The Miami Experience. Our pictures speak volumes.
Robert Frost once said that Miami University is "the most beautiful campus that ever there was." When our campus isn’t inspiring poetry, it's serving as a backdrop for classes, gatherings, and even a few movies (just ask George Clooney). Hopefully, this site will give you a taste of what makes Miami such a special place.
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Central Quad and MacCracken Hall
A campus is more than just a place to live. It’s where you'll find a backdrop for making lifelong friends. For opening your eyes and your mind. For shared experiences, for stories worth repeating, and stories you'll never tell anyone. For learning what it's like to be away from home, and learning what it's like for a whole new place to feel like home.
All Business.
Miami's business school is housed in a stunning LEED certified building, and our undergraduate entrepreneurship program is ranked 6th among public institutions.
Farmer School of Business
Farmer School of Business Building
Our comprehensive building houses all aspects of the Farmer School of Business under one roof, enabling us to pursue our mission and make significant progress in achieving our goal of excellence in business education.
Instructional spaces in the new building reflect a shift toward small group work, seminar instruction, and experiential learning.
The design of work spaces, lounges, and eating and meeting spaces encourage greater interaction among faculty members.
Can You Hear the Applause?
Miami's Center for Performing Arts is home to our Theatre Department, and houses traditional and experimental theater space, scene shop, costume shop, and prop shop, all to make sure you're ready for curtain.
Get in the act
Center for Performing Arts
The Departments of Music and Theatre share the facilities in the Center for Performing Arts (CPA). The CPA contains piano and voice studios, administrative offices for the College of Creative Arts, class rooms, a piano lab, 70 practice rooms, the Amos Music Library, and the Souers Recital Hall.
Explore A Wilder Kingdom.
The Department of Biology at Miami is one of our largest departments, and one of the largest biology programs in the nation. This means we offer a wide variety of courses and research opportunities, ranging from the smallest DNA sequence to the largest ecosystem.
Department of Biology
Pearson Hall
Constructed in 1986 where the historic Miami Field once was located, The Biological Sciences Building was renamed Pearson Hall in 1993 as a dedication to the university’s 18th President, Dr. Paul G. Pearson. The building is home to several facilities, including:
- • The Center for Animal Behavior
- • The Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics
- • The Mallory-Wilson Center for Healthcare Education
- • The Center for Neuroscience and Behavior
- • The Electron Microscope Facility
- • The Animal Care Facility
- • Two large aquatic animal rooms used to replicate oceanic and freshwater environments
Engineering At Miami.
Students in the College of Engineering and Computing enjoy bright and open classroom spaces where they can disassemble, reassemble, tinker, explore, and learn.
College of Engineering & Computing
Engineering Building
The Engineering Building is home to the College of Engineering and Computing. Offering 10 accredited majors, this academic division boasts a state-of-the-art complex located in the heart of campus and an undergraduate engineering program ranked in the nation's top 15%.
A Finer Art.
The Miami University Art Museum exhibits collections ranging from ancient artifacts to up-and-coming artists. What you'll see at this museum is often connected to what you'll learn in the classroom, making it a valuable resource on campus.
Visit the Art Museum
Miami University Art Museum
The Art Museum—located on-campus—houses a collection that is exceptionally broad and eclectic with strengths in many fields from nearly all parts of the world.
Admission to the Museum is free. To learn more and view current exhibitions, visit the museum's website.
All the Right Notes.
Presser Hall houses the Department of Music's office, instrumental teaching studios, large and small classrooms, plus rehearsal spaces for instrumental and choral ensembles.
Department of Music
Presser Hall
Presser Hall, completely renovated and expanded in 2008, houses the Department of Music’s office, instrumental teaching studios, several large and small classrooms, rehearsal spaces for large and small instrumental and choral ensembles, practice facilities, and music and instrument storage space.
A Hall Fit for a President.
David Stanton Tappan was Miami's 11th president, so it's only fitting he should have a building named after him. Tappan Hall is a coed residence hall located on the South Quad.
Tappan Hall
Tappan Hall is conveniently located near several dining options, including Harris Dining Hall and Maplestreet Station.
Armstrong Student Center
Designed as the true living room on campus, the Armstrong Student Center provides students with meeting rooms, quiet study rooms, unique dining concepts, lounge space, student organization offices, and signature event spaces for student events.
Explore Armstrong Student Center
Armstrong Student Center
For our students, the Armstrong Student Center is a focal point of their "Miami Experience." The Center's location in the heart of campus makes it the perfect place for gathering spaces and socialization.
Food for Thought.
Miami strives to help our students, faculty, and staff understand the impact of food choices on health, the environment, and our local community. We aim to cultivate a culture of responsibility by engaging in a sustainable food system. We achieve this by purchasing locally, reducing our waste, and giving back to our local community.
