Ohio University

Ohio University is a public university in Athens, Ohio, chartered in 1804 as the first university in the Northwest Territory. It is a residential campus in the Appalachian foothills, with regional campuses across southern and eastern Ohio. The Honors Tutorial College, which uses one-to-one tutorials, is a distinctive structural unit.

Colleges include arts and sciences, business, the Scripps College of Communication, education, engineering, fine arts, health sciences and professions, and the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine. Graduate strengths include journalism and communication, education, osteopathic medicine, and the sciences. The Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service supports public-affairs graduate work.

The Athens campus enrolls about 20,000 students, with additional students on regional campuses. Graduate and professional students include a large communication cohort and osteopathic medical students. International enrollment is moderate. Alumni include U.S. Senator George Voinovich, actor Richard Dean Anderson, and actress Piper Perabo.

Graduate study is known for master's and doctoral degrees in communication and education, other research doctorates, and the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. The tutorial college's model is undergraduate; graduate programs use coursework, studios, clinics, and dissertation supervision on a semester calendar. Assistantships and medical-school aid are the usual support. Students live in Athens, a small college town in southeastern Ohio.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Ohio University lists 4 graduate programs across 4 subjects, all of them doctoral programs, with the widest choice in communication, media & journalism, computer science and health & medical sciences.