Resources to Find Ohio Colleges

Where to Start Looking to Find Ohio Colleges

Ohio Means Success is where to start looking for Ohio colleges. This is a general information website on planning, searching, and paying for college in Ohio. The site consists mostly of links to other websites. The focus is on state institutions although it does have a page with links to independent colleges and universities. There is no search function to locate Ohio colleges.

The website includes a brief overview of applying to college and a limited list of steps to take at each grade in high school. The more useful elements of the website are the Ohio Transfer to Degree Guarantee section which helps users identify which credits will transfer. However, it only applies to public institutions.

The Pay for College section has a list of grants and scholarships specific to Ohio including the Forever Buckeyes program which removes the residency requirements for students who left the state after graduating from a Ohio high school. The Low Costs Pathways lists programs that allow students to start their degree at community colleges and finish at a four-year institution. Users will also find a tuition reciprocity summary that list agreements with Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, and West Virginia.

The Ohio Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators website is worth a visit. The Students & Parents section includes a link to Ohio’s College Goal Sunday for help in filling out the financial aid form. They also provide a downloadable Cost Comparison Worksheet as well as links to information on scholarship scams.

Some Numbers to Help You Find Ohio Colleges

There are 80 four-year Ohio colleges with 500 or more full-time undergraduates. 47 are private not-for profit colleges and 33 public universities according to the Integrated Post-secondary Data System. Of the 299,996 students, 30% attend private Ohio colleges and 70% attend public universities.

The average four-year graduation rate for private Ohio colleges was 43.6% and the average five-year rate for public schools was 32.5%. A total of 25 Ohio colleges meet the DIY College Rankings 50-50 profile  requirements.

College-bound seniors in Ohio had an average of 22.0 ACT Composite score with a 21.4 for English and 21.7 for Math. The 75th Percentile scores were a Composite of 25, 25 for English, and 25 for Math.  A total of 35 colleges’ ACT 75th% Composite scores were at or above this level.

The top 20 colleges ACT test takers in Ohio applied to:

• Ohio State University The
• University of Cincinnati
• Ohio University
• Kent State University
• University of Akron
• Miami University
• Bowling Green State University
• University of Toledo
• Wright State University
• Cleveland State University
• University of Dayton
• Youngstown State University
• Case Western Reserve Univ
• Xavier University-OH
• Northern Kentucky University
• Columbus State Community College
• Ashland University
• University of Kentucky
• Capital University
• Ohio Northern University

Ohio Colleges Conferences and Divisions

List of Ohio Colleges

In the following table, the four-year graduation rate is used for private colleges and the five-year rate for public colleges. The data are based on the data available from IPEDS in December of 2014 which are available on the DIY College Search spreadsheet.

