Evidence of Excellence

The University

Ranked No. 2 among Midwest Regional Colleges by U.S. News & World Report in America’s Best Colleges 2012. ONU also placed in the top 10 among Midwest Schools in the “Great Schools, Great Prices” category.
Ohio Northern University has been ranked No. 25 in the nation by Washington Monthly in its 2011 baccalaureate college rankings.
Named in Colleges of Distinction (2011), a guide profiling America’s most distinguished teaching-centered colleges and universities.
Ohio Northern University has been ranked 44th among Liberal Arts Colleges in the nation in the new 2012 Top Choice College Rankings by Parchment Inc. This is the first broad-based college rankings list that is based not on which college is “best,” as many other lists do, but instead on actual students’ preferences for which school is the “best fit” for them.
Listed in Princeton Review’s The Best 376 Colleges 2012 Edition.
Among the top 100 private four-year colleges and small universities in Peterson’s Competitive College Guide (2011).
Listed as one of About.com’s Top Ten Ohio Colleges.
Listed in Peterson's Cool Colleges 101 guide.
Named to the 2010 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement.

Evidence of Value

What is an education of value? It is one that offers rigorous academics, and allows students an unlimited number of opportunities for training, experiences and enrichment, so that after graduation there are [truly] successful outcomes! Our placement rates in all of our colleges bear this out.

PayScale ranks Ohio Northern University among the top in the state of Ohio for its return on college investment (ROI). ROI is a function of two things: how much students spend to earn a degree, and how much graduates earn. ONU placed 192 out of 1052 (top 18 percent) institutions nationwide and is among the top five Ohio schools in best ROI.
Ohio Northern graduates rank in the top ten for median starting salary among private non-profit colleges and universities. (PayScale)
A great education is an investment. Ohio Northern invests in the success of its students by offering more than $56 million in gift assistance 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 the 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.

The Getty College of Arts & Sciences

Ranked as one of the top 200 programs in the nation for creative students in Creative Colleges: A Guide for Student Actors, Artists, Dancers, Musicians and Writers (2010).
Honored by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education program for seven consecutive years.
Arts and Sciences students gave more than 70 presentations and posters at professional conferences and co-authored eight scholarly articles in 2010-11.
100 percent of the nursing students who graduated in 2010 passed their NCLEX exam. 98 percent of teacher education candidates who graduated in 2010 passed their Praxis II exam. The 2010 placement rate for Arts and Sciences graduates was 90 percent.
Academic programs in athletic training, chemistry and biochemistry, clinical laboratory science, education, exercise physiology, music, nursing, and technology are nationally accredited. The exercise physiology program is one of only 18 undergraduate colleges in the country with this distinctive accreditation and the only traditional undergraduate school in the Midwest.

The James F. Dicke College of Business Administration

AACSB International – Earned excellence; among the best business colleges in the world.

The T.J. Smull College of Engineering

Ranked as one of the nation’s top 50 undergraduate engineering schools (#40) by U.S. News & World Report in America’s Best Colleges 2012.
The BSCE, BSCPE, BSEE and BSME programs are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD 21202-4012, telephone: (410) 347-7700
The BS in computer science program is accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC) of ABET, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD 21202-4012, telephone: (410) 347-7700

The Raabe College of Pharmacy

One of the oldest pharmacy programs in the nation and a 0-6 direct admit program that culminates in the doctor of pharmacy degree.
Accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education
Approved by The Ohio State Board of Pharmacy
Membership in The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and Council of Ohio Colleges of Pharmacy

The Pettit College of Law

Second oldest law school in Ohio, founded in 1885 and recently celebrated its 125th anniversary by hosting the Supreme Court of Ohio for oral arguments in the Celebrezze Moot Court Room
Graduated first class of JD/LLM concurrent degree students in 2011, with Daniel Bey earning a Fulbright Scholarship
94 percent (44/47) of our May 2011 graduates passed the Ohio Bar Exam. 2011 overall pass rate of the Ohio Bar Exam is 93 percent (51/55), well above the state average of 86 percent.
Ranked No. 1 among Ohio Private Law Libraries (National Jurist, 2010)
ONU law’s job-placement rate has consistently exceeded the national average. In fact, 96 percent of 2010 ONU law graduates were employed within nine months of graduation; compared to the 2010 national average of just 90.5 percent.