University of Miami#History

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{{Further|Bowman Foster Ashe}}

In 1925, the University of Miami was founded by a group of citizens who sought to offer "unique opportunities to develop inter-American studies, further creative work in the arts and letters, and conduct teaching and research programs in tropical studies", according to the university's founding charter. They believed that a local university would benefit the Miami metropolitan area and were optimistic that the university would be a beneficiary of future financial support, especially since South Florida was benefiting from the historic 1920s land boom.{{cite web |url=http://www.miami.edu/index.php/about_us/achievements_and_traditions/history/|title=History|work=miami.edu|publisher=University of Miami|access-date=November 13, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100218021352/http://www.miami.edu/index.php/about_us/achievements_and_traditions/history/|archive-date=February 18, 2010}} During this era of Jim Crow laws, there were three large state-funded universities in Florida for white male students, white female students, and black students: the University of Florida in Gainesville and Florida State University and Florida A&M University, both in Tallahassee. Like most private universities of the time, the University of Miami was founded as a coeducational institution but not yet open to Black students.

In 1925, George E. Merrick, founder of Coral Gables, granted {{convert|160|acre|km2|1}} and nearly $5,000,000{{cite book |title=George Merrick's Coral Gables: Where Your 'Castles in Spain' Are Made Real |last=Parks |first=Arva Moore |year=2006 |publisher=Centennial Press |location=Indianapolis |isbn=0-9741589-6-8 |page=39 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LSSLfcREVV4C&pg=PA39 |access-date=December 4, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130528093127/http://books.google.com/books?id=LSSLfcREVV4C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA39 |archive-date=May 28, 2013 |url-status=live}} (${{Inflation|US|5|1925|r=1}} million, adjusted for current inflation) for the university's founding.{{cite web |url=http://www.hmsf.org/rc/guides/1958-003.htm|title=A Guide to the George Merrick Papers|publisher=Historical Museum of Southern Florida|access-date=December 3, 2010 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717135247/http://www.hmsf.org/rc/guides/1958-003.htm|archive-date=July 17, 2011}} The contributions included land contracts and mortgages on real estate that had been sold in the city.{{cite book |title=The University of Miami |publisher=University of Miami Press |author=Tebeau, Charlton W. |year=1976 |location=Coral Gables, FL |page=19 |isbn=0-87024-297-0}} The university was formally chartered April 8, 1925{{Cite web|url=http://ironarrow.miami.edu/history/index.html|title=History {{!}} Iron Arrow Honor Society {{!}} University of Miami|website=ironarrow.miami.edu|language=en|access-date=July 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707011139/http://ironarrow.miami.edu/history/index.html|archive-date=July 7, 2018|url-status=dead}} by the Circuit Court for Dade County.{{cite web|url=https://trustees.miami.edu/about-the-board/index.html|title=About the Board|website=Board of Trustees|publisher=University of Miami|access-date=December 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203224154/https://trustees.miami.edu/about-the-board/index.html|archive-date=December 3, 2019|url-status=dead}} But by 1926, as the first class of 372 students enrolled at the new university,{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NLMyAAAAIBAJ&dq=university-of-miami%20law-school&pg=4027%2C1109634|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904090933/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NLMyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4OsFAAAAIBAJ&dq=university-of-miami%20law-school&pg=4027%2C1109634 |url-status=dead|archive-date=September 4, 2015|title=10,000 University of Miami Students Attest to Growth of Sunshine School|date=April 23, 1950|page=44|work=Miami News|first=Grade|last=Berlow|access-date=February 7, 2010}} the land boom had collapsed and hopes for a speedy recovery were dashed by the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926. For the next 15 years, the university struggled financially, bordering on insolvency. The first building on campus, now known as the Merrick Building, was left half built for over two decades due to the economic difficulties, requiring that classes be held off-campus at the nearby Anastasia Hotel in Coral Gables. Partitions separated the classrooms, giving the university the early but long since discarded nickname Cardboard College.{{cite web|url=http://www6.miami.edu/miami-magazine/fall01/boldbeginnigs.html|title=Bold Beginnings Bright Tomorrows|work=Miami |access-date=October 25, 2009|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100522054105/http://www6.miami.edu/miami-magazine/fall01/boldbeginnigs.html|archive-date=May 22, 2010}}{{cite web|url=http://scholar.library.miami.edu/umhistory/chronology.html|title=University of Miami History – Chronology 1920s|publisher=UM Library|access-date=November 13, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091008113617/http://scholar.library.miami.edu/umhistory/chronology.html|archive-date=October 8, 2009|url-status=dead}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19680228&id=6JAyAAAAIBAJ&pg=5377,3227826|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904090933/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19680228&id=6JAyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DOoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5377,3227826 |url-status=dead|archive-date=September 4, 2015|title=Cardboard College No More|work=The Miami News |date=February 28, 1968|page=18A |access-date= February 5, 2010}}

In 1929, University of Miami founding member William E. Walsh and other members of the university's board of regents resigned following the widespread collapse of Florida's economy. The university's plight was so severe that students went door to door in Coral Gables collecting funds to keep it open. A reconstituted ten-member board chaired by the university's first president Bowman Foster Ashe included Merrick, David Fairchild, James Cash Penney, and others. In 1930, several faculty members and more than 60 students entered the University of Miami when the University of Havana closed amidst political unrest in Cuba. While helpful to the University of Miami's early development, it still was not enough, and the university was forced to seek bankruptcy protection two years later, in 1932.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1932/12/11/archives/receiver-for-u-of-miami-federal-judge-names-board-member-to-handle.html|title=Receiver for U. of Miami.; Federal Judge Names Board Member to Handle Affairs|url-access=subscription|date=December 11, 1932|page=30|work=The New York Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701140431/https://www.nytimes.com/1932/12/11/archives/receiver-for-u-of-miami-federal-judge-names-board-member-to-handle.html|archive-date=July 1, 2018|url-status=live}}

The troubles, however, were short-lived. In July 1934, the University of Miami was reincorporated and a board of trustees was installed, replacing the board of regents. By 1940, community leaders were replacing faculty and administration as trustees. During Ashe's presidency, the university grew considerably, adding the School of Law (1928),{{cite news|url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FVctAAAAIBAJ&dq=university-of-miami%20law-school&pg=5021%2C3910831|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904090933/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FVctAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6NcFAAAAIBAJ&dq=university-of-miami%20law-school&pg=5021%2C3910831 |url-status=dead|archive-date=September 4, 2015|title=13 Law Students Will Get Degrees|work=Miami News|date=June 2, 1929 |page=8 |access-date=February 7, 2010}} the School of Business (1929, renamed the Miami Herbert Business School in 2019), the School of Education (1929), the Graduate School (1941), the Marine Laboratory (1943, renamed the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science in 2022), the School of Engineering (1947), and the School of Medicine (1952).

During World War II, the University of Miami was one of only 131 colleges and universities nationally to participate in the V-12 Navy College Training Program, which offered students a path to commissioning as a U.S. Navy officer.{{cite web |url=http://scholar.library.miami.edu/umhistory/DisplaySubjects.php?subject_id=World+WarII |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060902213539/http://scholar.library.miami.edu/umhistory/DisplaySubjects.php?subject_id=World+WarII |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 2, 2006 |title=World War II |publisher=Coral Gables, Florida: University of Miami |access-date=September 29, 2011 |year=2011}}

{{Further|Jay F. W. Pearson}}

In 1952, Jay F. W. Pearson, one of Ashe's long-time assistants, was appointed the University of Miami's second president.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5H0cAAAAIBAJ&dq=university-of-miami%20jay%20fw%20pearson&pg=3660%2C1972084|title=Dr. J.F.W. Pearson Named President of Miami University|work=Sarasota Herald-Tribune|date=January 13, 1953|access-date=February 8, 2010|page=3|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904090933/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5H0cAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zWQEAAAAIBAJ&dq=university-of-miami%20jay%20fw%20pearson&pg=3660%2C1972084|archive-date=September 4, 2015|url-status=live}} A charter faculty member and marine biologist, Pearson held the university's presidency for a decade, until 1962. Under Pearson's leadership, the University of Miami began awarding its first Ph.D. degrees, and student enrollment increased substantially, exceeding 4,000.

From 1961 until 1968, the university leased buildings on its south campus to the Central Intelligence Agency that were used in JMWAVE, a covert operation and intelligence gathering operation against Fidel Castro's communist government in Cuba.{{cite book |title=The Castro Obsession: U.S. Covert Operations in Cuba, 1959–1965 |publisher=Potomac Books Inc |isbn=978-1-57488-675-7 |first=Don |last=Bohning |year=2005 |page=[https://archive.org/details/castroobsessionu0000bohn/page/79 79] |url=https://archive.org/details/castroobsessionu0000bohn/page/79}} The university no longer owns land at the south campus.

In 1961, the university dropped its policy of racial segregation and began admitting Black students and allowing their full participation in student activities and athletic teams.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,894532,00.html|title=Education: Growing Up in Miami – TIME|access-date=September 8, 2009|date=June 23, 1961|magazine=Time|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110204203717/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,894532,00.html|archive-date=February 4, 2011|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1961/02/01/archives/the-university-of-miami-drops-its-color-barrier.html?sq=%2522University%2520of%2520Miami%2522&scp=40&st=cse|title=The University of Miami Drops Its Color Barrier|date=February 1, 1961|page=33|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 5, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722214410/https://www.nytimes.com/1961/02/01/archives/the-university-of-miami-drops-its-color-barrier.html?sq=%2522University%2520of%2520Miami%2522&scp=40&st=cse|archive-date=July 22, 2018|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://hurricanesports.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/archive/043002aaa.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060512013250/http://hurricanesports.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/archive/043002aaa.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 12, 2006|title=Miami Football History – Miami Official Athletic Site|access-date=October 13, 2009|publisher=UM Sports Information}} Five years later, in 1966, Ray Bellamy, a Black student at the University of Miami, became the first major Black college athlete in the Deep South to receive an athletic scholarship.{{cite magazine|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/alexander_wolff/11/02/wolff.1102/index.html|title=Breaking down barriers How two people helped change face of college football|first=Alexander|last=Wolff|magazine=Sports Illustrated|date=November 2, 2005|access-date=February 1, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101224182124/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/alexander_wolff/11/02/wolff.1102/index.html|archive-date=December 24, 2010|url-status=dead}}

