Fact Finder 2002 - 2003
2002-03
HISTORY: Founded 1925; classes began October 1926.
OFFICERS: Donna E. Shalala, President; Luis Glaser, Executive VP and Provost; David A. Lieberman, Sr. VP for Business and Finance; John G. Clarkson, Sr. VP Medical Affairs.
CAMPUSES AND SCHOOLS:
Coral Gables Campus: The Coral Gables campus, with its two colleges and nine schools, is located on a 260-acre tract in suburban Coral Gables.
Medical Campus: The University of Miami School of Medicine campus consists of 31 acres within the 76-acre University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center complex. Other facilities at the medical center, in addition to Jackson Memorial Hospital, include the Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center and two University-owned hospitals?the University of Miami Hospital and Clinics/Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute/Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital. Dedication of the Lois Pope LIFE Center in fall 2000 and the Batchelor Children's Research Institute in spring 2001 in the Schoninger Research Quadrangle marked major contributions to the research facilities at the medical campus. School of Medicine faculty currently conduct more than 1,200 research projects aimed at advances in basic science and clinical care in facilities totaling more than 1.9 million square feet.
Rosenstiel Campus: The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science is located on a 16-acre waterfront campus on Virginia Key in Biscayne Bay.
South Campus: The south campus, located ten miles southwest of Coral Gables, is on a 136-acre site used for conducting research and development projects.
Richmond Campus: The Richmond campus, established in 2001, is a 78-acre site near south campus. Research facilities for the Rosenstiel School's Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing (CSTARS) and Richmond Satellite Operations Center (RSOC) are located on a portion of the new campus.
ACCREDITATION: Southern Association of Colleges and Schools; 21 professional accrediting agencies.
PROGRAMS: Including specializations, approximately 180 undergraduate, 130 master's, 60 doctoral, and 2 professional areas of study.
DEGREES AWARDED: 1,912 bachelor's, 1,194 master's, 391 J.D.'s, 144 M.D.'s, 97 Ph.D.'s, and 19 other doctorates (2001-02).
BUDGET: The budget for 2002-03 is $1.179 billion, with $686.8 million projected for the medical campus. At the end of the FY 02 the endowment was $427.0 million.
RESEARCH: Research and sponsored program expenditures totaled $226.3 million (FY 02). According to the National Science Foundation, UM ranked 51st of all universities in expenditures of federal funds for research and development (FY 00).
ECONOMIC IMPACT: The University community spends over $1 billion annually in Miami-Dade County, creating a total economic impact on the State of Florida of $2.3 billion and supporting one of every 28 jobs in the County. In the City of Coral Gables, University activity creates a total economic impact of nearly $540 million as a result of spending over $400 million and supporting 8,500 jobs.
CLASS SIZE: Over 50 percent of classes for undergraduates have 16 or fewer students; over 75 percent have 26 or fewer students.
HONORS PROGRAM/HONOR SOCIETIES: Approximately 1,609 students participate in the Honors Program. UM has over 50 academic honor societies, including Phi Beta Kappa.
FRESHMAN DUAL HONORS PROGRAMS: Selected freshmen
are guaranteed admission to one of UM's graduate or professional schools in
the following areas of study: biomedical engineering, Latin American studies,
marine geology, medicine, and physical therapy.
NEW FRESHMAN STANDINGS: Over one in three new freshmen graduated in the top 5% of their high school class. Over half graduated in the top 10% of their high school class.
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION AND EXCHANGE PROGRAMS: 60 programs are offered in 25 countries on a full academic year, semester, or summer basis.
GRADUATE SCHOOL PLANS: Of the May 2001 graduating seniors, 41 percent reported plans to attend graduate school the following fall.
ALUMNI: UM alumni live in all 50 states and in 148 foreign countries; over 64,000 reside in Florida, including approximately 37,000 in Miami-Dade County. There are just under 141,000 alumni in UM's history.
RESIDENT STUDENTS: Over 3,900 enrolled students live on campus, including 78 percent of new freshmen and 41 percent of all degree undergraduates. UM has five residential colleges as well as on-campus apartments.
SPORTS: UM is a member of the Big East Conference.
Men: baseball (1982, 1985, 1999, 2001 NCAA champions), basketball, cross country, football (1983, 1987, 1989, 1991, 2001 NCAA champions), swimming and diving, tennis, indoor track and field, and outdoor track and field.
Women: basketball, crew, cross country, golf (1970, 1972, 1977, 1978, 1984 national champions), soccer, swimming and diving (1975, 1976 national champions), tennis, indoor track and field, outdoor track and field, and volleyball.
