By: 1812Blockhouse
December 2021: Updated with additional information.
It’s the latest in our “Everything You Always Wanted To Know About” series — today looking at The Ohio State University at Mansfield.
- First institution of higher education in Mansfield: Female Institute, opened in 1840s near the current site of the Renaissance Theatre on Park Avenue West
- Branch approved by OSU Board of Trustees — May 13, 1957
- Date of first classes – 1958, held at the former Mansfield Senior High School
- Number of original applicants — As of February 1958, 7 had been approved with 40 pending for the autumn term
- Classes offered first term — Botany, Chemistry, French, Spanish, History, Mathematics, Psychology, Speech, Zoology (all five hour courses), plus one four hour course in engineering drawing and two three hour courses in English
- Dates of other OSU regional campus beginnings: Marion and Newark – 1957; Lima – 1960; Agricultural Technical Institute in Wooster — 1971
- Date of Ohio General Assembly vote to build permanent campus: 1963
- Initial land acquisition campaign goal: $350,000
- Amount raised locally during land acquisition campaign: $600,000
- First building: Ovalwood Hall, dedicated in October 1966 by Governor James A. Rhodes and OSU President Novice Fawcett
- Most recent major building – John O. Riedl Hall, opened in 2006
- Buildings (some shared with North Central State College):
- Child Development Center, OSU/NC State
- Schuttera Service Center, OSU
- Campus Recreation Center, OSU/NC State
- Ovalwood Hall/Founders Auditorium/Pearl Conard Gallery, OSU
- Bromfield Hall/Conard Learning Center, OSU/NC State
- Eisenhower Hall, OSU/NC State
- Campus Bookstore, OSU/NC State
- John O. Riedl Hall (Administration and Classroom Building), OSU
- Jeffrey Molyet Village Apartments, OSU/NC State
- First apartments opened: 1988
- Number of wetlands on campus: 6
- Campus size: Described as being 644 to 675 acres in size
- Enrollment: Varies; during fall 2019 had approximately 1075 undergraduate and 3 graduate students
- Faculty: 33 full time, 51 part time
- Student-Faculty ratio: 19 to 1
- 2019-2020 tuition: $7,912 in-state; $28,889 out-of-state
- Graduation rate: 40% (students who graduated within 150% of the “normal time” to graduate for their program)
- Number of on-campus degree programs: 12 Bachelors programs; Associate of Arts
- Number of degree programs utilizing both OSU Mansfield and the Main campus in Columbus: Over 200 majors
- Organizations on campus: 30
- Sports conference: Ohio Regional Campus Conference
- Team mascot: Mavericks
Sources: The Ohio State University, Wikipedia, Ohio Department of Higher Education; National Center for Education Statistics; Photo: Public Domain
