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 University of Miami/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 1,500 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 campus.
ACCREDITATION: Southern Association of Colleges and Schools; 22 other professional accrediting agencies.
PROGRAMS: 113 bachelors, 106 masters, 53 doctoral (49 research/scholarship and 4 professional practice).
DEGREES AWARDED: 2,575 bachelors, 862 masters, 388 J.D.‘s, 171 M.D.‘s, 142 Ph.D.‘s, 57 other doctorates, and 19 certificates (2008-09).
BUDGET: The budget for 2009-10 is $2.3 billion, with $1.6 billion projected for the medical campus. At the end of the FY 09 the endowment for the University was $538.6 million.
RESEARCH: Research and sponsored program expenditures totaled $318 million (FY 09). UM ranked 62nd of all universities in expenditures of federal funds for research and development (FY 08).
CLASS SIZE: Over 50 percent of classes for undergraduates have 16 or fewer students; over 75 percent have 25 or fewer students.
HONORS PROGRAM/HONOR SOCIETIES: Approximately 990 degree undergraduates participate in the Honors Program. UM has 56 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: Over 40% of new freshmen graduated in the top 5% of their high school class, almost two-thirds in the top 10%. Mean SAT was 1273.
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.
POST BACCALAUREATE ENROLLMENT: Last year 30% of graduating seniors were enrolled in post-baccalaureate programs (based on FY08 graduating class).
ALUMNI: UM alumni live in all 50 states and in 148 countries; over 72,800 reside in Florida, including over 39,900 in Miami-Dade County. There are just over 168,500 alumni in UM’s history.
RESIDENT STUDENTS: Approximately 4,450 enrolled students live on campus, including 84% of new freshmen and 43% 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 780 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 (2009 Sweet 16), indoor track and field, and outdoor track and field.
Women: basketball, cross country, golf (1970, 1972, 1977-78, 1984 national champions), rowing, soccer, swimming and diving (1975 and 1976 national champions), tennis (2004 and 2009 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 (2002 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 3.3 million volumes, 77,159 current serials titles, 67,894 electronic journals, 550,974 electronic books, 4 million microfroms, and 153,700 audio, film, video, and cartographic materials.
DEVELOPMENT: In FY 09, contributions reached $153.6 million in total private cash, gifts, and grants; and in FY 08, UM ranked 32nd among the research, doctoral, masters, liberal arts and specialized private and public universities reporting to the Council for Aid to Education.