University of Miami

By AI Staff

In brief

The University of Miami, founded in 1925, is a private research university in Coral Gables, Florida. By our measure of academic influence, it ranks #60 in the United States and #171 in the world. It admitted 18.9% of applicants for fall 2024; admitted students had a median SAT score of 1400 and a median ACT score of 31.

Its most popular programs are in business, management, and marketing, the biological and biomedical sciences, and the health professions.

Where the University of Miami’s influence is strongest

The University of Miami’s influence is led by business and medicine. Its strongest broad fields, by US rank in our data, are:

• Business and medicine: #29 in the US each
• History: #37
• Earth sciences: #43
• Mathematics: #47

Within those fields, the University of Miami is a national leader in several specialties:

• #2 in the US: physical therapy (only USC ranks higher)
• #4: ophthalmology
• #5: automated reasoning
• #6: dermatology

By comparison, the University of Miami sits further back in literature (#96), computer science (#110), and religious studies (#131).

How we measure influence: these ranks come from the citations and recognition earned by a school’s faculty and alumni in each discipline, not from surveys or admissions statistics. See our methodology.

Notable people

Seven Nobel laureates are associated with the University of Miami, including the physicist Paul Dirac, the chemist Lars Onsager, the physiologist Andrew Schally, and the poet Juan Ramón Jiménez. Its faculty and alumni also include the mathematician Maxim Kontsevich, the philosopher Susan Haack, the cancer researcher Georgios Papanikolaou, the singer Gloria Estefan, the actor Sylvester Stallone, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Our full lists of the University of Miami’s most influential alumni and faculty appear below.

Frequently asked questions

Is the University of Miami hard to get into? Yes. It admitted 18.9% of applicants for fall 2024; the middle half of admitted students scored 660–730 on the SAT reading section and 660–750 on math.

What does the University of Miami cost after financial aid? Tuition is $65,430 for 2025–26. The average net price for aided students with family incomes of $48,000–$75,000 was $19,695 in 2024–25; it ranged from about $13,020 for incomes of $30,000–$48,000 to $51,155 for incomes above $110,000.

How do the University of Miami graduates do? 83.6% of students who started in 2019 graduated within six years, and 94% of first-year students return for a second year. Ten years after starting college, former students had median earnings of $84,093.

What is the University of Miami best known for academically? By our influence data: business and medicine, plus physical therapy, where only USC ranks higher in the US.