Florida International University

Florida International University (FIU) is a public research university whose main campus lies in Westchester, an unincorporated area of western Miami-Dade County in Florida, United States. Founded by the Florida Legislature in 1965 and opened to students in 1972, it is a constituent of the State University System of Florida and one of the four state-designated Preeminent State Research Universities, and it placed joint 659th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.佛罗里达国际大学（简称 FIU）是一所公立研究型大学，主校区位于美国佛罗里达州迈阿密-戴德县西部的非建制地区韦斯特切斯特。学校由佛罗里达州议会于 1965 年创办、1972 年正式招生，是佛罗里达州立大学系统的成员，也是佛州四所州定「卓越州立研究型大学」之一，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 659 位。

Classified as a Carnegie R1 doctoral university with very high research activity, FIU comprises 11 colleges and schools that together offer more than 200 degree programmes at bachelor's, master's and doctoral levels, and it enrolled more than 54,000 students in the autumn of 2023.学校属卡内基 R1 级、研究活动极高的博士型大学，设 11 个学院与学校，合计提供 200 多个学士、硕士与博士层次的学位项目，2023 年秋季在校生逾 54000 人。

FIU reported an operating budget of about 1.9 billion and research expenditures of326 million for the 2024-25 fiscal year, while OpenAlex records 80,681 research works and 3,708,795 citations associated with the institution.学校 2024—2025 财年的运营预算约 19 亿美元、科研支出约 3.26 亿美元；OpenAlex 记录其科研产出为 80681 篇论文与 3708795 次被引。

