Ohio State University
The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The flagship institution of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one of the largest universities by enrollment in the United States, with nearly 50,000 undergraduate students and nearly 15,000 graduate students. The university consists of sixteen colleges and offers over 400 degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels.[7]
This article is about the Columbus campus. For other campuses, see Ohio State University (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Ohio University.
Former names
Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College (1870–1878)
Disciplina in civitatem (Latin)
"Education for Citizenship"
March 22, 1870[1]
$7.4 billion (2023)[2]
Karla S. Zadnik (interim)
7,310[3]
27,158[3]
60,046 (Columbus)
65,405 (all campuses)[4]
45,728 (Columbus)
51,078 (all campuses)[4]
14,318 (Columbus)
14,327 (all campuses)[4]
Scarlet and gray[6]
It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". As of 2023, the university has an endowment of $7.4 billion. Its athletic teams compete in NCAA Division I as the Ohio State Buckeyes as a member of the Big Ten Conference for the majority of fielded sports.
It is a member of the Association of American Universities. Past and present alumni and faculty include six Nobel Prize laureates, nine Rhodes Scholars, seven Churchill Scholars, one Fields Medalist, seven Pulitzer Prize winners, 64 Goldwater scholars, seven U.S. senators, 15 U.S. representatives, and 104 Olympic medalists.
John Kasich, politician, author, and television news host who served as the 69th Governor of Ohio from 2011 to 2019
Dwight Yoakam, singer-songwriter, musician, and actor, known for his pioneering style of country music
