Across all Ohio State University campuses, enrollment is up 0.5 percent to 67,255 students for the 2025-26 school year, university officials announced earlier this week.

Enrollment at the school’s main campus in Columbus is down 0.2 percent compared to last year to 61,326 students.

The number of freshmen at the main campus is down 13.9 percent. School officials say that decrease “reflects a planned class size that supports balanced enrollment across the university.”

Enrollment at Ohio State’s regional campuses, meanwhile, is up 8.6 percent.

Sixty-eight percent of Ohio State’s freshman class is from Ohio.

The undergraduate, graduate, professional and transfer student populations all increased at Ohio State. The number of graduate students is up 0.5 percent this year.

“We have incredible momentum right now, and I’m proud that Ohio State is the destination of choice for so many students and families, including many from right here in Ohio,” said President Walter “Ted” Carter Jr. “True to our land-grant mission, we offer an exceptional education at an affordable cost, and we have exciting plans to elevate our academic excellence and student accessibility even further.”

Applications to attend OSU this school year climbed to a record high of 88,545.

Ohio State’s campus in Newark remains the largest regional campus with 2,877 students enrolled there. The regional campus in Marion has 926 students while the Mansfield campus has 911 students, the Lima campus has 730 students and the Wooster campus has 485 students.

New first-year student enrollment at the regional campuses is 3,070, a 15.1 percent increase over last year and a 37.1 percent increase compared to three years ago.