The University of Miami has three campuses on more than 400 acres throughout Miami-Dade County.
Coral Gables
The Coral Gables campus, the University’s main campus, is home to two colleges and eight schools and is located on a 239-acre tract in Coral Gables, approximately seven miles from downtown Miami. These academic units include the School of Architecture, College of Arts and Sciences, Miami Herbert Business School, School of Communication, School of Education and Human Development, College of Engineering, Graduate School, School of Law, Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music, and School of Nursing and Health Studies. The Division of Continuing and International Education is also located on the campus.
The campus is one of South Florida’s prime destinations for a rich variety of arts and culture offerings. The Lowe Art Museum houses South Florida’s largest and most varied art collection and hosts traveling exhibitions. The Jerry Herman Ring Theatre offers a rotating lineup of musicals, plays, and other theatrical performances. The acoustically superb Gusman Concert Hall and Clarke Recital Hall host an array of concerts spanning the musical spectrum each year, presented by the Frost School of Music. The Cosford Cinema screens a wide variety of first-run, classic, rare, and art-house films. The Coral Gables campus is also home to the University’s celebrated intercollegiate athletics program.
In recent years, many major new facilities have been added to the Coral Gables campus—Watsco Center, Perez Architecture Center, Schwartz Center for Nursing and Health Studies, Simulation Hospital Advancing Research and Education, Shalala Student Center, Frost Studios North and South, Schwartz Center for Athletic Excellence, Long and Smith Student Services Building, and the Frost Institutes for Chemistry and Molecular Science. The Lennar Foundation Medical Center, a 200,000-square-foot ambulatory medical facility, opened on the campus in 2016.
Miller School Campus
The Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine campus, in the Health District near downtown Miami, consists of 70 acres within the 153-acre University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center complex. The medical campus includes the UHealth – University of Miami Health System, which encompasses Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, one of only two NCI-designated centers in the state of Florida; the top-ranked Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, and UHealth Tower, operating within University of Miami Hospitals and Clinics. Affiliated hospitals include Jackson Memorial Hospital, Holtz Children’s Hospital, the Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and multiple partner hospitals that form the Miller School’s Regional Medical Campus. About three dozen UHealth outpatient clinics are located in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and Collier counties.
Miller School of Medicine faculty conduct nearly 2,000 research projects, and close to 1,400 UHealth physicians represent more than 100 specialties and subspecialties, with outcomes that are among the best in the nation. The 15-story Clinical Research Building opened in 2006, and the nine-story Biomedical Research Instituteopened in 2009. The 252,000-square foot Miami Life Science and Technology Park, designed to foster biotechnology and other leading-edge innovations, opened in 2011.
Rosenstiel School Campus
One of only a few subtropical research institutions in the continental United States, the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science is located on an 18-acre waterfront campus on Virginia Key in Biscayne Bay. The campus is part of a 65-acre marine research and education park that includes two U.S. Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research laboratories, as well as the MAST Academy, the Miami-Dade County magnet high school for marine science and technology. Within the 85,000-square-foot Marine and Life Sciences Seawater Complex, which opened in 2014, the Alfred C. Glassell Jr. SUrge-STructure-Atmosphere-INteraction (SUSTAIN) laboratory houses an air-sea tank that can produce Category 5 hurricane winds, enabling researchers to study hurricane intensification, storm surges, and other aspects of extreme weather conditions.
Richmond Campus
The Richmond Campus, established in 2001, is a 76-acre site that houses research facilities for the Rosenstiel School’s Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing (CSTARS) and Richmond Satellite Operations Center (RSOC).