Until the early 1970s, as was widespread practice at colleges and universities nationally, the university regulated female student conduct more strictly than that of male students, including employing a staff under the Dean of Women charged with watching over female students. Under Pearson, however, the university began incrementally liberalizing these policies. In 1971, he consolidated the separate Dean of Men and Dean of Women positions in one.{{cite book|url=http://www6.miami.edu/womens-commission/dissertation.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040930084317/http://www.miami.edu/womens-commission/dissertation.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 30, 2004|page=12|title=Women's Commission Dissertation|publisher=University of Miami|access-date=October 10, 2009}} The same year, the university established a Women's Commission, which issued a 1974 report on the status of women on campus,{{cite book|url=http://www6.miami.edu/womens-commission/dissertation.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040930084317/http://www.miami.edu/womens-commission/dissertation.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 30, 2004|page=1|title=Women's Commission Dissertation|publisher=University of Miami|access-date=October 10, 2009}} leading to the university's first female commencement speaker,{{cite web|url=http://www6.miami.edu/commencement/history.html|title=Commencement History and Traditions|publisher=University of Miami|access-date=February 6, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100627143104/http://www6.miami.edu/commencement/history.html|archive-date=June 27, 2010}} day care, and the launch of a Women's Study minor. Following enactment of Title IX in 1972 and over a decade of litigation, University of Miami organizations, including honorary societies, were opened to women's participation and inclusion. The Women's Commission also secured more equitable funding for women's sports.{{cite book|url=http://www6.miami.edu/womens-commission/dissertation.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040930084317/http://www.miami.edu/womens-commission/dissertation.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 30, 2004|pages=21–30|title=Women's Commission Dissertation|access-date=November 16, 2009|publisher=University of Miami}} In 1973, Terry Williams Munz became the first woman in the nation awarded an athletic scholarship when she accepted a University of Miami golf scholarship.{{cite web|url=http://news.miami.edu/stories/2016/01/um-milestones.html|title=UM Milestones|date=January 30, 2016|work=University of Miami News and Events|access-date=February 1, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131002910/http://news.miami.edu/stories/2016/01/um-milestones.html|archive-date=January 31, 2016|url-status=dead}}

{{Further|Henry King Stanford}}

Henry King Stanford, then president of Birmingham–Southern College, was appointed the University of Miami's third president in 1962.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=opAyAAAAIBAJ&dq=henry%20stanford%20king%20miami&pg=920%2C499145|work=Miami News|date=April 17, 1962|page=10A|title=The 3rd President |first=Bill |last=Baggs |access-date=February 7, 2010}}{{dead link|date=January 2017}} Stanford led an increased emphasis on the university's research, reorganization of its administrative structure, and construction of new campus facilities. New research centers established under Stanford included the Center for Advanced International Studies (1964), the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Evolution (1964), the Center for Theoretical Studies (1965), and the Institute for the Study of Aging (1975). In 1965, the University of Miami also began actively recruiting international students. Beginning with the 1968 football season, Stanford barred playing of "Dixie" by the university's band.

{{Further|Edward T. Foote II}}

In 1981, Edward T. Foote II, then dean of Washington University School of Law, was appointed the University of Miami's fourth president.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iZYlAAAAIBAJ&dq=edward%20foote%20university%20of%20miami%20president&pg=6379%2C692876|title=It's first day on job for U-M's new president|date=June 24, 1981 |first=Rick|last=Thames|work=Miami News|page=1A|access-date=February 10, 2010}}{{dead link|date=January 2017}} Under Foote's leadership, the university focused on attracting high-quality faculty and students, and consciously limited or reduced undergraduate admissions as part of its strategic plan. Foote also oversaw the conversion of on-campus student housing into residential colleges{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sun_sentinel/access/87829891.html?dids=87829891:87829891&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+17%2C+1990&author=RANDALL+MELL%2C+Staff+Writer&pub=South+Florida+Sun+-+Sentinel&desc=UM+TO+ELIMINATE+ITS+ATHLETIC+DORMS&pqatl=google|title=UM to Eliminate Its Athletic Dorms|url-access=subscription|work=Sun Sentinel|first=Randall|last=Mell|date=October 17, 1990|page=1C|access-date=February 10, 2010|quote=Next fall, incoming freshman athletes will draw for residential college rooms|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604113032/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sun_sentinel/access/87829891.html?dids=87829891:87829891&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+17,+1990&author=RANDALL+MELL,+Staff+Writer&pub=South+Florida+Sun+-+Sentinel&desc=UM+TO+ELIMINATE+ITS+ATHLETIC+DORMS&pqatl=google|archive-date=June 4, 2011|url-status=dead}} and the university launch of its largest fundraising campaign to date, a five-year, $400 million campaign that began in 1984 and exceeded that goal, raising $517.5 million. Foote established three new schools: the School of Architecture, the School of Communication, and the School of International Studies.{{Cite web |date=2012-02-17 |title=Foote Notes |url=http://www6.miami.edu/miami-magazine/spring01/footenotes.html |access-date=2023-05-13 |archive-date=February 17, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217091148/http://www6.miami.edu/miami-magazine/spring01/footenotes.html |url-status=bot: unknown }}

During Foote's tenure, the university's endowment increased nearly ten-fold, growing from $47.4 million in 1981 to $465.2 million in 2000.{{cite news |title=Foote Notes |work=Miami |issue=Spring 2001 |url=http://www6.miami.edu/miami-magazine/spring01/footenotes.html |url-status=dead |access-date=October 11, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217091148/http://www6.miami.edu/miami-magazine/spring01/footenotes.html |archive-date=February 17, 2012}}

{{Further|Donna Shalala}}

{{See also|2011 University of Miami athletics scandal|The North-South Center|University of Miami Justice for Janitors campaign}}

In November 2000, Foote was succeeded by Donna Shalala, former chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1988 to 1993 and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services from 1993 to 2001, who was appointed the University of Miami's fifth president.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/19/us/shalala-is-to-lead-university-of-miami.html?scp=12&sq=%22University%20of%20Miami%22&st=cse|title=Shalala Is to Lead University of Miami|date=November 19, 2000|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 5, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523224845/http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/19/us/shalala-is-to-lead-university-of-miami.html?scp=12&sq=%22University%20of%20Miami%22&st=cse|archive-date=May 23, 2013|url-status=live}} Under Shalala, the University of Miami built new libraries, dormitories, symphony rehearsal halls, and classroom buildings. The university's academic quality continued improving, a trend that began in earnest under Foote.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jan-03-na-miami3-story.html|title='Suntan U' Tries to Shed Cushy Image – Los Angeles Times|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=September 8, 2009|date=January 3, 2003|first=John-Thor|last=Dahlburg|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018160009/http://articles.latimes.com/2003/jan/03/nation/na-miami3|archive-date=October 18, 2012|url-status=live}}

Roughly a year into Shalala's presidency, on November 5, 2001, an 18-year-old University of Miami fraternity pledge drowned while attempting to swim across Lake Osceola, the campus lake, while intoxicated. Police reports later cited the student's dangerously high blood alcohol content in conjunction with dropping water temperatures and exhaustion as primary factors in his death, and two fraternity members who accompanied him were criminally charged with "negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of duty to aid and/or rescue."{{citation|title=Florida's Law on Hazing: The Chad Meredith Act|url=https://hazing.fsu.edu/general-information/florida-law-on-hazing|website=Florida State University|publisher=The Miami Hurricane|access-date=December 5, 2017|archive-date=April 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170410051044/https://hazing.fsu.edu/general-information/florida-law-on-hazing|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |url=https://fraternallaw.com/newsletter2/a-pledge-drowns-12-6-million-dollar-verdict |title="A pledge drowns: $12.6 million verdict", Fraternal Law, March 2004 |access-date=May 22, 2022 |archive-date=June 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601160756/https://fraternallaw.com/newsletter2/a-pledge-drowns-12-6-million-dollar-verdict |url-status=live }}

In 2002,{{cite web|url=http://www6.miami.edu/campaign/newsupdate/news_campaign_release.html |title=University of Miami Campaign Overview – Research |publisher=University of Miami |access-date=October 9, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100306040509/http://www6.miami.edu/campaign/newsupdate/news_campaign_release.html |archive-date=March 6, 2010}} the University of Miami launched a new and even more ambitious multi-year fundraising campaign that ultimately raised $1.37 billion, the most ever raised by any university or college in Florida history as of 2008.{{cite news|title=UM fundraising drive brings in $1.4 billion|date=February 9, 2008|first=Oscar|last=Corral|work=Miami Herald|page=A1}} From these proceeds, over half, $854 million, was allocated to construct and improve the University of Miami's Leonard M. School of Medicine medical campus.{{cite web |url=http://www6.miami.edu/campaign/newsupdate/By_campus.htm |title=University of Miami Campaign Overview – Progress |publisher=University of Miami |access-date=October 9, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706180119/http://www6.miami.edu/campaign/newsupdate/By_campus.htm |archive-date=July 6, 2008}} In November 2007, the University of Miami acquired Cedars Medical Center in Miami's Health District, renaming it University of Miami Hospital and giving the Miller School of Medicine its first dedicated in-house teaching hospital rather than having to rely on academic affiliations with area hospitals.{{cite news|url=http://www6.miami.edu/ummedicine-magazine/spring2008/specialsection/specialsection4.html|date=Spring 2008|title=Prized Hospital Joins UM Tradition of Excellence|work=Medicine, the alumni magazine|access-date=October 9, 2009|publisher=University of Miami|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329033547/http://www6.miami.edu/ummedicine-magazine/spring2008/specialsection/specialsection4.html|archive-date=March 29, 2012|url-status=live}}

In 2003, Shalala controversially chose to close the University of Miami's North-South Center, a university research organization dedicated to the study of contemporary issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. The North-South Center was established by the U.S. Congress in 1984. It had secured a partnership with the Rand Corporation and was, as the Associated Press reported in 2003, "a respected public policy think tank specializing in Latin American and Caribbean issues including trade and economic policy, migration, security, public corruption, and the environment."{{cite web| url = http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20031225/academics-fired-at-u-of-miami-think-tank| title = Academics fired at U. of Miami think tank| author = The Associated Press| date = April 10, 2003| accessdate = February 16, 2018| publisher = Sarasota Herald Tribune| archive-date = February 17, 2018| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180217023959/http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20031225/academics-fired-at-u-of-miami-think-tank| url-status = live}}

On September 30, 2004, the University of Miami hosted one of three nationally televised U.S. presidential debates between presidential candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry during the 2004 presidential election. The debate, moderated by Jim Lehrer of PBS NewsHour, was held on the University of Miami campus inside the Watsco Center. It drew 62.5 million viewers.{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080611180215/http://www.debates.org/pages/his_2004.html|url=http://www.debates.org/pages/his_2004.html|title=CPD: 2004 Debates |access-date=October 6, 2009|publisher=Commission on Presidential Debates|archive-date=June 11, 2008}}

