Campaigns & Private Giving

OSU has the third highest alumni giving participation rate in the Pac-10 — an indication of engaged and loyal graduates. However, OSU's average annual gift amount is the fourth lowest in the Pac-10. The Campaign for OSU will lay the groundwork for increased private giving even after it ends in 2011.

The renowned Linus Pauling Institute has been designated by the National Institutes of Health as a Center of Excellence for Research on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The only other institute with this designation is at Harvard.

OSU is one of only two U.S. universities designated a land grant, sea grant, space grant, and sun grant institution. Cornell is the other.