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Miami Dade College

Miami Dade College
Other name
Dade
Former names
Dade Junior College
Miami Dade Junior College
Miami Dade Community College
TypePublic college
Established1959 (1959)
Parent institution
Florida College System
Academic affiliations
CUMU
Endowment$491.7 million (2019)[1]
PresidentMadeline Pumariega[2]
Academic staff
6,500[3]
Students47,245 (all undergraduate)[4]
Location
Miami
,
Florida
,
United States
CampusUrban
ColorsBlue & Gray    [5]
MascotFinn the Shark[6]
Websitewww.mdc.edu

Miami Dade College (Miami Dade, MDC or Dade)[7] is a public college in Miami, Florida. Founded in 1959, it has a total of eight campuses[8] and twenty-one outreach centers throughout Miami-Dade County. It is the largest college in the Florida College System with more than 100,000 students.[9][10] The college enrolls a significantly larger number of Hispanic students compared to other colleges and universities in the state of Florida.[11] The college serves a higher number of minority students than any other college in the nation.[12]

  1. ^ As of June 30, 2019. "U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Endowment Market Value and Change in Endowment Market Value from FY 2018 to FY 2019". National Association of College and University Business Officers and TIAA. Retrieved February 28, 2020.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Pumariega was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "About MDC". mdc.edu. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  4. ^ "College Navigator - Miami Dade College".
  5. ^ "Design Guide - Standards Manual" (PDF). Miami Dade College. p. 6. Retrieved May 18, 2023.
  6. ^ "Finn Wins!". MDC News. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
  7. ^ "Eduardo J. Padrón, the college's president since 1995". A Community College in Florida Works to Attract the Poor and the Presidential.
  8. ^ "Rolando Montoya: Interim college president sees tech courses demand soar". Miami Today. 2019-11-12. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  9. ^ "Miami-Dade College (U.S.)". FOTW "Flags of the world". Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  10. ^ Padrón, Eduardo J. (June 2013). "Increasing the Relevance of Curricular and Student Services in the Urban Community College". New Directions for Community Colleges. 2013 (162): 63–73. doi:10.1002/cc.20060.
  11. ^ "Digest of Education Statistics, 2017". nces.ed.gov. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  12. ^ St. Amour, Madeline. "A Community College Reopens. At What Cost?". Inside Higher Ed.