HISTORY: Founded 1925; classes began October 1926.
OFFICERS: Donna E. Shalala, President; Thomas J. LeBlanc, Executive VP and Provost; Joseph Natoli, Sr. VP for Business and Finance; Pascal J. Goldschmidt, Sr. VP Medical Affairs.
CAMPUSES:
Coral Gables Campus: The Coral Gables campus, with its two colleges and seven schools, is located on a 230-acre tract in suburban Coral Gables.
Medical Campus: The Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine campus consists of 68-acres within the 153-acre UM/Jackson Memorial Medical Center complex. The medical center includes three University-owned hospitals that make up the University of Miami Health System (UHealth): University of Miami Hospital, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital, home to the top-ranked Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. Our affiliated hospitals on the medical campus include Jackson Memorial Hospital, Holtz Children?s Hospital and the Miami VA Medical Center. Miller School of Medicine faculty conduct more than 2,000 research projects in basic science and clinical care. Plans are underway to build the UM Life Science Park with 2 million square feet of space adjacent to the medical campus. The facility will bring together academia and industry for collaboration in bioscience research and innovation.
Rosenstiel Campus: The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science is located on an 18-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 76-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; 24 other professional accrediting agencies.
PROGRAMS: 114 bachelors, 104 masters, 57 doctoral (53 research/scholarship and 4 professional practice).
DEGREES AWARDED: 2,445 bachelors, 989 masters, 380 J.D.‘s, 150 M.D.‘s, 116 Ph.D.‘s, 57 other doctorates, and 23 certificates (2007-08).
BUDGET: The budget for 2008-09 is $2.1 billion, with $1.4 billion projected for the medical campus. At the end of the FY 08 the endowment for the University was $736 million.
RESEARCH: Research and sponsored program expenditures totaled $326 million (FY 08). UM ranked 66th of all universities in expenditures of federal funds for research and development (FY 07).
CLASS SIZE: Over 50 percent of classes for undergraduates have 15 or fewer students; over 75 percent have 25 or fewer students.
HONORS PROGRAM/HONOR SOCIETIES: 940 students participate in the Honors Program. UM has 54 academic honor societies, including Phi Beta Kappa.
FRESHMAN DUAL HONORS PROGRAMS: UM offers dual degree honors programs, combining undergraduate and graduate study in exercise physiology, Latin American studies, law, marine geology, medicine, and physical therapy.
NEW FRESHMAN STANDINGS: Almost half of new freshmen graduated in the top 5% of their high school class, two-thirds in the top 10%. Mean SAT was 1282.
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION AND EXCHANGE PROGRAMS: Over 80 programs offered in more than 33 countries on a full academic year, semester, or summer basis as well as UM faculty-led programs during intersession, spring break, and summer.
GRADUATE SCHOOL PLANS: 33% of the May 2007 graduating seniors reported plans to attend graduate/professional school this fall.
ALUMNI: UM alumni live in all 50 states and in 148 countries; over 72,5000 reside in Florida, including over 39,900 in Miami-Dade County. There are just over 164,000 alumni in UM’s history.
RESIDENT STUDENTS: Approximately 4,600 enrolled students live on campus, including 82% of new freshmen and 44% of all degree undergraduates. UM has five residential colleges as well as on-campus apartments. In 2006 the University Village apartments were opened and house around 790 students.
SPORTS: In 2004, UM joined the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Men: baseball (1982, 1985, 1999, 2001 NCAA champions), basketball (2000 Sweet 16), cross country, football (1983, 1987, 1989, 1991, 2001 NCAA champions), tennis, indoor track and field, and o utdoor track and field.
Women: basketball, cross country, golf (1970, 1972, 1977-78, 1984 national champions), rowing, soccer, swimming and diving (1975-76 national champions), tennis (2004 Elite 8, 2nd at 2006 NCAA Tournament), indoor track and field (3rd at 2005 NCAA Championship), outdoor track and field (top 10 finishes at NCAA Championship 2004, 2005, and 2006), and volleyball (2003 Sweet 16).
COMPUTING FACILITIES: The Ungar Computing Center is equipped with an Enterprise Server and a number of smaller machines. Over 60 computer labs are located throughout the campus. The university’s campus network provides connections in each dorm room, with Internet and Internet2 access. UM is an equity member of the Florida LambdaRail (FLR), providing 10Gb/s connectivity throughout the state, and to the National LambdaRail (NLR). Wireless networks on the 3 main campuses complement the extensive wired network. myUM is UM’s interactive online source for personalized University-related information.
LIBRARIES: The UM Libraries include the Otto G. Richter Library and libraries in the Schools of Architecture, Business, Law, Medicine, Music, and the Rosenstiel School, providing access to over 3.2 million volumes, 13,316 print serials, 59,841 electronic journals, 485,400 electronic books, 4 million microfroms, and 140,100 audio, film, video, and cartographic materials.
DEVELOPMENT: In FY 08, contributions reached $200.5 million in total private cash, gifts and grants; and in FY 07, UM ranked 33rd among all U.S. institutions in this category. In January 2006, UM increased the goal of its Momentum Campaign to $1.25 billion and raised $1.4 billion at the close of the campaign in December 2007 to support scholarships, chairs, interdisciplinary centers, and research initiatives.