One of America's Best

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The Ohio State University is one of the leading comprehensive teaching and research universities in the country, with a global reach. A land-grant university, Ohio State integrates learning and teaching with research and community service. One university with multiple locations-main campus in Columbus and regional campuses in Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark-Ohio State is home to the best and the brightest: dedicated faculty, passionate students, and innovative researchers who make it one of the world's truly great universities.

  • Praiseworthy Medicine

    The Ohio State University Medical Center stands out once again as among our nation's very best health-care organizations, with seven medical specialties named as among the best in the country-including a top-15 ranking for the cancer program and top-10 rehabilitation ranking-in U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Hospitals" rankings for 2007.

  • Ohio State Researchers Win Important Global Prize

    Ohio State University glaciologist Lonnie Thompson and climatologist Ellen Mosley-Thompson are among this year's winners of the prestigious Dan David Prize. This year's other winners include former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, British playwright Tom Stoppard, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, Israeli author Amos Oz and British geologist Geoffrey Eglinton. 

  • Ohio State Ranked a Top University for International Students

    The Ohio State University ranks as one of the nation's top public universities for the number of students studying abroad and for its international student enrollment. Ohio State is ranked 10th among the nation's research institutions with 1,858 students studying abroad and 12th among all U.S. universities in hosting international students, with a total of 4,345 students representing 113 nations. These findings were issued as part of the Open Doors 2007 report, an annual survey published by the Institute of International Education. 

  • OSU Leads Country Again In AAAS Fellows

    For the fourth time in the last five years, Ohio State University leads the country in having the most faculty chosen as "fellows" of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest scientific organization. The announcement, carried in the October 2007 issue of the journal Science, recognizes 15 Ohio State faculty for outstanding accomplishments in their respective academic disciplines, as decided by their peers. 

  • A University on the Rise

    Ohio State ranks 19th among the nation's public universities, according to the U.S. News & World Report's 2008 edition of "America's Best Colleges." Ohio State is ranked 10th among national public universities based on research, social mobility, and service in the Washington Monthly College Guide.

  • A Thriving Home

    Ohio State's main campus is located in Columbus' dynamic and growing capital, Columbus, a thriving metropolis of more than one million. Columbus has been ranked as one of the nation's top ten nanotechnology "hot spots" by Small Times magazine and seventh among America's top tech cities by Popular Science.

  • Great Grad Programs

    According to the U.S. News & World Report's 2008 edition of "America's Best Graduate Schools," Ohio State offers some of the top graduate programs in Ohio and the nation. Six graduate programs made the top five: vocational/ technical education, elementary education, counseling/personnel services (education), dispute resolution (law), supply chain/logistics (business), and veterinary medicine.