Ohio University is a public university located in Athens, Ohio, enrolling almost 20,000 students on its main 1,800 acre (7.3 km?) campus. It is the oldest college in Ohio. Its 276 undergraduate majors, as well as master's and doctoral programs are organized into 10 colleges:
- Arts & Sciences
- Business
- Communication
- Education
- Russ College of Engineering and Technology
- Fine Arts
- Health & Human Services
- Honors Tutorial College
- University College
- Osteopathic Medicine
More than 8,000 students attend OU's five regional campuses:
- Eastern (St. Clairsville)
- Zanesville
- Lancaster
- Southern (Ironton)
- Chillicothe
The school colors are hunter green and white; the mascot is the Bobcat. The Bobcats compete in NCAA Division I (I-A in football) as a member of the Mid-American Conference.
University libraries contain more than 2.4 million bound volumes. The university's student-run newspaper is The Post. WOUB radio and television stations, affiliated with NPR and PBS, originate in the telecommunications center. |