Explore Sustainable Dining
Western Dining Commons
Recognized as one of the top 36 Dining Halls in the country, Western Dining Commons brings you everything you could want—a buffet, market, and a tea house. The buffet features four unique stations with some of your favorites like burgers, flatbreads, and a salad bar. Western Dining Commons is proud to have Miami’s first allergen-friendly station that has menu items free of the top eight allergens and gluten.
Corner The Market.
Or just make a quick circle around it. MacCracken Market is a mini grocery store (one of five on campus) with a variety of fresh fruit and vegetables, canned, and packaged items. Whether you need a quick snack or a break from the dining hall, the Market provides some great options.
MacCracken Hall
MacCracken Hall is a female, upper-class residence hall built between 1957 and 1961. It was named after graduate Henry Mitchell MacCracken, is located on Central Quad, and currently houses four sorority chapters.
V-A-R-S-I-T-Y!
S-P-O-R-T-S!
Men's: Baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, ice hockey, swimming & diving, track & field
Women's: Basketball, cross country, field hockey, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, synchronized skating, tennis, track & field, volleyball
More About Varsity Athletics
Yager Stadium
Home to the Miami University RedHawks football team, Yager Stadium has a capacity of over 24,000 spectators and was built in 1985. Yager Stadium replaced Miami Field, which had been used since 1895. The RedHawks field a Division I football program in the Mid-American Conference (MAC).
Ready. Set. Play.
The women's volleyball team in action; this team plays in the Mid-American Conference (or the MAC, as we like to call it).
Millett Assembly Hall
Built in 1968 and named after the university’s 16th President, John D. Millet, Millett Assembly Hall serves as the home of RedHawk men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball.
Play. Then Lead.
The Miami RedHawks are in the NCAA Division I and play in the Mid-American Conference. The football program is perhaps best known for producing great coaches, which is how Miami came to be known as "The Cradle of Coaches."
Yager Stadium
Home to the Miami University RedHawks football team, Yager Stadium has a capacity of over 24,000 spectators and was built in 1985. Yager Stadium replaced Miami Field, which had been used since 1895. The RedHawks field a Division I football program in Mid-American Conference (MAC).
The Brotherhood.
The Miami hockey team plays at Goggin Ice Center and is one of our more popular sports. Students often camp out for good seats. It's that kind of spirit that has helped them contend for regional and even national championships.
Goggin Ice Arena
Home to the RedHawks ice hockey and synchronized skating teams, as well as the nation’s biggest and best intramural ice program — so you can enjoy epic matches of broomball.
Get Pumped. No, Literally.
The 10,000 square foot Martin Fitness Center features weights of both the free and machine variety, treadmills, bikes, ellipticals, an indoor track, rock climbing, racquet ball, fitness classes, and even an Olympic-sized pool.
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Martin Fitness Center
Housed within Miami’s large Recreational Sports Center, the Martin Fitness Center provides a safe, enjoyable, challenging, and fun environment in which to continue developing your life-long fitness commitment.
Offerings include:
- • Woodway treadmills
- • Elliptical/cross-trainers
- • Recumbant/upright bikes
- • Rowers
- • Free weights
- • Freemotion strength equipment
- • Machine weights
- • Upper body ergometers
- • NuStep machines
- • Total body arc trainers
- • Steppers
- • Star Trac Inspiration strength equipment
Make a Splash.
The Corwin M. Nixon Aquatic Center features an eight-lane, 50-meter pool and diving platforms with a 25-meter well, plus a resistance pool. The varsity swimming and diving teams practice here, but it's also open to all students during certain hours.
Explore Aquatics
Corwin M. Nixon Aquatic Center
Located within the Recreational Sports Center, the Corwin M. Nixon Aquatic Center is home to the RedHawk swimming & diving teams and is highlighted by an eight-lane, 50-meter pool and separate 25-meter well, containing one-, five-, seven-, and ten-meter platforms.
Culture Clubs.
Head to the Center for Performing Arts and you'll encounter professional-level productions by your fellow students. Be sure to tell people you knew them before they were famous.
Center for Performing Arts
The Center for Performing Arts is the home of the Department of Theatre. It houses all our faculty and staff offices and most of the production facilities, including the Gates-Abegglen Theatre, W. Paul Zimmerman Experimental Theatre, scene shop, costume shop, and prop shop.
Opened in the fall of 1969, the CPA sits on the Fine Arts Plaza, adjacent to Hiestand Hall (home to our classrooms) and the Art Building (home to the Art Department). Directly across the plaza from the CPA is the Shriver Center, which houses the Miami University Bookstore.
Just Add Ice.
Miami University students are as comfortable on the ice as off. Our hockey and synchronized skating teams regularly rank among the top of their divisions, and we offer an array of club and intramural ice opportunities, including broomball.
Goggin Ice Center
Goggin Ice Arena
Home to the RedHawks ice hockey and synchronized skating teams, as well as the nation’s biggest and best intramural ice program — so you can enjoy epic matches of broomball.
Steady and Stable.
Miami has a club for every interest - even an equestrian team. And this being Miami, it's a nationally ranked team, at that.
