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 239-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/UMHC – University of Miami Hospital & Clinics, and Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital, home to the top-ranked Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. Our affiliated hospitals include Jackson Memorial Hospital, Holtz Children’s Hospital, and the Miami VA Medical Center. Miller School faculty conduct nearly 2,000 research projects in basic science and clinical care. The UM Life Science & Technology Park opened the first of five buildings planned for the 8-acre park 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; 23 other professional accrediting agencies.
PROGRAMS: 113 bachelors, 102 masters, 54 doctoral (50 research/scholarship and 4 professional practice).
DEGREES AWARDED: 2,383 bachelors, 876 masters, 384 J.D.'s, 171 M.D.'s, 149 Ph.D.'s, 99 other doctorates, and 42 certificates (2010-11).
BUDGET: The budget for 2011-12 is $2.6 billion, with $1.8 billion projected for the medical campus. At the end of the FY 11 the endowment for the University was $719.9 million.
RESEARCH: Research and sponsored program expenditures totaled $360.9 million (FY 11). UM ranked 60th of all universities in expenditures of federal funds for research and development (FY 09).
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: Over 1160 degree undergraduates participate in the Honors Program. UM has 59 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 half of new freshmen graduated in the top 5% of their high school class, almost three-quarters in the top 10%. Mean SAT was 1319.
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION AND EXCHANGE PROGRAMS: UM semesters on location in Prague, Rome, the Galilee, and the Galapagos; exchange-partner universities in over 33 countries for the year, semester, or summer; and UM faculty-led programs during intersession, spring break, and summer.
POST BACCALAUREATE PLANS: 35% of May 2010 graduating seniors reported plans to attend graduate school this fall.
ALUMNI: UM alumni live in all 50 states and in 148 countries; almost 80,000 reside in Florida, including over 40,000 in Miami-Dade County. There are just over 176,500 alumni in UM's history.
RESIDENT STUDENTS: Over 4,250 enrolled students live on campus, including 84% of new freshmen and 41% of all degree undergraduates. UM has five residential colleges as well as the University Village apartments, which 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 national 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, 2009, 2010, and 2011 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 (2009 and 2010 NCAA Tournament,
2002 Sweet 16).
COMPUTING FACILITIES: The Ungar Computing Center houses an Enterprise Server and a number of smaller machines. The Center for Computational Science’s High Performance Computing core has three supercomputers and supports hardware infrastructure and design/implementation solutions. Over 60 computer labs are located throughout campus. UM is an equity member of the Florida LambdaRail, providing 10Gb/s connectivity throughout the state, and to the National LambdaRail. 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 almost 4.1 million volumes, 86,740 current serials titles, 83,789 electronic journals, 630,755 electronic books, 4 million microforms, and 176,052 audio, film, video, and cartographic materials.
DEVELOPMENT: In FY 11, contributions reached $172 million in total private cash, gifts, and grants; and in FY 10, UM ranked 34th among the research, doctoral, masters, liberal arts and specialized private and public universities reporting to the Council for Aid to Education.
