The University of Miami (UM, UMiami, Miami, U of M, and The U) is a
private research university in
Coral Gables, Florida. , the university enrolled 19,096 students
in 12 colleges and schools across nearly 350
academic major
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s 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
The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS ) is the University of Miami's academic and research institution for the study of oceanography and atmospheric sciences.
Founded in 1943, the University of Miami's Rosenstiel Schoo ...
on
Virginia Key
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The island is mainly occupied by the Virginia K ...
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 16,954 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 , has over of buildings, and is located south of
Downtown Miami
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, the heart of
the nation's ninth largest and
world's 65th largest metropolitan area.
University of Miami faculty include a
number of notable academics across nearly all disciplines, including four
Nobel Prize
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recipients. The university is
classified among "Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity".
As of 2021, it is the 71st largest research university in the nation with research expenditures of $375 million.
Its undergraduate academic admissions standards are ranked the most selective among all of
Florida
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's 171 universities and colleges, and the university's library system ranks among the top 50
research libraries
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in North America with over four million volumes, including exceptional holdings in
Cuban heritage and
music
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.
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As of 2021, the University of Miami has 218,817 total alumni since its 1925 founding, including
several globally notable alumni who have gone on to prove enormously influential in a wide range of fields, including academics, business, government, scientific innovation and healthcare, non-profit organizational leadership, thought leadership and activism, television and film, music, professional and Olympic athletics, art, literature, and writing.
The University of Miami's intercollegiate athletic teams are collectively known as the
Miami Hurricanes
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and compete in
Division I of the
National Collegiate Athletic Association
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.
Its
football team
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has won five national championships since 1983
and its
baseball team has won four national championships since 1982.
History
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
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Background
Arts and Letters was a chestnut horse owned and bred by American sportsman and philanthropist Paul Mellon, and train ...
, 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, especially since
South Florida was benefiting from the historic
1920s land boom.
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
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in
Gainesville and
Florida State University and
Florida A&M University
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, both in
Tallahassee
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). 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, founder of
Coral Gables, granted and nearly $5 million ($ million, adjusted for current inflation) for the university's founding. The contributions included land contracts and mortgages on real estate that had been sold in the city. The university was formally chartered April 8, 1925 by the Circuit Court for Dade County.
But by 1926, as the first class of 372 students enrolled at the new university,
the land boom had collapsed and hopes for a speedy recovery were dashed by the
Great Miami Hurricane of 1926.
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,
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.
In 1929, the University of Miami's 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.
A reconstituted ten-member board was chaired by the university's first president
Bowman Foster Ashe (1926–1952) and included Merrick, Joseph H. Adams, Theodore Dickinson, E.B. Douglas,
David Fairchild
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, James H. Gilman,
J. C. Penney, Richardson Saunders, and Frank B. Shutts. In 1930, several faculty members and more than 60 students entered the University of Miami when the
University of Havana closed amidst political unrest in Cuba.
But none of it proved enough, and the university was forced to seek bankruptcy protection in 1932.
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.
During Ashe's presidency, the university grew considerably, adding the
School of Law
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Law degrees Argentina
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(1928), the
School of Business (1929, renamed the
Miami Herbert Business School in 2019), 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
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, the University of Miami was one of only 131 colleges and universities nationally to participate in the
V-12 Navy College Training Program, which offered students a path to commissioning as a
U.S. Navy
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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
marine biologist,
Pearson held the university's presidency for a decade, until 1962.
Under Pearson's leadership, the University of Miami began awarding its first
Ph.D.
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degrees, and student enrollment increased substantially, exceeding 4,000.
From 1961 until 1968, the university leased buildings on its south campus to the
Central Intelligence Agency
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that were used in the
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 and allowing their full participation in student activities and athletic teams.
Five years later, in 1966, Ray Bellamy, a Black student at the University of Miami, became the first major Black college athlete in the
Deep South to receive an athletic scholarship.
