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Miami University, founded in 1809 , is the second oldest public college west of the Allegheny Mountains . It is located in the College Town of Oxford in southwestern Ohio about thirty miles northwest of Cincinnati . The ''Miami'' in this school's name refers to the Miami River valley, cut by two medium-sized rivers, the Little Miami River and the Great Miami River , that flow through southwestern Ohio; the rivers were in turn named after the Miami Indians who lived in the area before European settlement. Miami is currently ranked 26th among all public national universities and 66th among all American universities according to U.S. News And World Report . Further, Business Week ranked Miami's Richard T. Farmer School Of Business the 8th best public undergraduate business school in the nation. The school is sometimes referred to as 'Miami of Ohio', particularly among media outlets covering intercollegiate athletics. Miamians typically cite that Miami was a university when Florida belonged to Spain and note that the University Of Miami was founded almost 120 years after Miami University. Miami was named one of eight original "" because several prominent Football coaches worked there before achieving greater fame at more prominent college programs or the NFL . Among these coaches were Earl Blaik , Paul Brown , Sid Gillman , Woody Hayes , Ara Parseghian , Weeb Ewbank , Bo Schembechler , and Ron Zook . Miami graduated an American President ( Benjamin Harrison ), putting it in a prestigious category of a league of Presidential Alma Maters . Miami is only one of four colleges ( Stanford , Michigan , and the U.S. Naval Academy ) to produce both a U.S. President and a Superbowl winning quarterback ( Ben Roethlisberger ). It is also the alma mater of many Ohio Governors . For many years, the athletic teams at Miami were nicknamed ''Redskins'', but in 1997 , the nickname was changed to ''RedHawks''. Some controversy surrounded this change and some aspects of the old identity persist. The RedHawks participate in NCAA Division I in all sports (I-A in Football ). Its primary conference is the Mid-American Conference ; its Hockey program competes in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association . Yager Stadium is home to Miami football. Miami is also famous for its School of Education, the McGuffey School, named for Professor William Holmes McGuffey , who taught there and wrote America's most widely used pioneer text books - the McGuffey Readers - while at the school. Miami University was first provided for under the ". Miami was chartered by the government, but was considered a private college engaged in classical training. Antebellum Miami University took students from all over the West, and was known as the "Yale of the Early West". It was at one point the 4th largest university in the United States after Harvard , Yale , and Dartmouth . As the East-West rivalries subsided, but the North-South rivalries surged, Miami University split apart at the time of the Civil War . Most graduates volunteered for the Union, more than any other school except the military academies. The majority of those that didn't, primarily from Southern states (such as Jefferson Davis ' nephew) volunteered in the Confederate armies. Because its students had left for war, because many alumni and professors died in the War, because the West opened up to other universities, and because Southern families no longer sent their sons to the North for an education, "Old Miami" passed on and Miami University nearly died. The university, unable to pay its huge debts, closed in 1873 and did not reopen until 1885 . With the help of alumni and Ohio legislators, "New Miami" was restarted as a coeducational school of education and liberal arts. Although Ohio State University had been launched in the interim, Miami University gained a fair share of Ohio students by the 1890s , and by the 1950s had massively grown. The rural Oxford campus with Georgian Architecture is considered to be similar to Thomas Jefferson 's University Of Virginia campus and one of the most beautiful in the U.S; Robert Frost once called it "the prettiest campus there ever was." {Link without Title} Several women's colleges in Oxford were associated with or effectively merged with Miami University including Oxford College and the Western College For Women (now the Western College Program ), a daughter school of Mount Holyoke . Miami University was Coeducation al long before most schools in the Ivy League . Miami has been a non-sectarian school as were other pioneer universities in the Midwest , though its early leaders were often Presbyterians . Miami University's current enrollment is approximately 15,000 undergraduates and 1,400 graduate students. In addition to its Oxford campus, Miami has additional campuses in Hamilton and Middletown, Ohio , and a European Center in Luxembourg . Miami University is known around the Greek World for the Miami Triad , three fraternities founded in the 19th Century that spread throughout the United States, and is called " Mother Of Fraternities ." These were Beta Theta Pi (1839), Sigma Chi (1855), and Phi Delta Theta (1848). The Delta Zeta sorority was also founded at Miami University in 1902 as was the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity in 1906. The Oxford campus has become the first major public school in the United States to abolish Tuition differentials between state residents and nonresidents. As of the 2004 – 05 academic year, all students pay tuition of over $19,000 per year, although Ohio residents are guaranteed Scholarship s of at least $10,000. {Link without Title} CAMPUSES | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "http://wwwmuohioedu/hamilton" class="copylinks" target="_blank">Miami University Hamilton Ohio |
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| "http://wwwmuohioedu/middletown" class="copylinks" target="_blank">Miami University Middletown Ohio |
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| "http://wwwmuohioedu/luxembourg" class="copylinks" target="_blank">Miami University Dolibois European Center Luxembourg |