Miami University at Ohio
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The focus at Miami is teaching undergraduates. Professors here get to know their students.

Graduate study in selected disciplines enhances this focus. Graduate students and undergrads alike participate with faculty in significant research and scholarship activities.

Miami effectively combines a wide range of academic programs with the personal attention ordinarily found only at much smaller institutions.

Our residential programs involve students in life-enhancing activities that build leadership, character, and lifelong friendships.

Retention and graduation rates are some of the highest in NCAA Division I schools.

Our campus in Oxford, Ohio, is one of the most beautiful in America.

More than 151,000 Miami alumni are located around the globe, serving as professional and community leaders. To an extent envied by most other universities, our alumni maintain ties with their alma mater and stand ready to assist students and young graduates as they join the “Miami Family.”

The mission of Miami University is to preserve, add to, evaluate, and transmit the accumulated knowledge of the centuries; to develop critical thinking, extend the frontiers of knowledge, and serve society; and to provide an environment conducive to effective and inspired teaching and learning, promote professional development of faculty, and encourage scholarly research and creativity of faculty and students.

Miami's primary concern is its students. This concern is reflected in a broad array of efforts to develop the potential of each student. The University endeavors to individualize the educational experience. It provides personal and professional guidance; and, it offers opportunities for its students to achieve understanding and appreciation not only of their own culture but of the cultures of others as well. Selected undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs of quality should be offered with the expectation of students achieving a high level of competence and understanding and developing a personal value system. Since the legislation creating Miami University stated that a leading mission of the University was to promote "good education, virtue, religion, and morality," the University has been striving to emphasize the supreme importance of dealing with problems related to values.

Miami is committed to serve the community, state, and nation. It offers access to higher education, including continuing education, for those who can benefit from it, at a reasonable cost, without regard for race, creed, sex, or age. It educates men and women for responsible, informed citizenship, as well as for meaningful employment. It provides both disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to the pursuit of knowledge and to the solving of problems. It sponsors a wide range of cultural and educational activities which have significance beyond the campus and the local community.

Miami University is a scholarly community whose members believe that a liberal education is grounded in qualities of character as well as of intellect. We respect the dignity of other persons, the rights and property of others, and the right of others to hold and express disparate beliefs. We believe in honesty, integrity, and the importance of moral conduct. We defend the freedom of inquiry that is the heart of learning and combine that freedom with the exercise of judgment and the acceptance of personal responsibility.

Affiliation: Public university of Ohio

Philosophy: Miami is a residential university with a focus on teaching undergraduates. A liberal education core complements the more specialized studies of the majors.

Established: 1809; named for the Miami Indian Tribe that inhabited the area now known as the Miami Valley Region of Ohio

Locations: Main campus in Oxford, Ohio (35 miles north of Cincinnati); regional campuses in Hamilton and Middletown, Ohio; European Center in Luxembourg

Enrollment: 15,200 undergraduates and 1,700 graduate students on the Oxford campus; approximately 2,500 on each regional campus (based on Fall 2006 enrollment)

Diversity: Multicultural students make up 8.65 percent of the first-year class and 8.2 percent of the undergraduate student body (based on Fall 2005 enrollment).

Degree Programs: Miami offers the bachelor's degree in over 100 areas of study and the master's degree in more than 50 areas; Miami also offers a number of doctoral degrees. Several associate's degrees are available through study on the regional campuses.

Calendar: First semester begins late August, ends late December; second semester begins early January, ends early May. Summer sessions are also offered.

Cost: For 2006–2007, tuition and fees for undergraduates total $22,943 per year; Ohio residents receive a minimum of $11,080 in Ohio resident scholarships. Room and board charges are $8,140.