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Ohio State

The Ohio State University
Seal of the Ohio State University.png
Motto Disciplina in civitatem (Latin)
Motto in English
Education for Citizenship
Type Public
Land grant
Sea grant
Space grant
Established 1870
Endowment $3.579 billion (2016)
President Michael V. Drake
Academic staff
6,254
Administrative staff
21,987 non-academic staff (not including students)
Students 58,322 (Columbus), 101,247 (all campuses)
Undergraduates 44,741 (Columbus), 51,215 (all campuses)
Postgraduates 13,581 (Columbus), 13,653 (all campuses)
Location Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Campus 1,765 acres (7 km2) Columbus campus
16,132 acres (65 km2) total (Urban)
Student newspaper The Lantern
Colors Scarlet and Gray          
Athletics NCAA Division 1
Big Ten Conference
Sports 19 men & 20 women varsity teams
Nickname Buckeyes
Mascot Brutus Buckeye
Affiliations University System of Ohio
AAU
BTAA
ORAU
APLU
Universitas 21
Website osu.edu
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University rankings
National
ARWU 42
Forbes 160
U.S. News & World Report 56
Washington Monthly 69
Global
ARWU 79
QS 88
Times 72
U.S. News & World Report 43

The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State or OSU, is a public university in Columbus, Ohio. Founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and ninth university in Ohio with the Morrill Act of 1862, the university was originally known as the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College (Mech). The college began with a focus on training students in various agricultural and mechanical disciplines but was developed into a comprehensive university under the direction of Governor Rutherford B. Hayes, and in 1878 the Ohio General Assembly passed a law changing the name to "The Ohio State University". It has since grown into the third-largest university campus in the United States. Along with its main campus in Columbus, Ohio State also operates a regional campus system with regional campuses in Lima, Mansfield, Marion, Newark, and Wooster.

The university has an extensive student life program, with over 1,000 student organizations; intercollegiate, club and recreational sports programs; student media organizations and publications, fraternities and sororities; and three student governments. Ohio State athletic teams compete in Division I (Football Bowl Subdivision for football) of the NCAA and are known as the Ohio State Buckeyes. Athletes from Ohio State have won 100 Olympic medals (44 gold, 35 silver, and 21 bronze). The university is a member of the Big Ten Conference for the majority of sports. The Ohio State men's ice hockey program competes in the Big Ten Conference, while its women's hockey program competes in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. In addition, the OSU men's volleyball team is a member of the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (MIVA). OSU is one of only 14 universities that plays Division I FBS football and Division I ice hockey.


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