Miami University, Oxford is a public university of Ohio. It is a residential university with a focus on teaching undergraduates. A liberal education core complements the more specialized studies of the majors. The university is established in 1809, named for the Miami Indian Tribe that inhabited the area now known as the Miami Valley Region of Ohio. Its main campus is in Oxford, Ohio (35 miles north of Cincinnati). It also has two regional campuses in Hamilton and Middletown, Ohio and a European Center in Luxembourg. Now it has an enrollment of 14,265 undergraduates and 1,501 graduate students on the Oxford campus; 2,479 on the Hamilton campus; 1,867 on the Middletown campus (based on Fall 2007 enrollment). The multicultural students make up 9 percent of the first-year class and 8.3 percent of the undergraduate student body (based on Fall 2007 enrollment). |