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. The same year, the university established a Women's Commission, which issued a 1974 report on the status of women on campus, leading to the university's first female commencement speaker, day care, and the launch of a Women's Study minor. Following enactment of
Title 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. 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.
Henry King Stanford (1962 until 1981)
Henry King Stanford, then president of
Birmingham–Southern College, was appointed the University of Miami's third president in 1962. 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.
Beginning with the 1968 football season, Stanford barred playing of "
Dixie" by the university's band.
Edward T. Foote II (1981 until 2000)
In 1981,
Edward T. Foote II
Edward Thaddeus "Tad" Foote II (December 15, 1937 – February 15, 2016) was an American academic administrator, attorney, and journalist who served as the fourth president of the University of Miami from 1981 through 2001.
Early life and educat ...
, then dean of
Washington University School of Law
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, was appointed the University of Miami's fourth president. Under Foote's leadership, the university continued and accelerated its objective of attracting elite faculty and students. As part of the university's strategic plan under Foote's leadership, the university consciously limited and even reduced the number of its undergraduates with a conscientious focus on quality alone. He also led a successful effort to convert on-campus student housing into a system of residential colleges
and the university launched its largest fundraising campaign to date, a five-year, $400 million campaign that began in 1984 and ultimately substantially exceeded that goal, raising $517.5 million, and the University of Miami began being cited as one of the nation's premier universities.
Under Foote, the University of Miami's endowment expanded almost ten-fold from $47.4 million in 1981 to $465.2 million in 2000.
Donna Shalala (2000 until 2015)
Foote was succeeded by
Donna Shalala, former
chancellor of the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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from 1988 to 1993 and
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
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from 1993 to 2001. Shalala 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 also continued improving, a trend that began in earnest under Foote.
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 across
Lake Osceola, the campus lake, while intoxicated. Police reports later cited the student's dangerously high
blood alcohol content
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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."
The university responded by making swimming in Lake Osceola, which was already prohibited, punishable by expulsion.
In 2002, the University of Miami launched a new and even more ambitious multi-year fundraising campaign that ultimately raised $1.37 billion,
the most ever raised by any university or college in Florida history . From these proceeds, over half, $854 million, was allocated to construct and improve the
University of Miami's Leonard M. School of Medicine medical campus.
In November 2007, the University of Miami acquired Cedars Medical Center in Miami's
Health 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.
In 2003, Shalala controversially chose to close the University of Miami's
North-South Center, which was established by the
U.S. Congress
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in 1984, had secured a partnership with the
Rand Corporation, and had become, as
Associated Press
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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 three nationally televised
U.S. presidential debates between presidential candidates
George W. Bush and
John Kerry during the
2004 presidential election. The debate was moderated by
Jim Lehrer
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of ''
PBS NewsHour
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Anchored by Judy Woodruff, the pro ...
'' and held on the University of Miami campus inside the
Watsco Center. It drew 62.5 million viewers.
In February 2006, University of Miami custodial workers, who had been contracted to the university through a
Boston
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-based company, alleged unfair labor practices, substandard pay, lack of health benefits, and workplace safety concerns and
began a strike. The strike 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 count
union
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** ''Un ...
vote was permitted and led to establishment of the 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 2008 and 2009, in part stemming from the
Great Recession
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, the university endowment lost 26.8% of its capital and additional associated losses from diminished endowment income. The university responded by tightening expenditures.
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.
In 2011, the university was ranked the nation's most fiscally responsible nonprofit organization in a
Charity Navigator report published in collaboration with ''
Worth magazine''.
Julio Frenk (2015 until present)
On April 13, 2015, the University of Miami announced the appointment of
Julio Frenk, former dean of
Harvard University School of Public Health and former
Secretary of Health for the
government of Mexico
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, as the university's sixth president.
On March 10, 2016, the University of Miami hosted the
2016 Republican presidential primary
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's
twelfth and final debate at
BankUnited Center on the university campus, which was aired nationally on
CNN
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.
