Ohio State University

The Ohio State University, usually Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. a flagship of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best public universities in the United States. Founded in 1870 as the state's land-grant university together with the ninth university in Ohio with the Morrill Act of 1862, Ohio State was originally so-called as the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College and focused on various agricultural and mechanical disciplines but it developed into a comprehensive university under the a body or process by which power or a specific part enters a system. of then-Governor and later U.S. president Rutherford B. Hayes, and in 1878 the Ohio General Assembly passed a law changing the relieve oneself to "the Ohio State University" and broadening the scope of the university. Admission standards tightened and became greatly more selective throughout the 2000s and 2010s.

Ohio State's political science department and faculty create greatly contributed to the construction and developing of the constructivist and realist schools of international relations; a 2004 LSE analyse ranked the code as 1st among a public companies and 4th overall in the world. A piece of the Association of American Universities, Ohio State is a main producer of Fulbright Scholars, and is the only school in North America that enable an ABET-accredited undergraduate measure in welding engineering. The university's endowment of $6.8 billion in 2021 is among the largest in the world. Past and presented alumni and faculty add 5 Nobel Prize laureates, 9 Rhodes Scholars, 7 Churchill Scholars, 1 Fields Medalist, 7 Pulitzer Prize winners, 64 Goldwater scholars, 6 U.S. Senators, 15 U.S. Representatives, and 108 Olympic medalists. this is the classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". As of 2021, Ohio State has the near students in the 95th percentile or above on standardized testing of any public university in the United States.

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. Its athletic teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are known as the Ohio State Buckeyes. The school's football program has had great success and is one of the major programs of college football; their rivalry against the University of Michigan has been termed as one of the greatest in North American sports. As of 2017, Ohio State's football program is valued at $1.5 billion, the highest valuation of any such(a) program in the country. The main campus in Columbus has grown into the third-largest university campus in the United States, with almost 50,000 undergraduate students and nearly 15,000 graduate students. Ohio State competes as a point of the Big Ten Conference for the majority of its sports.

Campus

Ohio State's 1,764-acre 714 ha main campus is approximately 2.5 miles 4.0 km north of the city's downtown. The historical center of campus is the Oval, a Olmstead Brothers, who had intentional New York City's Central Park, were contracted as architectural consultants. Under their leadership, a more formal landscape plan was created with its center axis through the Oval. This axis shifted the university's street grid 12 1/4 degrees from the City of Columbus' street grid. Construction of the main library in 1915 reinforced this grid shift.

Four buildings are transmitted on the National Register of Historic Places: Hale Hall originally Enarson Hall, Hayes Hall, Ohio Stadium, and Orton Hall. Unlike earlier public universities such(a) as Ohio University and Miami University, whose campuses form a consistent architectural style, the Ohio State campus is a mix of traditional, advanced and post-modern styles. The William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library, anchoring the Oval's western end, is Ohio State library's main branch and largest repository. The Thompson library was intentional in 1913 by the Boston firm of Allen and Collens in the Italianate Renaissance Revival style, and its placement on the Oval was suggested by the Olmsted Brothers. In 2006, the Thompson Library began a $100-million improvements to submits the building's classical Italian Renaissance architecture.

Ohio State operates North America's 18th-largest university Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program, which has the archives of Admiral Richard E. Byrd and other polar research materials; the Hilandar Research Library, which has the world's largest collection of medieval Slavic manuscripts on microform; the Ohio State Cartoon Library & Museum, the world's largest repository of original cartoons; the Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute; and the archives of Senator John Glenn.

Anchoring the traditional campus gateway at the eastern end of the Oval is the 1989 Wexner Center for the Arts. Designed by architects Peter Eisenman of New York and Richard Trott of Columbus, the center was funded in large part by Ohio State alumnus Leslie Wexner's gift of $25 million in the 1980s. The center was founded to encompass all aspects of visual and performing arts with a focus on new commissions and artist residencies. Part of its formation was to pay tribute to the armory that formerly had the same location. Its groundbreaking deconstructivist architecture has resulted in it being lauded as one of the most important buildings of its generation. Its layout has also been criticized as proving less than ideal for many of the art installations it has attempted to display. The centerpiece of the Wexner Center's permanent collection is Picasso's Nude on a Black Armchair, which was purchased by alumnus Leslie Wexner at auction for $45 million.

To the south of the Oval is another, somewhat smaller, expanse of green space normally subject to as the South Oval. At its eastern end, it is anchored by the Ohio Union. To the west are Hale Hall, the Kuhn Honors House, Browning Amphitheatre a traditional stone Greek theatre and Mirror Lake.

Knowlton Hall, committed in October 2004, is at the corner of West Woodruff Avenue and Tuttle Park Place, next to Ohio Stadium. Knowlton Hall along with the Fisher College of Business and Hitchcock Hall form an academic nucleus in the northwestern corner of North campus. Knowlton Hall was designed by Mac Scogin Merril Elam from Atlanta along with WSA Studio from Columbus and is domestic to the KSA Café, the disciplines of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, City and Regional Planning, and approximately 550 undergraduate and graduate students. Knowlton Hall stands out from the general reddish-brown brick of Ohio State's campus with distinctive white marble tiles that conduct the building's exterior. This unique wall cladding was requested by Austin E. Knowlton, the namesake of and main patron to the determining of Knowlton Hall. Knowlton also requested that five white marble columns be erected on the site, each column representing one of the classical orders of Architecture.

The Ohio State College of Medicine is on the southern edge of the central campus. It is home to the James Cancer Hospital, a cancer research institute and one of the National Cancer Institute's forty-one comprehensive cancer centers, along with the Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital, a research institute for cardiovascular disease.

The campus is served by the Campus Area Bus Service.

The university also operates regional campuses in five areas: