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<span style="font-size:medium;">A private research university with more than 16,000 students from around the world, the University of Miami is a vibrant and diverse academic community focused on teaching and learning, the discovery of new knowledge, and service to both the community and the world.</span>
<span style="font-size:medium;">The University comprises 11 schools and colleges serving undergraduate and graduate students in more than 180 majors and programs. In 20152016, ''U.S. News & World Report'' ranked UM among the top 50 universities in the country in its “Best Colleges” listings. ''U.S. News'' also cites several of its programs in “America's Best Graduate Schools.”</span>
<span style="font-size:medium;">Established in 1925 during the region's famous real estate boom, UM is a major research university engaged in more than $309 million in research and sponsored program expenditures annually. While the majority of this work is housed at the Miller School of Medicine, investigators conduct hundreds of studies in other areas, including marine science, engineering, education, and psychology.</span>
<span style="font-size:medium;">The Technology Transfer center of UM is a great resource on campus, but it has a few significant drawbacks.</span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"> First, it is mostly geared towards providing opportunities and resources for faculty. Students are given significantly less attention and resources, and this makes it seem like student innovation is less important and encouraged. Secondly, the ownership rights are very strict, and give very little in the way of allowing idea creators to make profit or get any other compensation for their work. Finally, the actual resources of the office are very poorly marketed, and many people on campus don’t even know they exist.</span>
<span style="font-size:medium;">These policies may be very difficult to change, but any sort of shift in the right direction would be very beneficial to students.</span>