COMPUTING FACILITIES: The Ungar Computing Center (central facility) is equipped with an IBM 9672- RB6 Enterprise Server, an IBM AS/400-820, an IBM RS/6000-580, an IBM RS/6000-F20, an IBM AS/400-B20, a DEC VMS cluster with 2 DEC 4100 systems, a DEC 4100, and a DEC 1000A. Over 60 computer labs are located in the residential colleges, libraries, schools, and colleges. The university has a campus network, including network connections in each dorm room, with a gateway to national and international networks, Internet, and Internet2. The University has deployed a wireless network on all three main campuses that complements its extensive wired network.
LIBRARIES: Richter (central facility) and libraries in the schools of Architecture, Business, Law, Medicine, Music, and the Rosenstiel School. Combined holdings include over 2.4 million volumes, over 16,200 print serial subscriptions, 3.7 million microforms, and access to 10,700 electronic journals and 85,000 electronic books and other electronic resources.
DEVELOPMENT: In FY 02 contributions reached $86.2 million in private cash, gifts and grants. In FY01, the University ranked 44th among national research institutions in this category.
FACULTY &
EMPLOYEES - FALL 2002
|
Classification |
Full-time |
Part-time |
Total |
|
Faculty |
|
|
|
|
Architecture |
32 |
32 |
64 |
|
Arts and Sciences |
381 |
54 |
435 |
|
Business |
134 |
43 |
177 |
|
Communication |
44 |
17 |
61 |
|
Continuing Studies |
10 |
9 |
19 |
|
Education |
47 |
49 |
96 |
|
Engineering |
62 |
17 |
79 |
|
Law |
61 |
102 |
163 |
|
Marine & Atmos. Science |
100 |
6 |
106 |
|
Medicine |
1,112 |
17 |
1,129 |
|
Music |
62 |
41 |
103 |
|
Nursing |
24 |
9 |
33 |
|
Richter Library & Other |
31 |
15 |
46 |
|
TOTAL FACULTY |
2,100 |
411 |
2,511 |
|
Faculty |
2,100 |
411 |
2,511 |
|
Administrative/Professional |
2,301 |
29 |
2,330 |
|
Research/Training |
705 |
23 |
728 |
|
Staff (hourly non-exempt) |
3,724 |
61 |
3,785 |
|
Physical Plant |
112 |
0 |
112 |
|
TOTAL FACULTY & EMPLOYEES |
8,942 |
524 |
9,466 |
|
(excluding students) |
|
|
|
|
Faculty Characteristics |
|
|
|
Full-time regular faculty with doctorate or terminal degree |
96% |
|
|
Full-time tenure-track faculty who are tenured |
79% |
|
|
Student-faculty ratio |
13:1 |
|
As of September 30, 2002
STUDENT ENROLLMENT - FALL
2002
|
|
Undergraduate |
|
|
|
|
|
School (Year Founded) |
Degree |
N-Deg |
Grad. |
Prof. |
Total |
|
Architecture ('83) |
309 |
0 |
57 |
0 |
366 |
|
Arts and Sciences ('26) |
3,798 |
15 |
576 |
0 |
4,389 |
|
Business ('29) |
2,050 |
0 |
1,021 |
0 |
3,071 |
|
Communication ('85) |
1,196 |
0 |
135 |
0 |
1,331 |
|
Continuing Studies ('74) |
193 |
273 |
25 |
0 |
491 |
|
Education ('29) |
220 |
0 |
562 |
0 |
782 |
|
Engineering ('47) |
875 |
0 |
213 |
0 |
1,088 |
|
Law ('28) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1,274 |
1,274 |
|
Marine & Atmos. Sci. ('69) |
0 |
0 |
188 |
0 |
188 |
|
Medicine ('52) |
0 |
0 |
276 |
589 |
865 |
|
Music ('26) |
529 |
0 |
196 |
0 |
725 |
|
Nursing ('68) |
248 |
0 |
66 |
0 |
314 |
|
Special and Joint Programs |
0 |
88 |
6 |
0 |
94 |
|
TOTAL |
9,418 |
376 |
3,321 |
1,863 |
14,978 |
|
Full-Time |
8,838 |
105 |
2,512 |
1,779 |
13,234 |
|
Part-Time |
580 |
271 |
809 |
84 |
1,744 |
|
Full-Time Equivalent |
9123.1 |
195.8 |
2928.2 |