The Ohio State University is a land grant college established in 1870 and the main campus is located in Columbus, Ohio. Maps of the main campus , west campus , and the university's location in the city of Columbus are available. The mission statement as well as some statistical information about The Ohio State University is also provided. Here is a list of the many "Points of Pride" of the Ohio State University.

Click here to see larger picture of Mirror Lake at Ohio State

News Releases From The Ohio State University

The OSU Office of Communications provides daily News Releases regarding current news of the university. An electronic magazine provides excerpts from several OSU magazines including OnCampus, Quest, the alumni magazine and others.

• The Ohio State University News Releases
• The Ohio State University Electronic Magazine

Tour of The Ohio State University

Campus tours are available for interested students weekdays, departing at 10:00 am and 2:00 pm from the Admissions Office in Lincoln Tower. However, if you would like to take a brief tour of the campus now, select the tour below.

• Select this for a campus tour
• Select this for a short movie of graduation (requires MPEG player - 89k)

Attending The Ohio State University

Founded in 1870, The Ohio State University is widely recognized as one of America's distinguished major universities. Since enrolling its first students in 1873, it has awarded more than 413,000 degrees. With a regular faculty of over 3,300, the nation's largest single-campus enrollment of some 54,000 students (60,000 on all campuses), and a comprehensive curriculum of more than 11,000 courses, Ohio State offers a learning environment few universities can match.

• CollegePreparatory Curriculum
• Transferring To The Ohio State University
• Useful Addresses

Resources Available For The Following Groups

• The student
• The researcher (The Ohio State University Research Foundation)
• The staff member
• The visitor to OSU

What Information Services Are Available

The Ohio State University has an active gopher information system called OASIS. Many colleges, departments and services at OSU are currently developing menus on World Wide Web servers in addition to providing information to the OASIS information system.

• OASIS (Gopher Services)

Organizations at OSU

• MultiMedia Users Group
• OSU PC User Group
• OSU MacForum
• OSU World Wide Web Interest Group

OSU Colleges and Departments

Displayed as administratively organized at Ohio State.

• The Ohio State University Administration
  • Administrative Resource Management System (A.R.M.S.)
• Office of Academic Affairs
  • Department of Air Force Aerospace Studies
    • Air Force ROTC at OSU
• Colleges of the Arts and Sciences
  • College of the Arts
    • Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design
    • Department of Art
    • Department of Art Education
      • The Telecommunications in Multicultural Education Project
  • College of Biological Sciences
  • College of Humanities
    • Department of History
      • Ohio State University Excavations at Isthmia
    • Department of Linguistics
  • College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
    • Department of Chemistry
    • Department of Mathematics
    • Department of Physics
    • Department of Statistics
  • College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
    • Department of Economics
    • Department of Geography
      • OSU Atmospheric Sciences (Weather Maps and Data)
• College of Business
• College of Dentistry
• College of Education
  • Department of Educational Policy and Leadership
  • Department of Educational Studies
    • Technology Education Programs
• College of Engineering
• College of Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Sciences
  • Agricultural Engineering
  • Department of Horticulture and Crop Science
  • The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC)
• Graduate School
• College of Human Ecology
• College of Law
• College of Medicine
• Department of Pathology
• College of Nursing
• College of Optometry
• College of Pharmacy
• College of Social Work
• University College
• Office of Continuing Education
• College of Veterinary Medicine

Other WWW Home Pages at Ohio State

• Center for Mapping
• Center for Cognitive Science
• Division of Medical Informatics and the Laboratory for Knowledge-Based Medical Systems
• Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
• Extension,Ohio State University
• Marion Campus
• Newark Art Gallery
• OSU Radio Observatory
• Ohio Supercomputer Center
• OSU Police Department

Who To Contact For Further Information

This is an experimental World-Wide-Web service operated by Academic Technology Services. If you need assistance with this service or wish to report any problems please contact Bill Miller or Clifford Collins at (614) 292-4843, or send e-mail to webmaster@www.acs.ohio-state.edu .

OSU is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Institution