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Ohio State sets enrollment records
The Ohio State University has set records this fall for the number of students attending its main campus in Columbus and several regional campuses.
The university on Monday, Oct. 19, reported a record 63,217 students on all campuses for the fall quarter, representing a 2.7 percent increase in overall enrollment.
Ohio State welcomed a record 55,014 students to the Columbus campus, representing a 2.4 percent increase.
Regional campus enrollment also set a new record with more than 8,200 students, according to university officials. New enrollment records were set at Ohio State’s campuses in Lima, Mansfield, Marion and Newark.
Across all campuses, there are a record 49,915 undergraduate students, including 9,510 new first-year students.
On Ohio State’s Columbus campus, there are 6,607 first-year students — a 9.4 percent increase over last fall’s enrollment.
“Thanks to remarkably strong bi-partisan support for higher education at the state level, the university has been able to open its doors wider to greater numbers of well-prepared students, including 500 more Ohioans in our freshman class,” said E. Gordon Gee, Ohio State president, in a media release.
Among the nation’s largest universities, enrollment at Ohio State’s Columbus campus is surpassed only by Arizona State University at Tempe with 55,552 students. Rounding out the top four schools are the University of Minnesota at Twin Cities with 51,659 students, and the University of Florida at Gainesville with 49,679 students.
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By Lyle Clay
October 19, 2009 3:42 PM | Link to this
500 more Ohioians out of a class of 6,000? Too bad that many or more Ohioians were denied acceptance. This university should admit every Ohio boy and girl who makes the grades before opening allowing anyone else to attend from another state or country.
By dave
October 19, 2009 10:24 PM | Link to this
with all those people there, you’d think they’d be able to find a football coach that knew what he was doing and a quarterback who could actually play.