Ohio Colleges with Graduation Rates and Test Scores
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Name	Type	Full-time Under- grads	4/5 Yr Grad Rate	% Admitted	SAT CR 75th%	SAT Math 75th%	ACT 75th%	Net Price
Ashland University	Private	2389	42	74	550	550	25	20901
Baldwin Wallace University	Private	3003	55	64	610	590	27	19503
Bluffton University	Private	838	52	53	560	580	25	21804
Bowling Green State University-Main Campus	Public	13387	51	72	560	570	24	17409
Capital University	Private	2481	52	76	600	610	27	22062
Case Western Reserve University	Private	4528	65	42	720	760	33	25116
Cedarville University	Private	3044	61	74	640	640	29	22648
Central State University	Public	1840	20	33	470	450	19	11199
Cincinnati Christian University	Private	569	19	64	560	550	24	17421
Cleveland Institute of Art	Private	558	54	68	620	610	26	30473
Cleveland State University	Public	8998	23	63	570	580	25	16255
College of Mount St Joseph	Private	1223	39	88	520	550	24	17144
Columbus College of Art and Design	Private	1227	47	86	610	570	25	25260
Defiance College	Private	732	38	72	530	550	23	22753
Denison University	Private	2253	78	46	660	670	31	28207
Franciscan University of Steubenville	Private	1989	61	76	650	620	28	24474
Franklin University	Private	1789	3					22128
Heidelberg University	Private	1055	35					20415
Hiram College	Private	1117	57	57	600	580	25	21957
John Carroll University	Private	2950	65	83	590	600	27	23924
Kent State University at Ashtabula	Public	670	7					11633
Kent State University at Geauga	Public	589	16					9123
Kent State University at Kent	Public	18533	46	83	570	570	25	18727
Kent State University at Salem	Public	703	27					10228
Kent State University at Stark	Public	2214	21					9260
Kent State University at Trumbull	Public	926	17					10734
Kent State University at Tuscarawas	Public	875	13					10530
Kenyon College	Private	1695	86	38	720	690	32	29593
Lake Erie College	Private	852	28	56	520	540	23	19577
Lourdes University	Private	1137	7	69				17391
Malone University	Private	1453	46	72	558	578	26	18100
Marietta College	Private	1352	44	64		630	27	22158
Mercy College of Ohio	Private	501	59	74				17645
Miami University-Hamilton	Public	2521	21					13078
Miami University-Middletown	Public	1330	17					14228
Miami University-Oxford	Public	15001	79	67	650	680	30	24247
Mount Carmel College of Nursing	Private	655	44	54			24	23602
Mount Vernon Nazarene University	Private	1450	49	63	620	580	26	20041
Muskingum University	Private	1438	29	76	520	540	24	17661
Notre Dame College	Private	1405	18	90	500	520	22	17947
Oberlin College	Private	2855	76	30	740	715	32	37366
Ohio Christian University	Private	1748	16	97	490	490	23	26777
Ohio Dominican University	Private	1391	29	49	540	580	24	20446
Ohio Northern University	Private	2194	53	68	620	650	29	24002
Ohio State University-Lima Campus	Public	872	32					12188
Ohio State University-Main Campus	Public	40020	81	56	660	720	31	17406
Ohio State University-Mansfield Campus	Public	967	39					14369
Ohio State University-Marion Campus	Public	955	40					10861
Ohio State University-Newark Campus	Public	1883	39					14926
Ohio University-Chillicothe Campus	Public	1135	12					9106
Ohio University-Lancaster Campus	Public	1222	17					8742
Ohio University-Main Campus	Public	16756	64	73	600	600	26	17846
Ohio University-Southern Campus	Public	1066	16					8876
Ohio University-Zanesville Campus	Public	885	32					7868
Ohio Wesleyan University	Private	1809	54	75	620	630	27	25876
Otterbein University	Private	2206	2	74	590	585	26	25174
Shawnee State University	Public	3635	22					13109
The College of Wooster	Private	2077	70	56	670	660	30	25978
The University of Findlay	Private	2490	44	68	570	580	26	21107
Tiffin University	Private	2145	34	39	523	540	23	25077
Union Institute & University	Private	775	25					19081
University of Akron Main Campus	Public	15870	34	96	590	610	25	15972
University of Cincinnati-Blue Ash College	Public	2966						11271
University of Cincinnati-Blue Ash College	Public	Public
University of Cincinnati-Clermont College	Public	2083						12558
University of Cincinnati-Main Campus	Public	20332	58	73	620	640	28	19310
University of Dayton	Private	7455	60	53	600	630	29	30416
University of Mount Union	Private	2056	53	71	540	580	25	22063
University of Northwestern Ohio	Private	3633	22					14806
University of Rio Grande	Private	1801	23					26364
University of Toledo	Public	13040	42	91	570	600	25	14588
Urbana University	Private	755	24					13239
Ursuline College	Private	547	28	58	630	580	24	14815
Walsh University	Private	1916	44	77	570	580	25	19750
Wilmington College	Private	1030	33	46	550	570	24	21809
Wittenberg University	Private	1853	59	89	620	620	25	27608
Wright State University-Lake Campus	Public	729	29					8419
Wright State University-Main Campus	Public	9987	36					15080
Xavier University	Private	4150	66	70	600	610	27	28182
Youngstown State University	Public	9437	25					11943