Student Population at OSU

The following chart compares OSU's student enrollment with similarly ranked schools, all colleges nationwide, Public, 4-Years Colleges, 4-Years Colleges, and Public, 4-Years Colleges in Ohio.

OSU has significantly larger enrollment compared to similarly ranked schools (average: 32,853 students). The enrollment is larger than the Public, 4-Years Colleges in Ohio average (9,051 students).

The below chart compares the student population between Ohio State University-Main Campus and similar colleges.

By gender, there are 29,217 male and 32,226 female students attending OSU. The male-to-female student ratio is 0.91 to 1 and the ratio is than national average (the national average is 0.75 to 1).

The following table and chart show the student population by gender and attending status at OSU.

By age, there are 49,373 students whose age under twenty five and 5,424 students whose age is over thirty years old at Ohio State University-Main Campus.

Especially, 1,421 students are younger than eighteen and 28 students are older than sixty five.

The following table and chart show the student population by student age at Ohio State University-Main Campus.

At Ohio State University-Main Campus, 38,931 students (63.36% of total enrollment) take online classes to get their degrees. Among them, 3,975 students enrolled exclusively in online classes (i.e. no off-line attendance required) and others are taking online courses with off-line courses. The following tables describe the number of students who enrolled in one or more online courses.

By location of enrolled students, 3,183 students live in Ohio where Ohio State University-Main Campus is located in and 702 students have enrolled from other states.