Ohio State University

The Ohio State University (legal name), also known as Ohio State or OSU{{fn|1}}, is currently the largest public university in the United States and ranked by US News as the best public university in Ohio and the twenty-first best public university in the nation. Ohio State's students attend either the main campus in Columbus, Ohio, or regional campuses located in Lima, Mansfield, Marion, Gibraltar Island (Stone Lab), Newark, and Wooster. The university was founded in 1870 as a land-grant university. Ohio State should not be confused with Ohio University, a separate institution located in Athens, Ohio.

Campus

The Columbus campus is currently the largest single campus in the USA, with 50,995 students enrolled. The university is noted especially for its linguistics department and colleges of business, education, political science, dance, and engineering. The medical school is home to the James Cancer Hospital, a leading cancer research institute. The university also holds the honor of being the best public university in the state of Ohio as compiled by the U.S. News and World Report magazine in their annual college rankings special issue. The Columbus campus is also home to the renowned Wexner Center for the Arts. The current president is Karen A. Holbrook and Barbara R. Snyder is the Provost.

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Largest single campus - Linguistics - Business - Education - Political science - Dance - Engineering - Medical school - James Cancer Hospital - U.S. News and World Report - Wexner Center for the Arts - Karen A. Holbrook - Barbara R. Snyder

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