Graduation Rates
The Education Trust and The New York Times has identified Miami as a model college for our outstanding graduation rate, crediting our success, in part, to "tracking student progress and giving students more access to professors."
Our graduation rates are among the highest nationally, in the top 10 among public universities (excluding military academies), and first in Ohio. Our median length of time to earn a degree is 3.7 years, the shortest time among Ohio public universities. Nationally, less than 55% of students at public universities graduate within 6 years.
Miami graduation rates for all undergraduate students include the following*:
- 70% graduate within 4 years
- 80% graduate within 5 years
- 81% graduate within 6 years
* These rates reflect the most recent data (based on 2005 cohort). Rates in Kiplinger's chart below reflects data from the previous year's cohort.
Kiplinger's 2012 "100 Best Values in Public Colleges"
Schools (excluding military and service academies) ranked by 4-year graduation rate:
| Rank | School | 4 years | 6 years |
| 1 | University of Virginia | 85% | 93% |
| 2 | College of William and Mary | 82% | 90% |
| 3 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 76% | 90% |
| 4 | St. Mary's College of Maryland | 74% | 77% |
| 5 | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
72% | 88% |
| 6 | The College of New Jersey | 71% | 86% |
| 7 | University of California, Berkeley |
69% | 91% |
| 8 | University of California, Los Angeles | 68% | 90% |
| 8 | University of Mary Washington | 68% | 75% |
| 8 | Miami University, Oxford |
68% | 80% |
