Kent State University is an open examination school in Kent, Ohio, United States. Despite the essential grounds in Kent, which is the greatest and most settled grounds and serves as the administrative center, Kent State works seven regional grounds in Northeast Ohio and additional workplaces in the region and generally. Common grounds are arranged in Ashtabula, Burton, East Liverpool, Jackson Township, New Philadelphia, Salem, and Warren, Ohio, with additional workplaces in Cleveland, Independence, and Twinsburg, Ohio, New York City, and Florence, Italy. 

As of September 2015, Kent State is one of the greatest schools in Ohio with a selection of 41,005 understudies in the eight-grounds structure and 30,067 understudies at the standard grounds in Kent. It is situated by the Carnegie Foundation as one of the primary 77 open examination universities in the US and one of the fundamental 76 in gathering engagement. In 2010, Kent State was situated as one of the principle 200 universities on the planet by Times Higher Education. Kent State offers nursing, business, history, library science, flying, news-throwing, style diagram and the Liquid Crystal Institute. 

The school was set up in 1910 as the Kent State Normal School as an educator get ready school. The central classes were held in 1912 at various territories and in fleeting structures in Kent. Starting now and into the foreseeable future, the school has created to join various additional baccalaureate and graduate tasks of study in human expressions and sciences, research opportunities, and furthermore more than 1,000 segments of area (405 ha) and 119 structures on the Kent grounds. In the midst of the late 1960s and mid 1970s, the school was known all around for its understudy activism in opposition to U.S. relationship in the Vietnam War, as a result of the Kent State shootings in 1970.