Campus
Coral Gables campus
The University of Miami's main campus spans in
Coral Gables, south of
Downtown Miami
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. Most of the university's academic programs are based on its main Coral Gables campus, which houses seven schools and two colleges, including the
Frost School of Music,
Herbert Business School, and the
University of Miami School of Law. The campus has over 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's campus theater,
Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, is named for University of Miami alumnus
Jerry Herman, a composer and lyricist responsible for some of
Broadway
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's most successful productions, including ''
Hello Dolly!'', ''
La Cage aux Folles'', and other Broadway 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 provided by
Miami Metrorail, whose
University Station stop is within walking distance of the campus. The Metro connects the University of Miami to
Downtown Miami
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,
Brickell
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Brickell was found ...
,
Coconut Grove
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,
Civic Center
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,
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, 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 the
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
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Founded in 1943, the University of Miami's Rosenstiel Schoo ...
campus on
Virginia Key
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The island is mainly occupied by the Virginia K ...
and
Vizcaya Station. The university also has a
Zipcar service.
In February 2018, rap artist
Drake filmed substantial portions of the music video for his song "
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" on the University of Miami campus.
Student housing
The University of Miami's main campus in Coral Gables houses 5,415 enrolled students, 89 percent of whom are freshman.
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 and the Walsh and Rosborough Towers of Stanford Residential College, are commonly referred to as the "Freshman Towers". The second, Eaton Residential College, which originally housed only women, and Mahoney/Pearson Residential Colleges 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, 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 but previously had been open to graduate students and students of the School of Law until 2009.
The University of Miami also has seven
fraternity houses, on San Amaro Drive opposite the university's intramural fields, called "Fraternity Row". The seven fraternities, which offer housing to student members of these fraternities, include:
Alpha Epsilon Pi
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,
Alpha Sigma Phi
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The ...
,
Lambda Chi Alpha
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,
Pi Kappa Phi
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,
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
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,
Sigma Chi
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, and
Zeta Beta Tau. Sororities are housed in on-campus suites, which do not currently serve as residences.
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
The University of Miami's
Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine campus, located on Northwest 10th Avenue in
Miami
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's
Health District, has 1,523 full-time faculty and 819 students as of 2022.
The campus includes within the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Medical Center's 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 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.
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 the
National Register of Historic Places
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.
In 2006, the University of Miami opened a , 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 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.
In 2009, a
LEED-certified nine-story biomedical research building, a laboratory, and an office facility were opened to house the University of Miami's Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute and its
John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics.
The University of Miami has completed a Life Science Park adjacent to the university's medical campus that houses medical offices and laboratories. The University of Miami's medical campus is connected to the university's main campus by the
Metrorail
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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 University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science maintains its campus on the
Biscayne Bay
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waterfront on
Virginia Key
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The island is mainly occupied by the Virginia K ...
. It is the only subtropical marine and atmospheric research institute in the continental United States. The school is home to the world's largest
hurricane simulation tank. The
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
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, a federal research laboratory, maintains its headquarters next to the Rosenstiel School campus on
Rickenbacker Causeway
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Background
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and collaborates on various academic projects with the Rosenstiel School.
The school maintains a research facility on the eastern end of the
Caribbean nation of
Barbados called the Rosenstiel School's Barbados Atmospheric Chemistry Observatory (BACO). This facility provides detailed documentation and research on summertime transport of
Saharan dust particles across the
Atlantic Ocean
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to the
Caribbean Basin
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and
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the sout ...
.
The school's origins date back to 1945 when construction began on
Rickenbacker Causeway
The Rickenbacker Causeway is a causeway that connects Miami, Florida to the barrier islands of Virginia Key and Key Biscayne across Biscayne Bay.
Background
The Causeway is a toll road, owned and operated by Miami-Dade County. Automobiles ...
to make Virginia Key accessible by car. During the Causeway's construction,
Miami-Dade County offered the university a part of the island adjacent to
Miami Seaquarium in exchange for it agreeing to assume operational management of the aquarium.
