What's the best school in Ohio?

Question

best college or university?

Answer 1

Miami University. It's the best all around school.

The academics are fantastic: it's the most respected school in the state for academics.

It's in a safe beautiful place: it's not a big city with a lot of crime and the campus is stunning, particularly in the fall when the leaves are changing or in the winter during a snow storm, or in the spring with the flowers and leaves are sprouting on the trees and bushes... oh, that makes pretty much anytime doesn't it? hehe.

The sports are amazing... there's an opportunity to play and or watch virtually any sport and excluding the football team last season, the varsity sports are really good. I know it's not the Big 10, but you can still watch OSU on television. They have a phys ed program for many many sports... I learned to ice skate and horseback ride there and there's a lot of people who take the golf classes. There's intramural sports in a lot of sports where you can sign up with your friends to play baseball, basketball, soccer, volleyball, hockey, broomball and many others that I'm sure I wasn't even aware of.

Miami has this reputation for being really homogeneous without diversity, but there's really a lot of different people there even though a lot of people tend to be conservative, white, rich, religious kids who all join sororities and fraternities... But you don't have to fit in those categories at all... there's really a lot of people who never joined a greek organization and a lot who didn't buy into all the trends with The North Face jackets and the Ugg boots and things. Personally I didn't do any of those things and I still had a lot of friends.

It's a small town, but there's a lot to do there when you're bored... there's a lot of places to eat and a lot of places to hang out with your friends. There's a movie theater uptown so you can see all the new releases. There's other things like a place to make things out of clay and paint it, then you get to take home your new mug or whatever you made. There's a bowling alley if you like to do that. And they have a frisbee golf course... it's really cool... just bring your frisbee and your friends and you throw the frisbee into the frisbee catcher thing... it's fun!

And there's just the tradition of the school... there's a great alumni network that offers benefits when you leave school and gives you connections with a lot of employers. And there's a lot of really famous important people who went there... Benjamin Harrison graduated from Miami before winning the US presidency with his friend Whitelaw Reid, who also graduated from Miami, as his vice-president... the only presidential ticket to be made of alumni of the same school. And grades from Miami are so respected that lower grades from Miami will get you as far as higher grades in other institutions.

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Answer 2

Best for what?

Oberlin is a really famous elite liberal arts school, and there are some others such as Wooster, Antioch or Case. Miami University in Oxford is a state supported school that is generally regarded as the elite part of the Ohio state schools, but University of Ohio and Ohio State are both respected schools. There is no one school that is "best" - it depends on what you want and what your own needs and qualifications are.

Answer 3

Well, most people will tell you OSU - but they are heavily biased on account of their football team. It's a good school don't get me wrong, but it isn't necessarily the best. Miami is usually respected and has a nice campus, but if you go there, prepare to invest in Ugg boots, Ralph Lauren polos and pearls. The Univ. of Cincinnati is good, especially in health care, music and art. They also have a lot of nationally ranked programs. Don't buy the stereotypes that the area is bad and that students are thugs. It is so not true. OU is pretty rural and there is not much to do besides party.

Answer 4

Purdue University–West Lafayette

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Answer 5

OSU of course...GO BUCKEYES!!!!!