Ohio State University is a state-assisted coeducational institution with campuses in Columbus, Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark, Ohio. The main campus is in Columbus. The university also operates two facilities in Wooster, Ohio: the Agricultural Technical Institute, a two-year college; and the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center. Ohio State University was founded in 1870 as a land-grant college. Land-grant colleges and universities receive federal aid to support education. Originally called Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, the school opened in 1873. It took its present name in 1878. The other campuses were founded between 1957 and 1960. Athletic teams on the Columbus campus are called the Buckeyes.
The university operates its own radio and television stations and has an airport near the Columbus campus. The university’s Franz Theodore Stone Laboratory, in Put-in-Bay, Ohio, studies the biology of the Great Lakes.
The university’s website at https://www.osu.edu offers additional information.
