John C. Rickel

The Max M. Fisher College of Business is the business school of The Ohio State University. Fisher's campus is located on the northern part of The Ohio State University, within a partially enclosed business campus adjacent to Ohio Stadium. It is composed of brick buildings loosely arranged in a quadrangle. The 370,000-square-foot (34,000 m2) complex is the largest multi-building project ever undertaken by the University[citation needed]. Fisher is one of the founding members of the AACSB. The Fisher College of Business is located in Columbus, Ohio, the largest city in Ohio and the 15th largest city in the United States with an estimated 2005 population of 730,657. The greater Columbus metropolitan area has a population of 1,708,625 as of 2005 represents close to 100 nationalities. Columbus is located close to the geographic center of the state and is the fourth largest city in the Midwest.

The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State or OSU, is a public research university in Columbus, Ohio. Founded in 1870, as a land-grant university and ninth university in Ohio with the Morrill Act of 1862, the university was originally known as the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College.