History

• In 1943 state senator Ernest R. Graham, father of the future Florida governor and U.S. senator Bob Graham, first proposed to the Florida Legislature the creation of a public university in Miami-Dade County, though his bill did not pass at the time.1943 年，州参议员欧内斯特·R·格雷厄姆（后任佛州州长与美国参议员鲍勃·格雷厄姆之父）首次向佛州议会提议在迈阿密-戴德县设立公立大学，但其法案当时未获通过。
• The effort resumed in 1964 when Florida senator Robert M. Haverfield introduced Senate Bill 711, instructing the state Board of Education and the Board of Regents to plan the new university, and Governor W. Haydon Burns signed it into law in June 1965.1964 年，佛州参议员罗伯特·M·哈弗菲尔德提出第 711 号参议院法案，指示州教育厅与大学评议委员会筹办这所新大学；1965 年 6 月由州长 W·海登·伯恩斯签署成为法律。
• Chuck Perry, appointed founding president by the Board of Regents in July 1969 at the age of 32, was the youngest president in the history of the State University System of Florida, and the new institution took the name Florida International University that same year.1969 年 7 月，查克·佩里获大学评议委员会任命为创校校长，时年 32 岁，是佛州州立大学系统历史上最年轻的校长；学校同年定名「佛罗里达国际大学」。
• Perry recruited three co-founders, Butler Waugh, Donald McDowell and Nick Sileo, and gained the backing of Alvah Chapman, publisher of the Miami Herald and chairman of Knight Ridder, who later chaired the FIU Foundation board of trustees in the 1980s.佩里招募巴特勒·沃、唐纳德·麦克道尔与尼克·西莱奥三位共同创办人，并得到《迈阿密先驱报》发行人、奈特·里德报业董事长阿尔瓦·查普曼的支持，后者于 1980 年代出任 FIU 基金会董事会主席。
• The founders sited the campus on the former Tamiami Airport along the Tamiami Trail between Southwest 107th and 117th Avenues, and the abandoned airport's air traffic control tower became FIU's first building, with Perry's office on its ground floor.创办者把校区定在塔迈阿密小径沿线、西南第 107 至 117 大道之间原塔迈阿密机场旧址；废弃机场的空中交通管制塔成为学校第一栋建筑，佩里的办公室设在该楼一层。
• Groundbreaking for the Tamiami campus followed in January 1971, and the United Nations Secretary-General U Thant received FIU's first honorary degree.塔迈阿密校区于 1971 年 1 月破土动工，联合国秘书长吴丹获颁学校第一个荣誉学位。
• FIU opened in September 1972 with 5,667 students, the largest opening-day enrolment in the United States at the time, and began as an upper-division institution, with lower-division classes added only nine years later.1972 年 9 月，学校迎来首批 5667 名学生，为当时全美规模最大的首次招生；学校起初仅招收高年级学生，9 年后才增设低年级课程。
• The first commencement took place in June 1973 in the reading room on the ground floor of Primera Casa, where more than 1,500 family members and friends watched the first class of 191 graduates receive their diplomas.1973 年 6 月，首届毕业典礼在普里梅拉大厦一层阅览室举行，逾 1500 名亲友见证首届 191 名毕业生获颁学位。
• After seven years at the helm Perry left in 1975, at which point more than 10,000 students were attending classes and the campus had five major buildings with a sixth planned.掌校 7 年后，佩里于 1975 年离任，当时在校学生逾 10000 人，校区已有 5 栋主要建筑，第 6 栋正在规划。
• Harold Crosby, the founding president of the University of West Florida in Pensacola, agreed in 1976 to serve as FIU's second president on a three-year interim basis.曾任彭萨科拉西佛罗里达大学创校校长的哈罗德·克罗斯比，于 1976 年同意出任学校第二任校长，任期 3 年。
• Under Crosby the North Miami Campus, later renamed the Biscayne Bay Campus, opened in 1977 on the former Interama site, with state senator Jack Gordon securing its funding while Crosby promoted international programmes and recruited faculty from the Caribbean and Latin America.在克罗斯比任内，北美迈阿密校区（后更名比斯坎湾校区）于 1977 年在原因特拉马园区启用；州参议员杰克·戈登为其争取经费，克罗斯比则推动国际化项目并从加勒比与拉丁美洲延揽师资。
