A mascot of OSU is Brutus Buckeye.

A Ohio State University

© OSU
Motto: Disciplina in civitatem (Education for Citizenship)
Rector/President	Karen A. Holbrook
School type	Public (state university)
Religious affiliation	Non applicable
Founded	1870
Location	Columbus, OH
Enrollment	50,995 (Columbus) 58,365 (number)
Regular faculty	2,984
Endowment	I.7 billion USD
Campus surroundings	Urban
Campus size	15,347 acres (62.1 kilometre²) total
Mascot	"Brutus" a Buckeye

Campus
A Columbus campus is presently a largest single campus in the USA, by having 50,995 students enrolled. A university is noted especially for its linguistics department and colleges of business, education, political science, dance, and engineering. A medical school is home to the James Cancer Hospital, a leading cancer the food and drug administration institute. A university besides holds a honor of existence a better public university in the state of Ohio every bit compiled by the U.S. News and World Report magazine in their annual college rankings special issue. A Columbus campus is likewise house to the famous Wexner Center for the Arts. A todays president is Karen A. Holbrook and Barbara R. Snyder is the Provost.

History
A Ohio Agricultural & Mechanical College, founded inside 1870 as a land-grant university in accordance with a Morrill Act of 1862, first opened its doors for students in a period of the September of 1873. Ab initio, President Stanton of Miami University was trying to receive more state funding through the Morrill Work & was implemental in the creation of The Ohio State University. the school was originally placed in a agrarian community placed on the northern edge of Columbus, & was designed to matriculate students of various agrarian & mechanical disciplines. Fallowing an 1878 vote passed in favor of broadening a spectrum of training offerings, a college for good changed its title to the today-familiar "The Ohio State University".

Ohio State operated The Big Ear, the big & hanker going radio telescope SETI project in the globe, until 1998.

Organization
A Ohio State University is comprised of the charted colleges, schools, & campuses:

[http://www.dent.ohio-state.edu/ College of Dentistry] [http://education.osu.edu/ College of Education] [http://education.osu.edu/edpl/ School of Educational Policy and Leadership] [http://education.osu.edu/paes/ School of Physical Activity and Educational Services] [http://education.osu.edu/edtl/ School of Teaching and Learning] [http://www.eng.ohio-state.edu/ College of Engineering] [http://knowlton.osu.edu/ksa/ Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture] [http://cfaes.osu.edu/ College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences] [http://www.ati.osu.edu/ Agricultural Technical Institute] [http://snr.osu.edu/ School of Natural Resources] [http://www.hec.ohio-state.edu/ College of Human Ecology] [http://medicine.osu.edu/ College of Medicine and Public Health] [http://amp.osu.edu/ School of Allied Medical Professions] [http://medicine.osu.edu/biomed/ School of Biomedical Science] [http://sph.osu.edu/ School of Public Health] [http://www.con.ohio-state.edu/ College of Nursing] [http://optometry.osu.edu/ College of Optometry] [http://www.pharmacy.ohio-state.edu/ College of Pharmacy] [http://www.csw.ohio-state.edu/ College of Social Work] [http://www.vet.ohio-state.edu/ College of Veterinary Medicine] [http://artsandsciences.osu.edu/ Colleges of the Arts and Sciences] [http://arts.osu.edu/ College of the Arts] [http://accad.osu.edu/ Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (accad)] [http://music.osu.edu/ School of Music] [http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/ College of Biological Sciences] [http://humanities.osu.edu/ College of Humanities] [http://www.mps.ohio-state.edu/ College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences] [http://www.sbs.ohio-state.edu/ College of Social and Behavioral Sciences] [http://www.comm.ohio-state.edu/ School of Journalism and Communication] [http://www.ppm.ohio-state.edu/ School of Public Policy and Management] [http://www.gradsch.ohio-state.edu/ Graduate School] [http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/ Max M. Fisher College of Business] [http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/ Michael E. Moritz College of Law] [http://www.lima.ohio-state.edu/ The Ohio State University Lima Campus] [http://www.mansfield.ohio-state.edu/ The Ohio State University Mansfield Campus] [http://www.marion.ohio-state.edu/ The Ohio State University Marion Campus] [http://www.dc-marion.ohio-state.edu/ Delaware Center] [http://newark.osu.edu/osun/index.asp The Ohio State University Newark Campus]

Sports, clubs, and traditions
Ohio State's intercollegiate sports teams come known as a "Buckeyes" (when a state tree, a Buckeye), and participate in the NCAA's Division We-a altogether sports & the Big Ten Conference in most sports. (A men's hockey program competes in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association, and its women's hockey program competes in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association). A school colors come Vermilion & Gray.

