Miami University-Oxford

Accountancy

The Master of Accountancy Program consists of 30 semester hours of coursework in accountancy and other business disciplines. The curriculum provides an in-depth understanding of selected areas of accounting and prepares graduates for long-term success in an accounting-related career, qualifying them for the CPA examination in Ohio and most other states.

Accountancy

Miami University’s Accountancy programs equip students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities they need to become high integrity, adaptive leaders.

Advanced Business Analytics

The Graduate Certificate in Advanced Business Analytics builds upon the Graduate Certificate in Analytics and is an immersive four-course sequence into leading methods and technologies in applied analytics. Students develop skills in machine learning applications in organizational settings.

Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Evaluation

This certificate program equips participants to remain at the forefront of advances in manufacturing technologies and material science. The program develops and enhances skills in analyzing, adopting and effectively utilizing advanced manufacturing methods and the interplay between manufacturing processes and material properties.

Analytics

The Analytics Graduate Certificate builds on the foundations established in the Undergraduate Certificate in the Foundations of Analytics or similar coursework. Students become more versed in data-driven decision making with additional data manipulation and retrieval knowledge in both structured and unstructured data, as well as hands-on knowledge of predictive modeling tools and techniques.

Anthropology

Anthropology is a holistic, interdisciplinary science of humanity and is the perfect complement to any major or pre-professional degree allowing you to complete most of your Miami Plan requirements while completing the major. Anthropology prepares students for a variety of professional futures, careers, and lifelong learning.

Applied Biology

Biology is the study of all living organisms, from the microscopic to macroscopic. The biology faculty at the Regionals offer a wide range of courses that provide a solid background in two primary concentrations for the BS in Applied Biology: 1) Environmental Biology and 2) Human Biology & Health Sciences. Each concentration trains students in critical thinking, scientific inquiry, and the application of science to societal issues.

Applied Mathematics

This program provides an education in the contemporary use of mathematical and related computational methods for analyzing practical problems arising in engineering, economics, the sciences, and industry. The students will develop a foundation in applied mathematics and computation that will allow them to build mathematical models and analyze data in real-world settings.

Architecture

The Master of Architecture is offered through the Department of Architecture + Interior Design. The M.Arch II is a two-year program entailing 60 credit hours of graduate-level courses, while the M.Arch III program includes 28 credit hours of preparatory courses in addition to the final 60 credit hours for a total of 88 credit hours.

Architecture

This pre-professional degree program prepares graduates to enter a professional graduate program to become a registered/licensed architect or to enter an architectural field at a pre-professional level. First- and second-year courses introduce the basics of architecture and the range of opportunities available in the field. Third- and fourth-year courses focus on advanced architectural design, landscape, and urban design.

Art Education

Art Education is a bachelor's degree program offered at Miami University-Oxford.

Arts Management and Arts Entrepreneurship

The Arts Management & Arts Entrepreneurship major allows students to apply arts and business thinking to real-world arts business challenges in an increasingly competitive arts environment. Students will develop knowledge and skills to lead not-for-profit or for-profit enterprises in the creative economy. They will also gain an understanding of all the possible career opportunities in the arts and creative economy.

Art, Studio

The Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art requires a minimum of two years of full-time graduate study. Instructional and other resources of the department determine the number of applicants accepted.

Athletic Training

Athletic trainers are licensed health care professionals who collaborate with physicians in the prevention, immediate care, clinical diagnosis, therapeutic intervention, and rehabilitation of injuries and illnesses. The Athletic Training Program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE), and graduates are eligible to take the Board of Certification examination.

Biochemistry (Bachelor of Arts)

This program is for students interested in a career in the life or health sciences or biochemistry. Students who anticipate graduate study in biochemistry should elect the B.S. Biochemistry program.

Biochemistry (Bachelor of Science)

This major is usually chosen by students who want to enter the chemical industry or graduate school in chemistry, biochemistry, or related areas. Chemistry and required related courses cannot be taken on a credit/no-credit basis.

Biological Sciences

The Master of Arts in Teaching in the Biological Sciences is a part-time, non-thesis master's program designed for formal and informal educators who already hold teaching licensure. Cooperatively offered by Project Dragonfly and the Department of Biology, it includes the Advanced Inquiry Program (AIP) and the Global Field Program (GFP).

Biology

Doctoral students in Biology participate in departmental teaching as part of their professional development and are required to complete at least 30 semester hours of dissertation credit. Students must pass comprehensive examinations and defend a dissertation.

Biology (Bachelor of Arts)

Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms. The biology major can be tailored to meet the needs of students interested in the health sciences, animal or plant physiology, cell and molecular biology, ecology or environmental studies, or evolution and systematics. It is possible to complete a Biology Major while earning either the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science.

Biology (Bachelor of Science)

Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms. The biology major can be tailored to meet the needs of students interested in the health sciences, animal or plant physiology, cell and molecular biology, ecology or environmental studies, or evolution and systematics. It is possible to complete a Biology Major while earning either the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science.

Biology (Master of Arts)

The Master of Arts in Biology is offered through Project Dragonfly, with students enrolling in either the Advanced Inquiry Program (AIP) or the Global Field Program (GFP). The GRE is not required and incoming students are expected to have completed a bachelor's degree.

Biology (Master of Science)

The thesis-based Master of Science in Biology requires at least 30 semester hours of graduate work, including six to 12 hours of thesis credit in biology. Applicants are required to make contact with and identify a prospective major advisor.

Biomedical Engineering

The Master of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering offers a course-intensive program and culminating experience (internship, industrial practicum, or non-thesis project). Students gain experience in areas such as tissue engineering, drug delivery, biomaterials, biomechanics, bioinstrumentation, biomedical optical imaging and sensing, cardiac electrophysiology, and FDA regulations.

Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical engineering is the integration of life sciences with engineering to develop solutions for healthcare related problems. The program uses a multi-disciplinary approach, deriving its strength from biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics and engineering disciplines as well as computational sciences.

Biomedical Science

The Master of Medical Science in Biomedical Science is both a vocational and post-graduate studies entry-level degree within the health sciences field. The curriculum allows exploration into a deeper knowledge of core life sciences while preparing graduates for advanced medical education or a career in healthcare-related biomedical science professions. Offered in a General Studies Track (32 credit hours) and a Leadership Studies Track (47 credit hours).

Botany

The Doctor of Philosophy in Botany requires students to meet minimum requirements for the master's degree or equivalent and complete at least 60 hours of graduate work, including biology graduate courses from each of the four core areas in biology.

Botany (Bachelor of Arts)

Students may double major in Botany and Zoology, but in that case only nine credits of the Advanced Hours requirement may be used for both degrees. Minors in Horticulture, Molecular Biology, and/or the Co-major in Environmental Science may be completed along with the A.B. to obtain an emphasis in these areas.

Botany (Bachelor of Science)

Students may double major in Botany and Zoology, but in that case only nine credits of the Advanced Hours requirement may be used for both degrees. The Minor in Horticulture, Minor in Molecular Biology and/or the Co-major in Environmental Science may be completed along with the B.S. to obtain an emphasis in these areas.

Botany (M.A.)

The Master of Arts in Botany requires minimum undergraduate background preparation in general biology or botany, organic chemistry or biochemistry, and genetics or evolution. Students complete a graduate colloquium, required coursework, and an internship experience with an oral defense of the internship report.

Botany (M.S.)

The thesis-based Master of Science in Botany requires at least 30 hours of graduate work, including botany graduate coursework from the core areas in botany and six to 12 hours of thesis research. Students must pass an oral comprehensive examination and an oral defense of the thesis.

Business Administration

The MBA is offered as a professional part-time program with classes in person in West Chester at Miami's Voice of America Learning Center, fully online, or hybrid. The program is designed to allow completion in two years, and the Farmer School of Business is accredited by the AACSB.

Business Analytics

The MS in Business Analytics provides students with the skills and knowledge to excel at data-driven decision making in organizations, including machine learning applications in organizational settings, prescriptive methodologies, and applications of artificial intelligence. Students are immersed in an experiential project to deliver a client-based data-driven solution.

Business Analytics

The Business Analytics major provides the managerial and technical skills to leverage data for decision making in an organization. The major focuses on the use of data to guide evidence-based decision- making. Analytics combines numerous traditional disciplines including information systems and statistics.

Business Economics

This curriculum is for students primarily interested in economics who also desire a broad background in business.

Business in the Global Market

The Business in the Global Market Certificate Program is open to all majors and designed to better prepare students for entry into an increasingly globalized workplace. The program develops an understanding of the culture and customs of a selected region of the world through language study, study abroad experience and associated coursework.

Business Sustainability

The Certificate in Business Sustainability equips business and non-business majors with the knowledge and skills to address sustainability challenges from a business perspective, integrating interdisciplinary approaches to environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability. Learning objectives: • Understand sustainability challenges through an interdisciplinary lens, integrating environmental, economic, and social perspectives to propose effective resolution strategies.

Cell, Molecular and Structural Biology (CMSB)

The interdisciplinary CMSB Master of Science program spans biology, chemistry and microbiology. Coursework is determined by the student's thesis committee to achieve the minimum 30 credit hours required for the M.S., including seminar participation and research for the master's thesis.

Cell, Molecular and Structural Biology (CMSB)

The CMSB doctoral program requires a minimum of 60 additional credit hours beyond the master's level, with coursework appropriate to the student's area of interest determined by the dissertation committee. Students participate in CMSB and host department committees and activities.

Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

The Master of Science in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering requires a total of 33 semester hours with at least 24 semester hours of coursework and a research thesis of up to nine credit hours.

Chemical Engineering

The Master of Engineering in Chemical Engineering offers a course-intensive program and culminating experience (internship, industrial practicum, or non-thesis project). Students gain experience in areas ranging from biochemical and biomolecular engineering to environmental engineering, renewable energy, paper science and engineering, thermodynamics modeling, and finite-element simulation.

Chemical Engineering

Chemical Engineering encompasses the analysis, design, and synthesis of products and processes in a variety of areas, such as chemical and petrochemical processes, pharmaceuticals, environmental processes, biotechnology/bioengineering, and pulp and paper processes. The field of chemical engineering requires the ability to understand and apply math and science, to research concepts and apply modeling methods, and to simulate and test working conditions and their impact on the designed systems.

Chemistry

The MS degree in Chemistry requires 30 credit hours total, with at least 12 credit hours earned in courses numbered 600 or above. Students complete graded coursework, research, and a thesis.

Chemistry

The Ph.D. in Chemistry requires a minimum of 60 semester hours beyond the master's degree or its equivalent. Students must complete at least 20 credit hours of Research for Doctoral Dissertation and orally defend a research proposal.

Chemistry (Bachelor of Arts)

This program is for students interested in a career in the life or health sciences, physical sciences related to chemistry, or in teaching chemistry in secondary school. Students who anticipate graduate study in chemistry should elect the B.S. Chemistry Program.

Chemistry (Bachelor of Science)

This program is usually chosen by students who want to enter the chemical industry or graduate school in chemistry, biochemistry, or related areas. Chemistry and required related courses cannot be taken on a credit/no-credit basis.

Child Life Specialist

This certificate is designed for students who have already completed a bachelor's degree and wish to complete the coursework needed to become eligible for certification as a child life specialist. It includes coursework required by the Association of Child Life Professionals for eligibility to complete official child life internships and take the Child Life Professional Certification Exam.

Clinical Engineering

The Master of Science in Clinical Engineering offers research (thesis) and course-intensive (non-thesis) options, mostly in an online format. Unique features include a required course in hospital rotation and a required internship in the medical or allied industry or in a hospital setting.

College Teaching

The Certificate in College Teaching is awarded upon completion of all certificate requirements. Students will not receive a State of Ohio certificate in teaching.

Commerce

Associate's degree programs in commerce emphasize the development of practical business skills. Students select a concentration area to complete within the required hours of the degree.

Communication Design

The mission of the Communication Design major is to enable learners to gain the design thinking, knowledge, and skills required of practicing designers in areas like communication design, user experience design, and branding. Graduates are prepared to enter a wide range of design practices as adaptable problem solvers who consider context and relevant parties' needs as drivers for design.

Communication Studies

Communication is broadly defined as the process people use to generate meaning through messages across a variety of different contexts, channels, and cultures. The Communication Studies major will help students develop in-demand job skills that will assist them in their career path. Our classes cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from interpersonal and conflict to intercultural and health communication, allowing students to directly apply what they learn in class to real world situations.

Community Arts and Cultures

The Bachelor of Arts in Community Arts and Cultures degree prepares students for a variety of careers in the arts and related fields through its focus on critical thinking, creative problem solving, community involvement, collaborative enterprise, and practical methods for communicating aesthetic and cultural values.

Computational Linguistics

Computational Linguistics is an interdisciplinary field using the tools of linguistics to help analyze how machines process language and using computational tools to investigate how humans process language. Expertise in the field can prepare students for jobs in technology and experience design.

Computer and Information Technology

The Associate in Applied Science in Computer and Information Technology prepares students for entry-level positions in information technology, with concentrations including Networking, which prepares students to design, install, troubleshoot, and support secure computer networks.

Computer Engineering

The computer engineer of the 21st century must be able to think critically in broader contexts because problems in contemporary society are not only technical but also social and economic in nature.

Computer Science (Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science)

If you want to change the world and you like to think analytically and solve problems, and have an aptitude for mathematics, then consider a major in computer science. In either the BS or BA degree program, you will study programming languages, algorithms, computer architecture, operating systems, and applications of computer science such as networks, security, virtual reality, and the ethical and social implications of computer technology.

Computer Science (Bachelor of Science in Computer Science)

If you want to change the world and you like to think analytically and solve problems, and have an aptitude for mathematics, then consider a major in computer science. In either the BS or BA degree program, you will study programming languages, algorithms, computer architecture, operating systems, and applications of computer science such as networks, security, virtual reality, and the ethical and social implications of computer technology.

Computer Science (Master of Computer Science)

The Master of Computer Science is a coursework-only graduate program preparing students for computing professions with foundational and advanced coursework, opportunity to work on industrial projects, and flexible pathways to the degree. Students gain experience in artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, cybersecurity, computer vision, high-performance computing, Internet-of-Things, and software engineering.

Computer Science (Master of Science in Computer Science)

The Master of Science in Computer Science includes a minimum of 31 credit hours with a coursework requirement of 24-27 hours of graduate-level coursework plus research. All students in the program are expected to attend thesis proposal and defense presentations as well as other research presentations.

Computer Technology

The computer technology major continuation option is designed for students who wish to earn an associate degree at the regional campuses and ultimately obtain a bachelor's degree in one of three computing programs that can be completed at the Oxford campus.

Counselor Education

Students earn a graduate degree specializing in either Clinical Mental Health or School Counseling within two academic years, including one summer term. Each pathway leads to licensure, and coursework covers professional, legal and ethical issues, assessment, career development, group counseling, and multicultural counseling and social justice.

Creative Writing

The MFA in Creative Writing prepares students to launch a career in fiction writing, screenwriting, poetry, or creative nonfiction. Students produce a high-quality, publishable portfolio of creative writing, receive practical advice about the literary marketplace, and develop a sophisticated understanding of the literary field, with an additional focus on pedagogy.

Creativity Entrepreneurship

The Creativity Entrepreneurship Certificate is a multidisciplinary educational initiative that brings together students from all schools on campus to develop expertise on how entrepreneurial practices can relate to developing the creative person and using creativity in everyday life. This certificate program builds qualifications for intrapreneurial or entrepreneurial employment and/or further study in Applied Creativity.