• Gregory Baker Wolfe, a former United States diplomat and then president of Portland State University, served as FIU's third president from 1979 to 1986, and the student union at the Biscayne Bay Campus is named in his honour.曾任美国外交官、后任波特兰州立大学校长的格雷戈里·贝克·沃尔夫，于 1979 至 1986 年出任学校第三任校长，比斯坎湾校区的学生活动中心以他的名字命名。
• Modesto Maidique, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology-trained electrical engineer, became FIU's fourth president in 1986 and the first Hispanic leader of any Florida state university, going on to serve for 23 years.麻省理工学院出身的电气工程师莫德斯托·迈迪克于 1986 年成为学校第四任校长，也是佛州州立大学系统中首位拉美裔校长，此后任职 23 年。
• During Maidique's presidency enrolment approached 40,000, the endowment grew from less than 2 million to more than100 million, 22 doctoral programmes were added, and research spending rose from about 6 million to nearly110 million.迈迪克任内在校生接近 40000 人，捐赠基金由不足 200 万美元增至逾 1 亿美元，新增 22 个博士项目，科研支出从约 600 万美元增至近 1.1 亿美元。
• Also in that era the university established the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, the College of Law, the School of Architecture and the Robert Stempel School of Public Health, and acquired the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum on Miami Beach.同一时期，学校设立赫伯特·沃特海姆医学院、法学院、建筑学院与罗伯特·施滕佩尔公共卫生学院，并收购迈阿密海滩的沃尔夫索尼亚-FIU 博物馆。
• In 2000 FIU attained the highest Carnegie classification of the period, that of Doctoral/Research University-Extensive, and in the same decade more than $600 million was invested in campus construction, adding residence halls, the FIU Stadium, a recreation centre and a student centre.2000 年，学校取得当时卡内基分类的最高级别「博士研究型大学-广博型」；同一十年间校园建设投入逾 6 亿美元，新建宿舍、FIU 体育场、康乐中心与学生中心。
• On 14 November 2008 Maidique announced his departure, and on 25 April 2009 Mark Rosenberg was selected as fifth president, taking office on 29 August 2009 on a five-year contract.2008 年 11 月 14 日，迈迪克宣布卸任；2009 年 4 月 25 日，马克·罗森伯格获选为第五任校长，并于 2009 年 8 月 29 日以 5 年合约就任。
• In 2002 the Golden Panthers began play as a Division I-A football team, and in 2010 the programme won the Sun Belt Conference title and contested the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl.2002 年，「金豹」橄榄球队开始以一级 A 组球队身份参赛；2010 年球队夺得太阳带联盟冠军并出战「小凯撒披萨碗」。
• In 2013 Royal Caribbean began a $20 million, 130,000-square-foot training facility for its performers at the university that opened in March 2015, serving architecture, art and hospitality students.2013 年，皇家加勒比公司动工兴建造价 2000 万美元、面积 13 万平方英尺的演艺人员培训设施，2015 年 3 月启用，服务建筑、艺术与酒店管理学生。
• On 15 March 2018 a newly built pedestrian bridge near the campus collapsed, causing six deaths, and on 6 May 2020 the Florida Department of Transportation announced plans to design and rebuild it.2018 年 3 月 15 日，校园附近一座新建人行天桥倒塌，造成 6 人死亡；2020 年 5 月 6 日，佛州交通厅宣布重建该桥的设计计划。
• After Mark Rosenberg resigned on 21 January 2022, Kenneth Jessell became sixth president in October 2022, and when his contract ended in 2025 the sitting Lieutenant Governor and FIU alumna Jeanette Nuñez served as interim president from 17 February 2025 before being confirmed as seventh president on 18 June 2025.马克·罗森伯格于 2022 年 1 月 21 日辞任后，肯尼斯·杰塞尔于 2022 年 10 月成为第六任校长；其合约在 2025 年到期后，时任副州长、校友珍妮特·努涅斯自 2025 年 2 月 17 日起任代理校长，并于 2025 年 6 月 18 日获确认为第七任校长。

