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Ohio Wesleyan

Ohio Wesleyan University
Shield of Ohio Wesleyan University
Motto In lumine tuo videbimus lumen (Latin)
Motto in English
In Your Light We Shall See the Light
Type Private coeducational liberal arts college
Established September 1842
Religious affiliation
United Methodist Church
Endowment $226 million (as of June 2015)
President Rock F. Jones
Administrative staff
200
Undergraduates 1,734
Postgraduates 0
Location Delaware, OH, USA
Campus Suburban, 200 acres (0.8 km²)
Colors
  Red and Black
Athletics NCAA Division IIINCAC
Nickname Battling Bishops
Affiliations
Sports 21 varsity teams
Mascot The Battling Bishop
Website http://www.owu.edu
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University rankings
National
Forbes 124
Liberal arts colleges
U.S. News & World Report 95
Washington Monthly 46

Ohio Wesleyan University (also known as Wesleyan or OWU) is a private liberal arts college in Delaware, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1842 by Methodist leaders and Central Ohio residents as a nonsectarian institution, and is a member of the Ohio Five — a consortium of Ohio liberal arts colleges. Ohio Wesleyan has always admitted students irrespective of religion or race and maintained that the university "is forever to be conducted on the most liberal principles."

The 200-acre (81 ha) site is 27 miles (44 km) north of Columbus, Ohio. It includes the main academic and residential campus, the Perkins Observatory, and the Kraus Wilderness Preserve.

In 2010, Ohio Wesleyan had the eleventh highest percentage of international students among liberal arts colleges for the seventeenth straight year. In its 2015 edition of U.S. college rankings, Niche (company) ranked Ohio Wesleyan the 56th (out of 880 colleges) most politically liberal college in the U.S.U.S. News & World Report ranked Ohio Wesleyan 95th among U.S. liberal arts colleges in its 2017 edition.

In 1841, Ohio residents Adam Poe and Charles Elliott decided to establish a university "of the highest order" in central Ohio. To that end, they purchased the Mansion House Hotel, a former health resort with its Sulfur Spring, using funds raised from local residents. Poe and Elliott wrote a charter emphasizing "the democratic spirit of teaching", which was approved by the Ohio State Legislature. Early in the following year they opened the college preparatory Academy and formed a Board of Trustees. Ohio Wesleyan University, named (like several other U.S. colleges and universities) after John Wesley, founder of Methodism, opened on November 13, 1844 as a Methodist-related but nonsectarian institution, with a College of Liberal Arts for male students.


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