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FUNDING OUR FUTURE
The University is in the midst of a one-billion-dollar capital campaign – the largest in the institution’s history public phase kicked off in late 2022 with four cornerstones: Scholarships, Business and Entrepreneurship, Clinical Health Sciences, and Digital Innovation and Technology
AS PART OF THAT CAMPAIGN, THE FARMER SCHOOL IS SEEKING TO RAISE $250 MILLION AND IS ALREADY MORE THAN HALF WAY TO ACHIEVING THAT GOAL.
Our mission is to support our students’ success do that by offering the best curricular and co-curricular student experience in the nation by focusing on both the academic and the personal experience Therefore, our fundraising priorities are:
SCHOLARSHIPS
RECRUITING AND RETAINING TOP FACULTY CURRICULAR AND CO-CURRICULAR PROGRAMMING
The Farmer Family Foundation created a one for one matching gift, that is matching up to $20 million over the next two years . Leveraging that transformational gift has recently resulted in $14 million in gifts to support centers of excellence, including our Center for Supply Chain Excellence, Center for L .I .F.E and the Center for Real Estate Finance and Investment and more than $5 million to support high-need students, $2.5 million for enhancements to our Academic Advising, and $1.5 million for Cyber Security, Student Athletes, and Career Services
In 2023, more than 14% of the more than 45,000 Farmer School alumni supported our efforts
“Miami has a phenomenal academic standard. It’s unbelievable. They really get you beyond ready. A lot of things that I had to do at my internship, Miami had already prepared me for, which I hadn’t even realized. Miami does a great job of making sure that you’re ready for the next step.”
KESHON ‘24, HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP