Ohio State University–Columbus

Ohio State University is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, founded in 1870 as the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College. It is the flagship of the University System of Ohio. The Columbus campus covers more than 1,600 acres in an urban setting and is one of the largest single-campus universities in the United States, with a full set of professional schools on the same site.

Colleges include Arts and Sciences; Engineering; the Fisher College of Business; Moritz College of Law; the College of Medicine and Wexner Medical Center; veterinary medicine; pharmacy; dentistry; optometry; food, agricultural and environmental sciences; the John Glenn College of Public Affairs; education and human ecology; and nursing. The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, the Ohio Supercomputer Center and Wexner hospitals are major graduate research sites.

Columbus enrolls about 60,000 students, with more than 10,000 in graduate and professional programs and several thousand international students from more than 100 countries. Faculty number in the thousands. Alumni include golfer Jack Nicklaus, Olympic sprinter Jesse Owens, who competed while a student, and artist Roy Lichtenstein.

Ohio State awards MA, MS, MBA, MPA, JD, MD, DVM, PharmD, PhD and a wide set of professional master's degrees. Doctoral programs follow a coursework, candidacy and dissertation sequence; health sciences train in Wexner and affiliated hospitals. The calendar is semester-based. Graduate associateships are the standard doctoral funding. Students live across Columbus, a large state capital, rather than in a small college town.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Ohio State University–Columbus lists 247 graduate programs across 54 subjects: 124 master's programs and 120 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in education, public health and health & medical sciences. Ohio State University–Columbus holds rank 95 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.