The school is housed into six academic departments and includes a number of centers including the Howe Writing Initiative, Thomas C. Page Center for Entrepreneurship, Laws Hall & Associates, Center for Innovation in Communications and Information Technologies, Center for Interactive Media Studies, Buck Rodgers Leadership Program, Summer Business Institute, Summer International programs, Mock Trial Team, Executive Speaker Series, Anderson Distinguished Lecturer Series, US Bankcorp Distinguished Lecture Series, and the Professional and Self Development Skills Initiative.
It was endowed in 1991 by Richard T. Farmer , one of the most wealthy men in Ohio and chairman of the board of the Cintas Corporation. In 2005, the Richard and Joyce Farmer and the Farmer Family Foundation graciously continued its support of Miami University with a gift of $30 million. A new school of business building is currently in construction to be completed before the bicentennial celebration at Miami University to be named Richard T. Farmer Hall endowed to its gracious benefactor.
- Department of Accountancy
- Department of Decision Science and Management Information Systems
- Department of Marketing
- Department of Economics
- Department of Finance
- Department of Management
- U.S. News and World Report ranks Miami's Richard T. Farmer School of Business 47th among all U.S. business schools.
- In 2006, Business Week ranked Miami 17th among all American business schools and 8th among all public business schools with its primary focus on undergraduates.
- It is fully accredited by the AACSB, the International Association for Management Education, the sole accrediting agency for programs in business administration and accounting. Only 22 percent of American business schools have all their programs accredited by the AACSB.
- The Thomas C. Page Center for Entrepreneurship received the 2001 National Model Entrepreneurship Program Award from the United States Association for Small Business Entrepreneurship.
- Public Accounting Report ranked Miami's Accountancy Program No. 13 in the country in 2006.
- Miami's undergraduate Accountancy program was ranked No. 8 nationally by U.S. News and World Report in 2004
- Miami's national reputation attracts between 300 and 350 employers to campus each year. The Fortune 500 and Big Four accounting firms are well-represented in this group. More than 95 percent of Miami business students secure full-time employment within months of graduation or continue with graduate education.
- International programs allow students to develop a global perspective. Twenty-five percent of business majors study overseas in a wide variety of programs. The school offers an international business minor and summer programs in England, Luxembourg, Eastern Europe (Austria, Hungary, and the Czech Republic), Pacific Rim (China, South Korea, Japan, and Hawaii), Southeast Asia (China, Taiwan and Thailand), and Latin America (Costa Rica and Mexico).
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