Miami University-Oxford Top Questions

High quality professors offer a strong academic experience and truly engage students in the subject matter. The "Miami Plan" offers a liberal education and allows students to engage in subjects outside their major. The ability to double major is common and minors are always encouraged. Miami students take full advantage of their academics and can be found studying hours on end at King Library before an exam. King Library is commonly referred to as "Club King" because it is a popular meeting spot and there is always someone you know in the cafe.

If you are a music or education major you may be able to skate by with doing relatively little studying. But if your headed to business or a science you better be ready to work. You will have tests you ace and tests you fail. If you have never had to study that will change once you get here. But there is a lot of people looking to help you. There are tutors, help centers, and lots of professors who are willing to help in any way they can. There is also a connection between students. Living i a dorm gives you an amazing opportunity to team up with peers who are taking the same classes and can help you work through problems you may be having.

If you are a music or education major you may be able to skate by with doing relatively little studying. But if your headed to business or a science you better be ready to work. You will have tests you ace and tests you fail. If you have never had to study that will change once you get here. But there is a lot of people looking to help you. There are tutors, help centers, and lots of professors who are willing to help in any way they can. There is also a connection between students. Living i a dorm gives you an amazing opportunity to team up with peers who are taking the same classes and can help you work through problems you may be having.

Academic life is easy for business students. As most Miami students are in business, they can take classes with their friends and cheat their way through. Professors tend to be unapproachable when it comes to outside help. Miami has a thematic sequence for their liberal education in which you have to take bull **** classes to graduate. Testing can be quite difficult but the students usually look at the grade distribution for each professor to find the easiest class.

Most professors know your name. Classes range from a handful of students to giant lectures. Generally, the entry level classes are bigger; my BMZ class was over 200 students with three profs. These classes suck, but are easier to skip. Studying will become more prominent in your routine for sure. In high school, I just listened in class and hardly ever did any outside studying. At Miami this doesn't fly; but if you put in a few good hours on weekends and days before tests, you should be okay. Classes can become pretty competitive, especially in the business school, but using your classmates to help you isn't hard. The academic requirements are generally pretty good. The Honors program is completely disorganized and weirdly structured, however; definitely a work-in-progress. The education at Miami is geared towards getting a job, there are many programs and such that can help you in the working world.

Miami's education is very challenging and the professors definately expect a lot out of the students. I must say that most of my teachers have been more than happy to help me out with anything I needed. It is also nice for professors to see you around campus and say hello and actually know your name. One thing about Miami that is stressful or a bit of a bothersome to me is the competitive attitudes of the students, especially in the Business school. As far as my major, I have changed it quite a bit and for the most part my professors and the department heads have been very helpful and supportive of all my changes.

You can make academics at Miami as easy or as difficult as you want. Its a good idea to check with older students on which classes to take, as well as which classes NOT to take. Students aren't that competitive with each other. Some students take their studies seriously, and some of us party a little too much. It can be as challenging or easy as u want it to be.

Academics are definately challenging, but it will pay off in the end. Miami has an excellent reputation.

Miami is a liberal arts college so this means that the students are required to take a lot of classes that do not pertain to their major. I agree that this is great for people who come in undecided in their major or want to explore various areas, but when you are double majoring and trying to get in a work schedule along with trying to fit all of your major required classes into a week, having to try and fit in a math or social science class in the mix, just to fill Miami's liberal education requirement, gets daunting. I was a double major in literature and creative writing and I was still taking the Miami Plan classes (Liberal Ed. classes) until the last semester of my senior year. These classes included: Statistics, Fundamentals of Ecology, Aging in America, Contemporary Religion, etc... These courses, along with the many, many, many others that Miami requires seem to be a waste of money for the family instead of allowing the student to complete their major requirements and take classes that they have a genuine interest in exploring.

There are classes that will inspire you. There are professors who inspire you. Unfortunately, though these are few and far between. Most students I've gotten to know within the art department are seriously lacking in influential thought and are extremely uncreative. When they do have a decent idea, the will power to follow through with that idea isn't there and the teacher's often don't motivate these ideas into being.