock Stadium, List of Miami Hurricanes in the NFL draft, The U (film), Wide Right I, and Wide Right II

The University of Miami football team has won five national championships (1983, 1987, 1989, 1991, and 2001) and has appeared in the AP Top 25 frequently since the 1980s. Miami Hurricanes football alumni include seven members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, two Heisman Trophy winners, and dozens of players who have gone on to careers in the NFL. As of 2022, at least one University of Miami football player has been selected in the NFL Draft in each of the 48 consecutive NFL drafts, dating back to 1975. Among all colleges and universities, as of 2022, the University of Miami holds the all-time record for the most defensive linemen (49) and is tied with USC for the most wide receivers (40) to go on to play in the NFL.

On December 12, 2009, the global sports network ESPN aired a documentary on the University of Miami football program, The U, which chronicles the rise of the program in the 1980s that led to its 1983, 1985, and 1987 national championships followed by program-related scandals that led to the program's subsequent fall. The documentary, which drew 2.3 million viewers, set a record for the most watched documentary in ESPN's history. A sequel, The U Part 2 was later released, covered the program's comeback and its 2002 national championship team, widely considered on the best teams in the history of the sport, followed again by program-related scandals that cost the university scholarships and hurt its competitiveness in the early 2000s.

On December 7, 2021, Mario Cristobal, a former University of Miami college football player and former head coach at Florida International University and the University of Oregon, was officially introduced as the University of Miami's new head football coach.

The Hurricanes play their home games at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens. In 2007, the university signed a 25-year contract for the team to play at Hard Rock Stadium through 2033. Prior to moving to Hard Rock Stadium, from 1937 through 2007, the Hurricanes played their home football games at the Miami Orange Bowl in Little Havana, which was demolished in 2008.

Baseball

Main article: Miami Hurricanes baseball

See also: Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field

The University of Miami baseball team has won four national championships (1982, 1985, 1999 and 2001). Multiple Miami Hurricanes baseball players have gone on to professional careers in Major League Baseball. Ryan Braun, who played for the Milwaukee Brewers from 2007 until 2020.

The University of Miami's baseball team plays their home games at Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field, an on-campus baseball stadium named for New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez who contributed $3.9 million toward the stadium's 2007–2009 renovation.

The team is coached currently by Gino DiMare, and its baseball-only mascot, introduced in 1982, is the Miami Maniac.

Men's and women's basketball

Main articles: Miami Hurricanes men's basketball and Miami Hurricanes women's basketball

See also: Watsco Center

The head coach of the University of Miami's men's basketball team since 2011 is Jim Larrañaga. The University of Miami's men's basketball team has reached the NCAA Championship's "Sweet 16" three times (1999–2000, 2012–2013, and 2021–2022). In the 2021–2022 season, they reached the "Elite 8" for the first time in school history. Several Miami Hurricanes men's basketball players have gone on to NBA careers. The head coach of the University of Miami's women's basketball team since 2005 is Katie Meier. Several Miami Hurricanes women's basketball players have gone on to WNBA careers.

Both basketball teams play their home games at Watsco Center, an 8,000-capacity indoor stadium on the University of Miami campus.

Other sports

Main article: Miami Hurricanes women's soccer

See also: Cobb Stadium

The University of Miami women's soccer team and both its men's and women's track and field teams host their home meets in Cobb Stadium, which opened in 1999 on the University of Miami campus.

People

Notable alumni

Main article: List of University of Miami alumni

University of Miami alumni include a number of prominent people, including former Honduran president Porfirio Lobo Sosa, former Peruvian president Fernando Belaúnde, former prime minister of Belize Dean Barrow, former prime minister of Iceland Bjarni Benediktsson, economist and former Bahamas Central Bank governor Wendy Craigg, former Peruvian vice president and minister of finance and economy Mercedes Aráoz, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and writing professor Donald Justice, actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Grammy Award-winning musicians Gloria Estefan, Bruce Hornsby, Enrique Iglesias, Jaco Pastorius, and Jon Secada, chief executive officers of various companies, public officials and heads of governmental agencies, scientists, academics, media personalities, and multiple professional athletes from Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Football League, including nine Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees.

Notable faculty

Main article: List of University of Miami faculty

University of Miami faculty include, or have included, a sizable number of notable academics, including four Nobel Prize recipients and globally-recognized experts across nearly every academic discipline, including physicist Paul Dirac, biochemists Robert F. Furchgott and Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., writers Paul Holdengräber and Juan Ramón Jiménez, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Peter Burleigh, sinologist Edward L. Dreyer, international affairs expert Leon Gouré, historians Mary Lindemann and Joan R. Piggott, economist Neil Wallace, finance and business management expert Henrik Cronqvist, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Services Donna Shalala, healthcare policy and management expert John Quelch, international business expert Yadong Luo, audio engineer Bill Porter, artist and architect Bonnie Seeman, architect Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, sociologist Lowell Juilliard Carr, constitutional law expert John Hart Ely, administrative law expert Paul R. Verkuil, musicians Jaco Pastorius and Pat Metheny, artist Walter Darby Bannard, philosopher Colin McGinn, and others.

External links

• University of Miami athletics website

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