What's a Polar Bear to do on Homecoming Saturday? Here's what they'll find on campus according to www.onu.edu/
8 a.m. - 2 p.m. - Registration at King-Horn Field House
8 a.m. - 2 p.m. - ONUMB Alumni Marching Band, Dial-Roberson Stadium
All ONUMB alumni are invited to join the 2024 band for the Homecoming Parade and Pregame show
9 a.m. - 12 p.m. - Alpha Sigma Phi Homecoming Cookout
Alpha Sigma Phi House, 5 University Parkway, Celebrate the brotherhood and network with current brothers
U.S. News & World Report has ranked Ohio Northern University as offering the best value of any college in the Midwest for 2025.
In the publication’s 2025 Best Regional Colleges Midwest list, ONU moved up two places from 2024. The best value rankings are based on a school's academic quality and the net cost of attendance.
In overall rankings, the Ohio Northern is #2 in the Midwest and #1 in Ohio.
Ohio Northern University’s English professors generally frown upon the overuse of idioms like “a blast from the past” or “out of the blue.”
Thankfully, they made an exception this summer.
Because if not “a blast from the past,” how else would 212 unsuspecting English alumni describe the experience of receiving “out of the blue” their senior capstone paper in the mail from their alma mater decades after graduating?
Ohio Northern University has been ranked #1 in Ohio in the Best Value category in the Wall Street Journal's 2025 Best Colleges in the United States, according to the University's media relations department.
ONU is also #1 in Ohio for the publication's Best Salaries ranking, which rates schools “in order of their impact on graduate’s salaries and how this relates to the cost of attending college.” WSJ/College Pulse 2025 Best Colleges in the U.S. rates the top 500 universities in the country, emphasizing how much a college improves its students’ chances of graduating on time, and how much it boosts the salaries they earn after graduation.
7:30 p.m. on Tues., October 8
Freed Center for the Performing Arts
The 2024-25 Keiser Distinguished Lecture in Life Sciences Lecturer will be award-winning writer, artist, illustrator, and naturalist David Allen Sibley, author of The Sibley Guide to Birds, The Sibley Guide to Trees, and What It's Like to Be a Bird, and illustrator for Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds. As an artist and as a bird enthusiast, Mr. Sibley has been recognized as one of the greatest scientific illustrators of our time as well as perhaps the most important illustrator of birds since Roger Tory Peterson.
The Freed Center for the Performing Arts at Ohio Northern University (ONU) has announced its full slate of theatre, dance and music events for the 2024-25 season, beginning with Inlet Dance Theatre and the ONU Dance Company on September 28.
Flexible season subscriptions are now available for purchase which allow patrons to build a subscription and save up to 20% off single ticket prices. The ONU Holiday Spectacular is not part of subscriptions, but can be purchased now as an add-on.
