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What does a Public Ivy education mean to me?

Overall, it means you receive an immersive, intensely personalized learning experience and unparalleled opportunities.

It means that you should expect close mentoring from faculty, an exceptional return on your education investment, and a large and influential alumni network. You'll find all of this at Miami plus the following hallmarks of a Public Ivy:

Among nation's best for commitment to teaching

  • For 10 years in a row, U.S. News & World Report has ranked Miami among the top 10 public universities nationally for strong commitment to undergraduate teaching.

High graduation and retention rates

  • Miami’s four-year graduation rate is 21st in the nation among public colleges and universities, first among publics in Ohio.
  • Students from racially and ethnically underrepresented backgrounds graduate from Miami at a rate that is 31.8 percentage points higher than the national average for underrepresented students.
  • Miami's first-to-second-year student retention rate of 89% is well above the national average of 67%.

Active and ambitious students

  • Miami students are busy! Nearly 100% of Miami students have had at least one internship or similar practiced learning experience before they graduate. Each year, more than 2,800 undergraduates work with professors on funded research (many beginning their first year).
  • Miami was named as one of the “Top Producing Institutions” for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program by the Institute of International Education. In 2021 a record 10 Miami students were offered Fulbright grants.
  • Miami is ranked 3rd in the nation for Study Abroad participation.

Outstanding preparation for a vast array of careers, from start to finish

  • 6,330 employers recruited Miami students, and 70,686 internships and jobs were posted on our career database in 2019-2020.
  • 96% of 2018-19 graduates were employed or furthering their education by fall of 2019 (per surveys and national data).
  • 78% of Miami undergrads are accepted into medical school (with at least 3.5 science and overall GPA, 50th percentile score on MCAT) and 95% are accepted into law school (average is 83%).
  • Miami ranks in the Top 40 as one of the nation’s “Best Value Public Colleges,” according to the Princeton Review, 2021. The organization also lists Miami as the No. 13 best public school for internships and the No. 15 best public school for entrepreneurship

A quintessentially collegiate campus

  • Robert Frost, former U.S. Poet Laureate, described Miami as “the most beautiful campus that ever there was.”
  • Our students and graduates tear up whenever they read “To think in such a place, I lived such a life.” And our students tell us over and over again that Miami is “college as college should be.”
  • Miami is the 10th oldest public university in the nation, formerly referred to as the “Yale of the West” back in the early 1800s, and its stunning campus is beautifully preserved.