Academics

• FIU's 11 colleges and schools include the Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, the Green School of International and Public Affairs, the College of Business, and the College of Engineering and Computing.学校 11 个学院与学校包括查普林酒店与旅游管理学院、格林国际与公共事务学院、商学院以及工程与计算学院。
• The university runs 60 baccalaureate programmes, 81 master's programmes, 34 doctoral programmes and four professional programmes, and 97 per cent of its faculty hold terminal degrees, with about half tenured.学校开设 60 个本科项目、81 个硕士项目、34 个博士项目与 4 个专业学位项目，97％ 的教师拥有最高学位，约半数获终身教职。
• FIU's six libraries, headed by the eight-floor Green Library, hold more than 2,097,207 volumes, 52,511 current serials and 3,587,663 microform units.学校六座图书馆以 8 层的格林图书馆为主馆，合计藏书逾 2097207 册、现刊 52511 种、缩微资料 3587663 件。
• The Green Library was first designed by architect David Harper in 1973 and was expanded in the early 1990s by M. C. Harry & Associates into its present eight-floor form, built over and around the original three-storey structure while it was still in use.格林图书馆最早由建筑师戴维·哈珀于 1973 年设计，1990 年代初由 M·C·哈里事务所扩建为如今的 8 层结构，扩建在原三层建筑仍在使用的状态下进行。
• The Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine was named in 1999 after Herbert Wertheim donated $20 million, the largest gift in the university's history, matched by state funds.赫伯特·沃特海姆医学院得名于 1999 年赫伯特·沃特海姆捐赠的 2000 万美元，这是学校历史上最大一笔捐款，并由州府资金对等配比。
• Research is anchored by the International Hurricane Research Center, the nation's only university-based tropical-storm research facility, whose 12-fan Wall of Wind can simulate a Category 5 hurricane and was named an experimental facility by the National Science Foundation in 2015.学校科研以国际飓风研究中心为支柱，它是全美唯一设于大学的热带风暴研究机构，其 12 风扇「风墙」可模拟五级飓风，并于 2015 年获美国国家科学基金会列为实验设施。
• The 38-acre Engineering Center houses part of the College of Engineering and Computing together with the Motorola Nanofabrication Research Facility.占地 38 英亩的工程中心容纳工程与计算学院的一部分，并设有摩托罗拉纳米制造研究设施。
• The Biscayne Bay Campus, adjacent to the Oleta River State Park, supports a marine biology programme that has become one of the university's most recognised, and also houses the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.比斯坎湾校区毗邻奥莱塔河州立公园，设有海洋生物学项目，已成为学校最具声誉的项目之一，并容纳新闻与大众传播学院。
• In the 2018-2019 season FIU's Model United Nations team was ranked the top Model UN team in North America.2018—2019 赛季，学校的模拟联合国代表队被评为北美第一。
• For the autumn of 2023 FIU enrolled 54,085 students from more than 130 countries and all 50 U.S. states, with a women-to-men ratio of 57 to 43 and 18.6 per cent in graduate and professional programmes.2023 年秋季，学校录取 54085 名学生，来自 130 多个国家与全美 50 个州，男女比约为 57 比 43，研究生与专业学位学生占 18.6％。
• The autumn 2023 freshman class averaged a 4.1 high-school GPA, an 1150 SAT and a 24 ACT, while the Honors College admitted students averaging a 4.4 weighted GPA, a 29 ACT and a 1329 SAT in 2019.2023 年秋季新生平均高中绩点为 4.1、SAT 1150 分、ACT 24 分；2019 年荣誉学院录取学生平均加权绩点 4.4、ACT 29 分、SAT 1329 分。
• The Wertheim College of Medicine admitted 5.2 per cent of applicants and the College of Law 22 per cent, while the School of Architecture was the most selective in Florida at a 14 per cent rate in 2011.沃特海姆医学院录取率为 5.2％，法学院为 22％；2011 年建筑学院以 14％ 的录取率成为佛州最难进的学院。
• The university maintains an education abroad programme with more than 70 partner institutions, sending over 1,000 students abroad each year, and opened the FIU Tianjin Center in China in 2006 for a branch of its hospitality school.学校设有海外教育项目，合作机构超过 70 所，每年派出逾 1000 名学生出国，并于 2006 年在中国设立 FIU 天津中心，开办酒店管理学院的分支。
• FIU also operates architecture facilities in Genoa, Italy, and a regional Wolfsonian-FIU Museum facility in Nervi, while Colombia is designated one of its World Centers.学校还在意大利热那亚设有建筑学教学设施，在内尔维设有沃尔夫索尼亚-FIU 博物馆的地区馆，并将哥伦比亚列为「世界中心」之一。
• The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity, placing in the top three per cent of U.S. institutions for research production.学校获南方学院与学校协会院校委员会的认证，属卡内基 R1 级研究活动极高的博士型大学，科研产出位居全美机构前 3％。
• FIU's colleges span arts and sciences, business, education, engineering, law, medicine, nursing, public health, architecture, hospitality and international affairs, making it one of Florida's most comprehensive public universities.学校学院涵盖文理、商科、教育、工程、法学、医学、护理、公共卫生、建筑、酒店管理与国际事务等领域，是佛州门类最齐全的公立大学之一。