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 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 completed construction of its own marine laboratory in
St. Petersburg
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.
In 2009, the University of Miami received a $15 million federal grant to help construct a new $43.8 million, Marine Technology and Life Sciences Seawater Research Building on the Rosenstiel School campus.
South and Richmond campuses
In 1946, following the U.S. military's deactivation of
Richmond Naval Air Station in southwestern Miami, the University of Miami acquired the facility to accommodate its vast increase in post-
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
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.
In the 1960s, the university opted to lease some of its buildings to the
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gathering, processing, ...
. Another section of the property, established in 1948, was called South Campus and included a plot used for university-sponsored agricultural and horticultural research.
For 20 years, the University of Miami used radioactive
isotope
Isotopes are two or more types of atoms that have the same atomic number (number of protons in their nuclei) and position in the periodic table (and hence belong to the same chemical element), and that differ in nucleon numbers (mass numb ...
s 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 the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers $393,473 for clean up costs at the site made available under the
1980 Superfund law. Six buildings on the site provide
and currently house the Global Public Health Research Group, Miami Institute for Human Genomics, and Forensic Toxicology Laboratory. 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.
The Richmond campus is a site that was formerly the
United States Naval Observatory Secondary National Time Standard Facility, which already had buildings and a 20M antenna used for
long interferometry. The University of Miami's Rosenstiel School's
Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing
The Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing (CSTARS) is a ground station owned by the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science that receives imagery data from a variety of remote sensing satellites ...
and Richmond Satellite Operations Center (RSOC) maintain their research facilities on part of this campus.
Libraries
The University of Miami maintains one of the nation's largest university library systems, which currently hold in excess of 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 as of 2022.
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 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 the
Herbert Business School, and the Marta and Austin Weeks Library at
Frost School of Music.
The
Miller School of Medicine's main library, Louis Calder Memorial Library, is located on Northwest 10th Avenue on the medical campus in the
Miami Health District. The medical school also maintains and manages two specialized medical libraries: The Mary and Edward Norton Library in
ophthalmology
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An ophthalmologist is a physician who undergoes subspecialty training in medical and surgical eye care. Following a medic ...
focused on
ophthalmology
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An ophthalmologist is a physician who undergoes subspecialty training in medical and surgical eye care. Following a medic ...
and the Pomerance Library focused on
psychiatry
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. The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Library is based on the
Rosentiel School's campus on
Virginia Key
Virginia Key is an barrier island in Miami, Florida. It is located in Biscayne Bay south of Brickell and north of Key Biscayne and is accessible from the mainland via the Rickenbacker Causeway.
The island is mainly occupied by the Virginia K ...
.
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 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. The Richter's Cuban Heritage Collection, which specializes in
Cuba
Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...
-related collections, maintains some of world's largest Cuba-related holdings.
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 are
Christopher Columbus' original published copies of
his letter on the first voyage aboard the ''
Niña
''La Niña'' ( Spanish for ''The Girl'') was one of the three Spanish ships used by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus in his first voyage to the West Indies in 1492. As was tradition for Spanish ships of the day, she bore a female saint's n ...
'', which Columbus authored on February 15, 1493.
Academics
The University of Miami currently employs 2,697 full-time faculty members with 98 percent of them holding either
doctorates or terminal degrees in their respective specialties.
The university's student-faculty ratio, as of 2018, was 12:1.
Accreditations
The University of Miami is a broadly accredited academic institution, including by the
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the
Florida Department of Education and by 22 programmatic 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 American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States, with over 133,000 members, including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students. It ha ...
, the
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the
Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education, the
Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, the
Council on Education for Public Health
The Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) is an independent agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit schools of public health and public health programs offered in settings other than schools of public health. T ...
, the
EQUIS
The EFMD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) is an international school accreditation system. It specializes in higher education institutions of management and business administration, run by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFM ...
