Ohio University - Athens Campus Business Programs

Ohio University - Athens Campus is a public institution situated in Athens, Ohio. The surrounding location of Athens is ideal for students who enjoy the charms of a college town.

Ohio University - Athens Campus Rankings

These rankings may look different from those published by other outlets, because we use an outcomes-based approach rather than a subjective one. We get our data from a number of places, including the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the College Scorecard. For more information, check out our rankings and methodology page.

Program Level Awards

These are highlights of some of the most noteworthy awards granted to specific programs at OHIO Athens.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#1	Best Value General Sales & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#2	Most Popular Public Relations & Advertising Doctor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#14	Most Popular Management Information Systems Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#23	Most Popular Economics Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#27	Most Popular Marketing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#36	Most Popular Management Sciences & Methods Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#65	Most Popular Finance & Financial Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#100	Most Popular Business Administration & Management Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Awards From Around the Web

The following table lists some notable awards OHIO Athens has earned from around the web.

Rank	Ranking Name	Source
#1	Best Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	College Factual
#42	Best Management Information Systems Schools	College Factual
#89	Best Finance & Financial Management Schools	College Factual
#90	Best Marketing Schools	College Factual
#151	Best Business Administration & Management Schools	College Factual
#178	Best Business, Management & Marketing Schools	College Factual

Where Is Ohio University - Athens Campus?

Contact details for OHIO Athens are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	020 Chubb Hall, Athens, OH 45701-2979
Phone:	740-593-1000
Website:	www.ohio.edu
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/OhioUniversity
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/ohiou

How Do I Get Into OHIO Athens?

You can apply to OHIO Athens online at: https://www.ohio.edu/admissions/apply

Admission Requirements for OHIO Athens

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	required
High School Rank	recommended
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	required
Recommendations	recommended
SAT or ACT Scores	considered but not required
TOEFL	required

How Hard Is It To Get Into OHIO Athens?

OHIO Athens has the high acceptance rate of 87%, which means it is fairly easy to gain admittance as long as you submit a complete application with requested materials.

Approximately 40% of accepted students are men and 60% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 86%, and the acceptance rate for women is 88%.

Average Test Scores

About 25% of students accepted to OHIO Athens submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 530 and 630. Math scores were between 520 and 620.

OHIO Athens received ACT scores from 89% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 20 and 26. Math scores were between 19 and 26. Composite scores were between 21 and 26.

Can I Afford Ohio University - Athens Campus?

The overall average net price of OHIO Athens is $33,875. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At OHIO Athens, approximately 63% of students took out student loans averaging $8,677 a year. That adds up to $34,708 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at OHIO Athens is 5.1%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

Ohio University - Athens Campus Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 19,284 undergraduate students at OHIO Athens, with 14,676 being full-time and 4,608 being part-time.

There are also 6,430 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 14,676 full-time undergraduates at OHIO Athens, 44% are male and 56% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Ohio University - Athens Campus students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	169
Black or African American	778
Hispanic or Latino	543
White	12,050
International Students	229
Other Races/Ethnicities	907

Geographic Diversity

Ohio students aren't the only ones who study at Ohio University - Athens Campus. At this time, 35 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 100 countries are represented at OHIO Athens. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, India, and Saudi Arabia.

Online Learning at Ohio University - Athens Campus

In 2019-2020, 22,305 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at OHIO Athens has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 19th most popular in Ohio for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Affordability Rankings of OHIO Athens

During the most recent year for which we have data, the full-time undergraduate tuition at Ohio University - Athens Campus was $12,612 for in-state students. Out-of-state students paid $22,406. The following table shows how OHIO Athens is ranked for affordability for both in-state and out-of-state students among colleges and universities that are not mostly online.

Major	Tuition for In-State Students	Tuition for Out-of-State Students
Customer Service Management	#1	#1
Operations Management	#1	#1
General Sales & Marketing	#1	#1
General Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations	#1	#1
General Organizational Communication	#4	#1
General Economics	#4	#7
Econometrics & Quantitative Economics	#10	#4
Public Relations & Advertising	#10	#4
Economics	#13	#10
Finance	#18	#27
Finance & Financial Management	#30	#36

Online Growth Rankings of OHIO Athens

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Ohio University - Athens Campus was 1.9%. This is the #1,460 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at OHIO Athens regardless of major.

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at OHIO Athens ranks compared to all other partially online schools that offer a specific major. Note that the majors may or may not be offered online at OHIO Athens.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
General Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations	#32
Operations Management	#55
General Sales & Marketing	#60
Project Management	#66
International Business	#74
International Business/Trade/Commerce	#74
Finance	#100
Finance & Financial Management	#151
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	#175
Human Resource Management	#292

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

Ohio University - Athens Campus Business Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Basic Certificate	Associate’s	Bachelor’s	Graduate Certificate	Master’s	Doctor’s	TOTAL
General Business Administration and Management	28	3	176	6	232	0	445
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	27	0	266	0	0	0	293
Finance	0	0	204	0	6	0	210
General Management Information Systems	0	0	118	0	0	0	118
Accounting	0	0	73	0	42	0	115
General Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations	97	0	0	1	2	0	100
Operations Management	0	0	66	0	26	0	92
Project Management	83	0	0	0	0	0	83
Management Science	0	0	75	0	0	0	75
Entrepreneurship	16	0	21	0	0	0	37
Econometrics & Quantitative Economics	0	0	0	0	37	0	37
International Business/Trade/Commerce	13	0	18	0	0	0	31
General Economics	0	0	24	0	0	0	24
General Organizational Communication	0	0	0	0	19	2	21
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	20	0	0	0	0	0	20
Business Economics	0	0	19	0	0	0	19
Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management	0	0	15	0	0	0	15
Customer Service Management	0	0	13	0	0	0	13
Actuarial Science	0	0	13	0	0	0	13
Development Economics & International Development	0	0	0	0	11	0	11
International & Intercultural Communication	0	0	0	0	9	0	9
Financial Planning & Services	8	0	0	0	0	0	8
General Hospitality Administration/Management	0	0	0	0	2	0	2
Health Communication	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
Banking and Financial Support Services	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Other Finance and Financial Management Services	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
General Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	294	3	1,101	7	386	4	1,795

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Image Credit: By Robert Chriss under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.