In February 2006, University of Miami custodial workers, who were contracted to the university through a Boston-based company, alleged unfair labor practices, substandard pay, lack of health benefits, and workplace safety concerns. They launched a strike that drew support from several University of Miami students, who began a hunger strike and on-campus vigil in support of it. The strike settled May 1, 2006 when a card count union vote was permitted and led to establishment of the first collective bargaining unit in the university's history.{{cite web|url=http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/miami/sfl-umunionjun16,0,6394115.story?coll=sfla-news-miami|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060619225716/http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/miami/sfl-umunionjun16%2C0%2C6394115.story?coll=sfla-news-miami|archive-date=June 19, 2006|work=Sun Sentinel Miami News|title=UM janitors vote to unionize|date=June 16, 2006|first=Maya|last=Bell|access-date=February 1, 2010|url-status=dead}}{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060517002057/http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14433014.htm |url=http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14433014.htm|work=Miami Herald|date=April 26, 2006|first=Ana |last=Menèndez|title=At UM Tent City Among The Trees, Hope Resounds|page=B1|archive-date=May 17, 2006}}{{cite news |url=http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/14438159.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060522201847/http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/14438159.htm|archive-date=May 22, 2006|work= Miami Herald|title=The Janitor's Fight|page=30A|date=April 27, 2006}} The university raised wages for its custodial workers from $6.40 to $8.35 per hour and provided health insurance.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/02/us/02labor.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=%22University%20of%20Miami%22&st=cse|title=Walkout Ends at University of Miami as Janitors' Pact Is Reached|first=Steven|last=Greenhouse|date=May 2, 2006|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 5, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209004923/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/02/us/02labor.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=%22University%20of%20Miami%22&st=cse|archive-date=December 9, 2013|url-status=live}}

In 2008 and 2009, partly stemming from the Great Recession, the university endowment experienced a loss of 26.8% of its capital and additional associated losses from diminished endowment income. The university responded by tightening expenditures.{{cite web|url=http://www6.miami.edu/alumni/eblasts/specialmessage03052009a.htm|title=Letter to Alumni|access-date=October 26, 2009|date=March 5, 2009|first=Donna|last=Shalala|publisher=University of Miami|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091031044426/http://www6.miami.edu/alumni/eblasts/specialmessage03052009a.htm|archive-date=October 31, 2009|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nacubo.org/Documents/research/2009_NCSE_Public_Tables_Endowment_Market_Values.pdf|page=3|publisher=National Association of College and University Business Officers|title=NACUBO Endowment Study|access-date=September 9, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214124106/http://www.nacubo.org/Documents/research/2009_NCSE_Public_Tables_Endowment_Market_Values.pdf|archive-date=December 14, 2017}} Damage from the endowment's negative performance was limited, however, because the university receives over 98 percent of its operating budget from non-endowment sources. In 2011, the university was ranked the nation's most fiscally responsible nonprofit organization in a Charity Navigator report published in collaboration with Worth magazine.{{cite web|url=http://www.worth.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3404:the-10-most-fiscally-responsible-nonprofit-organizations&catid=3:grow|title=Worth {{!}} Worth|access-date=February 14, 2011|work=Worth|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113195047/http://www.worth.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3404:the-10-most-fiscally-responsible-nonprofit-organizations&catid=3:grow|archive-date=November 13, 2013|url-status=dead}}

{{Further|Julio Frenk}}

On April 13, 2015, the University of Miami announced the appointment of Julio Frenk, former dean of Harvard University School of Public Health and former Secretary of Health for the government of Mexico, as the university's sixth president.[http://www.miami.edu/index.php/about_us/leadership/office_of_the_president/president-elect_dr_julio_frenk/] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150416185458/http://www.miami.edu/index.php/about_us/leadership/office_of_the_president/president-elect_dr_julio_frenk/|date=April 16, 2015}} On March 10, 2016, the University of Miami hosted the 2016 Republican presidential primary's twelfth and final debate at BankUnited Center on the university campus, which aired nationally on CNN and drew 11.9 million viewers.{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/10/politics/republican-debate-what-to-watch/|title=Republican Debate in Miami: What to Watch|publisher=CNN.com|date=March 10, 2016|access-date=August 9, 2022|archive-date=December 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204213410/https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/10/politics/republican-debate-what-to-watch/|url-status=live}}

On June 12, 2024, the University of California, Los Angeles announced that Frenk would be joining UCLA as the university's chancellor on January 1, 2025.[https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/dr-julio-frenk-named-first-latino-chancellor-ucla "Dr. Julio Frenk named first Latino chancellor of UCLA"], University of California, June 12, 2024 The same day, the University of Miami announced that the university's chief executive officer, Joe Echevarria, had been appointed acting president of the University of Miami "effective immediately."[https://messages.miami.edu/messages/2024/06/06-12-24-message-regarding-president.html University of Miami letter from Manny Kadre, chairman, University of Miami board of trustees, June 12, 2024] On June 19, 2023, the University of Miami student newspaper, The Miami Hurricane, labeled Frenk's departure "shocking", and criticized his leadership. "Frenk was rarely a prominent influence on UM’s campus," the student newspaper reported.[https://themiamihurricane.com/2024/06/19/frenks-choice-to-leave-um-before-the-centennial-is-shocking/ "Frenk's choice to leave UM before the centennial is shocking"], The Miami Hurricane, June 19, 2024

Under Frenk's nine years of leadership of the University of Miami, the university slipped notably on U.S. News & World Report{{'s}} ranking of national universities, which ranked the university 48th in the nation upon his arrival in 2015[https://dilemma-x.net/2014/09/09/2015-best-colleges-rankings-u-s-news-world-report/ "2015 best colleges rankings"], U.S. News & World Report and 67th in the nation upon his departure in 2024.[https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities "2024 Best National Universities", U.S. News & World Report

On October 18, 2024, the University of Miami Board of Trustees appointed Joe Echevarria, former chief executive officer of Deloitte and the university's interim president since June 12, 2024, as the seventh president of the University of Miami.[https://president.miami.edu/about/index.html "About Joe Echevarria"], Office of the President, University of Miami website, retrieved March 8, 2025

{{See also|Frost School of Music|Jerry Herman Ring Theatre|John C. Gifford Arboretum|Lake Osceola (Coral Gables)|Lowe Art Museum|Miami Herbert Business School|University of Miami School of Law}}

File:Shalala Student Center.jpg on the University of Miami campus, in September 2020]]

File:Lakeside Village.jpg in the foreground, in September 2020]]

The University of Miami's main campus spans {{convert|240|acre|km2}}{{cite web|url=https://www.irsa.miami.edu/_assets/pdf/factbook.pdf|title=Face Book: 2021–2022|publisher=University of Miami|access-date=May 26, 2022}} in Coral Gables, {{convert|7|mi|km|}} southwest of Downtown Miami. Most of the university's academic programs are based on its main Coral Gables campus, which houses eight schools and two colleges, including the Frost School of Music, Herbert Business School, and the University of Miami School of Law. The campus has over {{convert|5900000|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} of building space valued in excess of $657 million.{{cite web |url=http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/1,1770,58060-1,00.html |title=Real Estate & Facilities {{!}} University of Miami |access-date=September 10, 2009 |publisher=University of Miami |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090521074118/http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/1%2C1770%2C58060-1%2C00.html |archive-date=May 21, 2009}} Lake Osceola, a man-made freshwater lake developed in the late 1940s, is located at the center of campus.

The university's campus theater, Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, is named for University of Miami alumnus Jerry Herman, a composer and lyricist responsible for some of Broadway's most successful productions, including Hello Dolly!, La Cage aux Folles, and other Broadway hits.{{cite news|url=http://findlocal.sun-sentinel.com/coral-gables/performing-arts/theater/jerry-herman-ring-theatre-u-of-m-coral-gables-theater|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120714150742/http://findlocal.sun-sentinel.com/coral-gables/performing-arts/theater/jerry-herman-ring-theatre-u-of-m-coral-gables-theater|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 14, 2012|title=Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, U of M|work=Miami Sun Sentinel|access-date=February 5, 2010}}

The John C. Gifford Arboretum, a campus arboretum and botanical garden, is located on the northwest corner of the main Coral Gables campus.{{cite web |url=http://www.citybeautiful.net/CGWeb/dep_dev_recreation.aspx |publisher=City of Coral Gables |title=Parks & Recreation Amenities |access-date=February 5, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060615053444/http://citybeautiful.net/CGWeb/dep_dev_recreation.aspx |archive-date=June 15, 2006}} The Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center at the University of Miami's School of Architecture holds periodic architecture and design exhibitions.{{cite web |url=http://www6.miami.edu/umpresents/cultural_programs.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060906114953/http://www6.miami.edu/umpresents/cultural_programs.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 6, 2006 |title=Cultural Programming|access-date=January 13, 2010|publisher=University of Miami}}{{cite web|url=http://www.traditional-building.com/Previous-Issues-06/AprilProject06sensibilty.html|title=A New Sensibility |work=Traditional Building|date=April 2006|access-date=February 5, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719015536/http://www.traditional-building.com/Previous-Issues-06/AprilProject06sensibilty.html|archive-date=July 19, 2011|url-status=dead}}

Transportation to the Coral Gables campus is provided by Miami Metrorail, whose University Station stop is within walking distance of the campus.{{cite web |url=http://www.miamidade.gov/transit/rail_UNV.asp |title=Miami-Dade County – Transit |publisher=Miami Dade County |access-date=February 17, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709115248/http://www.miamidade.gov/transit/rail_unv.asp |archive-date=July 9, 2009}} The Metro connects the University of Miami to Downtown Miami, Brickell, Coconut Grove, Civic Center, Miami International Airport, and other Miami neighborhoods. The University of Miami's Coral Gables campus is about a 15-minute train ride from Downtown and Brickell.{{cite web |url=http://www.miamidade.gov/transit/images/pdfs/railschedules/Rail_sked_for_web2.pdf |title=Metrorail schedule |publisher=Miami Dade County |access-date=February 17, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420003225/http://www.miamidade.gov/TRANSIT/images/pdfs/railschedules/Rail_sked_for_web2.pdf |archive-date=April 20, 2009}} The Hurry 'Canes shuttle bus service operates two routes on campus, including to University Station, and weekend routes to various off-campus stores and facilities during the academic year; an additional shuttle route provides service to the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science campus on Virginia Key and Vizcaya Station. The university also has a Zipcar service.

In February 2018, rap artist Drake filmed substantial portions of the music video for his song "God's Plan" on the University of Miami campus.[https://www.studyinternational.com/news/university-miami-becomes-star-new-drake-video/ "University of Miami becomes star of new Drake video"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428174549/https://www.studyinternational.com/news/university-miami-becomes-star-new-drake-video/ |date=April 28, 2019}}, SI News, February 19, 2018, retrieved April 28, 2019.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpVfcZ0ZcFM "God's Plan" video by Drake] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170721104634/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ0mxQXmLsk |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/BQ0mxQXmLsk|archive-date=October 30, 2021|date=July 21, 2017}}{{cbignore}}, retrieved April 28, 2019.