, the
Liaison Committee on Medical Education
The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) is an accrediting body for educational programs at schools of medicine in the United States and Canada.''Glossary.'' ACGME website. The LCME is sponsored by the Association of American Medical Co ...
, the
National Association of Schools of Music
The National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) is an association of post-secondary music schools in the United States and the principal U.S. accreditor for higher education in music. It was founded on October 20, 1924, and is based in Reston ...
, 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 on Education (ACE) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) U.S. higher education association established in 1918. ACE's members are the leaders of approximately 1,700 accredited, degree-granting colleges and universities and higher educatio ...
, the
American Council of Learned Societies, the
Association of American Colleges and Universities
The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) is a global membership organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States. It works to improve quality and equity in undergraduate education and advance liberal education. ...
, the Florida Association of Colleges and Universities, the Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida, and the
National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.
In September 2022,
Miami Herbert Business School was awarded
AMBA accreditation, securing "
triple crown
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* Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing
* Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States)
** Triple Crown Trophy
** Triple Crown Productions
* Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing
* Tri ...
" accreditation status, which includes accreditation by EQUIS,
AACSB International, and AMBA. Less than one percent of the world's
business schools have been recognized with accreditation from all three of these academic accrediting bodies.
Admissions
Undergraduate
Admission to the University of Miami is ranked as the most selective and competitive among all of Florida's 171 universities and colleges. For the Class of 2025 (enrolled fall 2021), UMiami received 42,244 applications and accepted 12,036 (28.5%). Of those accepted, 2,766 enrolled, a
yield rate (the percentage of accepted students who choose to attend the university) of 23.0%.
The enrolled first-year class of 2025 had the following standardized test scores: the middle 50% range (25th percentile-75th percentile) of
SAT scores was 1310-1450, while the middle 50% range of
ACT scores was 30-33.
The University of Miami attracts students from around the world and nation. As of 2019, 23 percent of University of Miami undergraduates were from the
Miami metropolitan area, 10 percent were from other parts of
Florida
Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...
, 51 percent were from other U.S. states, and 15 percent were international students. Among graduate students, 42 percent were from the Greater Miami area, 11 percent were from other parts of Florida, 28 percent were from other U.S. states, and 19 percent were international students.
As of November 2020, the University of Miami ranks eleventh nationally in combined diversity across racial, geographic, gender and age factors.
UMiami's freshman
retention rate is 93%, with 84% going on to graduate within six years.
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. Male student athletes and female student athletes have graduation rates of 56 percent and 67 percent, respectively, within six years.
Organization
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, six
''ex officio'' members, 14
emeriti members, and one student representative.
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.
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.
As of 2015, University of Miami president
Julio Frenk, who also serves as the university's chief executive officer, was paid $1.14 million annually. Each of the University of Miami's 12 schools and colleges within the university is managed 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
The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS ) is the University of Miami's academic and research institution for the study of oceanography and atmospheric sciences.
Founded in 1943, the University of Miami's Rosenstiel Schoo ...
*School of Architecture
*School of Communication
*School of Education and Human Development
*School of Nursing and Health Studies
;Graduate only:
*
Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
*The Graduate School
*
University of Miami School of Law
The University of Miami's also maintains a division of continuing and international education and an executive education program in the
Herbert Business School.
Under a partnership with nearby
Florida 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.
The University of Miami's
startup ecosystem
A startup ecosystem is formed by people, Startup company, startups in their various stages and various types of organizations in a location (physical or virtual), interacting as a system to create and scale new Startup company, startup companies. ...
, called The Launch Pad, assists entrepreneurial University of Miami students of all majors in obtaining assistance in starting, building, and scaling their own business. The program offers startup and business law-related legal assistance for student businesses in coordination with the
University of Miami School of Law. The University of Miami also maintains an
angel investor network, called Cane Angel Network, that allows university-affiliated investors to fund entrepreneurs with ties to the university.
