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The University of Miami has been regularly ranked one of the top universities in the U.S. by U.S. News & World Report, which ranks it the 55th-best national university as of 2022. The University of Miami campus spans 240 acres (0.97 km 2) and has over 5,700,000 square feet (530,000 m 2) of buildings. It has an endowment of $1.4 billion as of 2021.
The statue was given to the university in 1920 by Samuel Spahr Laws, Miami class of 1848. Alumni Hall is also attributed as the inspiration behind Marian Boyd Havighurst's 1934 mystery novel, Murder in the Stacks and sequences from the film Little Man Tate, directed and starring Jodie Foster, were filmed within the rotunda for Alumni Hall.
Articles and categories related to notable alumni of the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida The main article for this category is List of University of Miami alumni . For more information, see University of Miami .
The following is a list of presidents, notable alumni, and faculty members of Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio, U.S. Alumni Academia Carol Anderson, professor of African American Studies at Emory University John Alexander Anderson, former Congressman from Kansas ; consul to Egypt ; second president of Kansas State University C. Michael Armstrong, chairman, board of trustees Johns Hopkins ...
The Watsco Center (originally named the University of Miami Convocation Center) is an 8,000-seat multi-purpose arena on the campus of the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. The venue hosts concerts, family shows, trade shows, lecture series, university events and sporting events, and serves as the home court to the Miami Hurricanes ...
Miami University's freshman retention rate is 89.2%, with 83% going on to graduate within six years. [61] Miami University is a college-sponsor of the National Merit Scholarship Program and sponsored 21 Merit Scholarship awards in 2020. In the 2020–2021 academic year, 28 freshman students were National Merit Scholars. [62]
The theatre is notable for having given birth to the acting careers of Steven Bauer, Ray Liotta, Sylvester Stallone, and other University of Miami alumni. It is named in honor of 1953 University of Miami alumnus Jerry Herman, whose Broadway career included composing Hello, Dolly!, Mame, La Cage aux Folles, and other Broadway hits.
Sue McCourt Cobb (J.D. 1972), former U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica and former Florida Secretary of State [24]; Charles D. Michel (J.D. 1992), 30th Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard, first career judge advocate in any of the Armed Forces to achieve four-star rank.