The Ohio State University
The Ohio State University's Columbus campus is America's largest and most comprehensive college campus. More than 53,000 students select from 18 colleges, 167 majors, and 240 master's, doctoral, and professional degree programs. As Ohio's best and one of the nation's top-20 public universities, Ohio State is further recognized as a top-rated academic medical center and a premier cancer hospital and research center.
Ohio State ranks among the nation's top-15 most "innovative" universities, based on a new 2009 U.S. News & World Report category that looks at promising and innovative changes in academics, faculty, or facilities. The university's 2009 incoming class of 6,041 students is the most academically prepared in the school's history with an average ACT score of 27.3. Fifty-four percent of the students graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school classes. In the autumn of 2008, 92.4 percent of first-year students returned for their second years, well above the national average of 77.5 percent for comparable universities.
