"[The Newark campus] has helped from a practical point of view in providing educational resource that just didn’t exist, and does not exist in most towns the size of Newark. It is just a tremendous asset for Newark."    - Dr. Robert Barnes, Founding President of Central Ohio Technical College and Dean of Ohio State Newark

Education & Debt

According to The Project on Student Debt by the Institute for College Access and Success, of 2016 Bachelor's degree recipients in Ohio, 64% graduated with debt with the average being $30,351 per borrower (The Institute For College Access and Success, 2017, ticas.org/posd/map-state-data).  

Education & Earnings

In addition to improving the lives of local students and their families, investing in education has been shown to have a transformative effect on the economic and social well-being of the community.

Civic Involvement & Education

Poverty & Education

SOURCES: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Statista