The University of Miami's main campus in Coral Gables houses 4,590 enrolled students, 89 percent of whom are freshman. The university's on-campus housing consists of five residential colleges and one apartment-style housing area available only to undergraduate degree-seeking students. The residential colleges are divided into two dormitory-style residence halls and three suite-style residence halls: The first, McDonald and Pentland Towers of Hecht Residential College{{cite web |url=http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/1,1770,42701-1;42740-3,00.html |title=Hecht Residential College {{!}} University of Miami |access-date=February 12, 2010 |publisher=University of Miami |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420113534/http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/1%2C1770%2C42701-1%3B42740-3%2C00.html |archive-date=April 20, 2009}} (demolished in 2022) and the Walsh and Rosborough Towers of Stanford Residential College,{{cite web |url=http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/1,1770,42701-1;42742-3,00.html |title=Stanford Residential College {{!}} University of Miami |publisher=University of Miami |access-date=February 12, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090421141150/http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/1%2C1770%2C42701-1%3B42742-3%2C00.html |archive-date=April 21, 2009}} (demolished in 2024) are commonly referred to as the "Freshman Towers". The removal of these two dorms makes way for Centennial Village, which opened its first phase to students in the fall of 2024. Phase 2 is set to open in the fall of 2026. The second, Eaton Residential College, which originally housed only women,{{cite web |url=http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/1,1770,42701-1;42741-3,00.html |title=Eaton Residential College {{!}} University of Miami |publisher=University of Miami |access-date=February 12, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422154854/http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/1%2C1770%2C42701-1%3B42741-3%2C00.html |archive-date=April 22, 2009}} and Mahoney/Pearson Residential Colleges{{cite web |url=http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/1,1770,42701-1;42739-3,00.html |title=Mahoney Residential College {{!}} University of Miami |publisher=University of Miami |access-date=February 12, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090321163230/http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/1%2C1770%2C42701-1%3B42739-3%2C00.html |archive-date=March 21, 2009}}{{cite web |url=http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/1,1770,42701-1;42738-3,00.html |title=Pearson Residential College {{!}} University of Miami |publisher=University of Miami |access-date=February 12, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423002340/http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/1%2C1770%2C42701-1%3B42738-3%2C00.html |archive-date=April 23, 2009}} have suite-style housing with double-occupancy rooms connected by a shared bathroom.

In addition to these five residential colleges, the university campus includes a student residential area called University Village,{{cite web|url=http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/1,1770,42701-1;66608-3,00.html|title=University Village {{!}} University of Miami|publisher=University of Miami|access-date=February 12, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091213010706/http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/1%2C1770%2C42701-1%3B66608-3%2C00.html|archive-date=December 13, 2009|url-status=dead}} which consists of seven buildings with apartment-style annual contract housing including fully furnished kitchen facilities. University Village is available only to juniors and seniors; until 2009, it had also been open to graduate and School of Law students.{{cite web |url=http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/1,1770,42701-1;42718-3;42699-3,00.html |title=Graduate / Law / Medical {{!}} University of Miami |publisher=University of Miami |access-date=February 13, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012161142/http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/1%2C1770%2C42701-1%3B42718-3%3B42699-3%2C00.html |archive-date=October 12, 2007}}{{cite web|url=http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/grad-studies/housing.html |title=Housing Information for RSMAS Students |publisher=Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science |access-date=February 13, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805065030/http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/grad-studies/housing.html |archive-date=August 5, 2009}}

Lakeside Village, a residential complex of 25 interconnected buildings, provides student housing for 1,115 sophomores, juniors, and seniors.{{Cite web |url=https://newstudenthousing.studentaffairs.miami.edu/student-housing-village/index.html|title=Lakeside Village|website=newstudenthousing.studentaffairs.miami.edu|access-date=August 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190803185733/https://newstudenthousing.studentaffairs.miami.edu/student-housing-village/index.html|archive-date=August 3, 2019|url-status=dead}}

{{main|Miller School of Medicine}}

{{See also|Bascom Palmer Eye Institute|Jackson Memorial Hospital|John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics|Miami Project to Cure Paralysis|University of Miami Division of Surgical Neurooncology}}

File:Aerial-Picture-of-Jackson-e1445995779731.jpg in Miami, the primary teaching hospital of the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine and the largest hospital in the United States with 1,547 beds[https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/100-of-the-largest-hospitals-and-health-systems-in-america-2021.html "100 of the largest hospitals and health systems in America"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220602024829/https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/100-of-the-largest-hospitals-and-health-systems-in-america-2021.html |date=June 2, 2022 }}, Becker's Hospital Review, July 2010]]

The University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine campus, located on Northwest 10th Avenue in Miami's Health District, has 1,681 full-time faculty and 785 students as of 2024. The campus includes {{convert|70|acres|m2|abbr=on}} within the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Medical Center's {{convert|153|acre|m2|abbr=on}} complex. As of 2024, two of its medical programs, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (first in the nation) and neurology/neurosurgery (25-best in the nation), are nationally ranked.

The medical center includes three University of Miami-owned hospitals: University of Miami Hospital, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital. Jackson Memorial Hospital, Holtz Children's Hospital, and Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center are based on the medical center and maintain affiliations with the University of Miami but are not owned by the university. The heart of the School of Medicine campus, the original City of Miami Hospital that opened in 1918, is known colloquially as "The Alamo", and has been named to the National Register of Historic Places.[http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/FL/Dade/state3.html Dade County listings] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091110021046/http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/fl/Dade/state3.html |date=November 10, 2009}} at [http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/ National Register of Historic Places] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100210055859/http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/ |date=February 10, 2010}} U.S. Dept. of Interior. Retrieved February 16, 2010.

In 2006, the University of Miami opened a {{convert|300000|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}, 15-story Clinical Research Building and Wellness Center.{{cite web|url=http://it.med.miami.edu/x806.xml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060828201834/http://it.med.miami.edu/x806.xml|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 28, 2006|title=Campus Webcam Tour|access-date=February 15, 2010|publisher=University of Miami}} In 2007, the university purchased Cedars Medical Center and renamed it University of Miami Hospital. Situated in Miami's Health District, the hospital is close to Jackson Memorial Hospital, which is used by University of Miami medical students and faculty to provide patient care.{{cite web|url=http://www6.miami.edu/miami-magazine/spring2008/Departments/journalstory1.html|title=University Journal|access-date=September 7, 2009|work=Miami |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100816020137/http://www6.miami.edu/miami-magazine/spring2008/Departments/journalstory1.html|archive-date=August 16, 2010|url-status=live}}

In 2009, a LEED-certified nine-story biomedical research building, a {{convert|182000|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} laboratory, and an office facility were opened to house the University of Miami's Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute and its John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics.{{cite web|url=http://www.med.miami.edu/communications/facts_and_figures.asp |title=Facts, Figures, Accolades, and Accomplishments |access-date=November 16, 2009 |publisher=University of Miami |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090417002819/http://med.miami.edu/communications/facts_and_figures.asp |archive-date=April 17, 2009}} The University of Miami has completed a {{convert|2000000|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} Life Science Park adjacent to the university's medical campus that houses medical offices and laboratories.{{cite web|url=http://www.miami.edu/index.php/about_us/campuses_and_facilities/|title=Medical Campus|access-date=October 9, 2009|publisher=University of Miami|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091106215017/http://www.miami.edu/index.php/about_us/campuses_and_facilities/|archive-date=November 6, 2009}}{{Cite web|url=http://med.miami.edu/news/um-opens-its-life-science-technology-park|title=UM Opens Its Life Science & Technology Park {{!}} Miller School of Medicine {{!}} University of Miami|website=med.miami.edu|access-date=January 8, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190109113725/http://med.miami.edu/news/um-opens-its-life-science-technology-park|archive-date=January 9, 2019|url-status=dead}} The University of Miami's medical campus is connected to the university's main campus by the Metrorail with direct stations at University Station for the main Coral Gables campus and Civic Center Station for the medical campus.

{{main|Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science}}

{{see also|Bulletin of Marine Science|Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing|Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies|Little Salt Spring}}

File:Rosenstiel Applied Marine Physics Building.jpg on Virginia Key, in September 2007]]

The University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science maintains its {{convert|18|acre|m2|abbr=on}} campus on the Biscayne Bay waterfront on Virginia Key. It is the only subtropical marine and atmospheric research institute in the continental United States. The school is home to the world's largest hurricane simulation tank.{{cite web|url=http://www.underwatertimes.com/ref/ref.php|title=The Reference Desk|access-date=February 18, 2010|publisher=UnderwaterTimes.com|archive-date=January 13, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100113082500/http://underwatertimes.com//ref/ref.php|url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://marinesciencetoday.com/2009/07/17/university-roundup-rosentstiel-school-of-marine-and-atmospheric-science-at-the-university-of-miami/|publisher=Marine Science Today|title=University Roundup: Rosentstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami|access-date=April 16, 2011|archive-date=August 20, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110820160856/http://marinesciencetoday.com/2009/07/17/university-roundup-rosentstiel-school-of-marine-and-atmospheric-science-at-the-university-of-miami/|url-status=usurped}} The Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, a federal research laboratory, maintains its headquarters next to the Rosenstiel School campus on Rickenbacker Causeway and collaborates on various academic projects with the Rosenstiel School.

The school maintains the Barbados Atmospheric Chemistry Observatory (BACO), a research facility on the eastern end of Barbados in the Caribbean. The facility researches the summertime transport of dust particles from the Sahara in North Africa across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean Basin and South America.[https://baco.earth.miami.edu/history/index.html Rosentiel School Barbados Atmospheric Chemistry Observatory (BACO), retrieved March 1, 2024]

The school's origins date back to 1945 when construction began on Rickenbacker Causeway to make Virginia Key accessible by car. During the causeway's construction, Miami-Dade County offered the university a part of the island adjacent to Miami Seaquarium in exchange for it agreeing to assume operational management of the aquarium.{{cite web |url=http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/info/history/ |title=History|publisher=University of Miami|access-date=November 21, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091114142826/http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/info/history/ |archive-date=November 14, 2009}} In 1951, however, the aquarium's construction was delayed following the failure of a bond referendum designed to fund it, and the university instead chose to begin leasing the land from the county. In 1953, the university built classroom and lab buildings on a {{convert|16|acre|adj=on}} campus to house what would become the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS). Additional buildings were added in 1957, 1959, and 1965.

From 1947 to 1959, the State of Florida funded the University of Miami Marine Lab on Virginia Key until the state completed construction of its own marine laboratory in St. Petersburg.

Since 1951, the school has published the Bulletin of Marine Science, a peer-reviewed scientific journal on ecology, fisheries management, geology, geophysics, marine biology, oceanography, meteorology, and related topics.

