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• The 2010 first-year Columbus class of 6,549 is the most academically prepared in the university’s history. Average ACT scores are now 28.1, nearly five points higher than a decade ago, and more than half of the admitted class graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school classes.

• Ohio State climbed to 18th among the nation’s best public universities in U.S. News & World Report’s 2010 edition of “America’s Best Colleges,” which links first-year student programs and internships to student success.

• In a comparison of tuition costs to graduate earning power in SmartMoney magazine, Ohio State ranks 11th best nationally, with an average return of 179 percent on tuition investment.

• Ohio State generates an annual statewide economic impact in excess of $4 billion and partners with more than 240 Ohio-based businesses.

• The Ohio State University Medical Center was named one of “America’s Best Hospitals” for the 18th consecutive year. The medical center is among only 21 hospitals in the country named to U.S. News & World Report’s elite Honor Roll.

• Ohio State sports the largest self-supporting athletics program in the country. In 2009–10, the Department of Athletics transferred nearly $29 million to support university initiatives, including a $9 million commitment to the renovation of Thompson Library, which reopened autumn 2009.

• Tuition at Ohio State remains one of the lowest among selective admissions institutions in the state. In the 2008–09 academic year, 82 percent of students received aid. Of those receiving aid, the average scholarship/grant totaled $2,311, reducing the actual cost of tuition and required fees for a typical undergraduate from $8,658 tuition to $6,347 net tuition.