High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The University of Miami (informally referred to as UM, Miami, or The U) is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 in the city of Coral Gables, Florida within Miami-Dade County. Miami's Miller School of Medicine and its teaching hospital are located in the city of Miami at the Miami Civic Center and the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science is on Virginia Key. As of 2009, the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12 separate colleges. These colleges offer approximately 115 undergraduate, 114 master s, 51 doctoral, and two professional areas of study.