Criminal Justice

The Bachelor of Science in criminal justice at Miami’s Regional locations offers students a comprehensive and dynamic understanding of crime, justice, punishment and corrections, policing, and the legal system within the context of a liberal arts education.

Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice is the study of law enforcement, courts, and corrections. Graduates are employed as law enforcement officers; probation and parole officers; corrections officers; and may work within private security agencies. Courses required within this program may be applied to bachelor degree programs in Criminal Justice and related fields.

Curriculum and Instruction

Curriculum and Instruction is a Master of Education program jointly administered by the Departments of Teaching, Curriculum, and Educational Inquiry and Educational Leadership. This online program supports those interested in multicultural, contextually relevant, justice-oriented education leadership, curriculum, and pedagogy in both classroom and community spaces, with Early Career Teacher and Community-Oriented Educator tracks.

Cybersecurity

The first two years of the degree program include foundational sequences in both cybersecurity and programming, including courses in system and network administration. In the third year, students take courses focused in core areas of cybersecurity, including human security, network security, and software security.

Cybersecurity Management for Accountancy

The Cybersecurity Management for Accountancy Certificate addresses the growing need for Cybersecurity knowledge in the Accounting discipline.

Cybersecurity & Networking

Cybersecurity & Networking addresses the technology and processes used by IT and Network professionals to protect an organizations’ computer systems and networks from digital attacks. This program provides hands on instruction in computing, routers and switches with a focus on security including designing secure networks, penetration testing, cryptography, and ethical hacking.

Data Analytics

Data Analytics combines statistical methods, programming skills and deep knowledge in a field of application to extract meaning from large, unstructured or complex data sets with the goal of informing policy, decisions, or scholarly research. Students select a concentration in one of four areas of application: Bioinformatics, Geospatial Analytics, Social Data Analytics, and Sport Analytics.

Data Science and Statistics

Data Science and Statistics combines knowledge of concepts from statistics, computer science, and mathematics to extract meaning from data to inform evidence-based decisions. Students select a concentration in statistics or in data science. The two concentrations share a core of coursework in mathematics, statistics and programming.

Deals

This certificate is designed for accountancy and finance majors who have an interest in pursuing careers in transaction advisory services, investment banking or mergers and acquisitions either upon graduation or as a next career move.

Deals

This certificate is designed for Master of Accountancy students interested in careers in transaction advisory services, investment banking or mergers and acquisitions. The course sequence guides students through transaction basics using a multidisciplinary lens incorporating accounting, finance, tax, business law, valuation, and due diligence.

Deep Learning and Generative AI

This certificate program equips working professionals and recent graduates with specialized knowledge in generative artificial intelligence. Students gain hands-on experience in designing and implementing AI models that can create text, images, and videos, with coverage of deep learning, machine learning, and the latest in AI innovation.

Digital Commerce

Commerce is the broad system of organizations producing goods and services for their markets to satisfy their stakeholders. The Bachelor of Science in Commerce Digital Commerce major draws courses from a variety of disciplines to prepare students to work in digital commerce as well as other organizations in managerial and staff capacities.

Diplomacy and Global Politics

This program of concentration is designed primarily for students interested in understanding more about comparative and international politics. It is a major appropriate for those interested in international careers. It is also the kind of broad, liberal arts program that many pre-law students will want to consider.

Dynamical Systems and Mathematical Modeling

This certificate prepares students to describe, formulate and analyze real-world problems in mathematical terms. Students are exposed to a broad range of applicable analytical tools arising in areas of mathematics such as dynamical systems and partial differential equations.

Ecology

Master of Science students in Biology may be eligible for a certificate in Ecology by taking additional specific formal coursework beyond the general degree requirements.

Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology

Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology is a multi-disciplinary doctoral program that includes the study of organisms and their interactions with the environment. The focus of a student's program is dissertation research, with flexible course requirements including at least 12 graduate credits from formal courses and at least five graduate credits of approved EEEB seminar courses.

Economics

This program prepares students for careers as professional economists equipped to serve academia, government, and the business world, and can serve as a terminal degree or preparation for further graduate study. Emphasis is on theoretical and statistical techniques used in the investigation of empirical problems, with thesis and project options.

Economics

Economics is the study of how individuals, firms, and governments make decisions.

Educational Leadership

The guiding mission of the Ph.D. program in Educational Leadership is to prepare education scholars attuned to culture-based leadership who are critically aware as well as politically and ethically discerning. The program prepares students for positions of school and district leadership and college teaching positions in education.

Educational Leadership

The Doctorate of Education in Educational Leadership is a 60-credit-hour program for educational leaders working in P-12 contexts and institutions around central and southwestern Ohio. The primary goal is to prepare democratic leaders who engage in issues of equity, ethics, and social justice to create solutions to complex problems of educational practice.

Electrical and Computer Engineering (Master of Engineering)

The Master of Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering offers a course-intensive program with a culminating experience (internship, industrial practicum, or non-thesis project). The program prepares graduates with versatile skills for careers in the electrical/electronic, computer, and robotics industries.

Electrical and Computer Engineering (Master of Science)

The Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering is a research-oriented degree. The curriculum requires completion of a minimum of 32 credit hours of graduate study and any additional hours needed to satisfy program requirements.

Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology

This department offers associate degree programs in electrical and computer engineering technology and mechanical engineering technology. The ECET program produces graduates who analyze digital and analog circuits and systems, use applied skills to identify, evaluate, and solve complex technical problems, and use engineering computer software.

Electrical Engineering

Electrical engineering is the process of applying electric and magnetic phenomena in an innovative way to create useful products and services. Progress in electrical engineering led society from the electricity age through communication and computer ages to the current information age.

Emerging Technology in Business and Design

The BA in Emerging Technology in Business and Design (ET) is an interdisciplinary degree designed to provide depth in theory and practice of interactive and digital design, development, business, innovation, and digital disruption.

Engineering

The Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering prepares graduates to be innovative thinkers capable of performing cutting-edge research, synthesizing and creating new knowledge, and finding novel solutions to complex problems in their specialties. The degree requires a minimum of 60 semester hours beyond the master's degree or 90 semester hours beyond the bachelor's degree.

Engineering Management

Engineering Management provides an interdisciplinary approach for addressing the complexities of today's world. The Engineering Management program includes courses in engineering, business/entrepreneurship, science, mathematics, and the liberal arts. It is designed to develop your engineering and business expertise, social awareness, and interpersonal communication skills.

Engineering Technology

This department offers Associate Degree programs in Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology and Mechanical Engineering Technology and baccalaureate completion degree programs. All programs are offered on the regional campuses in Hamilton and Middletown. The baccalaureate programs are only for students who have earned an associate degree.

English

The doctoral program in English offers concentrations in literature and in composition and rhetoric. Requirements for both concentrations include a comprehensive examination, written and oral, a dissertation, and an oral defense of the dissertation.

English/Creative Writing

The English department offers four majors: creative writing, literature, linguistics, and professional writing. These concentrations lead to an A.B.

English/Literature

The English department offers four majors: creative writing, literature, linguistics, and professional writing. These concentrations lead to an A.B.

English (M.A. in Teaching)

The M.A. in Teaching in English is affiliated with the Ohio Writing Project. Program requirements consist of core classes, elective workshops and classroom research reaching 32 semester hours.

English (Master of Arts)

The Master of Arts in English is offered with a literature concentration (thesis and non-thesis options) or a composition and rhetoric concentration. Students select seminars in literary and cultural studies in consultation with the Director of Graduate Studies.

English Studies

A Bachelor of Arts with a major in English Studies prepares students to be critical and creative readers, thinkers, and writers. The major will develop students’ ability to acquire, analyze, evaluate, and communicate knowledge in multiple mediums. Students develop these powers of argument and analysis by working with diverse texts and examining the impact of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, nationality, class, and ability on the production and reception of texts.

Entrepreneurship and Emerging Technology

This online graduate certificate provides a foundation to succeed in the technology-driven startup world. Students take two courses in entrepreneurial business models, finance, and creativity along with two courses in digital marketing, usability research, and web programming, then participate in a deep-dive bootcamp in either tech startups, programming/development, or digital design.