In 2009, the University of Miami received a $15 million federal grant to help construct a {{convert|56500|sqft|m2}} Marine Technology and Life Sciences Seawater Research Building on the Rosenstiel School campus.{{cite news|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2009/07/20/daily10.html|title=UM marine science school awarded $15M in stimulus|date=July 20, 2009|work=South Florida Business Journal|first=Brian|last=Bandell|access-date=February 7, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090724205929/http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2009/07/20/daily10.html|archive-date=July 24, 2009|url-status=live}}

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In 1946, following the U.S. military's deactivation of Richmond Naval Air Station in southwestern Miami, the University of Miami acquired the {{convert|12|mi|km|abbr=on}} facility to accommodate its vast increase in post-World War II students. The property included classrooms, housing, and other amenities capable of accommodating approximately 1,100 students. Two years later, in 1948, the property was repurposed by the University of Miami as a research facility.{{cite web|url=http://scholar.library.miami.edu/umhistory/DisplaySubjects.php?subject_id=South+Campus|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060902213530/http://scholar.library.miami.edu/umhistory/DisplaySubjects.php?subject_id=South+Campus|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 2, 2006|title=Display Selected University of Miami Legacy Images|access-date=September 7, 2009|publisher=University of Miami}} In the 1960s, the university opted to lease some of its buildings to the Central Intelligence Agency. Another section of the property, established in 1948, was called South Campus and included a {{convert|350|acre|m2|abbr=on}} plot used for university-sponsored agricultural and horticultural research. For 20 years, the University of Miami used radioactive isotopes in biological research on the South Campus and buried these radioactive materials, including animals eradicated in research, on the site. In August 2006, the University of Miami agreed to reimburse the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers $393,473 for clean up costs at the site made available under the 1980 Superfund law.{{cite web |url=http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/08/25/miami|work=Inside Higher Education|date=August 25, 2006|title=$400,000 Tab for Environmental Violations|access-date=November 21, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070301180755/http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/08/25/miami|archive-date=March 1, 2007|url-status=live}} Six buildings on the site provide {{convert|63800|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}{{cite web|url=http://www.miami.edu/index.php/about_us/campuses_and_facilities/|title=Campuses and Facilities|access-date=November 13, 2009|publisher=University of Miami|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091106215017/http://www.miami.edu/index.php/about_us/campuses_and_facilities/|archive-date=November 6, 2009}} and currently house the Global Public Health Research Group, Miami Institute for Human Genomics, and Forensic Toxicology Laboratory.{{cite web|url=http://www6.miami.edu/UMD/CDA/UMD_Department_View/1,3221,810010000,00.html|title=Phonebook {{!}} University of Miami|access-date=September 7, 2009|publisher=University of Miami|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100725220700/http://www6.miami.edu/UMD/CDA/UMD_Department_View/1,3221,810010000,00.html|archive-date=July 25, 2010|url-status=live}} The University of Miami once considered building a south campus on the property but instead opted in 2014 to sell the 80 acres of land.{{cite web |url=http://therealdeal.com/miami/blog/2014/07/09/developer-buys-land-from-university-of-miami/ |title=Developer buys land from University of Miami |author=Eric Kalis |date=July 9, 2014 |access-date=August 31, 2016 |website=The Real Deal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102162828/http://therealdeal.com/miami/blog/2014/07/09/developer-buys-land-from-university-of-miami/ |archive-date=January 2, 2016 |url-status=dead}}

The Richmond campus is a {{convert|76|acre|m2|abbr=on}} site that was formerly the United States Naval Observatory Secondary National Time Standard Facility, which already had buildings and a 20M antenna used for long interferometry.{{cite web|url=http://www6.miami.edu/research/10oct2002.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040307153814/http://www.miami.edu/research/10oct2002.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 7, 2004|title=University of Miami|publisher=University of Miami|access-date=November 21, 2009}} The University of Miami's Rosenstiel School's Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing and Richmond Satellite Operations Center (RSOC) maintain their research facilities on part of this campus.

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The University of Miami maintains one of the nation's largest university library systems, which currently consists of over four million volumes, over four million microforms, over 1.6 million electronic books, 165,658 active serials titles, 165,045 electronic journals, and 218,797 audio, film, video, and cartographic materials across eight libraries as of 2024. The University of Miami's libraries have a staff of 71 librarians, 33 professional staff, and 76 support staff.

Four of the University of Miami's libraries are located on the Coral Gables campus: Otto G. Richter Library, the university's primary interdisciplinary library, the Architecture Research Center at the School of Architecture, the Judi Prokop Newman Information Resource Center at the Herbert Business School, and the Marta and Austin Weeks Library at Frost School of Music.

The Miller School of Medicine's main library, Louis Calder Memorial Library, is located on Northwest 10th Avenue on the medical campus in the Miami Health District. The medical school also maintains and manages two specialized medical libraries, The Mary and Edward Norton Library focused on ophthalmology and the Pomerance Library focused on psychiatry. The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Library is based on the Rosentiel School's campus on Virginia Key.[https://www.library.miami.edu/about/index.html "About the University of Miami Libraries"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220526005853/https://www.library.miami.edu/about/index.html|date=May 26, 2022}}, University of Miami website

Otto G. Richter Library, the largest of the university's libraries on the Coral Gables campus, houses art, architecture, humanities, social sciences, and science collections. The Richter Library also serves as a depository for federal and state government publications.{{cite web|url=http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-displaylibrary.pl?RC=132|work=librarytechnology.org|title=Otto G. Richter Library|access-date=February 1, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111021220653/http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-displaylibrary.pl?RC=132|archive-date=October 21, 2011|url-status=dead}} Rare books, maps, manuscript collections, and the University of Miami Archives are housed in the library's Special Collections Division. The Richter's Cuban Heritage Collection, which specializes in Cuba-related collections, maintains the world's largest Cuba-related holdings outside of Cuba.[https://multimedia.miami.edu/cuban-heritage-collection "Unlocking the vaults: The Cuban Heritage Collection"], Miami.edu

In January 2017, the Jay I. Kislak Foundation announced it was making a substantial donation of rare books, maps, and manuscripts to the university's libraries. In preparation for the extensive donation, the University of Miami renovated a former lecture hall, now called the Kislak Center at the University of Miami, to house the works and the university's existing special collections and archives. Among the vast holdings in the university's Kislak Center are Christopher Columbus' original published copies of his letter on the first voyage aboard the Niña, which Columbus authored on February 15, 1493.{{cite news |last=Veciana-Suarez |first=Ana |date=January 22, 2017 |title=This college donation is truly historic. And it's not just the artifacts involved |url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article128075264.html |newspaper=Miami Herald |access-date=February 22, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223042258/http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article128075264.html |archive-date=February 23, 2017 |url-status=live}}

{{See also|Frost School of Music|Miami Herbert Business School|Miller School of Medicine|Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science|University of Miami School of Law}}

The University of Miami currently employs 2,850 full-time faculty members with 99 percent of them holding either doctorates or terminal degrees in their respective specialties. The university's student-faculty ratio, as of 2024, was 12:1.

The University of Miami is a broadly accredited academic institution, including by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the Florida Department of Education and 26 additional programmatic accrediting bodies, including Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, American Bar Association, American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation, American Physical Therapy Association Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education, American Psychological Association, Association of MBAs (AMBA), Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (ACSB International), Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education, Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, Council on Education for Public Health, EQUIS, Liaison Committee on Medical Education, National Association of Schools of Music, and Society for Simulation in Healthcare.

The university is a member of American Association of Colleges and Universities, American Association of University Women, American Council of Learned Societies, American Council on Education, Florida Association of Colleges and Universities, Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida, and National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.[https://www.irsa.miami.edu/_assets/pdf/factbook.pdf University of Miami factbook] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601160723/https://irsa.miami.edu/_assets/pdf/factbook.pdf |date=June 1, 2022 }} at University of Miami official website

In September 2022, Miami Herbert Business School was awarded AMBA accreditation, securing triple crown accreditation status, which includes accreditation by each of the nation's three business-oriented academic accrediting bodies: ACSB International, AMBA, and EQUIS. Less than one percent of the world's business schools have been recognized with accreditation from all three of these academic accrediting bodies.[https://news.miami.edu/miamiherbert//stories/2022/09/miami-herbert-business-school-earns-amba-accreditation-and-triple-crown-status.html "Miami Herbert Business School earns AMBA accreditation and 'triple crown' status"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221027100926/https://news.miami.edu/miamiherbert//stories/2022/09/miami-herbert-business-school-earns-amba-accreditation-and-triple-crown-status.html |date=October 27, 2022 }}, Miami Herbert Business School press release, September 23, 2022, retrieved October 27, 2022

Admission to the University of Miami is highly competitive, and, among Florida's 171 universities and colleges, the most selective.[https://www.niche.com/colleges/university-of-miami/ University of Miami] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220711124231/https://www.niche.com/colleges/university-of-miami/|date=July 11, 2022}} at Niche As of fall 2024, 37% of incoming freshman graduated in the top 5% of their class and 58% graduated in the top 10%.

For the Class of 2027, enrolled in fall 2023, the University of Miami received 48,286 applications and accepted 8,940, or 18.5% of its applicants. Of those accepted, 2,328 enrolled for a yield rate, or percentage of accepted students who choose to attend the university, of 26.0%.{{cite web |url=https://www.irsa.miami.edu/facts-and-information/fact-book/index.html |title=University of Miami Fact Book |publisher=University of Miami |access-date=2024-01-29 |date=January 29, 2024 |website=irsa.miami.edu |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321081457/https://irsa.miami.edu/_assets/pdf/cds2223.pdf |archive-date= March 21, 2023 |language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://admissions.miami.edu/undergraduate/about/class-profile/index.html|title=First-Year Admitted Student Profile|website=University of Miami – Undergraduate Admissions|access-date=July 18, 2022|archive-date=July 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220719030918/https://admissions.miami.edu/undergraduate/about/class-profile/index.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://umshare.miami.edu/web/wda/bondholder/Admission%20Statistics%20Rating%20Agency%20format%202014.pdf|title=Admissions Statistics|publisher=University of Miami|access-date=July 8, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812032507/https://umshare.miami.edu/web/wda/bondholder/Admission%20Statistics%20Rating%20Agency%20format%202014.pdf |archive-date=August 12, 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://www.irsa.miami.edu/_assets/pdf/cds2021.pdf|title=2020–2021 Common Data Set|publisher=University of Miami|access-date=May 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203195329/https://www.irsa.miami.edu/_assets/pdf/cds2021.pdf|archive-date=February 3, 2020|url-status=dead}}

Among the Class of 2028 enrolled as of fall 2024, the mean SAT score was 1400 and the mean ACT score was 31. The average GPA was 3.8 on a 4.0 scale.

