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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Miami is a public university that provides an exceptional return on your education investment, has rich history and tradition, and has a picturesque campus. And that's only part of the story.

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U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks Miami University near the top for commitment to undergraduate teaching. In the 2019 report, Miami ranks second among public universities and third overall for both public and private schools – in good company with Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown, and Rice.

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Most of our class sizes are relatively small — an average of just 30 students. Miami is known for fostering strong bonds between professors and students, many of whom continue to keep in touch long after graduation.

Miami's business school is housed in a stunning LEED certified building, and our undergraduate entrepreneurship program was ranked 9th among public institutions by Entrepreneur Magazine in 2017.

Farmer School of Business

Students explore a 3-D world during the Armstrong Institute of Interactive Media Studies open house celebration.

Armstrong Interactive Media Studies

The Architecture program at Miami consistently ranks among the top in the nation. Miami is noted for being a "public university strong in architecture" by Fiske Guide to Colleges 2017.

Department of Architecture and Interior Design

Sometimes the smallest organisms have the biggest impact on our lives – which is the foundation of microbiology studies at Miami. This student is getting some hands-on experience with such microorganisms in one of our many labs.

Department of Microbiology

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

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

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

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

The HIVE is a huge immersive virtual environment where multiple users navigate through virtual worlds by physically walking through them. Really.

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Miami is ranked #3 in study abroad participation among public doctoral institutions. No matter your major, you're welcome to join the more than 49% Miami students each year who earn academic credit through study abroad in more than 90 countries.

Study Abroad and Away

Students collaborate with medical doctors in carrying out research on cancer detection and childhood diseases at the world class Center of Excellence for Structural Biology and Metabonomics.

More Centers and Institutes

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

Starting as early as freshman year, Miami undergraduates are given the opportunity to participate in research opportunities such as robotic systems, normally reserved for graduate students at other universities, which greatly enhances the learning process.

Undergraduate Research Opportunities

With program offerings in all areas influencing education, health, and society, we encourage students to become global citizens by keeping our core values at the heart of all we do.

College of Education, Health & Society

Students taking natural science classes or conducting research use The Ecology Research Center's 200 acres to support terrestrial and aquatic studies.

Research for yourself

Miami’s Winter Term provides additional academic options and a chance to enjoy the beauty of campus blanketed in snow.

Winter Term

We offer hundreds of majors and minors, from anthropology to zoology (and all the "ologies" in-between) and even more undergraduate research opportunities.

Explore Majors and Minors

Every college should have at least one good quad, which is why we have five. Quads are multipurpose fields; these purposes range from catching ultimate frisbees to catching ultimate naps.

We have 39 residence halls, which often house residential communities for first-year students. These communities are residence groups created around interests or fields of study, like the arts or medicine, where you can take learning beyond the classroom and into every facet of your time at Miami.

Residence halls are more than just places to live. More often than not, they'll be the first place you'll live away from home, which is why we give you the opportunity to really make them your own. Turn it into a shrine for your favorite musician or sports team. Host late-night movie marathons every weekend. No matter how you choose to live, you'll remember your time here for the rest of your life.

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 MEET Quad, which gets its name from the four residence halls that comprise of that quad: Morris, Emerson, Etheridge, and Tappan.

Our aim is, and has always been, to provide the best undergraduate experience in the nation.

Designed as the true living room on campus, the Armstrong Student Center provides students with meeting rooms, quiet study rooms, the Brick & Ivy store for technology items and school supplies, unique dining concepts, lounge space, student organization offices, and signature event spaces for student events, including the Joslin Student Senate Chamber room and the circular Wiikiaami community room.

Explore Armstrong Student Center

Staying on campus also has its benefits, such as being close to your friends and classes. Also among the benefits? Getting to sample the treats of over 29 dining concepts located within 11 different buildings on campus – the most award-winning dining system in the country.

Places to Eat

We have dining choices for every kind of foodie. Here's a sampling of what we offer:

• Vegetarian, vegan, and allergen friendly options at Western Dining Commons.
• Late-night dining at Pulley Diner.
• Delicious coffee and snacks at multiple Starbucks locations around campus.
• Numerous traditional dining halls with buffet or quick to-go options. Many feature fresh fruit and salad bars.

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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

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.

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

Nowhere is the spirit of Miami University more present (or at least louder) than in the Miami Marching Band. In past years, they've brought the noise to bowl games, and even the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

The women's volleyball team in action; this team plays in the Mid-American Conference (or the MAC, as we like to call it).

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."

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.

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.

