About Ohio Wesleyan University

Ohio Wesleyan University (OWU) is a private advanced arts academic circles in Delaware, Ohio. It was founded in 1842 by Methodist leaders and Central Ohio residents as a nonsectarian institution, and is a advocate of the Ohio Five – a consortium of Ohio enlightened arts colleges. Ohio Wesleyan has always admitted students irrespective of religion or race and maintained that the university “is constantly to be conducted upon the most campaigner principles.”

The 200-acre (81 ha) site is 27 miles (44 km) north of Columbus, Ohio. It includes the main academic and residential campus, the Perkins Observatory, and the Kraus Wilderness Preserve.

In 2010, Ohio Wesleyan had the eleventh highest percentage of international students among enlightened arts colleges for the seventeenth straight year. In its 2015 edition of U.S. college rankings, Niche ranked Ohio Wesleyan the 56th (out of 880 colleges) most politically liberal bookish in the U.S. U.S. News & World Report ranked Ohio Wesleyan 95th in the middle of U.S. liberal arts colleges in its 2018 edition.

Delaware is a city in and the county chair of Delaware County, Ohio, United States. Delaware was founded in 1808 and was incorporated in 1816. It is located near the middle of Ohio, is about 30 miles (48 km) north of Columbus, and is allocation of the Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area. The population was 34,753 at the 2010 census, while the Columbus-Marion-Chillicothe, OH Combined Statistical Area has 2,002,604 people.