I'll give OU their laurels on top 10 communications schools, but you guys make this too easy:
U.S. News & World Report’s widely read rankings of undergraduate colleges in America currently places Ohio State as the 19th best public university and 57th overall ranked university in America as well as the highest ranked public university in Ohio. China's
Shanghai Jiao Tong University placed Ohio State as the 61st ranked university in the world in their 2007
Academic Ranking of World Universities
The Lombardi Program on Measuring University Performance at
Arizona State University detailed analysis and rankings of American universities currently places Ohio State as the 25th ranked university in America, the 11th ranked public university in America and the top overall university in Ohio. Of their nine ranking criteria, Ohio State ranked in the top-25 in four categories and between 26-50 in an additional four categories. The
Washington Monthly college rankings which seek to evaluate colleges' contributions to American society based on factors of social mobility, cutting edge research and service to the country by their graduates currently places Ohio State as 12th in the nation and 10th among public universities.
Ohio State is also the only public university in Ohio to which the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has given both its highest overall classification of
Doctoral/Very High Research Activity and highest undergraduate admissions classification of
more selective.
US News ranks the undergraduate program at Ohio State's
Fisher College of Business 12th in America and the top undergraduate business school in Ohio. The graduate program of the Fisher College is ranked 22nd in America and the top graduate school of business in Ohio.
The Economist ranked The Fisher College as the 29th ranked MBA program in the world in their 2005
"Which MBA?" issue. In 2006, The Public Accounting Report ranked Ohio State's accounting department 9th in the nation for undergraduate programs and 10th in the nation for graduate programs. In each case, the ranking was the highest among Ohio universities.The Ohio State law school is ranked by
US News as the top law school in Ohio and 31st overall in America. Ohio State's medical school is ranked as the top public medical school in Ohio and 31st for research and 38th for primary care.
US News ranks Ohio State's undergraduate engineering program as the 25th best program in America and the top undergraduate engineering program in Ohio. Its graduate program in engineering is ranked 26th in the country and highest in Ohio. Ohio State's College of Education was ranked 17th in America by US News and the highest in Ohio. The Counseling/Personnel Services graduate program at Ohio State is ranked 4th in America by the 2008 'US News & World Report'. In total,
US News & World Report ranked 19 Ohio State graduate programs or specialties among the nation's top ten and 30 among the nation's top 25.
Ohio State's
political science department is ranked thirteenth in the country by
US News & World Report, with the American politics section 5th, international politics 12th and political methodology 10th. A study by The
London School of Economics ranked it as the fourth best political science department in the world.
Foreign Policy Magazine recently ranked it as the 15th best Ph.D. program in the world for the study of international relations while noting Professor
Alexander Wendt as the third most influential scholar of international relations in the world.
Ohio State is one of a select few top American universities to offer multiple area studies programs under "Comprehensive National Resource Center" (often called "Title VI") funding from the
U.S. Department of Education. The most notable of these is the Center for Slavic and East European Studies founded in 1965 by Professor Leon Twarog. Subsequently, Ohio State's Middle Eastern Studies Center and East Asian Studies Center also achieved Comprehensive National Resource Center status. The university is also home to the
interdisciplinary Mershon Center for International Security Studies, which was founded in 1952 through a bequest of 7 million dollars (54.3 million in 2006 value) from alumnus Colonel Ralph D. Mershon. In 2003, it was decided by the United States
Department of Homeland Security to base the
National Academic Consortium for Homeland Security at The Mershon Center.
In a study by industry publication
Dance Teacher, a survey of 100 dance department chairs in the United States and Canada ranked Ohio State's Department of
Dance as the top ranked graduate program and the second ranked undergraduate program in North America.
OU does rank high in Sports Sciences, Journalism and Fine Arts.
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