OSU or MIAMI-OXFORD?

sh60614
Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:11:06 +0000

One thing I’ll add that was brought up on another thread. From the opinions of many high school friends who went to Miami, Miami tends to be very “vocational” with regards to the liberal arts. By this I mean that the students who do major in the liberal arts (most students at MUO major in business or education) tend to do so solely with an eye to getting into law or med school.

At Ohio State, there seems to be a much stronger commitment to liberal arts education as an end in itself. I think this is one of the reasons that–in a ten year study of all colleges posted on CC recently–it showed Ohio State undergraduates as more likely to eventually earn Ph.Ds than Miami students (although Miami was second among Ohio public universities).

The “vocationalism” of the student body is also reflected in their choice of majors. At Miami, the top 5 majors are all within the college of education or business. At Ohio State, the top 4 majors and 6 of the top 8 are traditional arts, sciences and humanities majors (the remainder of the top 10 were business or engineering departments).