Farmer School of Business

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By Rachel Z. Arndt

Farmer School of Business

Miami University takes its name from the native tribe that once lived where the university now stands in Oxford, Ohio. The town itself—about 35 miles north of Cincinnati—wasn't incorporated and its first tracts of land sold until a year after the university began operations. By the 1830s,Miami University had become the fourth largest in the U.S., behind only some Ivy League schools. Around the same time, William Holmes McGuffey wrote the Eclectic Readers while teaching at the university. His books, full of patriotic messages of piety, thrift, and industry, sold an estimated 120 million copies.

Today, Miami University has 14,488 undergraduate and 1,812 graduate students at its Oxford campus. Miami has four schools: the College of Arts and Science, the School of Education and Allied Professions, the School of Fine Arts, and the Richard T. Farmer School of Business. Undergraduates at Farmer can choose among eight majors, while graduate students can take either a part-time or full-time program. The full-time MBA program, which can be completed in just 14 months, stresses experiential learning and a case-based business education.

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