In addition to its
medical degree
A medical degree is a professional degree admitted to those who have passed coursework in the fields of medicine and/or surgery from an accredited medical school. Obtaining a degree in medicine allows for the recipient to continue on into special ...
program, the University of Miami's
Miller School of Medicine offers separate
PhD and combined MD/PhD degrees in several biomedical sciences. 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 in
Miami
Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a coastal metropolis and the county seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida, United States. With a population of 442,241 at ...
and surrounding communities.
Attendance costs
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'' ranks the
Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine the nation's 43rd best medical school. In its "2023 Best Law Schools" report, ''U.S. News'' ranks the
School of Law
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the nation's 73rd best law school, down from 72nd best in 2022.
In 2022, the ''
Academic Ranking of World Universities'' ranked the University of Miami the ninth best university in the world for
oceanography and the 25th best university in the world for
business administration.
In 2018, ''U.S. News & World Report'' ranked the University of Miami Physical Therapy Department the nation's tenth best physical therapy program and its Department of Psychology Clinical Training Program the nation's 25th best for
psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries between ...
.
Research
The University of Miami is
classified among "Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity"
and ranks 71st among all U.S. universities in research and sponsored programs expenditures, which totaled $375 million in 2021.
In addition to research conducted in its individual academic schools and departments, the University of Miami maintains several university-wide research centers, including:
*Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy seeks to bridge the gap between science and
environmental policy.
*Center for Research and Education for Aging and Technology Enhancement (CREATE) explores strategies to improve the quality of life for older adults.
*Computational Science Center is a
data center that conducts data-driven research to identify solutions to various world problems and challenges.
*European Union Center, a designated
European Union Center for Excellence, is a consortium between the University of Miami and
Florida International University established in 2001 with a
European Commission
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grant to promote and research economic, social, and political issues of interest to the
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been de ...
.
*Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS) provides academic and cultural research and insight on
Cuba
Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...
.
*
John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics researches causes of
Parkinson's disease
Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system. The symptoms usually emerge slowly, and as the disease worsens, non-motor symptoms becom ...
,
Alzheimer's disease,
macular degeneration, and other diseases and explores
human genome
The human genome is a complete set of nucleic acid sequences for humans, encoded as DNA within the 23 chromosome pairs in cell nuclei and in a small DNA molecule found within individual mitochondria. These are usually treated separately as the ...
and other possible cures and treatments for them.
*The Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies provides objective, in-depth exploration of issues and trends that have affected the
Jewish
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people over the last century.
*The Wallace H. Coulter Center focuses on turning
translational research
Translational research (also called translation research, translational science, or, when the context is clear, simply translation) is research aimed at translating (converting) results in basic research into results that directly benefit humans. ...
in biomedical science and engineering into products that address unmet clinical needs and have market potential in the healthcare and biomedical industries.
The University of Miami's Miller 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 of research space and the University of Miami's Life Science Park provides an additional of space adjacent to the university's medical campus in Miami's
Health District.
University of Miami's Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute researches the biology of
stem cells
In multicellular organisms, stem cells are undifferentiated or partially differentiated cells that can differentiate into various types of cells and proliferate indefinitely to produce more of the same stem cell. They are the earliest type of ...
and translates basic research into new regenerative therapies.
The University of Miami houses one of the nation's largest centralized academic
cyber infrastructures. 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.
As of 2008, the University of Miami's
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS ) is the University of Miami's academic and research institution for the study of oceanography and atmospheric sciences.
Founded in 1943, the University of Miami's Rosenstiel Schoo ...
receives $50 million in annual external research funding. Their laboratories include a saltwater wave tank, a five tank conditioning and spawning system, a multi-tank
Aplysia
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These benthic herbivorous creatures can become rather large compared with most ...
culture laboratory, controlled corals climate tanks, and
DNA profiling equipment. The campus also houses an
invertebrate museum with 400,000 specimens. The University of Miami operates the Bimini Biological Field Station in
Bimini district in the western
Bahamas
The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the ar ...