Entrepreneurship and Emerging Technology

The Master of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Technology positions students for success in creating or working for new economy organizations that leverage emerging technology. The program provides a foundation in entrepreneurship, creativity, digital marketing, prototyping, and emerging technology.

Environmental Earth Science

The Bachelor of Science in Environmental Earth Science is designed for students who are interested in Earth systems and processes, and applying geoscience pursuits to environmental issues, problems and solutions. The degree program provides in-depth study of environmental geoscience concepts and approaches, including field-based, laboratory-based, and computational-based endeavors that focus on real-world problems.

Environmental Science

Offered through the Institute for the Environment and Sustainability, this program involves students in professional service projects, internships, practica, and research including agricultural ecology, GIS and resource analysis, conservation biology, sustainability, land use issues, pollution prevention, watershed management, water quality, and stream and wetland restoration.

Esports Management

The Esports Management Graduate Certificate is a one-year, mostly online program providing a comprehensive understanding of the esports ecosystem and best practices for management of a professional esports team and supporting businesses. Courses provide an esports foundation in tournament organization, branding/marketing, sponsorship, logistics, team management, recruiting, finance, and broadcasting.

Esports Management

The Esports Management Undergraduate Certificate is a one-year, mostly online program, which provides a comprehensive understanding of the esports ecosystem and the best practices for management of a professional esports team and supporting businesses.

Finance

This major teaches theoretical and practical aspects of financial management. The general objectives are to teach the principles of finance, to explain how financial techniques can solve some of society’s most important problems, and to prepare you for future responsibilities in financial management.

Financial Acumen

The Financial Acumen Graduate Certificate offers a specialized pathway for professionals aiming to deepen their expertise in financial management and analysis. The certificate is delivered through a flexible format, allowing students to choose fully online, fully in person, or a combination of both.

Financial Mathematics

The Financial Mathematics certificate is designed to give students knowledge of mathematical finance in preparation for a career in the financial services industry. Students are trained in mathematical techniques used to analyze problems arising from finance. Examples include application of stochastic processes and partial differential equations to study stock markets and to price financial derivatives.

Foreign Language Education

This M.A.T. program combines graduate and undergraduate study and enables a student with a baccalaureate degree to earn teaching licensure and a master's degree. Students progress through cohorts by teaching field and must meet language proficiency requirements on the Oral Proficiency Interview.

Fostering Just Communities

This 12-credit undergraduate certificate program is open to all majors, is inter-disciplinary, requires a place-based learning component, and focuses on social justice in urban communities. Multiple options to completion.

Foundations of Business Analytics

The Foundation of Business Analytics certificate supplements any major to provide students with a fundamental skill set to use data to drive decision making in their undergraduate discipline. It also provides the base skills and knowledge for entry into Miami's Graduate Certificate in Analytics and Masters of Science in Analytics programs.

Games + Simulation

The Bachelor of Science in Games + Simulation provides students with an interdisciplinary plan of study covering all aspects of creating and interpreting games. Games are the liberal arts of the 21st century: the fusion of coding and design, writing and mechanics, usability and creativity.

General Studies

This program is available to students enrolled at any campus of Miami University who have not completed the requirements for a Bachelor's degree.

Geographic Information Science (GIS)

This certificate program focuses on the theory and techniques of geographic information science (GISci). Geographic Information Science (GISci) is a suite of techniques for collecting, analyzing, and communicating information through geographic information systems (GIS), satellite and aerial imaging (Remote Sensing), global positioning systems (GPS), and related technologies. GISci is applied to problems in fields ranging from environmental science to urban planning to business decision-making.

Geographic Information Sciences

This certificate program focuses on the theory and techniques of geographic information science, a suite of techniques for collecting, analyzing, and communicating information through geographic information systems, satellite and aerial imaging, global positioning systems, and related technologies. The program builds qualifications for employment and/or further study in GISci.

Geography and Sustainable Development

The MA in Geography and Sustainable Development prepares students with advanced geographical thinking and methods for solving social and environmental problems. A flexible curriculum builds foundational understanding of space, place, and environment, applied through specialized approaches to global development, urbanization and planning, environmental management, or geospatial techniques. The department is currently not accepting applications for this program.

Geography and Sustainable Development

Geography and Sustainable Development majors integrate the social and natural sciences to address 21st century social, economic, and environmental challenges. They synthesize geographic information using qualitative and quantitative techniques, including geospatial mapping technologies and data science. Students apply critical thinking, communication, and technical skills through individualized research and field experiences.

Geology

The doctoral program in Geology requires completion of 60 semester hours beyond the M.S. degree or its equivalent, of which at least 15 semester hours are earned through graduate-level science coursework. The department maintains active field programs around the world, including a field station in Wyoming.

Geology

Geology is the study of the history of the Earth and processes that continue to shape the planet today. Geoscientists view the Earth as a set of intimately connected atmospheric, hydrologic, and rock systems. The Geology B.S.

Geology (Master of Arts)

The Master of Arts in Geology is a non-thesis program requiring 30 credit hours of coursework, at least 15 hours of which must be in geology.

Geology (Master of Science)

The Master of Science in Geology is a thesis program requiring a minimum of 30 credit hours, with a minimum of 24 semester hours of coursework plus six semester hours of credit for thesis.

Gerontological Studies

This program is designed for students whose interests and career goals include research or applied work in the field of gerontology. The program requires coursework, a practicum in the field of aging, and a critical inquiry paper based on student interest.

Global Readiness

This Certificate is designed for degree-seeking students of all majors who wish to position themselves strategically for employment in today's increasingly competitive, diverse, and global workforce. It combines Miami coursework and global experience. The courses and experiences in this certificate program will provide students with the knowledge, awareness, and skills necessary for global and intercultural communication and teamwork.

Healthcare Sales

Demand for healthcare services are on the rise. As a result, the demand for medical equipment, medical supplies, and pharmaceuticals has also increased. This certificate program is designed to prepare students for careers in healthcare sales, and includes both curricular and co-curricular experiences.

History

Students develop expertise in historical thinking and historical research. Students may pursue one of three options in completing the degree: a thesis, a non-thesis project such as a museum exhibit or presentation of archival research, or comprehensive examinations in three related fields.

History

The history major provides a specialized undergraduate program that strengthens a student's ability to read critically; analyze physical and written evidence; and develop clear, coherent arguments. These skills allow the student to engage the past with careful and imaginative questions.

Hospitality Management

Commerce is the broad system of organizations producing goods and services for their markets to satisfy their stakeholders. The Bachelor of Science in Commerce Hospitality Management major draws courses from a variety of disciplines to prepare students to work in hospitality management as well as other organizations in managerial and staff capacities.

Human Capital Management and Leadership

The major in Human Capital Management and Leadership prepares graduates to understand how organizations attract, develop and lead their talent to create sustained competitive advantage. The curriculum highlights understanding and implementing evidence-based best practices associated with human capital consulting, leading organizations, change management, employee engagement and motivation, cross cultural management, talent acquisition, employment law, and compensation.

Humanities Engagement

The Humanities Engagement Certificate is designed for degree-seeking students of all majors who wish to position themselves as global citizens who research, write, and think critically about the most pressing and urgent human experiences of the twenty-first century. Course work in the humanities supports research in interdisciplinary themes and topics, while also providing an opportunity for students to think broadly and deeply about professional skills.

Individualized Studies

The AB in Individualized Studies offers an academic home for students with multiple interests to develop their own plan of study by integrating a set of core classes with courses chosen by the student from almost any area of study. Western courses explore diverse subjects but share a strong interdisciplinary theme.

Information Systems and Cybersecurity Management

The Information Systems and Cybersecurity Management Major provides managerial perspective and technical skills to create, control, protect, and leverage information and data resources of an organization.

