Recognition of Excellence

ONU Rankings 2024

See where ONU ranked in multiple categories, nationally and regionally, for 2024.

The Ohio Northern Promise

The Ohio Northern Promise is a set of initiatives to make an ONU 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.

Law student presenting his case during a mock trial

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

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.

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.

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

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.

92 percent placement rate for graduates into jobs or graduate school within six months of graduation (2023).
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.

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

97 percent placement rate for graduates into jobs or graduate school within six months of graduation (2023).
99 percent of 2023 engineering graduates found a job within six months

Ranked No. 12 in the nation for undergraduate engineering programs (without a Ph.D. program) by U.S. News & World Report (2025).

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.

Student design teams successfully compete on a national basis.

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.

ONU’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, ONU is the one of the oldest pharmacy programs in the nation and one of only seven direct-entry programs in the country.

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

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

97 percent placement rate for graduates into jobs or residency programs within six months of graduation (2023).

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

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

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

Recognized for innovation in its curriculum by The National Jurist.

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

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

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

Students at Ohio Northern Walking out on campus

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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