Recognition of Excellence

University Rankings

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Ranked ��«Ӱҵ��No. 2 in Best Regional Colleges in the Midwest,��making it No. 1 in Ohio��and places highly in other key categories, including 3rd (first in Ohio) in regional Best Value Schools.
One of nation’s top schools in The Princeton Review’s annual college guide, The Best 387 Colleges: 2022 Edition.
Ranked by Washington Monthly as No. 2 on the��“Bachelor's��Colleges” category of its 2022 college rankings. Also ranked no. 8 in the "2022 Best Bang for the Buck Rankings: Midwest."
In its 2023 rankings,��Ohio Northern was ranked No. 33 nationally in The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education, and No. 1 in Ohio for “salary impact.”
As reported by The New York Times, ��«Ӱҵ ranks second out of all 76 colleges in Ohio, 10th nationally out of 578 national selective private colleges, and 84th out of all 2,137 colleges in the U.S. for “median student income at age 34.”
��«Ӱҵ ranked 314 on the Forbes’ America’s Top Colleges 2022 list.�� Also,��Ohio Northern was one of only 15 Ohio higher education institutions listed this year.
Included on the “Best Colleges in Ohio” list by College Choice for academic reputation, student diversity and return on investment.

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Ranked by PayScale��among the top eight private universities, and in the top 16��overall in the state of Ohio, for return on investment.

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Ranked No. 10 in the state of Ohio��by PayScale��for salary potential.

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Career-guidance site Zippia ranked ��«Ӱҵ No. 1 in Ohio on this site’s "Best College in Each State for Getting a Job in 2021." It’s listed at No. 3 nationally from a short list of 10 institutions.

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Ranked the No. 1 Christian College in Ohio by the 2022 Best Colleges in America.

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Ranked No. 14 by BestColleges.com in its list of “Best Colleges in Ohio.”

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Ranked among the top 50 in BestColleges.com’s national “Best Small Town Colleges” rankings.

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Included in MONEY's "2020 Best Colleges" list.

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��«Ӱҵ Rankings 2023

See where ��«Ӱҵ ranked in multiple categories, nationally and regionally, for 2023.

The Ohio Northern Promise

The Ohio Northern Promise is a set of initiatives to make an ��«Ӱҵ education more affordable, to reduce student loan debt, to sustain academic quality, and to prepare students for career success. Simply put, it is about ensuring that higher education, historically a key enabler of social mobility, remains accessible and affordable for bright young students and their families.

Key components of The Ohio Northern Promise:

4-YEAR graduation guarantee available across most undergraduate programs
OFFER hands-on high-impact learning, a core component of every academic major
HIGH job placement and graduate, professional school admissions rates
AFFORDABLE EXCELLENCE $57M awarded each year in the form of scholarships and grants

College Rankings

Whether you’re already set on your program or completely unsure, we all get to where we’re going via Ohio Northern. With five colleges of distinction, you have many nationally ranked programs to choose from.

Arts & Sciences students gave more than 80 presentations and posters at professional conferences and co-authored five scholarly articles.

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13 Arts & Sciences students in mathematics and science have been honored by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education program over the last 10 years.

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Ranked as one of the top 200 programs in the nation for creative students in Creative Colleges 2017: A Guide for Student Actors, Artists, Dancers, Musicians and Writers.

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Ohio Northern was recognized by The Princeton Review as a “Great School for Nursing Majors.”

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Academic programs in athletic training, chemistry and biochemistry, education, exercise physiology, medical laboratory science, music, nursing, and technology are nationally accredited. The exercise physiology program is one of two��traditional undergraduate schools in the Midwest and one of only 19 undergraduate colleges in the country with this distinctive accreditation.

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95��percent placement rate for graduates into jobs or graduate school within six months of graduation (2022).
AACSB International Accreditation – Earned excellence; among the best business colleges in the world, fewer than five percent of 16,000 business schools worldwide have earned this symbol of excellence in education.

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Ranked No. 45 in the nation for undergraduate business programs by Bloomberg Businessweek. “A” rating for teacher quality

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100 percent placement rate for graduates into jobs or graduate school within six months of graduation (2022).
96��percent placement rate for graduates into jobs or graduate school within six months of graduation (2022).

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Ranked No. 21 in the nation for undergraduate engineering programs by U.S. News & World Report (2022).

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Earned the 2016 KEEN Outstanding Institution Award. KEEN is a network of 29 institutions that is focused on cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset among engineering students.

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Student design teams successfully compete on a national basis.

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The civil, computer, electrical, and mechanical engineering programs and engineering education are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, and the computer science program is accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org.

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��«Ӱҵ’s degree program in engineering education is the first of its kind in Ohio and one of the first in the nation. This four-year engineering degree prepares graduates to become licensed secondary math teachers but with a more specialized perspective than teachers who have a traditional education diploma.
Founded in 1884, ��«Ӱҵ is the one of the oldest pharmacy programs in the nation��and one of only seven direct-entry programs in the country.

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Offers students a 0-6 direct admit program experience that culminates in the doctor of pharmacy degree.

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Membership in the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and Council of Ohio Colleges of Pharmacy.

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98 percent placement rate for graduates into jobs or residency programs within six months of graduation (2022).

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Graduates have consistently averaged a 98 percent passage rate for pharmacy state board exams.

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Sixth-year pharmacy students match in residence programs at a rate higher than the national average.

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Student organizations recognized nationally.
Founded in 1885, ��«Ӱҵ Law is the second oldest law school in Ohio.

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Recognized for innovation in its curriculum by The National Jurist.

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Ninth in the nation for placement in government and public interest legal jobs – The National Law Journal

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12 high-impact guaranteed clinical placement programs and nine areas of specialization.

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Two unique concurrent programs focused in international law and tax law.

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Investing for a lifetime

A great education is an investment. Ohio Northern invests in the success of its students by offering��$56��million in scholarships and financial aid as well as additional resources in the form of loans and work opportunities. We know that, to make dreams happen, it takes some investment on the part of families, too.

Our professional financial aid staff works with each and every family to make a Northern education possible. We offer an individualized approach to families of the most motivated, talented students: a combination of merit scholarship, grants and other aid.

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