The University of Miami attracts students from around the world and nation. As of 2024, 18 percent of University of Miami undergraduates were from the Miami metropolitan area, 10 percent were from other parts of Florida, 65 percent were from other U.S. states, and seven percent were international students from outside the United States. Among graduate students, 38 percent were from the Miami metropolitan area, 13 percent were from other parts of Florida, 31 percent were from other U.S. states, and 17 percent were international students. As of November 2020, the University of Miami ranks eleventh nationally in combined diversity across racial, geographic, gender and age factors.{{cite web|url=https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-miami/student-life/diversity/|title=U Miami Student Population Stats|publisher=CollegeFactual|access-date=November 23, 2020|archive-date=September 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918033032/https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-miami/student-life/diversity/|url-status=live}}

The University of Miami's freshman retention rate is 93%, with 84% going on to graduate within six years.{{cite web |url=https://irsa.miami.edu/_assets/pdf/cds2223.pdf |title=University of Miami Common Data Set 2022–2023 |publisher=University of Miami |access-date=2023-06-02 |date=May 22, 2023 |website=irsa.miami.edu |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321081457/https://irsa.miami.edu/_assets/pdf/cds2223.pdf |archive-date= March 21, 2023 |language=en}} As of 2015, the university reported that 73 percent of undergraduates graduated within four years, 82 percent graduated within five years, and 84 percent graduated within six years.{{cite web|url=https://pira.miami.edu/facts-and-information/retention-and-graduation-rates/graduation-rate/index.html|title=Student Consumer Information—Graduation Rates|publisher=University of Miami|access-date=February 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706211158/https://pira.miami.edu/facts-and-information/retention-and-graduation-rates/graduation-rate/index.html|archive-date=July 6, 2019|url-status=dead}} Male student athletes and female student athletes have graduation rates of 56 percent and 67 percent, respectively, within six years.{{cite web|url=http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/inst2007/415.pdf|title=University of Miami (Florida) Cohort Graduation Rates|page=1|publisher=National Collegiate Athletics Association|access-date=February 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615024351/http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/inst2007/415.pdf|archive-date=June 15, 2013|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/inst2016/415.pdf|title=Graduation Success Rate Report|publisher=National Collegiate Athletics Association|access-date=February 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180817060541/http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/inst2016/415.pdf|archive-date=August 17, 2018|url-status=dead}}

The University of Miami is managed by a board of trustees that includes 48 elected members, three alumni representatives, 23 senior members, four national members, six ex officio members, 14 emeriti members, and one student representative. Ex officio members, who serve by virtue of their positions in the university, include the university's current president, the president and immediate past president of the university's citizens board, and the president, president-elect, and immediate past president of the university's alumni association. Since 1982, the board has developed eleven visiting committees, which include both trustees and outside experts to assist in overseeing the university's 12 academic units.

Each of the University of Miami's 12 schools and colleges within the university is managed by a dean.

;Undergraduate and graduate:

• College of Arts and Sciences
• College of Engineering
• Frost School of Music
• Herbert Business School
• Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science
• School of Architecture
• School of Communication
• School of Education and Human Development
• School of Nursing and Health Studies

;Graduate only:

• Miller School of Medicine
• The Graduate School{{cite web|url=http://www6.miami.edu/umbulletin/grad/gradschool/index.htm|title=The Graduate School {{!}} University of Miami|publisher=University of Miami|access-date=February 9, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100417052937/http://www6.miami.edu/umbulletin/grad/gradschool/index.htm|archive-date=April 17, 2010|url-status=live}}
• University of Miami School of Law

The University of Miami's also maintains a division of continuing and international education and an executive education program in the Herbert Business School.

Under a partnership with nearby Florida International University, students from both schools are permitted to take graduate classes at either university, affording graduate students at both universities a wider range of course selections.{{cite web|url=http://gradschool.fiu.edu/FIUUMDocExngProgram.html|title=FIU/UM Doctoral Exchange Program|publisher=Florida International University|access-date=February 2, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100216001251/http://gradschool.fiu.edu/FIUUMDocExngProgram.html|archive-date=February 16, 2010|url-status=dead}}

The University of Miami's startup ecosystem, called The Launch Pad, assists entrepreneurial University of Miami students of all majors in obtaining assistance in starting, building, and scaling their own business.{{Cite web|title=Canes Angel Network – U innovation|url=https://www.thelaunchpad.org/canes-angel-network-u-innovation/|website=The Launch Pad|date=October 9, 2019|language=en-US|access-date=May 7, 2020|archive-date=September 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923135347/https://www.thelaunchpad.org/canes-angel-network-u-innovation/|url-status=live}} The program offers startup and business law-related legal assistance for student businesses in coordination with the University of Miami School of Law.{{Cite web|title=Startup Practicum {{!}} University of Miami School of Law|url=https://www.law.miami.edu/academics/start-up-law-practicum|website=www.law.miami.edu|access-date=May 7, 2020|archive-date=March 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200328224604/https://www.law.miami.edu/academics/start-up-law-practicum|url-status=dead}} The University of Miami also maintains an angel investor network, called Cane Angel Network, that allows university-affiliated investors to fund entrepreneurs with ties to the university.{{Cite web|title=Students Gain Business Law Experience Helping Startups as Part of 'Cane Angel Network Investment Group {{!}} University of Miami School of Law|url=https://www.law.miami.edu/news/2020/april/students-gain-business-law-experience-helping-startups-part-%E2%80%98cane-angel-network|website=www.law.miami.edu|access-date=May 7, 2020|archive-date=May 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200506082158/https://www.law.miami.edu/news/2020/april/students-gain-business-law-experience-helping-startups-part-%E2%80%98cane-angel-network|url-status=live}}

In addition to its medical degree program, the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine offers separate PhD{{cite web|url=http://biomed.miami.edu/default.asp?p=121|title=ABOUT THE GRADUATE PROGRAM IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES|publisher=University of Miami|access-date=February 13, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100307013808/http://biomed.miami.edu/default.asp?p=121|archive-date=March 7, 2010|url-status=dead}} and combined MD/PhD degrees in several biomedical sciences.{{cite web|url=http://www6.miami.edu/umbulletin/grad/med/md.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041217010126/http://www.miami.edu/umbulletin/grad/med/md.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 17, 2004|title=MD/PhD Program – Graduate|publisher=University of Miami|access-date=February 13, 2010}} The University of Miami's Department of Community Service, staffed by volunteer medical students and physicians from the medical school, provide free medical and other community services in Miami and surrounding communities.

For the 2022–2023 academic year, the University of Miami reports that the estimated total annual cost of attendance for full-time undergraduate students residing on campus is $78,640; the estimated total annual cost of attendance for full-time undergraduate students residing in University Village or off-campus is $83,260; and the estimated total annual cost of attendance for full-time undergraduate students residing with parents or relatives is $69,160.[https://finaid.miami.edu/cost/index.html "Cost of attendance"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220620060501/https://finaid.miami.edu/cost/index.html |date=June 20, 2022 }} University of Miami official website

In its 2023 edition of "America's Best Colleges," U.S. News & World Report ranks the University of Miami 67th among all national universities.[https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-miami-1536 University of Miami profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220422185643/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-miami-1536 |date=April 22, 2022 }} at U.S. News & World Report National Universities Also in 2023, U.S. News ranks the Miller School of Medicine the nation's 44th-best medical school. In its "2023 Best Law Schools" report, U.S. News ranks the School of Law the nation's 71st-best law school.{{cite magazine| url = https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/university-of-miami-03038| title = USNews.com: Graduate School: University of Miami (Law): At a glance| magazine = U.S. News & World Report| access-date = May 29, 2021| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170320195829/https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/law-rankings| archive-date = March 20, 2017| url-status = live}}

In 2022, the Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked the University of Miami the ninth-best university in the world for oceanography[https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/gras/2022/RS0107 "Oceanography"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220823183103/https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/gras/2022/RS0107 |date=August 23, 2022 }} at 2022 Shanghai Ranking and the 25th-best university in the world for business administration.[https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/gras/2022/RS0509 "Business Administration"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220820051632/http://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/gras/2022/RS0509 |date=August 20, 2022 }} at 2022 Shanghai Ranking

In 2018, U.S. News & World Report ranked the University of Miami Physical Therapy Department the nation's 10th-best physical therapy program{{cite magazine |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-health-schools/physical-therapy-rankings |title=USNews.com |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=July 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200205033535/https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-health-schools/physical-therapy-rankings |archive-date=February 5, 2020 |url-status=live}} and its Department of Psychology Clinical Training Program the nation's 25th best for psychology.{{cite magazine |url=http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-health-schools/clinical-psychology-rankings/page+2 |title=Best Clinical Psychology Programs |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |year=2008 |access-date=March 28, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110225010309/http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-health-schools/clinical-psychology-rankings/page+2 |archive-date=February 25, 2011 |url-status=live}}

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| USNWR_W = 234 (tie)

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File:Walton Smith at University of Miami RSMAS Campus.jpg catamaran, at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, in May 2022]]

The University of Miami is classified among "Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity" and ranks 67th among all U.S. universities in research and sponsored programs expenditures, which totaled $456 million in 2023.

In addition to research conducted in its individual academic schools and departments, the University of Miami maintains several university-wide research centers, including:

• Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy seeks to bridge the gap between science and environmental policy.{{cite web |url=http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/1,1770,37515-1;51234-3,00.html |title=Leonard and Jayne Abess endow Ecosystem Science and Policy Center with a $5 million gift |date=October 26, 2006 |access-date=October 9, 2009 |publisher=University of Miami |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100719090325/http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/1%2C1770%2C37515-1%3B51234-3%2C00.html |archive-date=July 19, 2010}}
• Center for Research and Education for Aging and Technology Enhancement (CREATE) explores strategies to improve the quality of life for older adults.{{cite web|url=http://www.miami.edu/index.php/features/silver_meets_silicon-1/|title=Silver Meets Silicon {{!}} New Knowledge {{!}} University of Miami|publisher=University of Miami|access-date=September 18, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091019103107/http://www.miami.edu/index.php/features/silver_meets_silicon-1/|archive-date=October 19, 2009|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.miami.edu/index.php/news/releases/um_researcher_receives_9_million_nih_grant/|title=UM Researcher Receives $9 Million NIH Grant|publisher=University of Miami|date=November 10, 2009|access-date=February 9, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527133647/http://www.miami.edu/index.php/news/releases/um_researcher_receives_9_million_nih_grant/|archive-date=May 27, 2010|url-status=dead}}
• Computational Science Center is a data center that conducts data-driven research to identify solutions to various world problems and challenges.{{cite news|url=http://www6.miami.edu/provost/news_computationalscience.html|title=Computational Science Center to boost faculty research|date=September 2008|access-date=April 7, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150414142709/http://www6.miami.edu/provost/news_computationalscience.html|archive-date=April 14, 2015|url-status=live}}
• European Union Center, a designated European Union Center for Excellence, is a consortium between the University of Miami and Florida International University established in 2001 with a European Commission grant to promote and research economic, social, and political issues of interest to the European Union.{{cite news|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-6770619_ITM|title=Florida universities team up with European Union to start think tank|work=Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service|first=Holly|last=Stepp|date=September 21, 2001|access-date=February 8, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120122085526/http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-6770619_ITM|archive-date=January 22, 2012|url-status=live}}
• Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS) provides academic and cultural research and insight on Cuba.{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2009/02/21/2009-02-21_excommerce_secretary_carlos_gutierrez_ta-2.html|title=Ex-commerce secretary Carlos Gutierrez takes Miami university post|work=New York Daily News|date=February 20, 2009|access-date=February 6, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101224015300/http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2009/02/21/2009-02-21_excommerce_secretary_carlos_gutierrez_ta-2.html|archive-date=December 24, 2010|url-status=live}}
• John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics researches causes of Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and other diseases and explores human genome and other possible cures and treatments for them.{{cite web|url=http://www.miami.edu/index.php/research/centers_and_institutes/|title=Centers and Institutes|access-date=September 9, 2009|publisher=University of Miami|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015230649/http://www.miami.edu/index.php/research/centers_and_institutes/|archive-date=October 15, 2009|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.miami.edu/index.php/news/releases/miami_institute_for_human_genomics_receives_20m_gift_for_research/|title=Miami Institute for Human Genomics Receives $2M Gift for Research {{!}} News Releases {{!}} University of Miami|access-date=September 7, 2009|publisher=University of Miami|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090907193503/http://www.miami.edu/index.php/news/releases/miami_institute_for_human_genomics_receives_20m_gift_for_research/|archive-date=September 7, 2009|url-status=dead}}
• The Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies provides objective, in-depth exploration of issues and trends that have affected the Jewish people over the last century.
• The Wallace H. Coulter Center focuses on turning translational research in biomedical science and engineering into products that address unmet clinical needs and have market potential in the healthcare and biomedical industries.{{cite web|url=http://med.miami.edu/uminnovation/coultercenter/aboutus/index.html|title=UM Innovation Coulter Center|publisher=University of Miami|access-date=October 15, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610001134/http://med.miami.edu/uminnovation/coultercenter/aboutus/index.html|archive-date=June 10, 2010|url-status=dead}}

The University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine receives more than $200 million annually in external grants and contracts to fund 1,500 ongoing projects. The medical campus includes more than {{convert|500000|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} of research space and the University of Miami's Life Science Park provides an additional {{convert|2000000|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} of space adjacent to the university's medical campus in Miami's Health District. University of Miami's Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute researches the biology of stem cells and translates basic research into new regenerative therapies.

