Our undergraduate students benefit tremendously by being in a research university 
and having a research environment. This is what makes this university great is its 
research underpinning and its not for the sake of research, but for what research 
can do for engaging students, for preparing students for the future, what research 
can do for reaching out into the community to solve many of their problems or to 
work with them in solutions to their problems. Its really research that builds 
this into a vibrant environment for everybody.

Most of the problems in today's world and the problems that we're going to face in 
the future, require answers from multiple disciplines. And there is no better 
university more poised than Ohio State to bring to bear all of those disciplines 
on the problem. Whether its facing a medical issue, an agricultural issue, or 
whether its facing the rebuilding of Iraq. First of all we have eighteen colleges, 
we have two hundred graduate programs, we have 174 undergraduate programs, which 
means we have expertise in just about every single area that you want.

When on thinks of Ohio State and our total of fifty-eight thousand students, you 
immediately think of a huge environment, but in fact we work very hard to take a 
big environment and make it small, make it meaningful, and make it personalized. 
But what's more important than the size is what the size brings to the students in 
terms of its assets that allow students to take advantage of so many other things 
that aren't available anywhere else. Quality faculty, first rate facilities and 
opportunity to become anything they want to become.