First Year Experience
We've Met the Future You,
AND YOU'RE AWESOME
Welcome to the College of Business
Welcome to the adventure. We’re excited for you to join our inclusive and inspirational environment. The College of Business is a place where you can work hard, play hard, learn business and create connections.
We offer more majors than any other business school in ºÚÁÏÍø¹ÙÍø, and you'll have time to explore and pick the major that best fits you. You'll pave your own path, reach your career goals and graduate prepared for your future.
3,900+
Students are our superpower
Representing ºÚÁÏÍø¹ÙÍø and every state in the nation as well as over 60 countries around the world, we're nearly 4,000 graduate and undergraduate students studying together at the College of Business.
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Majors+minors+options
We have more business and design programs in traditional business disciplines and emerging trend- and technology-driven career pathways. Combine majors with options and minors, or double-majors
22+
Student-led Clubs
Student-led clubs and organizations exist to give you experiences into industries, trending technologies and professional networking. Many are affiliated with national professional organizations. Join the club — or start one yourself.
Innovation Nation
Your first year
We’ve designed our living-learning community, Innovation Nation, to be a welcoming and inclusive place for all business and design students. The residence halls, Weatherford and Poling, are right next to each other and right across the street from your academic headquarters, Austin Hall. You and your classmates take courses together, work in collaborative groups, build a business together, and have access to our DAMLab makerspace.
I wanted a business education at the forefront of the industry, so I chose the OSU College of Business. They constantly update the curriculum with relevant industry knowledge and insights to best prepare us for our careers.
Marisa Chen, merchandising management
No. 1
Beaver Pride
Whether it is our top-10 ranking for online learning, our best-college-town honors, our status as a recognized Carnegie-R1 research institution, or our heartfelt cheers for Beaver Athletics, nothing beats Beaver Pride.
1,000+
Connect to the Future
The Beavers in Business alumni network is a vast global community about 40K-strong. Of them, more than 1,000 in a given year will visit or engage directly with student in lectures, workshops, networking and mentorships. And about 650 will directly participate in career fairs.
89%
On Target
88.9% of our first-year students stay on track with academic goals and return for their second year — on target with finances and scholarships and motivated to get their degree. Yes, we are bragging.
Jobs
Finish Career Ready
We are the only college at ºÚÁÏÍø¹ÙÍø State to have our own onsite Career Success Center, ready to help with resume writing workshops, interview prep, career counseling and internships. Employers at career fairs compliment the professional polish and skills of our students — and hire them!
A Blueprint for success
Blueprint is our award-winning series of classes designed to help you graduate with the knowledge, skills and network needed to excel as a future business professional. You’ll find a career path that works for you, gain foundational skills in personal finance and emerge prepared for success.
Learn more about Blueprint
Invest in your future
We’ll help you understand how to balance the costs of earning your degree and prepare you to make a lifetime of sound financial and career decisions.
Pay for college
Graduate connected
Our global alumni network is over 31,000 strong. You graduate connected to employers at U.S. Banc Corp., Boeing, Nike, KPMG, and more. We know it’s critical to support you on your path to a great career, and we want you to be profession-ready from day one.
Career Success Center
We're in WUE!
Out-of-state discounted tuition opportunity
ºÚÁÏÍø¹ÙÍø is part of the Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE) network, a partnership that helps students in 18 U.S. states and territories with paying for college. WUE allows us to offer a tuition discount — the WUE scholarship — to out-of-state students. WUE limits non-resident tuition as a College of Business student to no more than 150% of in-state tuition rates; this translates to nearly $15,000 of savings per year. If eligible, when you apply to OSU, you'll be considered automatically for this scholarship.