The University of Miami houses one of the nation's largest centralized academic cyberinfrastructures. In 2007, the university launched the Center for Computational Science High Performance Computing group. Since then, the group has grown from a zero HPC cyberinfrastructure to a regional high-performance computing environment that currently supports more than 1,200 users, 220 TFlops of computational power, and more than three petabytes of disk storage.{{cite web|url=http://ccs.miami.edu/pegasus|title=Pegasus Supercomputer|access-date=July 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720013735/http://ccs.miami.edu/pegasus|archive-date=July 20, 2018|url-status=dead}}

As of 2008, the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science receives $50 million in annual external research funding.{{cite web|url=http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/info/2008_Annual_Report.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090529235647/http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/info/2008_Annual_Report.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 29, 2009|title=2008 Rosenstiel Annual Report|page=30|publisher=University of Miami|access-date=November 21, 2009}} Their laboratories include a saltwater wave tank, a five tank conditioning and spawning system, a multi-tank Aplysia culture laboratory, controlled corals climate tanks, and DNA profiling equipment.{{cite web|url=http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/research/facilities.html |title=Rosenstiel School: Facilities |publisher=University of Miami |access-date=February 9, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090830081024/http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/research/facilities.html |archive-date=August 30, 2009}} The campus also houses an invertebrate museum with 400,000 specimens. The University of Miami operates the Bimini Biological Field Station in Bimini district in the western Bahamas, an array of oceanographic high-frequency radar along the East Coast of the United States, and a Bermuda-based aerosol observatory.{{cite web|url=http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/research/facilities.html |title=Rosenstiel School Facilities |publisher=University of Miami |access-date=November 21, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090830081024/http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/research/facilities.html |archive-date=August 30, 2009}} The university owns Little Salt Spring, a National Register of Historic Places site,{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19801124&id=sUk1AAAAIBAJ&pg=5335,5446439|work=Sarasota Herald Tribune|title=Dial Hotline|date=November 24, 1980|page=54|access-date=February 6, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904090933/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19801124&id=sUk1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=62cEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5335,5446439|archive-date=September 4, 2015|url-status=live}} in North Port, Florida, where the Rosenstiel School performs archaeological and paleontological research.{{cite web |url=http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/0,1770,2593-1;39289-3,00.html |title=Little Salt Spring Reveals More Florida History |date=July 6, 2005 |publisher=University of Miami |access-date=November 16, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060922003500/http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/0%2C1770%2C2593-1%3B39289-3%2C00.html |archive-date=September 22, 2006}}

In 2010, the University of Miami built a brain imaging annex to the James M. Cox Jr. Science Center within the College of Arts and Sciences, which includes a functional magnetic imaging (fMRI) system and a laboratory where scientists, clinicians, and engineers study fundamental aspects of brain function. Construction of the lab was funded in part by a $14.8 million stimulus grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).{{cite news |last=Yanez |first=Luisa |date=February 5, 2010 |title=University of Miami gets $14.8M to build brain imaging annex |url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/1463959.html |access-date=February 5, 2010 |work=Miami Herald}}{{Dead link|date=May 2016|bot=medic|fix-attempted=yes}}

In 2016, the University of Miami received $195 million in federal research funding, including $131.3 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and $14.1 million from the National Science Foundation.{{cite web|url=https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=report&fice=1536&id=h3|title=Academic Institutional Profiles – University of Miami|access-date=July 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803044355/https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=report&fice=1536&id=h3|archive-date=August 3, 2018|url-status=dead}} The University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine received a record $149.5 million in NIH funding in 2019, making the Miller School of Medicine the world's 39th-largest NIH grant recipient institution and largest NIH grant recipient of any medical school in Florida.{{cite web |last=Benchley |first=Robert |date=2020-06-17 |title=Miller School's NIH Research Funding Sets Record |url=https://news.med.miami.edu/miller-schools-nih-research-funding-sets-record/ |access-date=2024-01-20 |website=Miller School of Medicine}}

Also in 2016, the university received $161 million in science and engineering funding from the U.S. federal government, making the university the largest Hispanic-serving recipient and 56th-largest recipient of federal science and engineering funding. Within the $161 million in funding, $117 million was granted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to the university's school of medicine.{{cite web|url=https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=report&fice=1536&id=f1|title=Federal obligations for science and engineering, by agency: 2016–07|access-date=July 6, 2018|publisher=National Science Foundation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803074548/https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=report&fice=1536&id=f1|archive-date=August 3, 2018|url-status=dead}}

{{See also|Iron Arrow Honor Society|Jerry Herman Ring Theatre|The Miami Hurricane|University of Miami Rugby Football Club|WVUM}}

Image:Iajacket.JPG patchwork jackets worn by members of the University of Miami's Iron Arrow Honor Society, the highest honor bestowed by the university.[https://web.archive.org/web/20091120021357/http://www6.miami.edu/miami-magazine/fall00/arrowheads.html "Arrow Heads"], Miami, Fall 2000]]

The University of Miami is affiliated with 31 social fraternities and sororities.{{cite web |url=http://www6.miami.edu/greek-life/ |title=Greek Life {{!}} University of Miami |publisher=University of Miami |access-date=September 7, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090823072647/http://www6.miami.edu/greek-life/ |archive-date=August 23, 2009}} Multicultural fraternities and sororities include six of the nine historically African-American organizations that are collectively known as the Divine Nine, Latino, and Asian-interest fraternities and sororities.{{cite web|url=http://www.miami.edu/index.php/student_life/student_organizations/FraternitiesAndSororities/interested_in_greek_life/faqs_for_parents/ |title=FAQ's For Parents {{!}} University of Miami |publisher=University of Miami |access-date=February 12, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527181915/http://www.miami.edu/index.php/student_life/student_organizations/FraternitiesAndSororities/interested_in_greek_life/faqs_for_parents/ |archive-date=May 27, 2010}}

The University of Miami has over 300 registered student organizations,[https://saso.studentaffairs.miami.edu/ "Student Affairs"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220504084640/https://saso.studentaffairs.miami.edu/ |date=May 4, 2022 }} at miami.edu, retrieved May 1, 2022, including Amnesty International,{{cite web|url=http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/site/apps/kb/cs/contactdisplay.asp?c=jhKPIXPCIoE&b=4387679&sid=bgKQLYMAIgKKLSNwFnH&r=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716114839/http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/site/apps/kb/cs/contactdisplay.asp?c=jhKPIXPCIoE&b=4387679&sid=bgKQLYMAIgKKLSNwFnH&r=1|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 16, 2011|title=Amnesty International – University of Miami|publisher=Amnesty International USA|access-date=February 7, 2010}} Habitat for Humanity,{{cite web|url=http://umtv.miami.edu/|title=UMTV|publisher=UM School of Communications|access-date=February 7, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609020137/http://umtv.miami.edu/|archive-date=June 9, 2010|url-status=dead}} the Ibis yearbook, UMTV (an award-winning cable television channel with nine programs broadcast on Comcast Channel 96),[https://umtv.miami.edu/ UMTV] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220502035105/https://umtv.miami.edu/ |date=May 2, 2022 }} official website, retrieved May 1, 2022 UniMiami (a Spanish cable television broadcast),[https://umtv.miami.edu/unimiami/ UniMiami] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220502033537/https://umtv.miami.edu/unimiami/ |date=May 2, 2022 }} official website, retrieved May 1, 2022 the student-run Distraction Magazine, and the campus radio station WVUM, which has broadcast to the Miami metropolitan media market continuously since 1967.{{cite web|url=http://www.wvum.org/|title=WVUM (90.5FM), University of Miami student radio station|publisher=WVUM|access-date=January 13, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100412155150/http://wvum.org/|archive-date=April 12, 2010|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.miami.edu/index.php/student_life/student_organizations/ |title=Student Organizations |publisher=University of Miami |access-date=September 7, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090806205156/http://www.miami.edu/index.php/student_life/student_organizations |archive-date=August 6, 2009}} Since 1929, students have published The Miami Hurricane, which is currently published weekly and has been named to the Associated Collegiate Press Hall of Fame.{{cite web|url=http://www.themiamihurricane.com/about/|title=The Miami Hurricane|work=The Miami Hurricane|access-date=February 7, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100116211216/http://www.themiamihurricane.com/about/|archive-date=January 16, 2010|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.studentpress.org/acp/winners/hfame.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990220232657/http://www.studentpress.org/acp/winners/hfame.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 20, 1999|title=ACP Hall of Fame|publisher=Associated Collegiate Press|access-date=February 7, 2010}}

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{{See also|2011 University of Miami athletics scandal|Band of the Hour|Miami Hurricanes baseball|Miami Hurricanes football|Miami Hurricanes men's basketball|Miami Hurricanes women's basketball|Miami Hurricanes women's soccer|University of Miami Alma Mater}}

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File:200127-H-PX819-0092.jpg in Miami Gardens, home field for the five-time national champion Miami Hurricanes football team]]

File:Reagan with Miami Hurricanes football team 1988.jpg and the 1987 Miami Hurricanes football team present U.S. president Ronald Reagan with a University of Miami jersey at the White House after winning their second national championship, in January 1988]]

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The University of Miami's athletic teams are the Miami Hurricanes and are widely referred to as "The 'Canes" or "The U". The Hurricanes are members of NCAA Division I, the highest level of athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and compete primarily in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).{{cite web |url=http://www.theacc.com/this-is/acc-this-is.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060423202914/http://www.theacc.com/this-is/acc-this-is.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 23, 2006 |title=This is the A.C.C. |work=Atlantic Coast Conference |access-date=February 5, 2010}} Prior to joining the ACC in 2004, the University of Miami competed in the Big East Conference. The Hurricanes maintain seven NCAA men's athletics teams (baseball, basketball, cross-country, diving, football, tennis, and track and field) and ten women's teams (basketball, cross-country, diving, golf, rowing, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and field, and volleyball).

