The center was built mostly from a twenty-five million dollar gift from Ohio State graduate Leslie Wexner. It was designed by the architects Peter Eisenman of New York and Richard Trott of Columbus, and it opened in 1989. The Wexner Center for the Arts is at the east end of The Oval. There are eight other branches in other locations, and the system has fifty-five branches and collections in all. The school's library system has twenty-one libraries on its Columbus campus. It is the Ohio State library's main branch, and it is the largest of the school's branches. The William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library is located at the west end of The Oval. Architecture on the Ohio State campus is a mix of traditional, modern, and post-modern styles. Four buildings are currently listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Enarson Hall, Hayes Hall, Ohio Stadium, and Orton Hall. It has a size of 1755 acres, and it is about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north of the city's downtown.
Ohio State's main urban campus is in Columbus. Ohio State’s freshman class has admitted over 100 National Merit Scholars for nine of the last ten years. Of the 6,122 members of the 2006 freshman class, 290 had been named valedictorian (top student) of their high school's graduating class. A quarter of the freshman scored in the top 3 percent of the SAT or ACT, and 72 percent scored in the top 1 percent. Of the students who get in, 57 percent graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school classes, 91 percent graduated in the top quarter, and 99% graduated in the top half. Ībout half of the people who apply to Ohio State get accepted. It is the most selective public university in Ohio, and it is the hardest university in Ohio to get into. Undergraduate admissions to Ohio State are said to be "more selective" by US News & World Report. Ohio State is using over $110 million to research important issues, such as research to find a cure for cancer, renewable energy sources, and sustainable drinking water supplies. In the last 25 years, thirty-two Ohio State faculty members have been given the Guggenheim Fellowship, which is more than all other public and private Ohio universities combined. There are also 159 elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science who are teaching at Ohio State. It has twenty-one members of the United States National Academy of Sciences or National Academy of Engineering, plus four members of the Institute of Medicine. Ohio State’s faculty includes a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Kenneth G. The Washington Monthly college rankings placed Ohio State as the 12th best in the country and 10th best public university. The school was also ranked as the 24th best university in the US, 10th top public university, and top school in Ohio by Arizona State University. In 2007, China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University said Ohio State was the 61st best university in the world. News & World Report has ranked Ohio State University as the best public university in Ohio, one of the top 60 universities in the United States, and one of the top 20 public universities in the United States. Ohio State is still the only Ohio public university in the association.
In 1916, Ohio State was the first university in Ohio to be in the Association of American Universities. In 1906, Ohio made a law that said Ohio State University was the state's "flagship campus", or the best school in the state of Ohio. Later, Ohio State added colleges of medicine, dentistry, commerce, and journalism. In the 1880s, Ohio State started taking graduate students. The university was started in 1870 in a farming group in Columbus, Ohio.
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