Bowling Green State University
Visit Bowling Green State University | Contact Administration

Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403
http://www.bgsu.edu

Bowling Green State University (BGSU) offers an outstanding educational experience. At BGSU, academic learning is paired with a campus wide commitment to values exploration and prepares graduates to go out into the world as critical thinkers, skilled communicators, and ethical leaders, in all areas of study. This vision uniquely distinguishes BGSU as a public university with a unified purpose.

BGSU combines the personal atmosphere of a small college with the opportunities of a major university. With more than 200 undergraduate majors and programs, BGSU's learning community provides high-quality faculty members who care about their students, an appreciation for diversity, and the latest in information technology. About 7,000 of BGSU's 20,300 students live on campus. BGSU attracts students who balance academic excellence with involvement in nearly 325 student organizations. Committed to ensuring that every student succeeds, Bowling Green challenges and supports students, both in and out of the classroom. Integral to campus life are the core values: respect for one another, cooperation, intellectual and spiritual growth, creative imaginings, and pride in a job well done.

BGSU's personal atmosphere is enhanced by its physically compact campus located within the Bowling Green community. Most restaurants and businesses are within walking or biking distance of residence halls. Bicycles are a popular means of transportation, but all students are permitted to have cars.

Of the 20,300 students enrolled at BGSU, 17,300 are undergraduate students, 10 percent come from outside the state of Ohio (including more than 540 from other countries), and more than 1,680 are African American, Native American, Hispanic, or Asian American. Students are actively involved outside of class, participating in student organizations and service learning opportunities and enjoying some of the more than 400 cultural and special events that are offered each month.

Residence halls reinforce the learning environment with a computer laboratory for each residence complex and one computer available for every 23 resident students. Every residence hall room has high-speed Ethernet connections to the University's computing backbone.

BGSU's Graduate College offers sixty-six master's degrees, two specialist degree programs, and sixteen doctoral programs.

Location
The city of Bowling Green, Ohio, population 29,600 (including students), is located in northwest Ohio about 20 miles south of Toledo. It is within a comfortable driving distance of all major cities in Ohio and is within an easy commute from nearby towns.

Majors and Degrees
The University is fully accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and a member of the North Central Association (30 LaSalle Street, Suite 3400, Chicago, IL 60602-2504, 1-800-621-7440). BGSU offers more than 200 undergraduate majors and programs in seven undergraduate colleges: Arts and Sciences, Business Administration, Education and Human Development, Health and Human Services, Musical Arts, Technology, and the regional BGSU Firelands in Huron, Ohio. Numerous programs within these colleges are accredited by their respective national accrediting agencies.

Four-year undergraduate programs are available and lead to the following degrees: Bachelor of Applied Health Science, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Arts in Communication, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Liberal Studies, Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Bachelor of Science in apparel merchandising and product development, Bachelor of Science in child and family community services, Bachelor of Science in communication disorders, Bachelor of Science in criminal justice, Bachelor of Science in dietetics, Bachelor of Science in economics, Bachelor of Science in education, Bachelor of Science in environmental health, Bachelor of Science in nutrition sciences, Bachelor of Science in gerontology, Bachelor of Science in interior design, Bachelor of Science in journalism, Bachelor of Science in medical technology, Bachelor of Science in nursing, Bachelor of Science in social work, and Bachelor of Science in technology. BGSU Firelands offers fourteen programs that lead to associate degrees in applied business, applied sciences, nursing, science, and technical study, plus six bachelor's degree programs.

Every entering student has the option of enrolling in an undergraduate college with a declared major or of enrolling as an undecided student. Students who are undecided about a college begin their studies in pre-major advising, where approximately 500 new students enroll each year.

Bowling Green State University (BGSU) is a public four-year institution located in Bowling Green, Ohio, USA; about 20 miles south of Toledo, Ohio on I-75. It was established in 1910; as part of the Lowery Act, which also established Kent State. As of 2003 it boasts a student body of about 20,200. It offers over 200 undergraduate programs, as well as master's and doctoral degrees in a variety of areas, including the nation's first Ph.D. program in photochemical science and one of the first undergraduate program in Neuroscience. In addition, BGSU has accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools to offer full degree programs online. In sports, BGSU is a member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) and Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA), and was the 1984 NCAA national hockey champion; its mascots are Freddie and Frieda Falcon. BGSU also has an official spirit crew known as SIC SIC which began in 1946. BGSU is home to the student operated, independent daily newspaper BG News, which has published since 1920. The Department of Telecommunications ran student operated, independent, non-commercial, FCC-licensed college radio station is WBGU 88.1 FM and the student operated, commercial radio station is WFAL 1610 AM. BGSU is also home to BG24News, a student-run television newscast airing live at 5:30pm three days a week.

McDonald Hall, a dormitory at BGSU, is the namesake for the webcomic Mac Hall.

BGSU is especially known for its Popular Culture Department, the first and only one in the country. By extension, BGSU also has quite an extensive popular culture library, along with a music library which contains over 700,000 titles (mostly on vinyl), making it the third-largest collection of popular music in the world. However, most of the fiction titles that the University owns are in the Popular Culture Library, and students are unable to take them out of the building. This policy preserves materials that have become more important to researchers as second- and third-generation interpretations of comic books have become popular on- and off-screen.

Bowling Green's sports teams are called the Falcons. The Falcons participate in NCAA Division I (Division I-A for football) and in the Mid-American Conference and the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. BGSU is one of only 13 universities in the country offering NCAA division I-A football, division I men's and women's basketball, and division I hockey. The Falcons won back-to-back conference championships in Women's Basketball in 2005 and 2006 and won a conference crown in Women's Soccer in 2005. The Falcons' main rivals are the Rockets of the University of Toledo. Separated by just 20 miles on Interstate 75, the two schools celebrate a heated rivalry in several sports. The most well-known of these games is the Battle of I-75, a football game held each year in which the winner takes home the Peace Pipe, an American Indian peace pipe placed upon a wood tablet. The game is usually seen on a national broadcast.

The 1984 Falcons hockey team defeated the University of Minnesota-Duluth, in the longest college hockey championship game in history, to win the NCAA National Championship.