Miami Equestrian Center
John W. Browne Equestrian Center
The nationally ranked Miami University equestrian team is composed of members competing in English hunt seat, dressage, and Western disciplines. Students train on campus at the John W. Browne Equestrian Center, which houses more than 60 horses.
The Arts are for Everyone.
Majoring in business, psychology, or engineering does NOT mean that you have to give up the instrument you loved to play in high school—or stop singing, dancing, or creating. Any student at Miami can audition for a musical ensemble, work backstage on a play, or take a ceramics class.
Find your creative outlet
Schiewetz Fine Arts Plaza
The Schiewetz Fine Arts Plaza, a gift of Richard Schiewetz to honor his sisters—Betty Schiewetz Cromer ’41 and Mary Eleanor Schiewetz Flory ’39, is located on the north side of the Center for Performing Arts and adjacent to Hiestand Hall and the Art Building.
Our Favorite Haunt.
Peabody Hall is a coed residence hall located on Western Campus, much to the dismay of the supposed ghost that occasionally shows up. Helen Peabody was an outspoken critic of coeducation, and some say she haunts the men who live in Peabody. (Although we haven't had any recent complaints, so maybe she's come around to the idea.)
More Miami Traditions
Peabody Hall
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this unique building houses the Leonard Theatre and the office for Individualized Studies in addition to its designation as a residence hall. Students who live here have easy access to the wide variety of options at Western Dining Commons.
Brush With Victory.
Grab a broom-like stick and head on down to the ice for a lively game of broomball, one of Miami's most popular intramural sports.
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Goggin Ice Arena
Home to the RedHawks ice hockey and synchronized skating teams, as well as the nation’s biggest and best intramural ice program — so you can enjoy epic matches of broomball.
Welcome to Oxford, Ohio.
Uptown Oxford is more than just the town you drive through when you come to Miami. Acting almost as an extension of the campus, it offers all sorts of restaurants, stores, and places to just hang out. Oxford is only about 35 miles north of Cincinnati so it's close to a major metropolitan area if you want to visit the city but far enough away to feel like a world apart. In other words, it's the perfect college town.
Enjoy Oxford
Uptown Oxford, Ohio.
Uptown is the portion of the city of Oxford where most of the places to eat and hang out are concentrated. It acts as an extension of campus and is essentially a town tailor-made for college students.
Fueled by Caffeine.
There's a reason college towns are filled with coffee shops, and it's not just those all-night study sessions during finals week (although that's certainly part of it). It's because they provide the perfect setting for groups to get together and discuss issues and ideas, of both the academic and not-so-academic variety.
Kofenya
Founded by Miami University graduates, Kofenya is a place that matches students’ tendency to hang out with their need for caffeine.
A Night on the Town. Uptown, That Is.
When the sun goes down, the town lights up - with students and Oxford residents on their way to eat or hang out.
Side Streets
Students get to know Uptown Oxford pretty quickly. It's a safe town. You’ll see students cutting through the various side streets any time of day (and perhaps night) back to campus or to their houses.
We're Well-Rounded. And Covered in Toppings.
There are plenty of places that let you customize your sandwich. But how many places also let you name it, draw it, and stick it on the wall? That's where Bagel & Deli comes in. It's the kind of place that, like your bagel, you can customize and make your very own. And it's just one of many restaurants, coffee shops, and stores that make Oxford an ideal college town.
Bagel & Deli
A favorite amongst Miami students — just about any time of day or night.
Monday Night Karaoke.
Start picking your songs out now, because Monday night karaoke at one of the local establishments, Brick Street, is one of our most popular Uptown events, featuring aspiring divas and off-key singers looking to sing that one Backstreet Boys song. (Yep, that one.)
Brick Street
Monday night is karaoke night!
Find Your Style. Or Try on Something New.
Taking a break between classes comes in many forms. Some people like to grab a bite to eat. Some like to grab something new for their wardrobe, like this student checking out the selection at Juniper, an Uptown boutique.
Juniper
Get your shop on at one of the little stores or boutiques Uptown. This one, Juniper, is right in the center of town.
Spring Forward.
Springfest is a week long series of events at the end of the spring semester, usually a week or two before finals. Past events have included a carnival on Cook Field (pictured), yoga in Central Quad, free Skippers food, Miami baseball games, and a live concert on SlantWalk.
Cook Field
Located on the corner of State Route 73 and Patterson Ave., Cook Field is a large, lighted grass field on campus, making it a great place to play intramural sports or pick-up games.
Spend Some Quality Time.
The Welcome Back Concert at Yager Stadium is an annual event held to kick off the new school year. We recently featured electro hip hop band, Timeflies!
Yager Stadium
Home to the Miami University RedHawks football team, Yager Stadium has a capacity of over 24,000 spectators and was built in 1985. Yager Stadium replaced Miami Field, which had been used since 1895. The RedHawks field a Division I football program in Mid-American Conference (MAC).