Ohio University (OSU), founded in 1870, is located in Columbus, Ohio, USA. It is a world-famous research university, one of the earliest members of association of american universities (AAU) in North America (19 16) and one of the top ten alliance members.
It is one of the top public universities in the United States, and is called the public Ivy League. The main campus of this university covers an area of 65? It is one of the largest campuses in America.
The majors offered cover almost all academic fields, especially sociology, politics, economics, physics, astronomy, journalism and communication. Its business school is one of the founding members of 19 16 AACSB; Medical college ranks in the top 30 in the United States, and USNews ranks it as the 16 th public university in the United States.
In 2020, the university ranked 45th. News World University of the United States ranked 70th in the world university in 2020, 90th in Moscow International University in 2020 and academic ranking of world universities 108 in 2026. University alumni include four Nobel Prize winners, eight Pulitzer Prize winners, Fields Prize winners, Wolff Prize winners and Onsager Prize winners.
Alumni include famous physicists robert mills and Charles Kettering, Roy Planck who discovered PTFE, David Hoffman who invented huffman encoding and Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia. General Curtis Flamel who attacked Tokyo.
The language department of the university and the business school, education, political science, psychology and engineering schools are all top-notch. James Cancer Hospital of Medical College is one of the most advanced cancer research institutions in the United States. The school has many unique facilities, including the performing arts center, which staged many operas, dances and Broadway musicals. The school museum has local and international characteristics; There are more than 4 million books in the school library.
The famous Wechs Art Center is also located in Columbus Campus. Ohio State University also has many health and entertainment facilities on its campus-including two 18-hole national first-class golf courses, indoor gymnasiums, gymnasiums, swimming pools and tennis courts, and Ohio Gymnasium, the third largest stadium in the United States.