At a Glance
Miami (Ohio) admits 75.4% of applicants.
What You'll Actually Pay
See what families at different income levels actually pay after aid.
What families actually pay, by income level
After grants and scholarships. Before loans. Public school prices shown at in-state rates.
Source: College Scorecard / IPEDS, 2024-25
Where the Sticker Price Goes
Based on average need-based grant. Actual cost varies by family income — see chart above.
Shown at in-state rates.
Debt at Graduation
32.7%
receive need-based grant aid
$30,757
average debt at graduation
Miami (Ohio) graduates carry an average of $30,757 in debt.
Merit Aid
8,728
students received merit aid
$11,644
average merit award
Getting In
Miami (Ohio) admits 75.4% of applicants.
Miami University's Early Decision applicants are admitted at 1x the rate of Regular Decision applicants — 84.1% vs 75.3%. Note: ED is binding — you commit to attending if admitted.
SAT — Middle 50% of those who submitted · 8% of the class submitted
ACT — Middle 50% of those who submitted · 24% of the class submitted
What They Value
Academic
Nonacademic
Miami University rates your personal essay as Very Important — equal weight to your GPA. Don't underestimate it. Demonstrated interest is Considered — showing genuine engagement with this school may help your application.
Student Life
26.8% of Miami (Ohio) classes have fewer than 20 students.
Share of undergraduate class sections at each size, from CDS Section I-3. More red = more large lectures.
At Miami (Ohio), 26.8% of your classes will have fewer than 20 students.
Class size data reflects all undergraduate sections including labs, seminars, and lectures. Large research universities often have smaller upper-division and graduate-level sections that improve the overall distribution. First and second-year students typically experience larger classes than these averages suggest.
Source: Common Data Set 2024–25, Section I-3 (class sizes)
16:1
student:faculty ratio
Campus Life
From out of state (freshman class)
34.5%
Live on campus
46%
Men in fraternities
23%
Women in sororities
31%
Who Attends
Racial and ethnic breakdown of enrolled undergraduates, as reported in each school's Common Data Set. "Unknown / Other" includes students who did not report or selected "other."
Miami (Ohio)'s student body is 82.5% white.
Popular Majors
Will They Graduate?
Miami (Ohio) graduates 70.3% of students in 4 years.
Graduating late means paying for extra semesters. The 6-year rate tells you who eventually finishes — the 4-year rate tells you what it actually costs.
Miami (Ohio) graduates 70.3% of students in 4 years.
What finishing late actually costs
Based on each school's published cost of attendance. Public school costs shown at in-state rates.
Miami (Ohio)
70.3%
4-yr grad rate
Extra year cost: $38,757*
* In-state cost of attendance. Out-of-state students pay significantly more.
Graduation rate data from Common Data Set 2024–25, Fall 2018 cohort (most recent available). 4-year rate = students completing in 4 years or less. 6-year rate = students completing within 6 years.
79.8%
Overall 6-yr rate
71.9%
Pell recipient rate
A 7.9 point graduation gap between lower-income and overall students suggests financial or academic challenges for some students.
Freshman Retention
90.1%
90.1% of first-year students return for sophomore year.
City & Culture
Beyond the data — what it's actually like to spend four years in Oxford.
Oxford is a small town in southwestern Ohio built around the university, with a compact Uptown of bars, restaurants and shops directly at the edge of campus. Cincinnati is under an hour away but campus life does not depend on it.
Notable Alumni
Benjamin Harrison
23rd president of the United States, who graduated from Miami in 1852
Class of 1852
Paul Brown
Founder and namesake of the Cleveland Browns and founder of the Cincinnati Bengals, and a central figure in Miami's Cradle of Coaches
Class of 1930
Ara Parseghian
Notre Dame head coach who won two national championships and entered the College Football Hall of Fame
Class of 1949
Alumni selected for name recognition and range of fields. Not from the Common Data Set.
The City
College town
Oxford, OH
Best For
Traditions
The Cradle of Coaches
Miami's nickname for its extraordinary run of football coaches — Paul Brown, Weeb Ewbank, Ara Parseghian, Bo Schembechler and Red Blaik among them. A sculpture plaza at Yager Stadium commemorates them.
The Miami Merger
The university tracks alumni who marry each other; couples who met at Miami can return to be married in Sesquicentennial Chapel. Thousands of mergers are on record.
Uptown Oxford
The three-block High Street strip at the campus gates functions as the student union in practice — the default destination on almost any evening.
Weekend Escapes
Within driving distance from Oxford
Cincinnati
50 minutesThe nearest city, with professional sport, an airport and a music calendar.
Indianapolis
1 hour 45 minutesThe closest major city to the west.
Hueston Woods State Park
15 minutesLake, trails and a lodge just north of Oxford — the local escape that needs no planning.
Getting There & Game Days
Nearest airport
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International (CVG)
45 minutes from campus
For international flights: Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW) — about 3 hours 45 minutes by road.
Pro sports nearby
- Cincinnati Reds MLB
- Cincinnati Bengals NFL
- FC Cincinnati MLS
Career Proximity
Miami's pipeline runs on Cincinnati, an hour south, which is headquarters to an unusually dense group of consumer and industrial companies for a city its size.
Top Industries Nearby
Major Employers
- Procter & Gamble
- Kroger
- Fifth Third Bank
- GE Aerospace
- Cintas
- Cincinnati Children's
Cincinnati, 50 minutes
Who Thrives Here
Miami admits 75.4% of applicants, so for most solid students this is a target rather than a reach, and it is one of the older public universities in the country, founded in 1809. What defines it day to day is Greek life: about 23% of men and 31% of women join, which is high enough that it shapes the social calendar whether or not a student participates. Only 46% of undergraduates live on campus, so Oxford's off-campus housing is where much of upperclass life happens. The academic trade-off is class size — 26.8% of classes have fewer than 20 students, which is low, and the student-faculty ratio is 16 to 1. Money is the other one: Miami meets 56.1% of demonstrated need and graduates carry $30,757 in average debt, against $18,519 in-state and $42,041 out-of-state tuition. 70.3% finish in four years and 79.8% in six.