Campus

• FIU's main Modesto A. Maidique Campus occupies 344 acres in the University Park neighbourhood of Westchester, in unincorporated western Miami-Dade County, and was renamed from University Park on 12 June 2009.学校主校区莫德斯托·迈迪克校区占地 344 英亩，位于迈阿密-戴德县西部非建制地区韦斯特切斯特的大学公园社区，2009 年 6 月 12 日由「大学公园」更名而来。
• The main campus stands on the former Tamiami Airport site, where the old air traffic control tower is preserved, and holds a 15-acre nature preserve and a palm arboretum among more than 90 buildings.主校区原为塔迈阿密机场旧址，保留了旧空中交通管制塔，并在 90 多栋建筑之间设有 15 英亩的自然保护区与棕榈植物园。
• FIU's Biscayne Bay Campus in North Miami is a 200-acre waterfront branch opened in 1977, offering Bayview Student Living apartments that house 408 students in a high rise overlooking the bay.位于北迈阿密的比斯坎湾校区是 1977 年启用的 200 英亩滨水分校，其「湾景学生公寓」可容纳 408 名学生，为一座俯瞰海湾的高层建筑。
• Five blocks north of the main campus lies the 38-acre Engineering Center, connected to the rest of campus by the CATS Shuttle that runs on weekdays.主校区以北五个街区处是占地 38 英亩的工程中心，由工作日运行的 CATS 校园巴士与校园其余部分相连。
• The I-75 academic centre in Miramar, completed in 2014, occupies an 89,000-square-foot complex shared with Broward College.位于米拉马尔的 I-75 教学中心于 2014 年建成，占用一座 8.9 万平方英尺的综合楼，与布劳沃德学院共用。
• A Downtown Miami Center operates at 1101 Brickell Avenue, where most programmes are graduate-level evening courses for working professionals, with about 500 students enrolled as of the spring of 2011.学校在布里克尔大道 1101 号设有迈阿密市中心中心，多数项目为面向在职人士的研究生夜间课程，截至 2011 年春约有 500 名学生就读。
• Three museums belong to the university, namely the Frost Art Museum on the main campus, opened in 1977, the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum in Miami Beach, and the Jewish Museum of Florida.学校拥有三座博物馆，即 1977 年启用、位于主校区的弗罗斯特艺术博物馆，迈阿密海滩的沃尔夫索尼亚-FIU 博物馆，以及佛罗里达犹太博物馆。
• The Ronald Reagan Presidential House, the Wertheim Performing Arts Center and the Sculpture Park, which holds works by Anthony Caro and Jacques Lipchitz, are among the landmarks of the main campus.主校区的标志性设施包括罗纳德·里根校长官邸、沃特海姆表演艺术中心，以及收藏安东尼·卡罗与雅克·利普希茨作品的雕塑公园。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings FIU was placed joint 659th.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，学校并列第 659 位。^[1]
• In the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings FIU stood in the 501-550 band, having been placed in the 401-500 band in 2026.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，学校位列 501—550 区间，2026 年则位于 401—500 区间。
• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking FIU was listed 488th, while U.S. News placed it 46th among U.S. public universities and 100th overall in its 2027 national rankings.在 2026—2027 年《美国新闻与世界报道》全球最佳大学排名中，学校位列第 488 位；在其 2027 年全美排名中，学校公立大学排第 46、总排名第 100。
• In the 2026 ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities FIU appeared in the 701-800 band.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，学校位于 701—800 区间。
• U.S. News ranked FIU first in the nation for economic and social mobility in 2026, a measure of graduates' upward movement through their degrees.2026 年，《美国新闻与世界报道》将学校评为全美经济与社会流动性第一，该指标衡量毕业生凭学位实现向上流动的能力。
• In the 2026 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings FIU placed among the top five U.S. universities for real-world impact and first nationally for the no-poverty goal.在 2026 年泰晤士高等教育影响力排名中，学校位列全美真实影响力前五，并在「无贫穷」目标上居全美第一。
• Washington Monthly ranked FIU eighth among U.S. public universities in 2026 for the value it delivers to students and taxpayers.2026 年，《华盛顿月刊》将学校评为全美公立大学第 8，表彰其对学生与纳税人所提供的价值。
• The Florida Board of Governors has ranked FIU the top-performing institution among the state's 12 public universities for four consecutive years.佛罗里达州大学理事会连续 4 年将学校评为该州 12 所公立大学中表现最佳的机构。
• OpenAlex records 80,681 research works and 3,708,795 citations for FIU, and its U.S. utility patents place it among the top 30 U.S. public universities.OpenAlex 记录学校共 80681 篇论文与 3708795 次被引；学校获授的美国实用专利数位居全美公立大学前 30。
• The Carnegie Classification ranks FIU R1, placing it in the top three per cent of the nation's 4,300 colleges and universities for research production.卡内基分类将学校列为 R1 级，其科研产出在全美 4300 所高校中位居前 3％。