A Buckeye football team, which plays at Ohio Stadium (a.k.the. a Horseshoe or even just A 'Shoe), won a 2002 college football national championship at the 2003 Fiesta Bowl. It was a fifth national championship for a eleven, which besides topped the united states around 1942, 1954, 1957, and 1968. A best known football coach around Ohio State's history was a colorful & legendary Woody Hayes (1913-1987), who passionately taught players & students that the human succeeds within life across "hard work."

A Buckeye eleven likewise boasts Five Heisman trophy winners including the single deuce-instance winner Archie Griffin (in 1974 & 1975), Les Horvath (1944), Vic Janowicz (1950), Howard Cassady (1955), and Eddie George (1995). More spectacular sports numbers that were students at Ohio State include Jesse Owens (track and field), John Havlicek and Jerry Lucas (basketball), Frank Howard (baseball) and Jack Nicklaus (golf).

Ohio State is known for its acute athletic contention (particularly inside football) by owning a University of Michigan. to which OSU has an overall winning record of 38-57-6. A OSU/UM game is known as by ESPN the greatest competition within sports [http://espn.go.com/endofcentury/s/other/bestrivalries.html].

A Makio is Ohio State's annual/yearbook. A Makio ran into fiscal problems in a period of a early Seventies, & a organization went ruin & stopped publication in the period of the late 1970s. A book was revived from either 1985 to 1994, & has been revived over again since 2000.

A Ohio State University Marching Band (or even TBDBITL, "The Best Damn Band in the Land") is as well the tradition at Ohio State. A marching band is the big 100% brass band in the globe. Everthing songs come customized to healthy a irregular instrumentation. A band is illustrious for Script Ohio. When you took Script Ohio, a band is led through a curves of the word, literally spelling it retired prior to your computers eyes, when swimming the illustrious march Le Regiment delaware Sambre et Meuse.

OSU's "Buckeye Bullet" electric car broke the world record for the fastest speed by an electric vehicle in October 3, 2004 with a speed of 271.737 mph (437.3 km/h) at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. the vehicle too holds a U.s.a. record for fastest electrical vehicle by using a speed of 314.958 mph (506.Ix kilometers per hour), & peak timed mile speed of 321.834 mph (517.Nina from carolina kilometres per hour). a vehicle was designed, built & managed by a team of engineering students at the university's "Center for Automotive Research-Intelligent Transportation" (CAR-IT).

Around 1926, a student person irresistibly elected Maudine Ormsby Homecoming Queen. That Maudine Ormsby was non the student at the Ohio State University was a large condition than the fact that she was a dairy cattle. However, she took her potty at a homecoming football that month however passed on the homecoming dance.

A school is typically known as Ohio State University. A proper noun, while utilized as a noun, is The Ohio State University.

Ohio State-affiliated Media
OSU operates a public tv station, WOSU-TV 34 / WOSU-DT 38, too when ii public radio stations, WOSU-AM (NPR/Bluegrass) & WOSU-FM (Definitive) inside Columbus, two using the call for letters WOSU. Inside 2003, a tv station began broadcasting inside HDTV. There exists besides an student-begwithin radio station by having an net audio signal (there come no broadcast signals are available in Columbus) known as a Underground & a student rerun cable channel, airing primarily on the campus cable television operated by UNITS (the university's telecommunications department), called Buckeye TV. A school paper is known as A Lantern, & has operated as a laboratory newspaper in the School of Communication (erstwhile School of Journalism) for ended 150 years.

Notable alumni
List of Ohio State University people

Notes
OSU is an acronym too utilized by Oklahoma State University and Oregon State University.