Information Technology

The Bachelor of Science in Information Technology with a major in Information Technology (BSIT) is a broad program of study that prepares students to support the computing infrastructures and needs of individuals and organizations across a variety of domains.

Integrated English Language Arts Education

Master of Arts in Teaching programs combine graduate and undergraduate study and enable a student with a baccalaureate degree to earn teaching licensure and a master's degree in approximately four or five semesters of full-time study, depending upon academic background, experience, and teaching field.

Integrated English Language Arts Education

The Integrated English Language Arts Education major leads to a Bachelor of Science in Education degree. This program prepares graduates to teach students in grades 7-12 in English (writing, language, reading/literature). In addition to meeting the requirements of the Miami Plan, students take courses in English and Education.

Integrated Mathematics Education

This M.A.T. program combines graduate and undergraduate study and enables a student with a baccalaureate degree to earn teaching licensure and a master's degree. Requirements include foundations of multicultural education, advanced educational psychology, educational measurement, and a teaching internship.

Integrated Mathematics Education

The Integrated Mathematics Education major leads to a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education. Approved by the Ohio Department of Education, this program prepares graduates to teach students in grades 7-12 in the area of mathematics.

Integrated Science Education

The Bachelor of Science in Education degree with an Adolescent/ Young Adult (AYA) Integrated Science major provides graduates with th the opportunity to teach in 7-12 grade schools in all the major science disciplines (biology, chemistry, earth science and physics) while concentrating in one science area.

Integrated Social Studies Education

This M.A.T. program combines graduate and undergraduate study and enables a student with a baccalaureate degree to earn teaching licensure and a master's degree. Requirements include adolescent social studies methods courses, content course requirements, and a teaching internship.

Integrated Social Studies Education

The Integrated Social Studies Education major leads to a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education. Approved by the Ohio Department of Education, this program prepares graduates to teach students in grades 7-12 in the areas of Social Studies. In addition to meeting the requirements of the Miami Plan, students take courses in Social Studies and Educational Psychology.

Integrative Studies

Integrative learning is a process by which students connect knowledge and skills from multiple sources and experiences, apply knowledge and skills in varied settings, analyze diverse points of view, and understand issues contextually. Students in Integrative Studies build a Bachelor's degree that works best for them, by making connections among fields of study that fit their educational, career, and personal goals.

Interior Design

This professional degree program prepares graduates to enter the interior design field or a graduate program in interior design, architecture, or a related discipline.

International Studies

This interdisciplinary program is for students desiring a broad foundation for understanding and analyzing important issues within an international and multicultural context.

Journalism

This program provides students with a liberal arts approach to integrated journalism (print, broadcast, and web) focusing on proficiency in critical thinking, writing, reporting, and editing. These skills prepare students for careers in print and broadcast journalism, new media, related professions, and graduate studies. The program further emphasizes the importance of acting as ethical and productive members of the media and the community at large.

Kinesiology

The Kinesiology major leads to a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology, Nutrition and Health. This major is for students interested in the scientific aspects of human movement. Kinesiology focuses on the acquisition of knowledge and understanding of interactions of physiological, anatomical, neuropsychological, and biomechanical factors that affect human health and performance.

Kinesiology, Nutrition, and Health

This master's program prepares students for professional programs and career options including medicine and doctoral programs in kinesiology and related fields. Tracks include Exercise and Health Science and Public Health Education and Health Promotion, with thesis and non-thesis exit options.

Leadership

The Leadership Certificate is a rigorous, cumulative, cohort-based, three-year leadership development program for undergraduate students. Students focus on personal leadership, people leadership, and strategic leadership. Admission to the program is selective based on student application.

Leadership

The Leadership Graduate Certificate develops understanding of leadership styles and decision-making environments. The certificate is designed for aspiring leaders and mid-career professionals, delivered in a flexible format allowing students to choose fully online, fully in person, or a combination of both.

Learning, Cognitive, and Brain Sciences

This certificate focuses on the learning, cognitive and brain sciences and their application to human learners in a variety of settings.

Learning Sciences and Human Development

This interdisciplinary program of study focuses on the processes involved in human learning and development and how those processes impact families and communities. The program requires 18 hours in the core and 12 hours in a concentration area designed in consultation with a faculty advisor, plus a culminating research project.

Learning Technologies

This online graduate program prepares individuals in a variety of fields (K-12, higher education, corporate) to develop skills in designing and integrating technology and digital media for value-added learning. The program consists of five core courses, four electives, and a culminating experience, and may be completed in 12-18 months.

Liberal Studies (Bachelor of Arts)

The Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science in Liberal Studies program extends students' breadth of learning across multiple disciplines and develops their competencies in critical thinking, written and oral communication, problem solving, and collaboration. Through the selection of two cognate areas and the completion of two advanced Liberal Studies courses, students marshal their breadth of learning and competencies to address real-world challenges.

Liberal Studies (Bachelor of Science)

The Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science in Liberal Studies program extends students' breadth of learning across multiple disciplines and develops their competencies in critical thinking, written and oral communication, problem solving, and collaboration. Through the selection of two cognate areas and the completion of two advanced Liberal Studies courses, students marshal their breadth of learning and competencies to address real-world challenges.

Linguistics

The English department offers four majors: creative writing, literature, linguistics, and professional writing. These concentrations lead to a Bachelor of Arts degree. Linguistics is the study of language.

Literacy and Language

This program is designed for teacher candidates and other educators with teacher certification/licensure who are interested in careers leading to classroom teaching and service as literacy specialists and other leadership positions. Requirements include foundation and theory coursework, literacy and language instruction, a clinical literacy practicum, and a 15-hour concentration pathway.

Management

The Master of Science in Management provides students with the knowledge and skills to excel in today's dynamic business environment. It serves a broad set of students from non-business majors, integrating managerial knowledge with experiential learning, analytical thinking, strategic behavior, creative thinking, business communication, leadership, teamwork and ethics.

Manufacturing Foundations

The Miami University Manufacturing Foundations Certificate is a state-wide program that prepares students for entry-level positions in the high demand field of Manufacturing. Upon completion of the program, students will be able to: use a commercially available CAD system to create meaningful engineering drawings including dimensions and tolerances; multiple views and projections; assemblies and bill of materials; and 3D models.

Marketing

To prepare students for a career in marketing or as part of a business decision-making team, this program provides courses that examine: branding, promotion, supply chain management, consumer behavior, marketing research, sales management and personal selling, imagination and creativity, problem solving skills, creating customer value, global marketing, interactive media studies, and sustainable marketing.

Mathematical Modeling

This certificate prepares students to describe, formulate and analyze real world problems in mathematical terms.

Mathematics and Statistics

The Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Statistics includes the related hours requirement as well as the foreign language requirement from the College of Arts and Science (CAS) Requirements. All MTH and STA courses applied to the program and all courses in the 15-hour section of the related hours must be taken for a letter grade, not credit/no-credit. In the MTH and STA courses, the GPA must be at least 2.00.

Mathematics (Bachelor of Arts)

The Bachelor of Arts program in Mathematics requires all sections of the College of Arts and Science Requirement (CAS) and the related hours requirement. All MTH and STA courses applied to the program and all courses in the 12-hour section of the related hours must be taken for grades, not credit/no-credit. In the MTH and STA courses, the GPA must be at least 2.00.

Mathematics (Bachelor of Science)

The Bachelor of Science in Mathematics includes the related hours requirement as well as the foreign language requirement from the College of Arts and Science (CAS) Requirements. All MTH and STA courses applied to the program and all courses in the 12-hour section of the related hours must be taken for grades, not credit/no-credit.

Mathematics Education (non-licensure)

The Certificate in Mathematics Education (non-licensure) introduces the skills and experiences for students who are interested in teaching mathematics in either collegiate or alternative K-12 settings, but not pursuing state licensure. The certificate consists of two mathematics courses focused on content, two education courses focused on pedagogy, and a 30-hour experiential teaching component.