Student life

• FIU's motto is Spes Scientia Facultas, Latin for "Hope, Knowledge, Opportunity".学校校训为拉丁语 Spes Scientia Facultas，意为「希望、知识、机会」。
• The university's athletic teams are the Panthers, wearing blue and gold, with the panther as their mascot.学校运动队名为「豹队」，以蓝、金两色为代表色，吉祥物形象为美洲豹。
• Some 3,800 students live on campus across 10 apartment buildings and six residence halls, including Panther Hall, University Towers, Everglades Hall, Lakeview Hall and Tamiami Hall.约 3800 名学生住在校内的 10 座公寓楼与 6 座宿舍楼中，包括豹厅、大学塔楼、大沼泽地厅、湖景厅与塔迈阿密厅。
• Panther Camp, a signature orientation tradition, began in 2006, and the Week of Welcome includes the Trail of the Torch around the torch of knowledge near Primera Casa.标志性迎新传统「豹营」始于 2006 年，开学周的「火炬之路」活动围绕普里梅拉大厦旁的知识火炬举行。
• The Student Government Association funds more than 300 clubs and organisations with an annual operating budget of about $20 million.学生自治会资助 300 多个社团与组织，年度运营预算约 2000 万美元。
• About 1,100 undergraduates, roughly two per cent of the undergraduate body, belong to a fraternity or sorority.约 1100 名本科生、即本科生总数的约 2％，加入了兄弟会或姐妹会。
• Student media include PantherNOW, the student newspaper founded in 1972, and WRGP "The Roar", a student-run radio station broadcasting on FM since 1999.学生媒体包括 1972 年创办的校报 PantherNOW，以及自 1999 年起以调频播音、由学生自办的广播电台 WRGP「咆哮」。
• FIU fields 17 varsity teams, playing football at Pitbull Stadium, nicknamed "The Cage", and contests the annual Shula Bowl against Florida Atlantic University.学校设有 17 支校队，橄榄球队在绰号「笼子」的比特犬体育场比赛，并每年与佛罗里达大西洋大学争夺「舒拉碗」。
• The campus has hosted film and television productions such as Miami Vice and Burn Notice, and in 2015 FIU Arena staged the Miss Universe 2014 pageant.校园曾是《迈阿密风云》《谍影迷踪》等影视作品的取景地，2015 年 FIU 体育馆承办 2014 年环球小姐选美大赛。

Notable people

• Chuck Perry, FIU's founding president appointed in 1969, guided the university from its 1972 opening until 1975.查克·佩里是学校 1969 年获任的创校校长，引领学校自 1972 年开办至 1975 年。
• Butler Waugh, Donald McDowell and Nick Sileo were recruited by Perry as co-founders of the university.巴特勒·沃、唐纳德·麦克道尔与尼克·西莱奥由佩里招揽为学校的共同创办人。
• Ernest Graham, the state senator who first proposed a public university for Miami-Dade County in 1943, was the father of Florida governor and U.S. senator Bob Graham.1943 年首次提议为迈阿密-戴德县设立公立大学的州参议员欧内斯特·格雷厄姆，是佛州州长、美国参议员鲍勃·格雷厄姆之父。
• Modesto Maidique, president from 1986 to 2009, drove FIU's transformation into a research university and now holds the Alvah Chapman distinguished scholar chair in leadership.1986 至 2009 年任校长的莫德斯托·迈迪克推动学校转型为研究型大学，现持有阿尔瓦·查普曼讲席教授席位。
• Mark Rosenberg, the fifth president from 2009 to 2022, remains a professor of political science at FIU's Green School of International and Public Affairs.2009 至 2022 年任第五任校长的马克·罗森伯格，现仍为学校格林国际与公共事务学院的政治学教授。
• Jeanette Nuñez, Florida's Lieutenant Governor from 2019 and an FIU alumna, became the university's seventh president in 2025.珍妮特·努涅斯自 2019 年起任佛州副州长、亦是学校校友，于 2025 年成为学校第七任校长。
• Carlos Alvarez, mayor of Miami-Dade County, graduated from FIU in 1974 and belonged to the semi-secret honorary society Order of the Torch.迈阿密-戴德县县长卡洛斯·阿尔瓦雷斯 1974 年毕业于本校，并曾加入半秘密荣誉团体「火炬会」。
• Mike Lowell, a Major League Baseball World Series Most Valuable Player, is among FIU's professional baseball alumni.美国职棒大联盟世界大赛最有价值球员迈克·洛厄尔是学校的职业棒球校友之一。
• Raja Bell and Carlos Arroyo, both National Basketball Association players, played for the FIU Panthers before turning professional.拉贾·贝尔与卡洛斯·阿罗约两位美国职业篮球联赛球员，均在成为职业球员前为学校「豹队」效力。
• Tayna Lawrence, an Olympic gold medallist in the women's 4x100-metre relay, is a distinguished FIU athletics alumna.女子 4×100 米接力奥运金牌得主泰娜·劳伦斯是学校的杰出体育校友。
• Alvah Chapman, publisher of the Miami Herald and chairman of Knight Ridder, supported the university's founding and later chaired the FIU Foundation.《迈阿密先驱报》发行人、奈特·里德报业董事长阿尔瓦·查普曼支持学校创办，其后担任 FIU 基金会主席。