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By the Numbers

Gifts to the College of Engineering, including the Knowlton School, in fiscal year 2021-22.

Total Giving

$121 million in private gifts, grants and commitments

Giving by Area

Based on number of gifts

FUND TYPE FY22  

Priorities
Provides unrestricted funds to support the college's greatest needs in education, research and outreach

 35%
35 percent

Student Support
Gifts to our scholarship funds have the greatest impact on our students

 32%
32 percent

Program Support
Includes the Sustainable and Resilient Communities Service Learning Project fund, Ohio State Flight Team fund, Chemical Engineering Unit Ops fund and many more

 26%
26 percent

Facilities and Maintenance
The college maintains 49 buildings and 2,649,946 square feet on campus, the largest of any college at Ohio State

 4%
4 percent

Faculty and Staff Support
Helps attract and maintain the highest quality chairs and professors to teach students and conduct research

 2%
2 percent

Research
Includes funding for the college’s four research priorities: manufacturing, mobility, medicine and materials

 1%
1 percent

College of Engineering Donors

Who Gave?

STATUS FY22  
College of Engineering Alumni 

2,154
2154
Friends 562
562
Corporations and Foundations 513
513
Ohio State Alumni 374
374
Ohio State Employees 94
94
Donors in 48 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and 10 countries made gifts Alums in Mississippi and North Dakota—we hope to hear from you this year!
609 donors made their first gift Up from 446 last year!

 

Student Support

$4.85 million awarded to students through donor-supported college scholarships
1,428 students received college scholarships from 463 scholarship funds
35 students received $171,000 from new donor-funded scholarships

 

Annual Gifts

700+ donors
$250,000+ donated to general scholarship funds ($100 median gift size)
147 students supported!

 

Private Gifts, Grants and Commitments by Department

excluding gifts-in-kind

Department FY22

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 $12,462,757

Electrical and Computer Engineering

 $9,690,256

William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

 $9,378,117

Materials Science and Engineering

 $8,015,467

Computer Science and Engineering

 $5,711,007

Integrated Systems Engineering

 $5,259,386

Knowlton School

 $1,821,956

Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering

 $1,627,356

Biomedical Engineering

 $1,346,169

Engineering Education

 $323,509

Center for Aviation Studies

 $150,875

 

Classes with the Most Donors       

1974: 60 donors
1969: 56 Donors
1973: 51 Donors
1984: 51 donors
1966: 47 Donors
Earliest class year with a donor…1942!

 

 

Time and Change campaign

In July 2022, the College of Engineering hit its Time and Change: The Ohio State Campaign goal of $450 million. This has been the work of more than five and a half years, with over 16,000 donors contributing. The Time and Change campaign is expected to continue into 2024, with the college's total at $484 million as of October 1, 2022.

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