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Ohio State ranks among
the top 25 public universities in the nation. U.S. News & World
Report also ranks Ohio State as the top public university in Ohio. Our graduate
programs in Business, Education, Engineering, and Law rank first in Ohio.
We rank among the
top 20 in National Merit/National Achievement/Hispanic Achievement Scholars
enrollment. The quality of our undergraduate class is the highest
in history and has been on the rise for the last eight years.
We have the distinction
of being home to 23 members of the National Academies and 62 Fellows of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. These are just
two indicators of the quality of our faculty as recognized by the nation’s
premier research societies.
We rank among the
top five universities in the number of Ph.D.s granted to African Americans,
according to the Higher Education and National Affairs American Council on
Education.
We rank among the
top five universities in the nation in industry-funded research,
according to the latest data from the National Science Foundation. That means
our faculty researchers are in high demand for their research capabilities,
in turn providing their students with opportunities to create new knowledge
in emerging fields.
Our libraries rank
12th nationally among public university research libraries. Within
the libraries, our Hilandar Research Library has the largest collection of medieval Slavic manuscripts
on microform in the world, and our Cartoon Research Library is the largest
cartoon-related research facility in the nation.
Our Art Education
and Dance graduate programs rank top in the nation, according to
Studies in Art Education and Dance Teacher magazines. Dance Teacher also ranks
our Dance department’s undergraduate program as #2 nationally.
The FDA granted our
University Medical Center permission to perform the first complete heart bypass
in the U.S. without opening the patient’s chest. The robotic
surgery, performed through a small incision, is conducted in the only computer-enhanced
surgery system in a North American operating room.
Our Department of
Astronomy is participating in the construction of the world’s largest
optical and infrared telescope. In many ways more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope,
the Large Binocular Telescope will enable scientists to spot planets in other
solar systems, study black holes, and look further back in time than ever
before.
Our Byrd Polar Research
Center is recognized internationally as a leader in polar and alpine research.
As the only center in the world that studies all polar regions, our researchers
are reconstructing past climates and revealing global climate change by studying
chemical records preserved in ice cores collected from glaciers in Greenland,
China, Peru, and Antarctica.
Our James Cancer
Hospital and Solove Research Institute is consistently ranked as one of America’s
top cancer hospitals, as reported by U.S. News & World Report,
and is one of only 39 Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the country.
Our Ohio 4-H program
serves 300,000 Ohio youth annually, operating in all 88 counties of Ohio.
Construction has begun on the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center on
the Ohio State campus, the first facility of its kind on a land-grant university
campus totally devoted to youth development, research, training, and activities.
We are home to one
of the largest single-day student community service projects on a college
campus. Our nationally acclaimed “Community Commitment Day”
each September involves more than 1,500 students who volunteer in the neighborhoods
around our Columbus campus.
...and that's only 13. For even more facts you might not know about Ohio State,
visit our Points of Pride site.
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