The University of Miami's mascot, first introduced in 1957, is Sebastian the Ibis. The university's marching band, established in 1933, is called Band of the Hour.{{Citation needed|date=February 2025}}

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{{See also|Catholics vs. Convicts (film)|FIU–Miami football brawl|Hard Rock Stadium|List of Miami Hurricanes in the NFL draft|Miami Hurricanes football (1926 to 1978)|The U (film)|Wide Right I|Wide Right II}}

The University of Miami football team has won five national championships in 1983, 1987, 1989, 1991, and 2001{{cite web|url=http://www6.miami.edu/miami-magazine/spring2007/featurestory5.html|title=Born and Bred|last=Jones|first=Robert C. Jr.|year=2007|work=Miami |access-date=October 17, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100816222537/http://www6.miami.edu/miami-magazine/spring2007/featurestory5.html|archive-date=August 16, 2010}} and has appeared in the AP Top 25 frequently since the 1980s. University of Miami football alumni include eleven members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, two Heisman Trophy winners, and dozens of players who have gone on to NFL careers. As of 2024, at least one University of Miami football player has been selected in the NFL draft in 49 consecutive NFL drafts, dating back to 1975.[https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/college/acc/university-of-miami/article260826017.html "Miami mountain man DT Jon Ford drafted by Packers in seventh round, preserves 48-year streak"], The Miami Herald, April 30, 2022 Among all colleges and universities, the University of Miami holds all-time records for most defensive linemen (49) and is tied with USC for most wide receivers (40) to go on to play at the NFL level.[https://www.nfl.com/photos/colleges-with-most-nfl-draft-picks-by-position-0ap3000000551619 "Colleges with most NFL draft picks by position"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220430232056/https://www.nfl.com/photos/colleges-with-most-nfl-draft-picks-by-position-0ap3000000551619 |date=April 30, 2022 }}, NFL.com, retrieved April 30, 2022

Beginning in the 1980s with the arrival of former head coach Howard Schnellenberger, the University of Miami football became one of the nation's most high profile and elite college football programs and began developing what now is one of the sport's largest and most passionate global fan bases. Since then, it also has developed several of the most famed, flamboyant, and successful players at the NFL level but also, along the way, been subjected to vast scrutiny and some criticism during its rise to national prominence, which featured three national championships in the 1980s followed by scandal-related damage to its recruiting capabilities,{{Cite web |last=updated |first=The Week Staff last |date=2011-08-19 |title=U. of Miami's 'booster bombshell': 'The craziest scandal in NCAA history' |url=https://theweek.com/articles/482403/u-miamis-booster-bombshell-craziest-scandal-ncaa-history |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=theweek |language=en}} a subsequent comeback leading to its 2001 national championship, which was followed by a second scandal-plagued descent.

Much of the program's dramatic history from the 1980s is captured in a widely viewed December 12, 2009, ESPN documentary, The U, which drew 2.3 million viewers, then making it the most watched documentary in ESPN history. A 2014 sequel, The U Part 2, picked up where The U left off, covering the University of Miami as it launched a comeback from these 1980s scandals leading up to its 2001 national championship team, widely considered one of the best, and possibly the best team, in college football history,{{Cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32644138/the-2001-miami-hurricanes-one-college-football-greatest-teams-ever |title="The 2001 Miami Hurricanes are one of college football's greatest teams ever," ESPN, November 18, 2021 |date=November 18, 2021 |access-date=September 23, 2022 |archive-date=September 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220923045239/https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32644138/the-2001-miami-hurricanes-one-college-football-greatest-teams-ever |url-status=live}} followed by yet a second series of widespread scandals that cost scholarships and inflicted multi-year damage on the program's competitiveness.{{cite magazine |last=Levine |first=Stuart |url=https://variety.com/2009/tv/news/the-u-sets-docu-record-at-espn-1118012832/ |title='The U' sets docu record at ESPN |magazine=Variety |date=December 16, 2009 |access-date=January 26, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091227050008/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118012832.html?categoryid=1011&cs=1 |archive-date=December 27, 2009 |url-status=live}}

The Hurricanes play their home games at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens.{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/darrenheitner/2016/08/17/hard-rock-paying-250-million-for-miami-dolphins-stadium-naming-rights/#45400410399c |title=Hard Rock Paying $250 Million For Miami Dolphins Stadium Naming Rights |access-date=August 24, 2016 |work=Forbes |date=August 17, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160825055315/http://www.forbes.com/sites/darrenheitner/2016/08/17/hard-rock-paying-250-million-for-miami-dolphins-stadium-naming-rights/#45400410399c |archive-date=August 25, 2016 |url-status=live}} In 2007, the university signed a 25-year contract for the team to play at Hard Rock Stadium through 2033.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/american_football/6957333.stm|title=Future of Orange Bowl in doubt Future of Orange Bowl in doubt|work=BBC Sport|date=August 21, 2007|access-date=November 13, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112000456/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/american_football/6957333.stm|archive-date=November 12, 2012|url-status=live}} Prior to moving to Hard Rock Stadium, from 1937 through 2007, the Hurricanes played their home football games at the Miami Orange Bowl in Little Havana.

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{{See also|Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field}}

Like its football program, the University of Miami baseball team has proven one of the most successful in the nation over the past four decades, winning four national championships in 1982, 1985, 1999, and 2001. Multiple Miami Hurricanes baseball players have gone on to professional careers in Major League Baseball.[http://hurricanesports.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/mtt/braun_ryan00.html "Ryan Braun profile"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311133148/http://hurricanesports.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/mtt/braun_ryan00.html |date=March 11, 2007}}, Miami Hurricanes. Retrieved February 20, 2007.[https://books.google.com/books?id=aFkwyOIHsr8C&dq=Aleksandra+Wozniak+jewish&pg=PA317 Wechsler, Robert, Day by Day in Jewish Sports History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016140241/https://books.google.com/books?id=aFkwyOIHsr8C&pg=PA317&lpg=PA317&dq=Aleksandra+Wozniak+jewish&source=bl&ots=ALnKiS6X2u&sig=6nAYWJHYDNa4j5xOAd5Rq47jDcM&hl=en&ei=QOwiSsvdDpzFtge04_XcBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3#PPA144,M1 |date=October 16, 2015}}, p. 144, Ktav Publishing House, 2007, {{ISBN|0881259691}}, accessed June 1, 2009{{cite news |url=http://www.unlvrebels.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/080103aaa.html |title=Scheinbaum Named All-American |publisher=Unlvrebels.com |date=August 1, 2003 |access-date=September 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330164123/http://www.unlvrebels.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/080103aaa.html |archive-date=March 30, 2012 |url-status=dead}}

The Hurricanes' baseball team plays their home games at Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field, an on-campus baseball stadium named for New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, who contributed $3.9 million toward the stadium's renovation.{{cite news|url=http://miami.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=906303|work=rivals.com|title=Alex Rodriguez Park Dedication Feb .13|date=January 28, 2009|publisher=Rivals.com|access-date=February 7, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218035506/http://miami.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=906303|archive-date=February 18, 2009|url-status=dead}}

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The University of Miami's men's basketball team has reached the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament five times (1999–2000, 2012–2013, 2015–2016, 2021–2022, and 2022–2023), the Elite Eight twice (2021–2022 and 2022–2023), and the Final Four once (2022–2023).{{Cite web |last=Zavala |first=Steve |date=2023-03-25 |title=Jim Larranaga Delivers Honest Take on Whether Miami is Now a 'Basketball School' |url=https://clutchpoints.com/jim-larranaga-delivers-honest-take-on-whether-miami-is-now-a-basketball-school |access-date=2023-04-26 |website=ClutchPoints |language=en |archive-date=April 26, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230426194617/https://clutchpoints.com/jim-larranaga-delivers-honest-take-on-whether-miami-is-now-a-basketball-school |url-status=live }} Several Miami Hurricanes men's basketball players have gone on to play in the NBA.

In 2022–23, the University of Miami's women's basketball team reached the NCAA Elite Eight of the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament for the first time in program history. Several of its players have gone on to play in the WNBA.

Both basketball teams play their home games at Watsco Center, an 8,000-capacity indoor stadium on the University of Miami campus.

Players from the University of Miami's tennis program have gone on to amateur and professional accomplishments, including Israel team player Maya Tahan, Wimbledon Singles champion Rod Mandelstam, Pan American Games Doubles gold medal winner Ronni Reis, NCAA Women's Singles champion Audra Cohen, Wimbledon Doubles champion Doris Hart, three-time NCAA Singles champion Pancho Segura, and former professional tennis players Monique Albuquerque, Julia Cohen, Gardnar Mulloy, Ed Rubinoff, Michael Russell, Jodi Appelbaum-Steinbauer, and Todd Widom.

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{{See also|Cobb Stadium}}

The University of Miami women's soccer team and both its men's and women's track and field teams host their home meets in Cobb Stadium, which opened in 1999 on San Amaro Drive on the University of Miami campus.{{cite web|url=http://hurricanesports.cstv.com/facilities/mifl-cobb-stadium.html |title=Cobb Stadium |publisher=University of Miami |access-date=March 4, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100220050326/http://hurricanesports.cstv.com/facilities/mifl-cobb-stadium.html |archive-date=February 20, 2010}}

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Since its 1925 founding, several University of Miami alumni have gone on to globally-recognized accomplishment and influence in their respective fields. Among them are former Honduran president Porfirio Lobo Sosa, former Peruvian president Fernando Belaúnde, former Belize prime minister Dean Barrow, former Iceland prime minister Bjarni Benediktsson, economist and former Bahamas Central Bank governor Wendy Craigg, former Peruvian vice president and minister Mercedes Aráoz, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and writing professor Donald Justice, actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Grammy Award-winning musicians Gloria Estefan, Bruce Hornsby, Enrique Iglesias, Jaco Pastorius, and Jon Secada, chief executive officers of various companies, public officials, heads of governmental agencies, scientists, academics, media personalities, authors and writers, and multiple professional athletes in Major League Baseball, the NBA, and the NFL, including eleven NFL Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees.

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University of Miami faculty include or have included a number of notable academics, including four Nobel Prize recipients and globally-recognized experts across nearly every academic discipline. Among them are physicist Paul Dirac, biochemists Robert F. Furchgott and Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., writers Paul Holdengräber and Juan Ramón Jiménez, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Peter Burleigh, sinologist Edward L. Dreyer, international affairs expert Leon Gouré, historians Mary Lindemann and Joan R. Piggott, economist Neil Wallace, finance and business management expert Henrik Cronqvist, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Services Donna Shalala, healthcare policy and management expert John Quelch, audio engineer Bill Porter, artist and architect Bonnie Seeman, architect Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, sociologist Lowell Juilliard Carr, constitutional law expert John Hart Ely, administrative law expert Paul R. Verkuil, musicians Jaco Pastorius and Pat Metheny, artist Walter Darby Bannard, philosopher Colin McGinn, and others.

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