Mathematics (Master of Arts in Teaching)

This is primarily a summer program for certified/licensed teachers, with courses offered on a three-year revolving basis in the summer terms. Required are 30 semester hours of graduate mathematics and education content, and candidates must conduct an independent reflective self-study as a final project.

Mathematics (Master of Science)

The Master of Science in Mathematics requires core courses in real analysis, abstract algebra, and functions of a real variable, plus electives selected in consultation with the graduate advisor. Up to six of the 32 hours may come from outside mathematics with approval of the graduate committee, and a final master's project is required.

Mechanical and Smart Manufacturing Engineering

This program prepares students for engineering practice requiring a higher level of mastery in mechanical and manufacturing engineering. It is best suited for individuals with backgrounds in mechanical engineering or related areas, and includes core courses in mathematical modeling, dynamical systems and control, thermal-fluid systems, mechanics and mechanical behavior of materials, and advanced manufacturing.

Mechanical Engineering

The Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering prepares students for engineering practice requiring a higher level of mastery in mechanical engineering. Students must earn 24 credit hours in concentration and elective courses, two credit hours in graduate seminar, and six credit hours of master's thesis.

Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering encompasses the design, analysis, production and operation of machines and systems. It requires the ability to use principles from mathematics, science, and engineering, perform research, create mathematical and physical models, simulate and test working conditions, and synthesize different elements in order to obtain the optimum design of a specific product or process.

Mechanical Engineering Technology

The MET program produces graduates who are able to analyze and design mechanical components and systems. Graduates work as CAD operators, CAD/CAM operators, CNC programmers, quality assurance technicians, and laboratory technicians.

Media and Communication

Students in the Media and Communication program examine how media products, practices, industries, and technologies allow us to communicate and connect with others and shape how we experience the world. MAC majors will develop expertise in up to three areas: 1. Researching and analyzing media representations, technologies, industries, and practices to assess their impacts on individuals, cultures, and society.

Medical Laboratory Science

This program is for students who are preparing for the national examination, including sections on key lab specialties such as molecular biology, biochemistry, toxicology, microbiology, parasitology, immunology, immunohematology (blood bank) and hematology, for certification as Medical Laboratory Scientists (MLS) by the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP).

Mental Health Intervention

The Mental Health Intervention Graduate Certificate provides graduate-level preparation in mental health intervention, including helping skills and related coursework offered through the Department of Educational Psychology.

Microbiology

The Master of Science in Microbiology requires a minimum of 30 semester hours in graduate credits and is offered in thesis and non-thesis options. Coursework spans molecular biology, structural biology and bioinformatics, microbial genetics, immunology, pathogenic microbiology, microbial physiology, microbial ecology, and animal virology.

Microbiology

The Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology requires a minimum of 60 semester hours in graduate credits beyond the M.S. degree or its equivalent. Students must pass written and oral comprehensive examinations, defend a dissertation proposal, and complete a research project presented as a written thesis and public seminar.

Microbiology (Bachelor of Arts)

The Bachelor of Arts degree is designed for students interested in careers in microbiology, life sciences, and environmental sciences, or who plan to pursue advanced degrees in medicine as well as other healthcare-related fields. Students who anticipate graduate study in microbiology should elect the B.S. in Microbiology program.

Microbiology (Bachelor of Science)

The Bachelor of Science in Microbiology is designed to provide more in-depth study than the Bachelor of Arts, particularly in preparation for pursuit of a graduate degree in microbiology and related fields. As part of this preparation, students are required to conduct independent research leading to public presentation of their results. No course required for the major in microbiology may be taken on a credit/no-credit basis.

Middle Childhood Education

Middle Childhood Education is a bachelor's degree program offered at Miami University-Oxford.

Music

The B.A. in Music degree is designed for qualified undergraduate students interested in a broad liberal arts experience, complementing a focus in the music discipline. The degree prepares students for careers that utilize the arts, writing, creativity, expression, and imagination across job sectors nationally and globally.

Music Composition

The Music Composition degree offers instruction in the craft and art of composing music. It is designed to prepare students for freelance work as composers, arrangers, and copyists, or for graduate work. As an academic degree within the department of music, there is a strong emphasis on musical analysis and critical thought.

Music Education

Two programs, both with licensure for age three through grade 12, are offered: choral/general program and instrumental music program. Both programs include 100 hours of field experiences in urban, suburban, and rural schools prior to student teaching. With successful completion of all degree requirements, a candidate applies for a State of Ohio Resident Educator License for Teaching Music, Pre-K through Grade 12.

Music Performance

The Master of Music in Music Performance requires coursework in music research, scholarly thresholds for emerging performers, graduate analysis, applied music, repertory, and a graduate recital. All full-time students must participate in a major ensemble in their primary performance medium each semester of residency.

Music Performance

The Bachelor of Music in Performance degree program provides the broad, pre-professional training required for advanced study in music and, ultimately, for entry into the profession. Two programs are offered: voice, and instrumental.

Nursing

The MSN program is designed for BSN-prepared nurses at all levels of experience seeking to move into advanced nursing practice. Courses are delivered online with at least one on-campus course requirement per track; tracks include Family Nurse Practitioner and Nurse Executive Leadership.

Nursing

Miami University offers a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, which is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). This program provides a balance of liberal arts and professional nursing courses. Emphasis is on the nursing process as it pertains to health promotion and health restoration.

Nursing Practice

The Doctor of Nursing Practice degree builds upon prior learning acquired through an MSN program and prepares advanced practice nurses for roles in organizational and systems leadership. The curriculum includes 24 credits of core courses including role seminars and 12 credits of project courses, delivered completely online except for site-based practicum experiences.

Nutrition

The Nutrition major leads to a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology, Nutrition and Health degree. Nutrition, an area of health science, studies human metabolism as it relates to nutrition. An interdisciplinary curriculum with courses in nutrition, food science, food systems management, lifestyle and health, with supporting courses in chemistry, social science and management is provided by this major.

Organizational Leadership

The Organizational Leadership major allows students to apply sociological, psychological, and political science theories and methods to real world organizational problems. The major is designed to maximize graduates' ability to flexibly adapt to today's continually shifting job requirements, emerging technologies, and new ways of organizing.

Outdoor Leadership

Offered through a collaboration between the departments of Educational Leadership (EDL); Sports Leadership and Management (SLM); and the Outdoor Pursuit Center (OPC) in Recreational Sports, this certificate program is for students interested in pursuing professional or leisure opportunities leading youth or adult learners in outdoor sport or adventure learning excursions or activities.

Paper Engineering for Electrical Engineers

The Electrical Engineering Paper Engineering Certificate offers a distinctive opportunity for electrical engineering majors to gain exposure to the paper industry, thereby enhancing their career prospects. This program is tailored specifically for electrical engineering majors.

Philosophy

The Master of Arts in Philosophy requires full-time enrollment and includes a minimum of ten four-credit-hour graduate courses in philosophy plus two research seminars and one teaching practicum. This is typically completed in two years.

Philosophy

Philosophy is the attempt to understand what matters and why, examining the nature of reality and exploring the origin and development of ideas that structure and underlie the world and our lives. Philosophy majors learn how to read complex texts critically, to write meaningfully and with clarity, and to understand and develop sophisticated lines of reasoning.

Physician Associate Studies

The Master of Medical Science degree in Physician Associate Studies provides academic and clinical instruction necessary to become a healthcare clinician, leader, and researcher capable of performing within a range of specialties. The degree prepares students to sit for the board examination of the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants and to seek state licensure.

Physics

The Master of Science in Physics is offered in thesis and non-thesis options. For the thesis option a minimum of 30 semester hours of graduate credit is required; for the non-thesis option a minimum of 36 semester hours of graduate credit is required.

Physics

The Physics B.S. degree prepares students for graduate study or employment in physics and related fields, including applied and engineering physics, biophysics, biomedical engineering, medical school, teacher licensure in physics, or careers in business or law. 6 Students are encouraged to speak with a Department advisor early in order to select the most appropriate advanced coursework for their career goals.

