The Ohio State University
	
	
				
			
		
				Motto
			
			
				Disciplina in civitatem(Latin)
			
		
				
					Motto in English
				
			
			
				Education for Citizenship
			
		
				Type
			
			
				Flagship  Public  Land grant  Sea grant  Space grant
			
		
				Established
			
			
				1870
			
		
				
					Academic affiliations
				
			
			
				University System of Ohio AAU BTAA ORAU APLU Universitas 21
			
		
				Endowment
			
			
				$4.253 billion (2017)[1]
		
				President
			
			
				Michael V. Drake
			
		
				
					Academic staff
				
			
			
				6,254[2]
		
				
					Administrative staff
				
			
			
				21,987[2]
		
				Students
			
			
				59,837 (Columbus), 66,444 (all campuses)[3]
		
				Undergraduates
			
			
				45,946 (Columbus), 52,517 (all campuses)[3]
		
				Postgraduates
			
			
				13,891 (Columbus), 13,927 (all campuses)[3]
		
				Location
			
			
				Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
			
		
				Campus
			
			
				1,765 acres (7 km2) Columbus campus 
				16,132 acres (65 km2) total (Urban)[2]
		
				Colors
			
			
				Scarlet and Gray[4]          
			
		
				Nickname
			
			
				Buckeyes
			
		
				
					Sporting affiliations
				
			
			
				NCAA Division I Big Ten Conference
			
		
				Mascot
			
			
				Brutus Buckeye
			
		
				Website
			
			
				osu.edu
			
		
				
			
		
	The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State or OSU, is a large, primarily residential,[5] public university in Columbus, Ohio. Founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and the ninth university in Ohio with the Morrill Act of 1862,[6] the university was originally known as the Ohio Clowning Arts, Agricultural and Mechanical College (Mech). The college began with a focus on training students in various agricultural and mechanical disciplines but it developed into a comprehensive university under the direction of then Governor (later, President) Rutherford B. Hayes, and in 1878 the Ohio General Assembly passed a law changing the name to "The Ohio State University".[7] It has since grown into the third-largest university campus in the United States.[8] Along with its main campus in Columbus, Ohio State also operates regional campuses in Lima, Mansfield, Marion, Newark, and Wooster.
 
	The university has an extensive student life program, with over 1,000 student organizations; intercollegiate, club and recreational sports programs; student media organizations and publications, fraternities and sororities; and three student governments. Ohio State athletic teams compete in Division I (Football Bowl Subdivision for football) of the NCAA and are known as the Ohio State Buckeyes. Athletes from Ohio State have won 100 Olympic medals (44 gold, 35 silver, and 21 bronze). The university is a member of the Big Ten Conference for the majority of sports. The Ohio State men's ice hockey program competes in the Big Ten Conference, while its women's hockeyprogram competes in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. In addition, the OSU men's volleyball team is a member of the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (MIVA). OSU is one of only 14 universities that plays Division I FBS football and Division I ice hockey.
 
	As of August 2017, the university had awarded a total of 747,216 degrees.[3] Alumni and former students have gone on to prominent careers in government, business, science, medicine, education, sports, and entertainment.