#2, part of why UC is so large is University Hospital. That said, three points:
- OSU would be Columbus’s largest employer if it weren’t the capital.
- A lot of companies that aren’t the largest local employers (e.g., P&G, Kroger), employ a lot more people than UC nationally and worldwide.
- Neither of the first two points should obscure the fact that the city has done a terrible job of keeping companies inside the city. More are relocating outside the city, and sometimes outside Hamilton County, all the time.

While there is no doubt much incompetence within the UC administration, one has to wonder what the Republican dominated General Assembly is doing hold state administrators feet to the fire that oversee the university system. It would seem to me that if Ohio wanted to have a superior university system state representatives would be examining the business practices and each university’s own metrics.

In my opinion, we should begin to cut the amount of money the state contributes and start requiring Ohio universities become self-sufficient. Maybe then they would be more careful and fiscally responsible.

On another note, it is a travesty in this day and age that UC is Cincinnati’s largest employer. Both the city and the county elected officials should be shamed and driven from the state for such a miserable situation.