Two female students walk away from Uppham Hall on a sunny day. A group of students climb the steps to the Recreational Sports Center. A student and her professor have a discussion by the hub, the center of campus with the bronze university seal.
A student studying a book outside in the quad by MacCracken Hall. Students walk to and from class as they pass under the Uppham Hall archway. Students play a game of flag football in the grassy quad near MacCracken Hall.

Founded in

1809

Miami’s name reflects the Native American tribe that once inhabited the Miami Valley region of Ohio.

Miami
at a Glance

Miami University has five academic divisions
and hundreds of majors and minors.

Academic Divisions

  • College of Arts & Science
  • College of Creative Arts
  • College of Education, Health & Society
  • College of Engineering & Computing
  • Farmer School of Business
A student focuses on the task ahead while in class. Students recline in comfy chairs in the Farmer School of Business lounge; talking on phones, or working at their computers. A male student getting some work done in the Shriver Center.

Approximately

17,000

undergraduates and

2,600

graduate students study on
Miami’s Oxford campus.

An arial view of one of Miami's residential quads. Three red brick, black roofed buildings accompany the color changing trees of Fall.