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unitid 204796 · Columbus, OH · public 4-year · city (large)

Ohio State University-Main Campus

Public university in Columbus, Ohio, US

founded
1870
enrollment 2023
65,551
predominant degree
Bachelor's
website
osu.edu
Campus of Ohio State University-Main Campus

Michael Barera · CC BY-SA 4.0

The Ohio State University is a public research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1870, it is the flagship institution of the University System of Ohio. It is designated a land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant university by the government of Ohio. wikipedia rev 1361959557 ↗

scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years

The record

admission rate

61%

18th pctl among public 4-years

undergraduates

45,638

99th pctl among public 4-years

Pell share

20%

undergrads on Pell grants

17th pctl among public 4-years

completion

88%

finish within 150% time

98th pctl among public 4-years

sticker cost / yr

$30,305

89th pctl among public 4-years

avg net price / yr

$17,339

after aid, aided students

80th pctl among public 4-years

median earnings, 10 yr

$60,409

after entry, Title IV students

74th pctl among public 4-years

median grad debt

$19,976

53rd pctl among public 4-years

what families actually pay

Cost

Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.

Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort

Families earning under $30k paid $4,885 per year after aid.

Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).

Who enrolls, by family income

  • 0-30k
    21%
  • 30-48k
    13%
  • 48-75k
    15%
  • 75-110k
    19%
  • 110k+
    32%
Median family income
$64,714
First-generation students
26%
In-state tuition & fees
$13,244

earnings · debt · programs

Outcomes

Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid

Ten years out, the median graduate earns 3.0× the median graduate debt.

Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.

What programs pay — top fields of study

programgradsearn 5 yrdebt
Finance and Financial Management Services.817$93,666$20,500
Research and Experimental Psychology.646——
Biology, General.486$67,156$23,362
Communication and Media Studies.478$63,099$23,500
Marketing.478$80,070$21,198
Computer Engineering.455$106,752$20,247
Social Work.454$58,613—
Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.436$70,008$21,500
Accounting and Related Services.297$89,592$23,284
Neurobiology and Neurosciences.283$63,324$22,286
Economics.272$72,851$23,125
Political Science and Government.265$66,909$21,500

— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.

annual scorecard files, 1996–2026

Trajectory

Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.

Admission rate

Price per year

  • sticker
  • net

Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry

Undergraduates

wikidata · 7,217 people recorded

Memory

Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.

Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field

Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade

People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.

Wikipedia attention

monthly article views since 2015

most recorded occupationsresearcher (2,122) · university teacher (698) · American football player (550) · basketball player (550) · politician (288) · mathematician (192) · writer (172) · lawyer (135)

Nobel laureates who studied here

  • Paul Flory Chemistry 1974
  • William Alfred Fowler Physics 1983

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built 2026-07-17

Provenance

  • U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
  • Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
  • Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
  • Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
  • Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
  • Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1361959557), CC BY-SA 4.0.