By the Numbers

At a Glance

38 Departments and Schools
20+ Centers and Institutes
80+ Majors
100+ Minors
50+ Graduate Programs
15+ Certificate Programs
Instruction in 30 languages
Delivers 48% of all credit hours at the Columbus campus

Our Students

Total undergraduate students: 17,076
Female: 9,732 (57%)
Male: 7,344 (43%)
Underrepresented minorities: 22%
First generation: 26%
Honors & scholars: 20%
In state: 73%
Double majors: 8%
Major + minor: 24%

Total graduate students: 2,234
Female: 1,133 (51%)
Male: 1,101 (49%)
Underrepresented minorities: 17%
 

Top 10% of their high school class: 72%
Top 25% of their high school class: 98%
Average ACT: 29
Average SAT: 1346

At the time of graduation, Arts and Sciences undergraduates reported the following:

54.1% reported employment as their primary plan post-graduation

  • Of these graduates 48.3% had received a job offer
  • Of those graduates who accepted a job offer, 46.9% reported they had completed experiential learning such as internships, job shadows, co-ops, practicums or other academic major-related work at the same employer who hired them
  • Average salary for those graduates who accepted a full-time position was $49,488

33.8% reported graduate professional school as their primary plan post-graduation

Beinecke Scholars: 7 (of Ohio State’s 7)
Churchill Scholars: 5 (of Ohio State’s 6)
Goldwater Scholars: 17 (since 2006)
Knight-Hennessy Scholars: 1 (of Ohio State’s 2)
Rhodes Scholars: 5 (since 1985)

Our Faculty and Staff

Faculty members: 1,468
Tenure-track faculty: 847

Staff members: 834

Total awards: 740 for $119,018,552
NSF: $40,657,670 (34%)
NIH: $33,758,309 (28%)
Other federal funding: $37,541,265 (32%)
Industry: $1,910,874 (2%)
Non-profit: $4,835,043 (4%)
State of Ohio: $263,079 (<1%)

Distinguished University Professors: 39
Alumni Awards for Distinguished Teaching: 275
Distinguished Scholar Awards: 162
President and Provost's Awards for Distinguished Faculty Service: 45
Provost's Awards for Teaching by a Lecturer: 20
University Distinguished Lecturers: 21
Guggenheim Fellows: 40
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows: 126
National Academy of Sciences Members: 9
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Members: 26
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize Recipients: 2
MacArthur Fellow: 1
NSF Early Career Development Award winners: 64
National Medal of Sciences: 1
National Medal of Arts: 1
American Academy of Arts and Letters Fellow: 1
Department of Energy Early Career Awards: 4

Our Programs

The Ohio State College of Arts and Sciences is a nationally recognized leader in many fields, with U.S. News and World Report providing an overall top-25 ranking for many of our graduate programs:

Chemistry: 25

  • Analytical Chemistry: 6

Computer Science

  • Artificial Intelligence: 24
  • Systems: 19

Earth Sciences

  • Environmental Sciences: 10
  • Geochemistry: 21
  • Geology: 15

English

  • American Literature After 1865: 13

Mathematics

  • Applied Math: 18

Physics: 23

  • Condensed Matter Physics: 20
  • Cosmology/Relativity/Gravity: 13
  • Elementary Particles/Fields/String Theory: 15

Political Science: 17

  • American Politics: 11
  • International Politics: 12
  • Political Methodology: 13
  • Comparative Politics: 20

Psychology

  • Social Psychology: 7

Sociology: 18

  • Social Stratification: 10
  • Sociology of Population: 10

Speech and Hearing Science

  • Audiology: 10
  • Speech-Language Pathology: 16

Statistics: 24

  • Biostatistics: 21

In the U.S. News Best Global Universities, the following subjects were ranked in the nation’s top 25:

  • Arts and Humanities: 15 (U.S.), 30 (global), 6 (public)
  • Physics: 18 (U.S.), 35 (global), 9 (public)
  • Space Science: 10 (U.S.), 16 (global), 4 (public)

In the Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, the following programs were ranked in the nation’s top 25:

  • Communication: 1 (U.S.), 2 (global)
  • Geography: 10 (U.S.), 45 (global)
  • Political Science: 18 (U.S.), 22 (global)
  • Physics: 20 (U.S.), 49 (global)
  • Psychology: 13 (U.S.), 18 (global)
  • Sociology: 5 (U.S.), 7 (global)

Our Alumni and Donors

Living alumni: 210,000+

Endowment: $285M 
Endowed chairs: 24
Endowed professorships: 25
Fundraising total (FY20): $52.9M