Political Science

This major is for liberal arts students interested in the study of politics, government, and public affairs. For this major, at least 15 of the required 33 major hours and at least nine of the required 18 related hours must be from Miami. Required political science and related hours may not be taken on a credit/no-credit basis.

Prekindergarten Education

This program provides the education academic requirements for the Initial Five-Year Professional Licensure in Prekindergarten Education. The degree can be applied to the Bachelor of Integrative Studies and a majority of the required hours may be applied to the Bachelor of Science in Education, Primary Education PK-5, if program admission requirements are met.

Premedical and Pre-Health Studies

A post-baccalaureate certificate that provides a broad-based premedical/pre-health background and prepares students to pursue advanced degrees in medicine as well as other healthcare-related fields.

Primary Education PK-5

The Primary PK-5 major leads to a Bachelor of Science in Education degree. Approved by the Ohio Department of Education, this program prepares graduates to teach students in grades PK through 5th in all content areas. In addition to meeting requirements of the Miami Plan, students take courses in Teaching, Curriculum, & Educational Inquiry; Educational Leadership; Kinesiology, Nutrition, and Health; Family Science and Social Work; and Educational Psychology.

Principal Licensure

The Principal Licensure Graduate Certificate offers students who have an M.Ed. the opportunity to earn the coursework required for the Ohio Principal License issued by the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce. Coursework includes engaging learning opportunities such as a principal internship to meet the multi-dimensional challenges of school district governance.

Professional Writing

The Bachelor of Arts with a major in Professional Writing is designed for students who wish to engage with the theory and practice of writing for various purposes and in different print and digital media. Students may choose one of four tracks: Digital and Technical Communication; Editing in Professional Contexts; Public Writing and Rhetoric; and Intercultural Rhetoric and Writing.

Psychological Science

Psychological Science uses empirical evidence to understand how and why people act, think, feel, and interact as they do.

Psychology

The M.A. is offered in the areas of clinical psychology; social psychology; and brain, cognitive, and developmental science. The master's degree, offered only as a requirement toward the Ph.D., requires a minimum of 30 semester hours including 24 semester hours of coursework and research plus six hours of thesis; there is no terminal master's degree program.

Psychology

The Ph.D. in Psychology is offered in clinical psychology, social psychology, and brain, cognitive, and developmental science. Requirements include a minimum of 90 semester hours comprising the master's degree, coursework and research, and dissertation, plus a comprehensive examination and final oral examination.

Psychology

Psychology is a bachelor's degree program offered at Miami University-Oxford.

Public Administration

The Public Administration major is designed for undergraduates interested in studying and understanding the issues of governance and management in government and not-for-profit organizations, and more specifically about the link between politics and public policy implementation. It is appropriate for those interested in public service careers in the federal government, state government, and/or local government.

Public Health

Public Health is a field of study focused on preventing illness and promoting health in individuals, communities, and society as a whole. The Public Health program at Miami builds on the University's strengths in three areas: Human Disease and Epidemiology, Health Policy and Administration, and Health Promotion and Education.

Quantitative Economics

This program enables students to undertake a more rigorous and quantitative course of study, while still completing their degree work in four years. Additional required courses (including more quantitative courses), combined with more advanced mathematics and statistics requirements are an ideal preparation for graduate training in economics, as well as jobs in business, industry and government that require the more technical tools of economic theory and econometrics.

Quantum Computing

The Bachelor of Science in Quantum Computing at Miami University is designed to prepare students for the emerging and transformative field of quantum technologies. This interdisciplinary program integrates the foundations of computer science, mathematics, physics, life sciences and more to equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to solve complex problems using quantum computing principles.

Reading Endorsement

The Reading Endorsement Certificate provides graduate coursework in literacy assessment and instruction leading to the Ohio reading endorsement.

Real Estate

Real Estate is a bachelor's degree program offered at Miami University-Oxford.

Remote Teaching for K12

Blended, online, and remote learning environments are now prevalent in K12 learning. Blended and remote learning enables teachers to extend and expand the classroom and to support more personalized learning. In addition, online learning is becoming a more prevalent alternative to classroom instruction.

Robotics Engineering

The Robotics Engineering major encompasses industrial automation, autonomous systems and artificial intelligence. Robotics finds wide applications in industry and our daily life on an ever-increasing scale.

Sales Management

Commerce is the broad system of organizations producing goods and services for their markets to satisfy their stakeholders. The Bachelor of Science in Commerce and Sales Management major draws courses from a variety of disciplines to prepare students to work in sales/sales management as well as other organizations in managerial and staff capacities.

School Leadership

The Master's degree in School Leadership is recommended for students seeking state licensure as elementary or secondary school principals, curriculum directors, or other administrative positions. Designed for educators with a minimum of three years of K-12 teaching experience, courses are offered in a hybrid format allowing completion in two years of part-time enrollment.

School Psychology

The professional entry program in School Psychology leads to the specialist in education degree as well as licensure as a professional school psychologist; a master's degree is earned during the course of study. After completing 31 hours in the foundation component and passing a comprehensive examination, students are awarded an M.S. degree and admitted to candidacy for the Ed.S. degree.

School Psychology

This three-year program includes assessment, intervention and consultation training; school-based practicum experiences; and a full-time supervised nine- to 10-month internship. Students receive the Ed.S. degree after completing the professional practice component, which includes 43 hours of applied coursework including an internship experience and research project.

Science Education Areas

Master of Arts in Teaching programs in science education areas combine graduate and undergraduate study and enable a student with a baccalaureate degree to earn teaching licensure and a master's degree. Students must meet GPA requirements in content coursework and complete the OAE content test.

Self-Designed Sport

The Self-Designed Graduate Certificate in Sport provides graduate students the opportunity to design a specialized course of study in a graduate certificate beyond those currently offered. Students collaborate directly with an academic advisor, and at least two classes must be taken in the Department of Sport Leadership and Management.

Small Business Management

Commerce is the broad system of organizations producing goods and services for their markets to satisfy their stakeholders. The Bachelor of Science in Commerce Small Business Management major draws courses from a variety of disciplines to prepare students to work in small business management as well as other organizations in managerial and staff capacities.

Smart Manufacturing Engineering

Smart manufacturing uses data generation and evaluation at various scales to help make informed decisions from control of specific equipment to the operation of an entire factory. The department provides graduates with an in-depth education in mathematics, science, engineering, and design, with a focus on smart or digital manufacturing processes, data analytics and automation.

Social Entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurship is all about overcoming challenges and solving problems in our communities and our world. This certificate program introduces students to the opportunities and challenges associated with building and growing enterprises that are both self- sustaining and focused on a social mission.

Social Gerontology

The doctoral program in Social Gerontology admits students who hold a bachelor's degree and those who have earned or are completing a master's degree. The degree requires 60 post-master's degree credit hours consisting of core coursework, research methodology, electives, and dissertation credit.

Social Work

Miami University's MSW program prepares students to practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities, applying ethical principles and critical thinking through research-informed practice. The program is offered in Traditional (57 credit hours), Advanced Standing (34 credit hours), and PSY/PSS+MSW Combined (55 credit hours) formats with field education requirements.

Social Work

This Social Work major has a foundation in the liberal arts. The goal is to prepare students for generalist baccalaureate-level social work practice by integrating the knowledge, values, and skills of the social work profession.

Sociology

This major is for students interested in the study of society, social institutions, and human interaction. These range from two- person interactions to relations between large social institutions to relations between nations. Students select a general sociology concentration or a criminology concentration.

Software Engineering

The software engineering major provides graduates with the foundational knowledge and practical skills necessary to develop large, complex computer software systems. The program focuses on the methodologies, techniques and tools needed to develop complex software in a multidisciplinary environment. Topics of study go beyond traditional computer science and include software design, software maintenance, and formal methods for software development.

