Miami University--Oxford is a public institution that was founded in the year 1809. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of around 14,872, its setting is rural, and the campus area is 2,000 acres. It has a semester-based academic calendar. Miami University—Oxford is ranked 90 in the 2012 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities.
The teams, who participate in the Division I Mid-American Conference, were known as the Redskins until the year 1997, when the Miami Indian Tribe complained. (The tribe is the namesake of university.) To help ease the transition into the freshman year, older students regularly create a guide to life at Miami University, called as the M Book. Student couples who marry are called as Miami Mergers and are reminded of their alma mater every Valentine’s Day, when the admissions office sends cards to congratulate ex- students on the finding love at school.
To travel around campus and Oxford, all the students can make use of the Miami Metro during the day and school’s Nighttime Door to Door shuttle service until four am Cincinnati and Dayton are 35 and 45 miles away. The famous alumni of Miami University include Richard Smucker, executive chairman and co chief executive officer of The J.M. Smucker Company; Paul Brown, Hall of Fame NFL coach; and Benjamin Harrison, ex- President of United States.
Campus Location
Ohio Oxford,
Ohio Hamilton,
Ohio Middletown,
Ohio West Chester,
Luxembourg Differdange
General Information
School type-public, coed college
Year founded-1809
Religious affiliation-N/A
Academic calendar-semester
Setting-rural