This article is about Ohio State; there is also an Ohio
University.The Ohio State University (legal name), also known as
Ohio State or
OSU, is currently the largest state
University in the United States by population (with 50,995 students),
consisting of the main campus in Columbus, Ohio, and branch campuses
located in Lima, Mansfield, Marion,
Gibraltar Island (Stone Lab), Newark, and Wooster. The university was founded in
1870 as a land-grant
university.