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Note: Ohio University is a separate educational institution and not to be confused with the one described in this article.

The Ohio State University, or simply Ohio State or OSU, is one of the largest state universities in the United States, consisting of the main campus in Columbus, Ohio, and branch campuses located in Lima, Mansfield, Marion, Gibraltar Island (Stone Lab), and Newark. The university was founded in 1870 following its establishment under Abraham Lincoln's Land-Grant Act.

The Columbus campus is currently the second largest single campus in the USA, after The University of Texas at Austin; in 2002 there were 48,477 students enrolled at the Columbus campus. [1] The university is noted especially for its linguistics department and colleges of business, education, and engineering. The medical school is home to the James Cancer Hospital, a leading cancer research institute. The university also holds the honor of being the best public university in the state of Ohio as compiled by the U.S. News and World Report magazine in their annual college rankings special issue. The Columbus campus is also home to the renowned Wexner Center for the Arts. The current president is Karen A. Holbrook, Barbara R. Snyder is the Provost.

OSU operates a public television station and public radio station in Columbus, both with the call letters WOSU. There is also a shorter range, student-run radio station. The school newspaper is called The Lantern.

The school's sports teams are called the "Buckeyes" (after the state tree, the Buckeye), and participate in the NCAA's Division I-A and the Big Ten Conference. Their football team, which plays at Ohio Stadium (the Horseshoe), won the 2002 college football national championship at the 2003 Fiesta Bowl. Its men's hockey program competes in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association, and its women's hockey program competes in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.

OSU's "Buckeye Bullet" electric car broke the world record for the fastest speed by an electric vehicle on August 18, 2003 with a speed of 257 mph (413.6 km/h) at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The former US record was 251.3 mph (404.4 km/h). The vehicle was designed, built and managed by a team of engineering students at the university's "Center for Automotive Research-Intelligent Transportation" (CAR-IT).

The school is often referred to as Ohio State University. The proper name, when used as a noun, is The Ohio State University.

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