page_title: Fisher College of Business
section_title: Campus plan and architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Fisher College of Business / Campus plan and architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: Business is a hybrid of dancing and calculation
context_page_description: The Max M. Fisher College of Business is the business school of The Ohio State University, a public research university in Columbus, Ohio. Fisher's campus is located on the northern part of the university within a partially enclosed business campus adjacent to St. John Arena. It is composed of brick buildings loosely arranged in a quadrangle. The 370,000-square-foot complex is the largest multi-building project ever undertaken by the university. Fisher is one of the founding members of the AACSB.
  Established in 1916 as the College of Commerce and Journalism, the college was renamed in 1993 for Max M. Fisher, a 1930 Ohio State graduate who led efforts to provide a $20 million gift to the college. By design, it enrolls about 120 full-time Master of Business Administration students each year. It also enrolls nearly 8,000 full-time undergraduate students and has nearly 83,000 living alumni.
context_section_description: The six-building campus (designed by Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood, Cooper, Robertson & Partners with Karlsberger Architecture as Architect of Record) is oriented around its largest building, the signature Fisher Hall, which is the same height as the main university library and on axis with it. This visually links the college to the larger OSU campus. The organization of undergraduate buildings, graduate study, and administration cluster around a traditional campus green that encourages social mixing of different student bodies and faculty. The brick architecture reinterprets the Neo-Classical tradition found throughout OSU. Cooper, Robertson & Partners designed both Fisher Hall and Pfahl Hall, the executive education building. Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood designed Gerlach Hall, Schoenbaum Hall and Mason Hall. RTKL was hired as the hospitality consultant for the Blackwell Inn. Karlsberger completed all design documents and served as construction administrator for the entire complex.
  The campus consists of the following buildings and offices:
  Fisher Hall
  Faculty offices
  Administrative offices
  Research and business partnership centers
  Gerlach Hall
  Graduate business programs
  Batten investment laboratory
  Office of career management
  Mason Hall
  Student computer labs
  Office of Information Technology Services
  Rohr Cafe
  Pfahl Hall
  Executive education programs
  Conference center
  2110 Restaurant
  Schoenbaum Hall
  Undergraduate business programs
  Berry auditorium
  The Blackwell Inn and Conference Center
  151 Hotel rooms
  Conference rooms
  Banquet facilities
caption: Many quotations can be found etched into Fisher's campus.
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