Past and present alumni and faculty include 5 Nobel Prize laureates, 9 Rhodes Scholars, 7 Churchill Scholars, 1 Fields Medalist, 7 Pulitzer Prize winners, 64 Goldwater scholars, 6 U.S.

The university's endowment of $6.8 billion in 2021 is among the largest in the world. A member of the Association of American Universities, Ohio State is a leading producer of Fulbright Scholars, and is the only school in North America that offers an ABET-accredited undergraduate degree in welding engineering. Ohio State's political science department and faculty have greatly contributed to the construction and development of the constructivist and realist schools of international relations a 2004 LSE study ranked the program as 1st among a public institution and 4th overall in the world. Admission standards tightened and became greatly more selective throughout the 2000s and 2010s. Hayes, and in 1878 the Ohio General Assembly passed a law changing the name to 'the Ohio State University' and broadening the scope of the university. Founded in 1870 as the state's land-grant university and the ninth university in Ohio with the Morrill Act of 1862, Ohio State was originally known as the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College and focused on various agricultural and mechanical disciplines but it developed into a comprehensive university under the direction of then-Governor and later U.S. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best public universities in the United States. The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio.

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