, an array of
oceanographic
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high-frequency radar along the
East Coast of the United States, and a
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-based aerosol observatory. The university owns
Little Salt Spring, a
National Register of Historic Places
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site, in
North Port, Florida
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where the Rosenstiel School performs
archaeological and
paleontological
Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of foss ...
research.
In 2010, the University of Miami built a
brain imaging
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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 stimulus grant from the
National Institutes of Health (NIH).
In 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. The University of Miami's
Leonard M. Miller 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.
Also in 2016, the university received $161 million in science and engineering funding from the U.S. federal government, making the university the largest
Hispanic
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The term commonly applies to countries with a cultural and historical link to Spain and to viceroyalties forme ...
-serving recipient and 56th overall largest recipient of federal science and engineering funding. 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.
Student life
The University of Miami is affiliated with 31
social fraternities and sororities. Seven of them (
Alpha Epsilon Pi
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,
Alpha Sigma Phi
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The ...
,
Lambda Chi Alpha
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,
Pi Kappa Phi
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,
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
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,
Sigma Chi
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, and
Zeta Beta Tau) have
houses
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on campus. Others have suites, including
Beta Theta Pi,
Kappa Sigma
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,
Sigma Alpha Mu
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, and
Sigma Phi Epsilon
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. Multicultural fraternities and sororities include six of the nine historically African-American organizations (collectively known as the
Divine Nine),
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 broadcast on
Comcast Channel 96), UniMiami (a
Spanish
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**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
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cable television broadcast), the student-run ''Distraction Magazine'', and the
campus radio station
WVUM, which has broadcast to the
Miami metropolitan media market continuously since 1967. Since 1929, students have published ''
The Miami Hurricane
''The Miami Hurricane'' is the official student newspaper at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.
Founded in 1929, ''The Miami Hurricane'' is published weekly each Tuesday with timely online updates daily by a staff of mostly under ...
'', which is currently published weekly and has been named to the
Associated Collegiate Press Hall of Fame.
The University of Miami has several selective and prestigious student honor societies. Founded in 1926,
Iron Arrow Honor Society
The Iron Arrow Honor Society is an honor society at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida for students, faculty, staff and alumni. It is the highest honor that can be bestowed by the university.
Founded at the University of Miami in 1 ...
(which also considers select faculty, staff, and alumni for induction) is the highest honor awarded by the university. The university maintains a chapter of
Mortar Board
Mortar Board is an American national honor society for college seniors. Mortar Board has 233 chartered collegiate chapters nationwide and 15 alumni chapters.
History
Mortar Board was the first national honor society for college senior women ...
. In 1959,
Order of Omega
The Order of Omega is an undergraduate Greek society recognizing "fraternity men and women who have attained a high standard of leadership in inter-fraternity activities." It functions as an adjunct to traditional fraternal organizations, rather ...
was founded at the University of Miami and then ultimately blossomed into a national honor society in addition to maintaining its ongoing founding chapter at the University of Miami. It is now a national honorary for fraternity and sorority members with its founding chapter continuing at the University of Miami.
The university has appointed individuals in various departments, called "troubleshooters", to address student problems and complaints, and it employs an
ombudsman to mediate complaints that go unresolved by these troubleshooters. Since 1986, the university operates under an enforceable honor code that governs student conduct.
Athletics
The University of Miami's athletic teams are the
Miami Hurricanes
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and are widely 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
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(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
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. The Hurricanes maintain seven NCAA men's athletics teams (
baseball
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,
basketball
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,
cross-country,
diving,
football,
tennis
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, and
track and field
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) and ten women's teams (
basketball
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, cross-country, diving, golf,
rowing
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,
soccer,
swimming
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, tennis, track and field, and
volleyball
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).
The University of Miami's mascot, first introduced in 1957, is
Sebastian the Ibis
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