Miami University facts for kids

This is the university in Ohio. For the university in Florida, see University of Miami.

Alumni Hall which is on the campus.

Miami University is a public, coeducational university in Oxford, Ohio. The university has about 20,126 students. It was founded in 1809. The current president of the university is David C. Hodge.

Sports

The athletics teams of the university are called the RedHawks. They have 8 varsity teams for men and 10 for women, most of which play in the Mid-American Conference. The men's ice hockey team plays in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference.

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Miami University in 1909
MacCracken Hall is one of several iconic campus buildings.
King Library
The Farmer School of Business was ranked 40th in the country for undergraduate business schools by Bloomberg.
The Miami University Men's Glee Club performing at its Fall Concert in Hall Auditorium
Built in 1835, Stoddard Hall is one of the oldest remaining buildings on campus
Phi Delta Theta was founded at Miami University in 1848.
Miami fans gather before a hockey game against the Omaha Mavericks.
Harrison Hall at sunset
A football game at Yager Stadium
Epsilon Pi chapter house of Alpha Sigma Phi
Miami chapter house of Delta Upsilon
Zeta-Upsilon Zeta chapter house of Lambda Chi Alpha (owned by Sigma Nu)
Alpha chapter house of Phi Delta Theta
Delta Gamma chapter house of Pi Kappa Alpha
Ohio Tau Chapter House of Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Mu Psi chapter house of Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity
Delta Xi chapter house of Tau Kappa Epsilon
Alpha chapter house of Beta Theta Pi
27th Governor of Ohio Charles Anderson (LL.B., 1833)
23rd President of the United States Benjamin Harrison (B.A., 1852)
American theoretical physicist Benjamin W. Lee (B.S., 1956)
18th U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala (B.A., 1962)
70th Governor of Ohio and former U.S. Senator Mike DeWine (B.S., 1969)
American journalist and political satirist P. J. O'Rourke (B.A., 1969)
36th Prime Minister of South Korea Chung Un-chan (M.A., 1972)
Pulitzer-prize winning American poet and essayist Rita Dove (B.A., 1973)
American author and political scientist Darrell M. West (B.A., 1976)
U.S. Senator from Washington Maria Cantwell (B.A., 1980)
American architect Greg Lynn (B.E.D, B.Phil., 1980)
Super Bowl XLII champion coach John Harbaugh (1984)
American animation script writer Mark Hentemann (B.A., 1991)
Chief operating officer of Instagram Marne Levine (B.A., 1992)
54th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Paul Ryan (B.A., 1992)
Super Bowl XL and XLIII champion quarterback Ben Roethlisberger (B.S., 2012)