Spanish

At least 30 semester hours of graduate courses are completed in the Master of Arts in Spanish, with areas of interest including Peninsular literature, film and culture; Latin American literature, film and culture; Spanish linguistics; and individualized studies. Students complete either a thesis or a comprehensive examination.

Spanish

This program offers students the opportunity to study language, literature, and culture of the Spanish-speaking world. Courses are offered in Spanish language and conversation, Spanish in specialized settings such as health care and business, Spanish culture, and Spanish linguistics. Courses on Hispanic literatures and cultures explore the diversity of the Spanish-speaking world.

Special Education

The Special Education M.Ed. is offered as a degree-only option, an M.Ed. plus K-12 Mild/Moderate Intervention Specialist licensure option for students who currently hold a teaching license, and an M.Ed. plus initial licensure option. Requirements include special education core coursework, graduate research courses, and supervised field experience where applicable.

Speech-Language Pathology (Master of Arts)

Students may pursue a thesis option (Master of Arts) in Speech-Language Pathology. The program requires a minimum of 50 academic credit hours plus semester credit hours of clinical practicum and professional field experience.

Speech-Language Pathology (Master of Science)

Students may pursue a non-thesis option (Master of Science) in Speech-Language Pathology. The degree requires a minimum of 48 academic credit hours plus semester credit hours of clinical practicum and professional field experience.

Speech Pathology and Audiology

Certification in both the fields of speech-language pathology and audiology require a graduate degree. Most graduate programs welcome applicants with undergraduate degrees in a wide range of fields, but require necessary prerequisite coursework in communication sciences and disorders prior to beginning the program.

Speech Pathology and Audiology

Miami offers the Bachelor of Science in speech pathology and audiology. The State of Ohio requires a graduate degree in order to practice as a speech-language pathologist or audiologist; you cannot be licensed in Ohio without the required graduate degree. Students who plan to apply to graduate school are encouraged to achieve an undergraduate GPA of at least 3.0.

Sport Coaching

The Sport Coaching major leads to a Bachelor of Science in Sport Leadership and Management. This major prepares students to succeed in coaching interscholastic, collegiate, or professional sport.

Sport Communication and Media

Fueled by an immense global interest in sport and sport information, intense fandom, and live sport consumption, the sport communication and media landscape is one full of opportunity and engagement. The Sport Communication and Media major leads to a Bachelor of Science in Sport Leadership and Management. This major provides a distinct set of courses and hands-on experiences to prepare students to enter this ever-changing and ever-growing sport environment.

Sport Leadership and Management

This program focuses on the study of leadership in sport, with supporting interdisciplinary knowledge in sport psychology, cultural studies of sport, sport management, and related cognate areas. It prepares students for leadership roles in higher education, coaching, athletic administration, student-athlete development, sport psychology, and consulting.

Sport Management

The Sport Management Certificate offers graduate coursework in sport economics, facilities and event management, sport marketing, legal issues, and strategic management of sport organizations through the Department of Sport Leadership and Management.

Sport Management

The sport industry is one of the largest and fastest growing industries in the United States. The sport management major provides many diverse career opportunities and has a strong job placement rate, thanks in part to the well-rounded education and practical experience students receive with internship opportunities and a required capstone practicum experience.

Sport Psychology

The Sport Psychology Certificate includes coursework in psychological foundations of sport and psychological interventions in sport, plus electives such as social psychology of sport and exercise, developmental perspectives on youth sport participation, and cultural studies of sport.

StartUp Entrepreneurship

Startup entrepreneurship is all about overcoming challenges and solving problems. Startup businesses operate with limited resources and capacity. In the Entrepreneurship Department, we teach students by immersing them in experiences like this to better understand how to add value and make a difference in those communities.

Statistics

The Master of Science in Statistics requires coursework in statistical programming, advanced data visualization, regression analysis, experimental design methods, advanced statistical methods, and a practicum in data analysis. Admission requires strong performance in calculus, linear algebra, and a probability/mathematical statistics course.

Strategic Communication

Students explore strategic communication as dynamic arrangements of technologies, institutions, and individual practices, understanding how campaigns circulate alongside diverse cultural forms, across media platforms, and in a global and multicultural society.

Student Affairs in Higher Education

The SAHE curriculum prepares students to meet the complexities of contemporary student affairs practice and is rooted in the value of social justice, addressing topics such as the racialized realities of higher education, student mental health, and current trends in higher education. Students complete a three-credit-hour practicum, an optional internship, and a three-credit-hour elective.

Studio Art (Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art)

The Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art prepares students to become fluent in the practice of visual arts. Students will gain critical and analytical thinking skills, as well as conceptual rigor, technical expertise and methods as a means to explore intellectual and human experience through visual arts modes.

Studio Art (Bachelor of Fine Arts)

The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art has six different concentration choices: ceramics, metals and jewelry design, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. This degree program emphasizes the development of visual language through in-depth study of one or more of these studio areas.

Superintendent Licensure

Superintendent Licensure requires the candidate to hold a valid Ohio principal license and complete 12 credits, including school business affairs and physical resources, board-superintendent-staff relationships, social justice and transformation, and an internship in educational leadership. Students must also have three years of relevant experience.

Supply Chain and Operations Management

The Supply Chain and Operations Management, B.S., program teaches you to manage people, products, services, and processes from the point of supply through consumption. This program will provide you with a deep understanding of sourcing, logistics, and operations management principles and how these areas integrate with other business functions.

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Endorsement

The Graduate TESOL Endorsement Certificate provides those holding valid teacher licenses with the knowledge, skills, and experiences needed to meet the challenges of teaching English learners in PK-12 classrooms. The certificate consists of a four-course sequence with opportunities for the application of knowledge and skills, offered in a hybrid format.

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Endorsement

The Undergraduate Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Endorsement Certificate provides the skills and experiences to prepare students pursuing teaching licensure to successfully work with English learners in their future classrooms. Upon successful completion of the certificate program, students must pass the TESOL Ohio Assessment for Educators 021 (TESOL) in order to add the TESOL endorsement to their teaching licensure.

Teaching of Writing

The Teaching of Writing certificate focuses on developing expertise in the theory and reflective practice of teaching writing for K-12 teachers, including those preparing to teach college credit plus English courses. It requires a six-credit-hour course in the Teaching of Writing and 12 credit hours of MAT or other English department graduate electives.

Technical Study

This technically-oriented program allows students to tailor an associate degree to their specific needs by combining a technical concentration and a well-rounded program. Students can choose a concentration from the following: Building and Industrial Technology; Commerce; Health and Allied Health Technology; Information Technology; and Services Technology.

Theatre

The Bachelor of Arts in Theatre is intended for students who wish to pursue the study of theatre situated within a liberal arts tradition. The undergraduate program is committed to developing creative thinkers with artistic vision through a program that emphasizes the interplay between critical thinking and artistic practice.

Urban and Regional Planning

The Urban and Regional Planning major provides an integrated perspective on towns and cities, and how to promote more efficient and sustainable development. Students learn to interpret urban contexts, analyze the nature and scope of social and environmental problems, and apply planning concepts and techniques through collaborative problem solving.

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

This certificate program is available to current master's and doctoral students in any field of study across the university and to stand-alone certificate students. Using an interdisciplinary approach, students explore how gender, sexuality, and other social differences influence the lives of diverse communities and cultures both locally and globally.

Zoology (Bachelor of Arts)

Zoology is the natural science that focuses on the study of animals. The zoology major can be tailored to meet the needs of students interested in the health sciences, animal physiology, cell and molecular biology, ecology or environmental studies, or evolution and systematics. It is possible to complete a Zoology Major while earning either the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science.

Zoology (Bachelor of Science)

Zoology is the natural science that focuses on the study of animals. The zoology major can be tailored to meet the needs of students interested in the health sciences, animal physiology, cell and molecular biology, ecology or environmental studies, or evolution and systematics. It is possible to complete a Zoology Major while earning either the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science.