Ohio State University-Marion Campus

Marion, OH · Public · 794 undergrads · website ↗

Open admission
$60 application fee

This is a regional campus of a university, not a standalone community college. Students here often “transfer” to the main campus, which inflates the rate below relative to a true community college.

Does anyone get out?

The point of starting here is finishing somewhere else. This is how often that happens.

54.2%

of students transfer to a four-year institution

Completed after transferring: 1.1%
Still enrolled after transferring: 3.4%

What it costs

Household income	Avg net price / year
Under $30,000	$7,730
$30,000 – $48,000	$8,263
$48,000 – $75,000	$9,069
$75,000 – $110,000	$13,826
Over $110,000	$16,480
All incomes (average)	$11,488

Sticker tuition and fees: $9,488 in-state — before aid, from the same earlier College Scorecard release as the net prices above.

These are averages. For an estimate for your family, use Ohio State University-Marion Campus's own net price calculator — every college that takes federal student aid must publish one.

Net price calculator ↗

Other costs of attendance, 2025–26

The college's own estimate for a full-time undergraduate for the year, before aid, from the October 2026 College Scorecard. It is a newer year than the tuition and net prices above, so don't add the two together.

Housing and meals, off campus (not with family)	$10,888
Books and supplies	$1,020
Other expenses, off campus	$4,344

Outcomes

Completion rate: 27%
Students with Pell grants: 30%
Earnings @ 10yr: $60,409
Median debt: $19,976

Admission and teaching

SAT/ACT policy: Open admission
Application fee: $60
Students per faculty member: 14 to 1
Faculty who are full-time: 46%

What students study

Education11%

Biology & Life Sciences4%

Psychology4%

Business2%

History2%

English & Literature1%

Earnings and debt by field of study

Median annual earnings of graduates who received federal student aid and were working, not studying: one year after completing (graduates of 2020–21 and 2021–22) and four years after (2017–18 and 2018–19), measured in 2022 and 2023 and shown in 2024 dollars. Median debt is federal Direct and Grad PLUS loans borrowed at this college by 2022–23 and 2023–24 graduates; it leaves out Parent PLUS and private loans. “National” is the median for the same field and credential across all US colleges.

Associate degrees (1)

Field of study	Degrees awarded 2023–24	Earnings, 1 yr after	Earnings, 4 yrs after	Median federal debt
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities	121	$38,136	$47,583national $44,125	$12,976

Bachelor's degrees (9)

Field of study	Degrees awarded 2023–24	Earnings, 1 yr after	Earnings, 4 yrs after	Median federal debt
Research and Experimental Psychology	14	$37,965	—national $55,695	$18,490
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods	12	$39,954	$45,969national $47,382	$21,642
Social Work	12	$40,806	$50,596national $51,790	$19,254
Educational Administration and Supervision	11	$37,536	$42,187national $47,433	$19,500
Biology, General	8	$37,729	$64,324national $57,214	$19,500
Business/Commerce, General	6	$51,410	$65,374national $68,407	$22,145
History	3	$34,761	$49,986national $50,680	$17,637
English Language and Literature, General	2	$34,634	$48,301national $48,590	$17,613
Psychology, General	—	$36,452	$54,182national $50,706	—

A dash means the Department of Education suppressed the figure because too few graduates were measured — not zero. 1 more programme at this college has every figure suppressed and is not listed. These figures are calculated for all 6 campuses that share this college's federal student-aid ID, so a branch campus shows its institution's figures.

Best transfer rates elsewhere in OH

Ohio State University-Mansfield CampusMansfield59.4%Bowling Green State University-FirelandsHuron49.8%Ohio State University-Newark CampusNewark47.4%University of Cincinnati-Blue Ash CollegeBlue Ash32.5%Good Samaritan College of Nursing and Health ScienceCincinnati27.3%Ohio University-Zanesville CampusZanesville27.2%

Contact and accreditation

Address: 1461 Mount Vernon Ave, Marion, OH 43302-5695
Phone: (740) 389-6786
Institutional accreditor: Higher Learning Commission

Where would you transfer to?

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Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard. College Scorecard, October 2026 release: net price calculator link, mission flags and religious affiliation (2025–26), enrolment shares, test policy, SAT/ACT ranges and student-to-faculty ratio (fall 2024), cost-of-attendance components (2025–26), and earnings and debt by field of study. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics 2023–24 for the application fee and the IPEDS 2024 directory for the phone number. All are U.S. Department of Education data in the public domain. Transfer rate is the share of entrants transferring to a four-year institution; it is published for roughly a third of community colleges, and a blank means unpublished rather than zero. Which specific credits transfer is set by agreements between individual institutions and is not published nationally — confirm with both colleges before enrolling.

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