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Originally Posted by Steve19
That would be the kind interpretation, but I see it from another perspective.
Ohio State is an internationally respected institution and attracts investment because of the intellectual resources it has built and the much larger student base and administrative structure it manages, which are a result of many decades of work that continues today.
These guys are rent-seekers who simply want to line up like pigs at a trough and eat Ohio State's lunch. It really isn't that difficult, just bump up your numbers, provide a place where gifted professors can do world-class work and it will all fall in place. It just takes hard work.
But, geez, stop trying to eat our lunch.
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Just to back up Steve's point with three quick comparisons of how Ohio State stacks up against all The Other State Universities: one undergraduate related, one faculty related and one research related.
Ohio State has 23 members of the National Academy of Sciences and Engineering on faculty currently. ALL the other schools COMBINED have 1--an engineering academy member at UC.
Ohio State's recent freshman class of 6,120 enrolled more students with a 30+ on the ACT than did Miami of Ohio, OU, UC, Toledo, Akron, Kent State and Bowling Green--COMBINED! Those seven universities, by comparison, enrolled about 26,000 new freshmen in 2007.
Ohio State has attracted 720 million dollars in external research funding in 2007 (11th nationally) this is over twice what every other public university in the state has garnered--COMBINED!
This, despite a ridiculous funding model that insists on seeing no qualitative difference between Ohio State and the other 12 public four-year universities. The difference between Ohio State and the 12 dwarves is not solely one of size but more fundamentally one of quality.