Denison University is a private liberal arts college in Granville, Ohio, approximately 30 miles east of Columbus. The college was founded in 1831 and has a current enrollment of about 2,000 students. Denison is a member of the Five Colleges of Ohio and the Great Lakes Colleges Association.

An exclusively undergraduate institution, the university offers 35 majors, each leading to a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, or Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. In addition to such traditional majors as history, mathematics, and psychology, students can focus on less common subjects like cinema , black studies , and queer studies .