All freshman applicants are considered within a competitive admission process for Autumn, Winter, and Summer quarters for the Columbus campus. The GEC is a body of courses designed to ensure that each student becomes acquainted with the basic areas of academic study. There are many additional courses available to enhance the career goals of people with clear and specific visions of their future. Faculty advisers will help students choose courses appropriate to their needs. Wildlife management majors are strongly encouraged to take internships or other jobs in the professional field, often in the summer.
Students work with many agencies in all states and many countries.
These positions allow students to save money for the next year's schooling, gain valuable experience in the field, and have fun working with wildlife. Concerned School of Natural Resources alumni frequently provide notices for temporary and permanent jobs, and in recent years more jobs have been available in wildlife management than students able to apply for them. The School of Natural Resources is housed in Kottman Hall, a modern, four-story building completed in 1982. Among the facilities are classrooms, reading rooms, and numerous teaching and research laboratories that include an extensive computer lab, an exhibit preparation lab, an audiovisual production lab, a wetland ecology lab, and an aquarium research lab. In fact, Ohio State is consistently ranked among the country's best institutions for overall academic reputation.