Explore Recreation at Miami

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

Miami has an organization for almost every interest imaginable. Take bumperball, for example—a new take on soccer.

More Student Organizations

Listen closely and you might hear our students randomly burst into song. More often than not, they're just rehearsing for a concert with one of our many singing groups or a performance orchestrated by our Department of Theatre.

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.

Miami intramural and club sports are open to all students and include such options as soccer, flag football, horseback riding, basketball, and quidditch.

Visit Intramural Sports

Because your playing field is about to get about 2,000 acres bigger. Miami University offers a variety of club sports, including:

• Broomball
• Football
• Ice Hockey
• Lacrosse
• Quidditch
• Paintball
• Rowing
• Soccer
• Softball
• Ultimate Frisbee

More Club Sports

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

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

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

One of the longest standing traditions on campus involves the seal in the center of campus. Legend has it, if you step on the seal, you'll fail your next exam. So, watch your step.

More Miami Traditions

Since 1972, Miami University and the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma have had a mutually beneficial partnership of respect and support anchored by education. Beginning with the common name and place, the relationship, based on revitalizing the Myaamia language and culture, has evolved into a multifaceted partnership.

Miami Tribe Relations

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

Rumor has it couples who kiss under Upham arch's lantern at the stroke of midnight are destined to marry.

Learn about Miami Mergers

Miami University has been called the Cradle of Coaches because its football program has produced an impressive lineup of star football coaches. The Cradle contains Miami players and coaches such as latest inductee, Super Bowl Champion coach John Harbaugh '84.

More Miami Traditions

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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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

Oxford, Ohio, is a college town in the truest sense. So much so that Oxford is ranked among the top college towns in the nation (according to Forbes).

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.

Students take advantage of a sunny afternoon out on the porch swings adorning the front of many off-campus houses.

When the sun goes down, the town lights up - with students and Oxford residents on their way to eat or hang out.

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. It was just ranked as the best college town food in the state of Ohio by Tasting Table. And it's just one of many restaurants, coffee shops, and stores that make Oxford an ideal college town.

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.)

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.

Comprising over 1,000 acres with 17 miles of trails, designated "Natural Areas" near campus provide opportunities to hike, jog, research, birdwatch, dog walk, explore, learn, discover, meditate, or “just be.”

Explore the Natural Areas

Miami's reputation attracts 4 times as many employers to conduct on-campus interviews as compared to peer institutions. Nearly 1,800 organizations recruit Miami students each year.

Career advice and more

Family Weekend brings celebrity entertainment like Wayne Brady, our featured guest for 2016.

Read More About Family Weekend

Approximately 11,750 people attended a lecture of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama at Millett Hall in October 2010.

The Latin American and Caribbean UniDiversity Festival is an annual celebration of the people and cultures that are quickly emerging as the largest ethnic group in the United States. The festival is a collaborative effort to promote diversity and inclusion in the Miami and Oxford communities and includes food, music, dancing, traditional arts and crafts, and other cultural activities.

Engineer, scientist, comedian, author, and Miami University speaker Bill Nye gives a lecture on understanding and appreciating the science that makes our world work.

Miami's Collegiate Chorale rehearse before A.R. Rahman during his visit to campus. Rahman won two Oscars for his musical compositions in the movie "Slumdog Millionaire" and is described by Time magazine as possibly the most prolific recording artist in the world.

George Clooney and Ryan Gosling converse on set during the filming of "The Ides of March" on Miami's campus during the spring of 2011.

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.

Welcome Home is an annual series of events held to kick off the new school year and to introduce first-year students to Miami, their new home. The event wraps up with a fireworks display on Benton Quad—the perfect way to celebrate a fresh school year.

Student events like the annual Unity Day Celebration promote acceptance of diverse perspectives, cultures, and values.

Get Involved

Emmy-award winner Tim Gunn kicked off Miami's 2014-2015 University Lecture Series – a program addressing a broad spectrum of contemporary issues and disciplines within the academic community.

Actor Wil Wheaton addressed the topic of bullying to a crowd full of Lecture Series guests. High-profile visitors to Miami often offer additional opportunities for more personalized engagement. Wheaton held a round table-style seminar to approximately 30 students from select organizations.

Humanitarian and Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker shares his vision with graduates at the Spring Commencement ceremony.

Students find inspiration from Paralympic skiing medalist and former White House official Bonnie St. John, whose personal and professional life demonstrates perseverance in the face of adversity.

Miami's graduation rates are among the highest nationally, ranking 21st among public universities, and first in Ohio.