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Quick facts
Find at-a-glance numbers for enrollment, tuition and financial aid, rankings, and university stats. Unless otherwise noted, enrollment figures apply to the Columbus campus.
Enrollment (autumn 2011)
- Total university: 64,429
- Columbus campus: 56,867
- Regional campuses and ATI: 7,562
- Undergraduate students: 42,916
Freshman profile (enrolled autumn 2011)
- New freshmen: 6,904
- Ohio residents: 5,398 (78.2%)
- Domestic out-of-state students: 1,129 (16.4%)
- International students: 377 (7.3%)
- Students of color: 1,213 (17.6%)
- Male/female ratio: 50:50
- Ranked in top 10% of high school class: 55%
- Ranked in top 25% of high school class: 89%
- SAT Critical Reading and Math score range (middle 50%): 1170–1320
- ACT score range (middle 50%): 26–30
College prep minimums (admitted autumn 2011)
- 99% exceeded minimum college prep requirements in social science
- 83% exceeded minimums in natural science
- 93% exceeded minimums in math
- 90% exceeded minimums in a foreign language
Geographic diversity (Columbus campus, autumn 2011)
Ohio State enrolls students from every state and territory. States with the highest enrollment:
- 500+: Pennsylvania, Illinois, New York, California, Michigan
- 300 – 499: Texas, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia
- 100 – 299: Florida, Indiana, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Utah, Minnesota, Missouri, Arizona, Tennessee, Connecticut
- 50 – 99: West Virginia, Washington, Colorado, South Carolina, Kansas
International students (autumn 2011)
- Total undergraduates: 2,837
- Number of countries represented: 81
Ethnic diversity of incoming class (autumn 2011)
- African American/Black: 6.5%
- Asian: 4.8%
- Hispanic/Latino: 3.5%
- Native American/Alaskan Native: less than 1%
- Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander: less than 1%
- White: 76.7%
- Two or more races: 3%
- Nonresident alien: 3.9%
- Unknown: 1%
Undergraduate enrollment by select colleges/schools (autumn 2011)
- Arts and Sciences: 38.6%
- Business: 13.6%
- Education and Human Ecology: 8.2%
- Engineering: 15.4%
- Exploration: 7.4%
- Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences: 5.1%
- Medicine: Allied Medical Professions: 3.3%
- Nursing: 2.2%
- Social Work: 1%
Academics
- Number of majors: more than 175
- Number of academic specializations: 475
- Number of courses offered: more than 12,000
- First-year class size:
- 50 or fewer students: 73%
- 51–100 students: 15%
- more than 100 students: 12%
- Undergraduate student/faculty ratio: 19:1
Costs and financial aid
- Estimated tuition and fees for full-time undergraduates (autumn 2011):
- Columbus: $9,711
- Regional/ATI: $6,594
- Nonresident, Columbus: $24,759
- Room and board (most popular combination, Columbus, autumn 2011): $10,215
- Average financial aid package awarded to incoming freshmen (Columbus campus, autumn 2010): $13,070
- Percentage of incoming freshmen (Columbus campus, autumn 2010) who received financial aid (grants, not loans): 70%
Rankings
- 18th among the nation's best public universities (U.S. News & World Report)
- First Year Experience (FYE) program ranks among the nation’s exemplary programs leading to student success (U.S. News & World Report)
- 8th among U.S. public research universities based on research expenditures (National Science Foundation)
- 2nd among all U.S. research universities based on industry-sponsored research (National Science Foundation)
- 12th in the nation among the country's most highly sought-after graduates (Wall Street Journal survey of corporate recruiters)
- Top value in the state of Ohio; 38th in the nation (“100 Best Values in Public Colleges,” Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine)
University facts
- Established: 1870
- First graduating class: 1878
- Library holdings: nearly 5.8 million volumes
- Locations:
- Main campus in Columbus, Ohio, the state capital and largest city
- Regional campuses in Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark, Ohio
- Agricultural Technical Institute in Wooster, Ohio
- See all campuses, centers, institutes, and extension offices
- Student organizations: more than 1,000
- School mascot: Brutus Buckeye
- School colors: Scarlet and Gray
- More about history and traditions
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