About The Ohio State University

The Ohio State University is the most comprehensive university in the United States, a world leader in many academic areas, and a major center for graduate education.  Nearly 50,000 students come from every  state in the nation and more than 100 other countries. Ohio State’s 19 colleges and 10 schools offer more than 200 graduate programs—122 Master’s degree programs and 98 Doctoral programs. There are 170 undergraduate majors and some 10,500 courses to choose from. The land-grant university tradition provides a unique blend of research, teaching and outreach education. Agricultural,  Environmental, and Development Economics is one of seven academic units in the   College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences and School of Natural Resources. Rigorous academic programs offered by the department include courses and faculty resources in other departments in our College, the Fisher College of Business, the School of Public Health, and in departments such as Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Geography, Industrial and Systems Engineering, City and Regional Planning, Communications, Political Science, and Human Nutrition and Medical Dietetics.

Research in the department is enhanced by ties to the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC), with its primary campus at Wooster and 10 branches for Experiment Station research. With formal ties to Ohio State University Extension, the Department is able to do additional applied research and offer informal education programs to the citizens of Ohio.

The Ohio State University library system is one of the country’s largest. The collection includes over 4.8 million volumes and regularly receives approximately 32,000 serial titles. Membership in several library networks provides electronic access to other state and national collections. An agriculture library is part of the OSU system and located in the same building as this department. And a state-of-the-art business library recently opened on campus. The university is also a leader in the use of computer and information technologies. These tools are used by the department for research and distribution of findings or to deliver educational programming.