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> Why is the campus divided by a highway to begin with?? But that's neither here nor there.

That's probably more circumstance than anything else. The area immediately north of the campus has a lot of residential housing, attractive to both students and employees, moreso because Miami's public transit is gawdawful; if you can walk to school/work, avoiding the traffic, that's a bonus.

Additionally, the campus wasn't always the behemoth it is now. The highway they speak of is SW 8th Street, or Tamiami Trail, if memory serves. It's a main road in the area The campus was always adjacent, but only semi-recently has it begun to truly crowd the road, likely a byproduct of all the insane construction going on in the school. FIU is far from the only school spending ridiculous money on infrastructure. The school was never really plopped down next to a major highway...they both just grew, and city planning has never been the area's strong point.